DPP: Decoding Pilots

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If there's one thing I've learned to love over the course of shipping pilots, it's the fact that their feelings for each other are hardly ever explicitly stated - those two crazy kids are so unlike everyone else in love, they can't even manage to state their effect on each other in the same words everyone else uses, not without incredible difficulty anyway.

And the way they do express it is not the way everyone expresses it - in the normal world, challenging each other to a beatdown or holding each other's gaze for several seconds too long isn't really taken as a sign of undying love.



So what is pilot-speak for "I love you/life without you is completely miserable"? Here's a few examples to start off with:

"I thought you were dead." "Well, I thought you were in hack." "It's good to be wrong."

Every time they forget and use each other's names instead of callsigns over the comms. 

The final kiss in Scar.....and Lee finishing the toast at the end for Kara.

"Whatever it takes."

"This is all that matters."

Pilots code their feelings for each other in seemingly ordinary words and some not-so-ordinary body language ALL THE TIME, and even I can't begin to untangle all those times - do discuss, and since there is loads that I've missed out on, feel free to add to the list!

Comments

[ziparumpazoo]

Don't forget the other three little words that mean so much more: "I missed you."
:)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

d'oh, I knew I left out something!

(and yes, for pilots they really do mean so much more)

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

'What was that middle part again?'

(can't forget the scene that gave our comm its name!)

[winegums.livejournal.com]

"You can't take it back, there's no takebacks."

SUCH a glorious scene.

I never can understand people who say they're better off as just friends, pilots are too tangled up on multiple levels to make that a possibility.

[mserrada.livejournal.com]

I've never before or since seen a handshake convey soooo much. And who would've thought that a simple handclasp between two people could be both so UST filled and painful at once?

It's like they MUST touch, but can't allow themselves to get closer(mostly) and their hands between are all that keep them from falling into each other.

Honestly, as much as I HATE the poof, if we'd been given at least one of their extended handclasps in that field, it would've helped so much.

[winegums.livejournal.com]

their handclasps just kill me, right from the miniseries to Daybreak.

(and just for giving me all these feelings again, I have to leave pics)





not to mention the sheer length of the handclasp in The Captain's Hand (the way the shots are framed doesn't make it immediately apparent, but they're holding on to each other's hands for a LONG time)


And I do agree that one final handclasp might have made the poof just a tiny bit more bearable, though Kara does seem to be trying to hold back from either touching him or letting them touch....and we did get one in flashback (still not enough, I say!)

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

not to mention the sheer length of the handclasp in The Captain's Hand (the way the shots are framed doesn't make it immediately apparent, but they're holding on to each other's hands for a LONG time)

This gets me everytime. So sweet and childlike. I love it!