DPP Monday! A Question About Pilots.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

Welcome to Monday morning! If you're like me, you spent your weekend avoiding real life responsibilities and are now looking at a hectic week of playing catch up. I've been compiling some ideas to keep everyone entertained during my time as Daily Pilots Post Host, so hopefully I don't disappoint. We've got drabble writing, fic recs, questions/thoughts to chew over, and so much more to come. And if I end up repeating something that has already been recently done, feel free to airlock me in retaliation.

Let's get started!

What things, big or small, do you think Lee and Kara miss most about life back in the Twelve Colonies?

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[wicked-sassy.livejournal.com]

Lee misses his cookbooks, bubble baths, and solitary walks in the woods. Kara misses Pyramid matches, poetry readings, and bar-hopping.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

The idea of Lee soaking in a bath tub is just so hilarious to me.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Kara misses fresh air most which is why she moves down to New Caprica.

Lee misses lots of little things but nothing like most people. He is glad he doesn't have to explain why he's still in a military anymore.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

I always wondered what exactly Kara did for that year or so she was down on New Caprica. We saw some paintings she did, if I recall correctly, but what else was she occupying her time with? (Besides frakking Sam, of course).

And your comment on Lee is so spot on.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have to do a lot of fast thinkin' to figure out Kara on New Caprica at all actually, outside of putting some clear distance between her and Lee. But I've never been able to come up with a satisfying 'job' for Kara. I can't see her working as a mechanic (which comes up in fic now and again) or teaching art at Laura's school (which I've run into too). I usually end up kind of thinking that Kara was kind of a housewife (with Ellen of all frakkin' people) which is totally not Kara, but that's what happens.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

Oh I bet Kara misses that car so damn much. Like flying her Viper except with the wind in her hair and some music to accompany her.

I think it's at the end of season 1 when Kara says something like that everyone's fighting to get back what they lost and she's fighting because she doesn't know what else to do (I may have totally botched that, but you get the idea), and I think Lee is definitely the same way. He was sort of just floundering through life. Following the path his father had set for him, afraid to step too far from it even if he spoke of doing so all the time. The end of the worlds gave him real purpose and worth, just like it did to Kara.

[word-vomity.livejournal.com]

Lee misses real food, grown in the ground, bought on Saturdays from the farmers market. He misses the feel on sunlight on his skin. The sound of speech without the echo of steel walls accompanying it. And his mother voice.

Kara misses stogies, lots and lots of stogies. The smell of real grass and the feel of wind blowing through her hair when she flies down the highway. There's no wind in the vacuum of space.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

Lee would definitely be at the farmers market in his polo shirt and khakis, right?

The image we get of his relationship with his mother throughout the show gets progressively worse, but I love the idea that despite the bad, there was a lot of good, too, and once in awhile he went to her for comfort he never got anywhere else.

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Lee misses really believing that someday he'd have a home and a family and be happy. But he's not sure when exactly he lost that.

Kara misses anonymity, the chance to just lose herself in a crowd or a bar or wandering through the woods. On Galactica she has a reputation to maintain.

[apodixis.livejournal.com]

But he's not sure when exactly he lost that.

Agree with that idea so much! One could argue he lost that before the end of the worlds when he walked/ran away from Gianne, but now it's like the final nail in the coffin for him.

On Galactica she has a reputation to maintain.

As much as Kara loves her reputation at times, I do think she loved that anonymity as well. She could be whoever she wanted without the consequences of who would see it or what it would mean for the reputation she'd built. We see her break down a few times in the series and I think it's in large part due to being absolutely burnt out, she just can't keep that facade up anymore since she has nowhere else to go to for relief.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

Lee misses really believing that someday he'd have a home and a family and be happy. But he's not sure when exactly he lost that.

I think this is the only concrete thing that Lee would miss. I also agree not in a sudden end of the world sort of way but in a kind of sad, gradual way.

[requialexa.livejournal.com]

I think in the same vein as Kara missing downtime, she must miss creativity, yeah? I bet they both miss solitude...the kind that is self-imposed and a relief from day to day life.

I think Lee misses the vast variety of music and literature. And the open-ended possibility that exists when it's not the end of the worlds. (Kara, too, on that one, but not consciously...she misses that tiny space in the back of her head that hopes she'll turn out ok in the end, and yet with the end of the worlds that spot was sorta taken over with, "See? It didn't frakkin' matter anyway!")