DPP: Shifting Sands

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

For today, look back at your oldest journal entries or NT comments about Pilots. What feelings or thoughts did you write about pilots that are no longer true for you? (For example, I used to hate the 33 smack-mouth scene, but now I kind of adore it.) I'd love it if you'd post a snippet of old thoughts and feelings and then talk about them. I am curious! <3

What shifts in your thinking have you made over the years? Any particular pieces of meta, fic, or comments that shifted your thinking? How did it happen? Are you still torn about any scenes? Any characterization moments?

ALSO:
We've had more lovely fics this week. Check them out:

Goddess of Truth, Goddess of Hope by kdbleu [PG]
Halloween Treat by plaid_slytherin [G]
Retribution by winegums [PG]

Comments

[pocochina.livejournal.com]

HAHAHA, I was totally 100% against it because I hated Lee like burning. PEOPLE CHANGE, OKAY.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

OMG. I forgot that you hated Lee once, right? Hee! ((HUGS))

It's okay. I used to hate Zarek with a fire from the pits of hell and now he's part of one of my favorite ships. Thank the gods for cognitive flexibility. LOL. ;)

[pocochina.livejournal.com]

I forgot that you hated Lee once, right?

VOCALLY AND OBNOXIOUSLY, as is my way. I did reaction posts as I watched, too, and throughout my S2.5 posts there's this, like, creeping sense of horror that I was starting to find him sympathetic. Then he was one of my POV characters throughout S3, and probably my favorite after Laura by the end. I still like him a lot better in the later seasons than in those first 20 or so episodes, but overall he's an all-time favorite for me. COOL STORY SIS.

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

creeping sense of horror that I was starting to find him sympathetic.

That's awesome!

I rarely change my opinion of characters in a major way so I find this fascinating and kind of hysterical. :D

[pocochina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's a fairly rare thing for me too. It was reassuring in a way? I'm always afraid I'm missing out on angles of the story if I pick a favorite/POV character and stick to them too soon. But changing my mind in such a big way about Lee made me feel like I watch with some willingness to question my own biases. (Naturally, this has only made me more insufferable wrt characters I have continued to like/dislike.) It was a really fun journey with Lee in particular, as he's very close to my heart now.

It's funny, because I still agree with most of the extremely unsympathetic first post I wrote about him (http://pocochina.livejournal.com/128511.html) but now I find his bullheadedness endearing. BB. <3

[kdbleu.livejournal.com]

(Naturally, this has only made me more insufferable wrt characters I have continued to like/dislike.)

Well, of course. Because you could change your mind... ;)

I have discovered over the years that I appreciate when others love characters that I do not. It makes me feel better about that whole character's existence if someone really gets them even if I don't. But it has never once prevented me from going off on how I still dislike said character and find them awful and ill conceived. hee.