DPP: Question Day!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Hello, Shipper Nation!

Here on the final day of my reign of terror, I'm opening up the floor for questions.  Anything to do with pilots, LJ, fandom-- whatever.  Newbies and old folk, bring whatever you've to the table (no matter how silly it sounds.  Chances are, someone probably has the exact same thing rattling around in their brain.) 

So bring forth the questions and our panel of experts shall respond forthwith!**


** Isn't "forthwith" a great word?  I think it's like in my top ten right now.  Right along side "methinks."  And "quash."  Excellent word, quash.

Comments

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

** Isn't "forthwith" a great word? I think it's like in my top ten right now. Right along side "methinks." And "quash." Excellent word, quash.

They really are great words. As is posthaste. ;)

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, posthaste is lovely.

I'm also a big fan of notwithstanding. : )

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

I'm a lifelong fan of "pursuant," myself. Also "heretofore."

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

I have a question. Which episodes of Season 3 are/aren't we going to watch for the live blog? :)

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

Oh this is a good question as it may impact my attendance of the rewatch

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Very good question. Didn't we decide to put it up to a vote? Vive DEMOCRACY!!!

I for one could care less about the NC (you know how fat!Lee kills my soul.) But I know a lot of other folks like that storyline and so if we wanna watch it, that's cool. I'm also one of those rare souls that isn't bothered by Hero (I like the music), but I can also live without it.

I think no matter what, we defintiely need to watch A Measure of Salvation (if for no other reason than the Black T-Shirt of Hotness).

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Who's planning to show up to D*C and Comicon this year (or either/or)?

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

never really thought about either..if I ever did I think D*C would be the easiest for me to get to...it's in September, right?

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

I will definitely be at D*C. I bought my plane tickets this week, even. :D Flying in Thursday, flying out Monday (the kiddo starts kindergarten on the Tuesday, we think, and I want to be home for that).

And yes, it's Labor Day weekend.

[eugis.livejournal.com]

ME ME ME! :)

I'm showing up to Comic Con and D*C.

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

I'll be at D*C, of course, since it's right here. Haven't decided how much of the con I want to attend, though, so I might not buy the full four-day pass.

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

I'm going to D*C again this year! Woooo! And we're actually at a Con hotel, which is fab.

[da-angel729.livejournal.com]

Not me-We're going to Disneyland for a family reunion so I can't afford Comicon, and my best friend's getting married Labour Day weekend and I'm a bridesmaid. So, nope! I wish I could, though...maybe next year.

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Still pondering it, the main holdup being the state of my bank account. If I do decide to go, I'll probably have to beg some kind soul for some floor space since I fail and didn't book a room just in case.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

I am seriously thinking about D*C but I am unsure about hotels, etc. Any tips (or peeps that need a roomie)? Also, I like Bee's idea about just holding court in a bar...not sure I need to go to the whole con although it would be interesting to go to at least some of it. Mostly I am excited about the potential to meet and chill with you folks though.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

How did the writer's strike affect the K/L story? I've had some small discussions about this offline, but I'm convinced (maybe with little evidence) that the writer's strike changed the way the K/L story was written? Concur? Disagree? Evidence?

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Oh, now that's an interesting question...

I really don't know. Not much was done with the story line anyways in season 4.0, and the strike came between 4.0 and 4.5. It's possible there wasn't much change.

I'd like to hear some theories, though!

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Didn't they map out a plan of killing off Tigh and having Ellena dn Cavil team up to be the big baddies?

I'm not sure if much in the way of K/L was affected, although it does seems that they were the end game until 4.5 got written. But that was after the strike, no?

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Did you totally run out of ideas? Hehe. (This one's rhetorical.)

Here's one: What would have happened with Kara and Lee if Kara and Zak had gotten married?

[eugis.livejournal.com]

Probably nothing. :(

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

DPP is hard work! Plus I figured I could phone it in on Sundays, as the interwebs are pretty dead. *g*

There could have been some awkward cheaterish things to happen I believe. Unless they never set foot on the same planet again. Physcial distance would be crucial.

[owldark.livejournal.com]

Interesting question...

I think Kara was totally in love with Zak when they got together. And in my personal canon Lee pretty much fell in love with Kara from the first moment he met her. To me, Zak & Kara's relationship was one which really tethered Kara, it seems almost innocent to me, incredibly sweet.

But, Kara being Kara, I think that over time a number of problems in that relationship would have begun to assert themselves. And I think, simultaneously, her relationship with Lee would have developed further. Hands down, to my mind, the Lee/Kara dynamic has such depth and complexity... but also has all the inherent heartache and ego that we saw on the show itself.

Do I think Kara would have gone on to cheat on Zak? Definitely a possibility... I think Lee would have railed against it, tried everything to stop himself... but I think there would have been a point where he ended up breaking. But I think he'd have been honest to Zak about it.

Y'know... Lee and Kara have that whole Scarlett and Rhett thing going on... and by that comparison, Zak is a little bit like Ashley. (Though, only a bit.)

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

I like the question, hehe. Well, I believe they would have given in eventually --I am not sure if they would have gone so fat to actually cheat, because it's too much, but... after denying it and repressing it... yes, probably (especially if they would have had to see each other on a regular basis). I believe that Kara love Zak genuinely, but when she met Lee, well, her world just crumbled. And I think Lee fell for her from the very first moment they met. It's difficult to fight against something like that.

But what's sure is that their relationship would have been even angtier with Zak alive, I fear.

Favorites?

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone. This is such a broad question that it may not be that interesting, but I am just feeling curious about what people would choose as their favorite Kara episode, their favorite Lee episode, and/or their favorite K/L episode? If you've all had this discussion a million times, I apologize, maybe someone could just point me in the direction of past discussions. Also, this might fall under the same criteria, but if you look at KS and JB as actors, is there a particular scene for each of them in which you think they hit the apex of their talent, they just knocked it out of the park into a whole new stratosphere of awesome?

For me, I would answer as follows:

Favorite Kara episode: Maelstrom
Favorite Lee episode: Crossroads II
Favorite K/L episode: The Captain's Hand

Favorite KS scene as an actress: confrontation with EJO in Act of Contrition

Favorite JB scene as an actor: under the viper wing in Maelstrom and, oddly enough, telling Kara about Dee's suicide in SaGN. He kills me in both scenes.

Best wishes to everyone!

PS - And one technical question: How much older than Kara is Lee supposed to be? How much younger than Kara and Lee was Zak? Thanks!

Re: Favorites?

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Excellent questions!

Favorite Kara episode: You Can't Go Home Again
Favorite Lee episode: Bastille Day
Favorite K/L episode: Colonial Day

Favorite KS scene as an actress: All of Kara's scenes with Leoben in the NC arc. Just really brilliant stuff. Esp. when she kills him then goes back to eating dinner. That scene is just so horribly wonderfully creepy and insane-- yet civilized. I adore the contradiction.

Favorite JB scene as an actor: For some reason, his performance in Revelations really stuck with me. It's as if the character turned a big page at that moment.

The age issue--

I don't think this was ever clearly sorted out. I think it's always been accepted that Lee was either slightly older than Kara of they were about the same age, and also accpeted that Kara was somewhat older than Zak. I always figured Kara was 3 years old than Zak, and Lee was probably 2-4 years older than Kara.

[http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/]

This one has shown up over and over in post-DB fic, but I'll throw it out there anyway: What kind of lives would Kara and Lee live on present-day Earth?

The conventional wisdom either has both of them in the military, or Kara as an artist or maybe a mechanic. Lee is usually involved in the law as a civil servant/politician or a lawyer. Which makes sense. Those careers are an extension of what we saw on the show. But I do rather enjoy when they take more unusual paths, since I think they'd be quite different without the heightened environment of the TV series. (I also like fic that isn't set in a large American city, though I can't complain because I've written several of those myself. ;)

I see Kara working some type of physical job, maybe as a therapist or personal trainer or HS coach. Something active but not necessarily with an incredible future. She tried college for a while, but she got tired of it. She hangs out in sports bars a lot, not necessarily because she's a big sports fan, but because she likes the atmosphere. She can be a pretty obnoxious customer sometimes -- but in an endearing way -- and once in a while she thinks about becoming a bartender or buying her own place. She mostly dates casually, though she had a long relationship a few years back that burned her on the whole concept. She's definitely a live-in-the-moment person, but she's starting to hit that point in her life where she thinks she should be a bit more settled.

I must say that it's almost impossible to picture Lee outside of politics or a law firm! Even seeing Jamie as Matt Devlin skews things in my brain, because that's the kind of contemporary life I see for him. But, for the purposes of this question, I think he'd work at some do-gooder nonprofit or even as a high school teacher. He got married a few years after college and now has a pleasant life in the suburbs. They all go to church on Sunday, not because he has a strong belief in God, but because he wants his kids to have that sense of community and tradition. His wife is nice, the kids are nice, everything is nice. When he ventures downtown for whatever reason, he sometimes envies those with brighter, more chaotic lives. But he can also get judgmental about them. After all, he's gotten his life together.

Or, y'know, they could be pairs figure skaters. ;)

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

OR SUPERSPY ACCOUNTANTS!!!!


This is such a fun question.

**goes off to ponder**