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

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

"--love how he brings out the dead guys issue here and also, of course, Kara's reaction, because I see it as her way to tell him he's made a point but she can't deal with it, not right then."

I couldn't agree more ~ I had never thought of her reaction in quite that way before, but you're right, that's exactly what she was conveying.

"I love how their friendship is their safe place, how no matter what happens between them on a romantic level, they are first and foremost friends. Also, the fact that they always forgave each other and kept on trying "

Yes! This is what I love most about them. And in a way, it's wonderfully unexpected ~ neither one seems like a particularly forgiving person on the surface, but it turns out they both have fairly breath-taking depths of understanding inside them. They get over hurtful things with unusual grace. Yay them :)