DPP: Fading into the Background

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Morning everyone! So a quick update, thanks for signing up for those DPP slots, there is just one left open between now and 2012 if anyone wants to do the honors!

Also, don't miss the four brand new ficlets from yesterday's touch meme!  Tomorrow, we explore....SMOOCHAGE!

But today, a question about a fandom practice that I've noticed... 



It seems to me that when I see big epic fics posted by other shippers, there are often secondary background romances in them...but seldom are they Kara/Lee. Why do you think this is? Are they just too attention-getting? Too complicated? Do they not work in the background? Is it a fandom fatigue thing--where the writer feels like they already have a lot of fic based around them and chooses to focus on other couples (and yes, I've seen that as a reason to not like Kara/Lee)? Are they just the kind of characters/ship that you either love or hate? (There's a lot of hate in the latter seasons once the Quad starts up.) Inquiring minds would like to know!

Prompt: Recommend some fics that feature Kara/Lee as a secondary ship, and if you write, perhaps try your stab at writting a ficlet that features them as background ship to the main action.

Comments

Re: Theories and whatnot.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

the show that BSG was in S1 and parts of S2.


In some ways it was SO much more traditional TV drama. With humor and cute moments and shippy stuff as well as the dark and twisty. It's when the philosophical took over that it became kind of a one-note deal. (And Lord knows I'm all for the philosophical, but I also happen to believe that it can live in harmony with all of those other elements.)

I was going to mention that! Sexytime!FAIL!!!! I think the fact they considered it tells us all we need to know:

NO

FUCKING

CLUE

.


None at all. What's more and more amazing to me these days is how we got such a remarkable ship and such fantastic pilot moments out of what appeared to be a story arc conceived in the midst of chaos theory.

Re: Theories and whatnot.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

What's more and more amazing to me these days is how we got such a remarkable ship and such fantastic pilot moments out of what appeared to be a story arc conceived in the midst of chaos theory.

Yeah, me too, and ESPECIALLY, that (leaving aside all the moments we wanted and should have but didn't get) their Season 4/4.5 arc was phenomenal! Such growth! Such support! EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY HAD A SCENE!! Unbelievable.

Of course if you look at the parts we didn't get (like why Lee went off to play in the essentially powerless quorum instead of demanding to stick with Kara and help her find Earth once she CAME BACK FROM THE DEAD, it all falls apart. But if you only look at what we DID get, it was gorgeous and beautiful and even had an arc and growing love/trust that lead to....

nowhere. (Because they suck.)

Re: Theories and whatnot.

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I definitely have to focus on the haves over the have-nots or the rage comes back with a vengeance. And even considering the have-nots and the WTFery, we got a tremendously epic couple from people who didn't have the slightest clue what they were on about. And that in itself is pretty remarkable.

Re: Theories and whatnot.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

we got a tremendously epic couple from people who didn't have the slightest clue what they were on about.

It's not just remarkable, it's pure serendipity.

Sometimes I wonder if K/L would have grabbed our hearts quite as fiercely if they'd spun out things like an ordinary couple, made out within three episodes and talked about their feelings and "this thing between us" all the time. I mean, they do a better job of communicating desire and friendship and everything they are to each other with so little by way of dialogue/overt romantic gestures, than most TV couples do with things explicitly spelled out.