DPP: Oh, No, They Didn't (ONTD)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Well, shippers, this is my last DPP for this week. Thank you all for so much squeeing, thinking, and commenting with me. Driving this train is fantastic. *MWUH*

Now, onto the business at hand. Most of the week has been devoted to squeeable topics like UST, eyefrakking, outmaking, and birthday celebrations. Today, I'm bringing a little more angst to the mix.

There were countless opportunities for Kara and Lee to finally talk about their feelings and to straighten their shit out. Seems, though, every time they tried, something got in the way: Fate, Timing, Frakked up Missions to Caprica, Personal History, Guilt, Death, you know, the small stuff.

So my questions boils down to this: What are the most significant (or just your favorite) moments in the show where TPTB prevent our pilots from achieving their happily ever after? I don't mean RDM's late-series character annihilation, but instead the legitimate, even clever ways that the show kept us watching our pilots, just to see if they'd ever figure things out.

What were the moments that made you want to throw something at the TV (but also gave you that "oooh, this oughtta be good" smile)?

And let's keep it nice, shippers. This is intended to be both squeeable and angsty (if that's possible). Here is one of my favorites (in stills - my gif of this scene is broken):


Jealous!Lee...
  
  

Later....
  
 
 

AND THEN KARA GOES TO CAPRICA. HOLY FRAKKING LORDS OF KOBOL. Laura and her frakking prophecies, Lee and his too-angry-to-admit he's jealous. And "Gaius Frakking Baltar???" AAAAGGGGHHHH. Pilots, why do you do this to me???

What say you, shippers?

Comments

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

Mm, had a late-night thought. How did the series end with Baltar NEVER telling Lee that Kara called out his name when Baltar was with her? I really thought Baltar would 'fess up, 'specially when he said to Lee, "Must everything come down to your personal feelings about Kara Thrace?" Dayam straight...comme il faut... IT ABSO-FRAKKIN-LUTELY MUST !!!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Gods, that would have been awesome! And I love that line. I love that BALTAR, frakking self-centered, obsessed with himself, self-oriented, self-loathing freak of a Baltar knew about Lee's obsession with Kara. Not Kara's Oh Lee moment where she lusts for him, but Lee's obsession with her. "Must everything come down to your personal feelings about that woman?" MOTHERFRAKKING YEAH. KARA THRACE OBSESSION FTW!

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

We need a fic where Baltar finally tells Lee before the mission to rescue Hera what happened during Colonial Day! It's the least he could do, for a whole host of offenses from treason to outting Kara in front of everyone.

[cherylad.livejournal.com]

I know!!!!!!!!!!!! I was waiting when Baltar asked him that for him to fess up. THAT would have been full circle, but, of course, RDM would have frakked that pooch in the finale anyway, so ... *sigh*

[baciami2.livejournal.com]

Still...I would have loved that scene between the two of them in the dry stowage locker where Lee menaces Baltar (who steps back quite gingerly) if Gaius had told him. First, how awesome that the great Ladies Man Gaius Baltar had a woman fantasizing about another man while she was with him. Second, I always loathed that Gaius had this over Lee - that he had slept with Kara after cutting in on their dance, literally and figuratively. Third, Lee's asking Gaius to do something unselfish - well telling him would have been such an act. *hand waves Hera's rescue as unselfish of Baltar*