DPP: So THAT's how it is in their family.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Happy Labor Day, US pilotshippers! I'm kicking off this week's festivities with an intriguing question for discussion from bop_radar. She would like to know:






If Kara and Lee were (actual biological) siblings, but in other regards their relationship/dynamic was otherwise as close to what we saw in the television series as possible...

... would you still love them / feel the same way about them / ship them?

Why or why not?

Feel free to discuss in comments what factors influence your feelings or decision.


By the way, Guest Posts are welcome at the DPP anytime! If you don't feel you have it in you to host a whole week but want to bring up a topic or throw out some sort of meme/game/writing challenge or a pretty pic you want to share, just contact me via PM! ~taragel

Comments

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

The only sibling relationship I ever come close to shipping was that of the Atreides twins (Paul's children) in the Dune series. But that really had nothing to do with the incest angle and everything to do with equality. For those not familiar with the books, they are intellectually/genetically unique and like no other people in the universe. They are truly something more than human and, as such, the only people who truly understand each other. Two kindred souls and all that. And in that case, they seemed to be the only people who could ever possibly be the perfect fit for the other. So I kind of shipped them despite the sibling relationship.

Spinning around back to pilots, it's the same thing I love about them. In my mind they're a kind of mirror opposites. Dissimilar on the surface but the same kind of (damaged) soul underneath. It's hard to explain that connection, but here's the best I can do: The one thing RDM got right in the flahbacks. The initial way they look at each other. That sense of I know you / I've been looking for you.

There you are.

They really are the only two people who will do for the other. Everyone else just comes up short. It's not really sibling-related, so much as the principle of like attracts like-- or perhaps more accurately stated-- extraordinary attracts extraordinary. : )

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Oh YES Dune!! Can't believe I forgot that one :)

That sense of I know you / I've been looking for you.

There you are.

And that's exactly it. In my head, it's like something clicked right into place in that moment - but I like the way you put it better :)

It's not really sibling-related, so much as the principle of like attracts like-- or perhaps more accurately stated-- extraordinary attracts extraordinary.

SO beautifully put. <3333