DPP: Random Idea Day

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

What if 

...Gianne had been Kara's sister?
...Kara and Lee were together and she almost (or did) cheated on him with Zak?
...Kara had gotten shot in Sacrifice instead of Lee (not necessarily by him)?
...they'd been transported somewhere else when Kara put the arrow in the archer's bow?
...Lee had chosen Kara as his XO in/after Razor?
...Sam had realized he was a cylon on New Caprica?
...Dee had gotten pregnant?
...Kara and Lee had gotten trapped in the airlock instead of Chief and Cally?
...Lee or Kara discovered they were a cylon when they ran into another model of themself?
...Bill had died when Sharon shot him?
...Kara had started an actual relationship with Baltar after Colonial Day?
...Kara and Zak had actually eloped/gotten married?
...there had been a musical episode of BSG--(what would it have been about--who would have sang--what would they sing)?
...the show had learned they were going to get cancelled at the beginning of Season 2? or Season 3?

LOL. These are all incredibly angsty aren't they? Maybe you have some happier ones to suggest...


Pilots contemplate my list and Lee gets bummed out by all the angst.

Comments

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

(What episode is that cap/outtake from? Looks like a Pegasus locker. Hadn't seen that before.)

Also, where is taragel and who took her place?? LOOK AT ALL THAT ANGST! :P

I've often thought about making Dee pregnant and it almost happened in Chasing the Dragon. I had it on the back burner for months and then ultimately dropped it.

I also like the idea of Kara and Zak eloping and the near impossibility of them being together if Zak had lived. I do enjoy the challenge and potential fodder for infideliciousness. Mmmmmm. :P

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I think it's from Captain's Hand, on Pegasus, yes. I was trolling through the stills at kateesackhoff.fanfusion.org for new stuff. (Didn't find many pilots shots I hadn't seen before though.)

Hee. :) I got almost to the end and was like "Crap these are depressing, eh?"

I never like the idea of Dee pregnant (or Kara with Sam--although that's so much less likely for a billion reasons) but...it's sort of weird that it never actually came up on the show. We don't know how she felt about it and Lee was...uh...notoriously an unreliable narrator w/r/t his feelings on kids.

Someday (and I've been saying this for ages) I'm going to write a story of Lee observing married Kara and Zak with great misery. Lol.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

More on Gianne as Kara's sister. Isn't that kind of an interesting one? Lee and Gianne are seeing each other, but then he meets/has this spark with Kara--maybe something even happens like the table scene, then Gianne declares she's pregnant (maybe it's the truth, maybe she's lying b/c she sees whatever's happening with Lee and Kara and wants to stop that in its tracks). Lee's troubled by the pregnancy news and goes to Kara for...commiseration? Comfort? Sexytimes?

IDK. I like the possibility of it all. I'd be very curious about what Kara and Gianne's relationship was like (can't possibly imagine it being as seemingly good as Lee and Zak's somehow) and how they grew up with Socrata. Gianne could have been very much the "good daughter" who escapes her mother's wrath while Kara bears the brunt of it. (I can't see her being all that protective of Kara and Kara still coming out the way she seems to have in canon, so independent and fierce and a fighter.)

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that while I sort of enjoy the brothers thing I HATE the sisters thing. I know it is hypocritical or sexist or whatever but it is. I just seems like a slimy thing when guys do it but when women do it seems more ok. Probably because in story telling when women are willing to switch brothers it is because of "true love" and when a guy wants to switch siblings it's because he wants to fill the space on sex bingo for banging sisters.

To be fair to myself I don't just love the idea of swapping one man for his brother but there's been movies like Moonstruck and While You Were Sleeping and you can't argue with either Cher or Sandra Bullock. It just isn't allowed.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Also... if Kara had been shot and seriously injured in Sacrifice rather than Lee--that could've changed everything for them. I could see Lee panicking and wanting to get to her and then just freaking out and hovering and (sorry Dee) forgetting all about the date/that relationship. Maybe the injury would even prevent her from going back to Caprica. Or maybe her mindset would change and it would just become far less of a priority.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I am thinking that Kara getting shot wouldn't have done anything. Kara was wounded on the moon and came back injured and Lee didn't do much except play nursemaid. I don't think Lee would have had the guilt that Kara had if he'd shot her and that he'd have probably acted casually, as he seemed to around that time. IDK. Maybe it's the cynic in me about Lee these days. I'm not sure what, if anything, would have lit a fire under his ass to actually make a move for Kara.

*pouts*

[plaid-slytherin.livejournal.com]

...Kara and Lee had gotten trapped in the airlock instead of Chief and Cally?

Whoa. This one just hit me hard. Like whoa. I think I might have a plot bunny. Or something.

OMG CAN I EVEN DO THIS??? K/L set in the canon timeline???? :DDD

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

\o/ YOU CAN DO THIS!! (I love inspiring plot bunnies!!)

I just think it maybe could've been a wake up call moment. Also they would have been in a kind of difficult place at that point in canon, which gives a lot of fun stuff to play with!

YAY! DO IT! DO IT! :)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

DO IT DO IT!!!!

[embolalia.livejournal.com]

Kara had started an actual relationship with Baltar after Colonial Day?

Okay, that just made me laugh. :)

...they'd been transported somewhere else when Kara put the arrow in the archer's bow?

This could have been really interesting. What if they found irradiated Earth? It would have been an entirely different show if, say, they decided to go back to the Colonies with Pegasus and got there in time to meet up with Caprica and Boomer who were ready to be peaceful...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Hee. I do think the original idea was for there to be more of a love triangle between kara, Lee and Baltar. There's that promo shot from before S1 of the three of them. Heh.

Interesting...

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

This could have been really interesting. What if they found irradiated Earth? It would have been an entirely different show if, say, they decided to go back to the Colonies with Pegasus and got there in time to meet up with Caprica and Boomer who were ready to be peaceful...

I love this idea. Or if they had been transported to irradiated Earth but with some hint that they could break the cycle and find new Earth too. Totally interesting...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

I liked Dawn on Buffy and thought it was kind of fun the way they did it, but...it's hard to imagine Kara with any kind of sibling and her still being the way she is for me. (And yeah, I'm not a fan of OCs in fic either, they bore the crap out of me usually.)

[onlyariana.livejournal.com]

Like taragel I (mostly) liked Dawn. Are you thinking a pre-mini story or a lil' sis who is on Galactica or in the fleet?

In my Buffy-Kara head!canon Spike = Leoben so now I'm seeing Kara sending her sister to hang out with Leoben (at his goo bath?) while she deals with saving the world or maybe just deals with Socrata in a hitting mood.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

On the younger-sister tangent, I think I have proposed this before, but.....

what if Kara had a younger sister whom she spent most of her childhood/youth protecting from Socrata's abuse, but everything gets shot to hell when she falls in love with her sister's flight instructor/boyfriend, Lee Adama?

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Also, what if Lee had joined Kara on the Demetrius?

What if Kara was (as originally planned) the one who became Commander of the Pegasus, and not Lee?

What if Kara hadn't actually been able to find Sam in LDYB2? (there would've been SO MUCH ANGST)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

What if Kara was (as originally planned) the one who became Commander of the Pegasus, and not Lee?

If I had any real belief that I could write something epic-like, it would start with Kara becoming the commander of the Pegasus and Lee leaving the military for politics.


What if Kara hadn't actually been able to find Sam in LDYB2? (there would've been SO MUCH ANGST)

Ultimately my biggest issue with Sam is that he could have been dead and had the same effect on Kara and Lee's relationship until about UB (realtime not flashbacks of course) and possibly not until Sam was made one of the Final Five.

But now I'm wondering what would have happened if Sam had in fact died on Caprica and come back at some point later as a cylon.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Also - what if Lee had been the one to muster out on New Caprica, and move in with Dee (and eventually get captured by Cylons)? He was always more ambivalent about the military than Kara.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I love all the stories that show Lee getting captured by Leoben. I really want to write one, but I need an interesting perspective/plot to find it compelling enough. I have a kink for tortured!Lee. #surprise

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Since no one's commented yet on this one...

what if K/L had been together and Kara almost cheated on him with Zak and they broke up because he couldn't forgive it and that had been pilots' backstory? That they still had all this lust and attraction and complicated feelings when the mini started.

I think it actually would have jived kind of well with their antagonistic relationship at the beginning of the show, but it makes things a little less epic somehow. I like the fridging of Zak...I really do. :P

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it does make things a little less epic, because part of the whole appeal of early pilots was that they'd been denying themselves what they really wanted - i.e. each other.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I think that would be an interesting dynamic and that it would present an ACTUAL problem for them to get over, e.g. Kara cheating. What the show gave us instead was this "forbidden" love whose source wasn't really very clear. Was it Zak? Was it Bill? Was it their own personal flaws? Who knows. Having Kara cheat on Lee with Zak actually gives their angst some weight and basis in reality. It seems a bit like a plot device now, especially with Zak so poorly drawn as a character and Kara's relationship seeming so blissful. I mean, I just don't get why it'd be such a roadblock.

I see a theme for me today. :)

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

What if Kara had been in that bar with Lee when he got shot and had to helplessly see him almost bleed to death?

What if Lee had been stuck on Caprica with/instead of Helo for most of season 1?

What if Kara hadn't been locked up in that cell with Leoben all those months?