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

[somewhereapart.livejournal.com]

I think the only think the table!frak itself accomplishes is showing how incredibly strong the attraction was for both of them right from the start, and putting them both in a position of being very aware of that attraction and how dangerous it is to their respective relationships with Zak. Neither one of them was ever stuck in the "I'm attracted to my brother's/fiance's fiancee/brother, I wonder if he feels the same" situation. They both knew, from the night they met, and they both knew how close they came to actually doing something about it.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally agree. I think that’s why I don’t hate the flashbacks as much as other fellow shippers do… I mean, for me they are the proof that they were true soulmates, that they shared something really deep and meaningful right from the start and they both knew it. And the fact that those feelings never faded and they kept on trying over and over despite everything shows me that even though their immediate connection came out in a pretty ugly way, what they had was something substantial and real, not just lust and infatuation.

In a weird way, those flashbacks actually showed how much they deserved to be happy in the end, as they had grown so much as people over the years and eventually reached a place where they could accept what was between them. The real tragedy was that Kara made poof (and that, that is what really pisses me off about their ending).

[somewhereapart.livejournal.com]

Ugh, the Poof kills me, if only because they had FINALLY worked out their issues, it seemed. They FINALLY had time to be together without frat regs, or the constant threat of being blown out of the sky, or duty to the fleet. They EARNED that. They earned being together, and they got totally screwed out of it.