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

Re: Favorites?

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Great choices! And thanks for the age estimate, that makes a lot of sense to me. Especially since it gives me a better perspective on the Adama family dynamics. I don't know how old Lee was when his parents divorced, but if he was 5-7 years older than Zak, the likelihood is that Zak was too young to remember the divorce itself or the deteriorating conditions which led to it, while Lee presumably got a front-row seat and remembers a whole lot of bitterness that passed over tiny!Zak's head. I'm a sucker for the protective older brother idea of their childhoods ~ I like the thought that, for all practical purposes, Lee had to act as the only adult in the house from a very early age.

Re: Favorites?

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

I subscribe to the same Lee-as-protective-older-brother/substitute parent theory. I think you'd need about a 5-7 age difference if you were going to be responsible for taking care of a younger sibling.

Of course, I don't know if we ever got any hard evidence about their ages-- this is what always made the most sense in my mind. : )

Re: Favorites?

[stripes13.livejournal.com]

Definitely agree about the Lee=father figure. It doesn't work if there's only a 3 year age gap, so yeah, 5 years minimum

Re: Favorites?

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

Although I agree this age difference would fit better with the idea of Lee as a protector/father figure , I don't think it fits what we saw on the show. From the the very beggining (the mini) we were presented with a picture of the admiral and his sons as kids. No way, the age difference between them would have been 5-7 years.

Re: Favorites?

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

That is such a great point! I never thought to connect that photo with my Lee-as-father-figure speculations, but you're right that it would be hard to argue more than about a two year difference, given the kids in the photo. But I will cling to my Lee-as-protector backstory, with now the added irony that the "baby brother" he was shielding was actually only a couple years younger than himself. That almost seems more typical of him, doesn't it, to take charge even though he's really almost as much of a kid as Zak is when the worst of the trouble goes down? So says my new backstory, anyhow :)

Thanks for your observation! And I must admit I love that photo, if only because it tacitly admits that Lee (and Jamie Bamber) started out with much lighter hair! It always does look dyed to me, especially in the early part of the series. Of course that was part of their ongoing, if questionable, effort to make it seem remotely plausible for JB to be EJO's son. I think they should have just given up and gone with the "he takes after his mother" explanation from the get-go.

Hmm. Does the fact that the actress in the photos and the actress who later played his mom are clearly different people make the photos uncanonical? :)

Re: Favorites?

[(Anonymous)]

Is that really jamie in that photo? that never occurred to me!

I think the protector thing works with siblings that are closer together too, actually. I've seen numerous times, he'd just have to mature way faster than normal children, but that happens...

Re: Favorites?

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry. I didn't mean to say that it was really Jamie in the photo, just that the photo makes it clear that Lee started out with lighter hair. I assume they made that choice because Jamie Bamber's hair was naturally much lighter, too.