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no_takebacksHello shippers! Sorry for the delay in posting today - I have been caught up in a flurry of fic writing for the Lee Adama Ficathon and have barely remembered to even eat. But thanks to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
taragel's gentle nudge, I am here now, so please come out and play.
Today's Topic: Struggles, Humanity, and Everything that Sucks
Battlestar Galactica is one of the darkest shows that has ever aired on television (source: me) and it tackled themes of nuclear holocaust, racial annihilation, child trafficking, cancer, war, death, injury, post-traumatic stress, depression, suicide, hopelessness and much more. But it did it often with a storytelling technique that was compelling and engendered hope and love for the characters in the show (or at least most of them, bc we all have those we don't like).
Today, my questions are about the difficult themes of the show, the struggles, and the things that suck and how they relate to pilots. (What?)
To clarify, I want to know how you connected to Kara and Lee and their individual and/or relationship struggles in the show. I want to know what aspects of each of those characters, separately and together, drew you in and never let go? And I don't mean the things you love, because those are many, but instead the difficult and painful struggles that each of them faced. How did and do you relate to those themes?
You can be as personal or as vague as you like, and you can post anonymously if you like, too.
If you don't want to share personally, that's totally fine of course, but maybe you can talk about the individual and/or relationship struggles that you find particularly compelling to read or write in fic. What attracts you to them?
What challenges do you love to see them struggle with and overcome (in fic or in canon)? Or maybe you like the idea that they don't tie everything in a neat little bow and like the messiness of their lives.
Also, what challenges did they have that you saw them actually overcome in canon? Any? None? You tell me. What do you think?
Tell us everything, shippers. Everyone else, please chime in and begin a conversation. I'm excited to peel the onion!
taragel's gentle nudge, I am here now, so please come out and play.Today's Topic: Struggles, Humanity, and Everything that Sucks
Battlestar Galactica is one of the darkest shows that has ever aired on television (source: me) and it tackled themes of nuclear holocaust, racial annihilation, child trafficking, cancer, war, death, injury, post-traumatic stress, depression, suicide, hopelessness and much more. But it did it often with a storytelling technique that was compelling and engendered hope and love for the characters in the show (or at least most of them, bc we all have those we don't like).
Today, my questions are about the difficult themes of the show, the struggles, and the things that suck and how they relate to pilots. (What?)
To clarify, I want to know how you connected to Kara and Lee and their individual and/or relationship struggles in the show. I want to know what aspects of each of those characters, separately and together, drew you in and never let go? And I don't mean the things you love, because those are many, but instead the difficult and painful struggles that each of them faced. How did and do you relate to those themes?
You can be as personal or as vague as you like, and you can post anonymously if you like, too.
If you don't want to share personally, that's totally fine of course, but maybe you can talk about the individual and/or relationship struggles that you find particularly compelling to read or write in fic. What attracts you to them?
What challenges do you love to see them struggle with and overcome (in fic or in canon)? Or maybe you like the idea that they don't tie everything in a neat little bow and like the messiness of their lives.
Also, what challenges did they have that you saw them actually overcome in canon? Any? None? You tell me. What do you think?
Tell us everything, shippers. Everyone else, please chime in and begin a conversation. I'm excited to peel the onion!
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Re: LELAND!
Date: 2012-06-20 01:10 am (UTC)Pilots are so completely two sides of the same coin, which is very much why i love them. So many of these points are the same things that attracted me to Kara...
--the need for approval, feeling less than good enough, insanely high standards imposed on self
--being, or feeling like, an outsider and covering the pain with bravado
...And it seems that Kara and Lee are the best at recognizing/mitigating/addressing these parts of each other because they each understand them as parts of themselves.
As for Kara, 4 or 5 years ago, i found it a bit unsettling how closely i related to a fictional scifi television character. Now it's just part of my daily life. Yesterday i had my own UB experience of waking up with someone, thinking 'well, this just made things way more complicated', and gaining a visceral understanding of Kara's abrupt morning need to flee...which is quite possibly the one action of hers that has most frustrated me. I've always identified with the 'love easily, trust rarely//insecurity' aspect of Kara, but this event was more of a direct parallel sequence of events. I chose not to run but to talk completely because i couldn't repeat that scene. I suppose that's the beauty of pilot imperfections...they both are too introspective not to grow from them...which makes me intuitively connect and introspect with them.
/sentimental mush Carry on, all! Much love from the prodigal cat.