DPP: How Did It Begin?

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Welcome to the DPP, everyone! Sorry for the delayed start to the week, but to kick it off, here is a question that all of Shipper Nation has an answer to, and ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO SHARE, because we all need to hear it: when did you first start shipping pilots?


(for that matter, how did you end up watching BSG in the first place, and did any of you have any idea about pilots beforehand? Because I certainly didn't.)

So please, do take a moment out and tell us how you fell for pilots in the first place, whether it began here:



or before that (see the moment in my icon, or the first brig scene), or even much, much later - maybe one or both pilots had to do a bit of work to win your heart and make a shipper of you? Or maybe fanon - via fic, vids, squee and meta - helped along the way?

Tell us in as much or as little detail as you like, complete with thoughts at the time - no story is too trivial or too silly to share!


PS: Also, the DPP schedule from next week onwards is wide open and needs people to head it up, please do sign up for one if you can!

Comments

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

I watched BSG because I intrigued by the look of the commercials for Caprica and thought I should watch the original first, or really more like at the same time. I ended up never quite clicking with Caprica but I loved pilots and BSG in general.

I actually shipped Kara and Lee from the brig scene in the mini, although a bit begrudgingly as I was really a afraid they were a 'burn off' couple, i.e. the young couple that draws viewers in but is broken up immediately. But after Lee comes back from the dead, I was sold regardless of their outcome, clearly.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I tried Caprica after I was done with BSG but never made it too far in - I couldn't make myself get back into that world, especially knowing what was going to happen in BSG.

And like you, I did have Lee and Kara pegged as a 'burn off' couple when I first saw them, but they blindsided me with how much they made me ship.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

I first took an interest in BSG because Joss Whedon said it was awesome, and I as good as worshipped him.

When it came to pilots, I had absolutely no idea what I was about to be hit with - when Lee first went down to see Kara in the brig, my only thoughts were 'huh, so this is who's going to hook up with her, eh?', especially since I didn't much like either of them at the time.

It didn't take me long to unbend towards them, especially by the time Kara folded out the photograph, but I didn't descend into full-blown shipper territory until Lee came back from the dead and it was blindingly obvious how in love and flirty they were, while at the same time refusing to so much as hug.

(full explanation of my descent into Tragic Shipper Dementia this way, if anyone cares - complete with pics, squee and drool over pilots) (http://winegums.livejournal.com/14077.html)

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

I think I certainly liked the idea of them having feelings for each other but definitely didn't quite feel like they actually did until the Lee-gasm and the events of that episode, and was then totally giddy about it because they suddenly seemed complicated in a way I hadn't seen before with a potential pairing. Thinking back on it, I wasn't quite as into internet fandom back then - I'd read and written fanfic but it wasn't my go-to thing at the time - and probably would have eventually spoiled myself somewhere if I had been because the show was at the end of S2 when I first started catching up. These days it would be really hard for me to go into a show completely oblivious to one ship or another being a Thing or just something only in my head, and it was a lot of fun gradually realizing we were kinda supposed to see what I saw in pilots from the beginning.

I needed a lot of convincing to watch BSG because I'm usually peripherally aware of anything my boyfriend gets into and by chance the scenes I'd seen of BSG were mostly the ones of Gaius and Six and his whole Destinycakes, and while that wasn't something I hated when I actually got the context for it it wasn't something that grabbed me from the start. At some point my boredom nudged me to sit down and watch the miniseries and then I met Starbuck and I guess the rest is history :)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

Yeah, up until the Leegasm I was in the territory of 'omg they're cute and adorable and crazy about each other and they NEED to hook up, I can even live with a breakup afterwards', but KLG1 was what tipped me into 'these two have so much more to work through than I thought, inferior substitutes are unacceptable as love interests!'.

It's weird how denying pilots a chance to be together in the early seasons just fanned the shipper flames even higher.

(and I can understand initial avoidance too - I initially avoided BSG because Ron Moore had come on board a show I loved when I was a teen and ruined its second season with out-of-left-field sci-fi bullshit in the name of plot, it took Joss to convince me to give it a chance).