Daily Pilots Post: The Favorite Meme
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no_takebacksHello fellow shippers! My name is Cosette and I will be your DPP host for this week. My fabulous predecessors have done a wonderful job over these past weeks, and I hope to keep the fun going! :D
We have already discussed our favorite moments, scenes, fics, vids… And I don’t know about all of you, but personally, when it comes to K/L related stuff, I am inherently conflicted when it comes to choose a favourite anything. Of course I have my preferences –I could probably pick my 5 favorite scenes and my 10 most beloved fics or come up with a list of, say, 15 songs that scream pilots to me; but when I have to cut down the list to one, the task becomes almost impossible. What I intend for today’s post, though, is to make you choose... Hence my question is, if you had to make a choice and pick one, ONLY ONE, which would be...
*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
*Your favorite pic of them? (evidence would be muchly appreciated!)
*Your favorite K/L fic?
I know this is a really tough call, there are so many wonderful stories out there, but you probably have a story that holds a special place in your heart for a bunch of different reasons… Maybe it was the first good one you read, maybe it’s the story that made you cry harder or touched you in a way you didn’t expected, or explored a certain aspect of Lee and Kara’s relationship in a way you found utterly satisfying --or who knows, maybe it is the smuttiest smut you’ve ever read :)).
*Your favorite K/L song?
*Your favorite K/L vid?
*Needless to say, feel free to answer to those questions you feel like. Also, I’d love to hear yours “why’s” about pretty much all your choices. After all, the reasoning behind an election is as important as the choice in itself (and I am that nosy and chatty, hehe).
We have already discussed our favorite moments, scenes, fics, vids… And I don’t know about all of you, but personally, when it comes to K/L related stuff, I am inherently conflicted when it comes to choose a favourite anything. Of course I have my preferences –I could probably pick my 5 favorite scenes and my 10 most beloved fics or come up with a list of, say, 15 songs that scream pilots to me; but when I have to cut down the list to one, the task becomes almost impossible. What I intend for today’s post, though, is to make you choose... Hence my question is, if you had to make a choice and pick one, ONLY ONE, which would be...
*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
*Your favorite pic of them? (evidence would be muchly appreciated!)
*Your favorite K/L fic?
I know this is a really tough call, there are so many wonderful stories out there, but you probably have a story that holds a special place in your heart for a bunch of different reasons… Maybe it was the first good one you read, maybe it’s the story that made you cry harder or touched you in a way you didn’t expected, or explored a certain aspect of Lee and Kara’s relationship in a way you found utterly satisfying --or who knows, maybe it is the smuttiest smut you’ve ever read :)).
*Your favorite K/L song?
*Your favorite K/L vid?
*Needless to say, feel free to answer to those questions you feel like. Also, I’d love to hear yours “why’s” about pretty much all your choices. After all, the reasoning behind an election is as important as the choice in itself (and I am that nosy and chatty, hehe).
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Date: 2010-04-26 10:58 am (UTC)*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
The brig scene/extended brig scene of “Six of One”. Why? Because it is the most gorgeously romantic scene between Kara and Lee in the entire series. Period. And I don’t mind that the Kara we got to see in that moment is her non-human version, because right then she was still every bit the Kara I knew and loved. Love the way they are so tentative at first, how Kara goes there because she has to ("I never could say no to anything." "Except Me." "Especially You." Gah!), how they do their handshake thing and say each other’s full names. And the kiss. How Lee kisses ever inch of her face and give her all the reassurance she needs. Love the maturity and honesty of that moment. And their faces kill me. Such pain and longing and comfort... all mingled. And I adore the extended scene because Lee gives Kara the Aurora figurine as the symbol of his faith in her, and he makes her hold onto it until she comes back to him. Like she always did. Sniff.
*Your favorite pic of them? (evidence would be muchly appreciated!)
That’s a tough choice, but… maybe this one. I could stare at this pic –and those raptor scene gifs—all day long and never get tired. So much sensuality and longing. GUH. Best chemistry that ever graced our TV screen.
*Your favorite K/L fic?
Right now, I think "The Reality and Immortality of Things" (http://users.livejournal.com/wisteria_/921546.html) by
*Your favorite K/L song?
I guess “The Special Two” by Missy Higgins. Quintessentially pilots.
*Your favorite K/L vid?
"I am Not Dead" (http://dualbunny.livejournal.com/118215.html) by
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Date: 2010-04-26 01:17 pm (UTC)1. Favorite Kara/Lee scene. Raptor outmaking. I wrote about it here (http://community.livejournal.com/sasa_hq/95193.html?thread=841689#t841689) and my feelings about that scene haven't changed one bit. :-D
2. Favorite Kara moment. Favorite?! Wow. This isn't my favorite, favorite moment. I know others will disagree but I love the moment when the painting turns into the basestar and Kara laughs. I felt it was the first time I had seen even a glimpse of the real Kara in . . . months. It made my heart happy. She was in there somewhere and she was happy and right for a moment. It makes me misty now but at the time I really was glad to see my girl, even briefly. I love to hear her laugh.
3. Favorite Lee moment. Back to Eye of Jupiter. When he flips out on Sam. He's all sweaty and angry and he has loved Kara longer than you! How dare you! Gosh, folks I tell you I got shivers. I thought Lee might say more. I hoped Lee might say more. And both men are so . . . sweaty. And gosh, Lee just loves her so much it's like ready to spill out of him, he's so worried.
4. Favorite Kara/lee pic. This pic (http://ecsperiment.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/leekara.jpg) is a promo pic but I like it because Kara looks so vulnerable in it. It reminds me of when she asked Lee if he'd leave Dee if she left Sam. It's rare to catch Kara like this but I think her love for him is pretty obvious too, she just reins it in a lot. I wonder what she was saying to him here.
5. Favorite fic. Again, favorite?! That's like impossible to choose. But I will choose Never Be Warm Again (http://stars-like-dust.livejournal.com/143353.html) by
6. Favorite Kara/Lee song. I'm liking Landslide (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WM7-PYtXtJM) by Fleetwood Mac these days for them. It reminds me of part 3 of my story, Circuit, where I gave Kara and Lee a long, happy life complete with grandchildren. I so feel they are beyond the series now. When I think about Kara and Lee, just so many years have gone by and they are still together. Somewhere.
7. Favorite K/L vid. This is a tough one as I haven't been watching K/L vids lately since someday I'd like to make my own. (Don't wait for it, it will be a long while.) Hmm. Today I wanted to link to Fear by Lilith but the link is sadly gone. :-( I wanted to rec a vid that maybe people haven't seen and I haven't recced in a while. Hmm. So instead I'll rec Chocolate (http://jessicaj.angstnromance.net/) (for dl only) by
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Date: 2010-04-26 01:41 pm (UTC)I love this one for K/L especially because of the subtext of Stevie and Lindsey and their failed romance. That live performance video has just a hint of piloty eye frak, or at the very least stolen glances and attempts to not hold eye contact.
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Date: 2010-04-26 01:50 pm (UTC)Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
UB - I miss you, I miss you too, scene. Maybe I love it so much because the entire episode wrecked me and I was already in tears so when they got to this final exchange I was powerless against it. They'd been apart for seventeen months and had beaten each other bloody and were so full of hurt that the 'miss yous' were more powerful than any exchange of love declarations could ever be. It was one of their rare, pure and honest moments where their souls had been cracked wide open.
Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
When she confesses her part in Zak's death to Papadama. I love Kara's cockiness and swagger but it's that broken and damaged girl underneath that makes me fiercely loyal to her.
Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
In Revelations when he takes care of his father and then goes and punches Tigh in the face. Why? I guess because Lee so rarely steps up and takes charge for personal reasons, (it's always about some intangible ideal or following the rules) that it was just refreshing to see him being affected personally by something and acting upon it.
Your favorite pic of them?
I have so many faves that I just had to force myself to pic one and not change my mind. Why this one? It's just so angsty and hot and Lee is just so very close to her you can feel the tension between them. Plus I love the contrast of Lee's dark hair against Kara's bright gold. And they're both half naked!
Your favorite K/L fic?
Yes, this is tough! Despite the vast amount of fic I've read I still choose Possibilty: Different (http://hackaddict.livejournal.com/7315.html) by
Your favorite K/L song?
I don't really have one so I have to dig around a bit. Hmm. I made a vid to Before I'm Dead (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZPUzEcuFgM) by the Kidney Thieves years ago and I think it's a pretty good fit considering how the show ended. Kara may have died but she packed in a whole lotta life with Lee before she did.
Your favorite K/L vid?
Wow, this is hard too. I love so many vids! But the most awesome would have to be Speed Racer (http://boom-queen.livejournal.com/77191.html) by the fabulous
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Date: 2010-04-26 02:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 02:57 pm (UTC)Same here :). But I already knew that your fave K/L moment what the raptor scene. Definitely one of my faves too.
I am still pondering about my Kara favorite moment (that's why I skipped the question, heh). So though. I really loved the one you mention, I was so happy to see her smiling again.
The pic! hehe. That is definitely one of my all time faves. Oh, the UST!
Can you believe that I don't know if I've read "Never Be Warm Again"? *g* I can't remember which was my first K/L fic (I guess something by daphnaea or leda13, and I was impressed), I read so many in a matter of days! (yup, I was totally obsessed).
"Landslide" is lovely. Part 3 of Circuit always was my fave :)
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:14 pm (UTC)*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
*writhes with indecision* The briefest of scenes when Kara and Lee are sitting by the fire in Home. They're so comfortable and close there. Two friends, grateful for each other, sitting and talking quietly. I'd love to know what they were chatting about. Is there a fic about this?
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
Gods, this is hard. I'm going to have to say Kara's speech in Scar - she shows the vulnerable side in front of the crew and frakking remembers a lot of names. She is lovely there.
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
When Lee comforts Adama after the cylon!tigh reveal in Revelations and then he marches to the airlock and punches Tigh in the face. Breaks my heart and makes me proud.
*Your favorite pic of them? (evidence would be muchly appreciated!)
*Your favorite K/L fic?
Periapsis (http://community.livejournal.com/shewhohathapen/26014.html)by
I love that rawles removed all of the schmoop and angst and just made it about the two of them, living in a world of each other without a care for the rest of those frakkers.
*Your favorite K/L song?
Betrayed Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSd-gAEqrnA) by Adema
It's my post-NewCap anthem. I am a total sucker for the conflicted love/hate songs with a bit of a hard edge.
*Your favorite K/L vid?
BSG Fanvid: Apologize by One Republic by
www.youtube.com/watch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dvP00v_SBM)
Spans the entire relationship chronologically (for the most part). It's painful and beautiful.
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:18 pm (UTC)I can't wait to hear your favorite Kara moment!
You've never read it? Well, that makes me glad I recced one of my old faves. After five years of reading K/L fic (a good new one this very morning) I firmly believe you can never ever read all the fic out there on them. There are always old ones you've missed or new ones being created right now somewhere. Pilots!fic keeps going and this is a good, good thing. :-)
I'm glad you liked Landslide. And I reread your comments to Circuit yesterday. Comments like those make me want to write another K/L story! Hee!
ETA: And I didn't realize you were driving the DPP train this week. Eeep! (I haven't quite realized I'm in another week yet!)
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:27 pm (UTC)Heee. That's the challenge! ;P
It was one of their rare, pure and honest moments where their souls had been cracked wide open.
Aw, I love that moment too. It was the perfect ending for a perfect episode (and I love that the exchange is not necessarily romantic).
In Revelations when he takes care of his father and then goes and punches Tigh in the face.
I really like Lee in "Revelations", I love how he takes charge, seeing Adama utterly broken. I guess Adama was always clueless about his son --and I dislike him a little bit for that--, but that moment was a lovely father-son interaction, the proof of how much their relationhip had grown since the mini.
And I possibly find Lee hotter in this fic than in actual canon.
Heee. Alpha!Lee in this fic is super hot --and I like Kara's characterization too, a little bit softer and vulnerable. And yup, the sexual tension --and the actual sex-- is great.
it's definitely NOT WORK SAFE. Yeah, you heard me!
*hahaha*
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:40 pm (UTC)I love that moment so much! Definitely one of my favorites in season 4.
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:44 pm (UTC)I am not sure if I haven't read it --I'll have to check out later, because I am pretty sure I've read all Claira's fic!
There are always old ones you've missed or new ones being created right now somewhere.
That's true. And even though some good authors stopped writing K/L a while ago, right now there are really talented writers creating new stories and keeping the torch burning. I love it.
And I reread your comments to Circuit yesterday. Comments like those make me want to write another K/L story! Hee!
Aw, you know I love writing epic comments (when I have time, that is ;P). And how much I'd love to see more DB's K/L fic? Very much ;)
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:55 pm (UTC)*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
I'll go with the fight in KLG1. Maybe that makes me a weird shipper, but I loved their angst and dysfunction so much, and it's the first scene where I really knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was a shipper.
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
I was thinking about saying the names in Scar, but sci-fi-shipper already said that one, so I'll go with another favorite: the moment, in Colonial Day, when she whacks the guy with her cane in the bar fight. I have a ridiculous amount of love for that scene. Why? Because she whacks him with her cane! What more do you need?
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
I'm going to say the part where he almost cries on the phone with the president in YCGHA. It makes me all wibbly.
*Your favorite K/L fic?
Supply and Demand (http://sangga.livejournal.com/6621.html) by
*Your favorite K/L song?
I have more Kara songs than Kara/Lee songs, but for K/L I'll go with Dimming of the Day (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VWS92QJW) by Richard and Linda Thompson. I wrote a fic to it once, and it is one of my all-time favorite love songs.
*Your favorite K/L vid?
Honeythief (http://m-a-r-i-k-s.livejournal.com/13790.html) by
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:05 pm (UTC)The briefest of scenes when Kara and Lee are sitting by the fire in Home
So interesting that you didn't choose one of their big scenes. But to tell you the truth, I fell in love with K/L because of little moments like this. I think Home!Pilots are my favorite pilots ever, their siblings/buddycops dynamic plus all the childish flirting in those eps is utterly adorable. They seem so hopeful and young. Sigh.
The pic!! I LOVE that one, especially how cocky he looks and the way he invades her personal space (and I love how Kara pats Lee's shoulder afterwards, it's so casual and intimate at the same time).
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:14 pm (UTC)I tried not to think about my answer too much - I wanted to go with the scene that my brain jumped to. I've been craving non-angsty pilots lately and I just love them in Home. The way they keep looking at each other when they're under the stars in the Temple of Athena - like two kids in a candy store. There's so much tenderness and affection between them. I just adore it.
(But ask me tomorrow and my answer might be different!) ;)
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:17 pm (UTC)I'm right there with you. It's in my top five for sure. I love that the equality between them - he just punches her back. No hesitation.
I'm going to check out the fic and the song you've listed. I don't know either. And the Honeythief is wonderful. I think I'll go watch it again.
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:21 pm (UTC)Hee, same here. It just impossible to choose only one, right?
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:29 pm (UTC)I love that the equality between them - he just punches her back. No hesitation.
Mm-hm. It annoys me in fic sometimes, when people have Lee all "oh noes I punched a woman!" That attitude doesn't make sense in this 'verse, and I think Kara would probably punch him if she knew he was thinking it.
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:34 pm (UTC)Totally agree. When I read things like Lee is abusive for punching Kara and similar stuff, it pisses me off. As you said, it doesn't make sense in the BSG-verse.
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:36 pm (UTC)HA! Totally hilarious. That is spot on, my dear.
One of the benefits of being a newbie is that I have a nearly endless supply of fic to catch up on. *grins*
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 05:05 pm (UTC)Gotta love Kara. And yay, others like that moment toooooo!
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-04-26 07:03 pm (UTC)*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
The brig scene. It really seemed that they both finally acknowledged how they felt about each other and that they could move forward. If only...
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
Most of my favorite Kara scenes are in S1-2, before they turned her into a victim. It's really hard to pick one, but if I had to, it's probably the one where she saves Lee in the mini.
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why? The scene in TSAR where he listen's to Romo's speech. The pain is just palpable.
*Your favorite pic of them? (evidence would be muchly appreciated!) Sorry, don't have photobucket. I love the Scar outtakes that came out after the finale.
*Your favorite K/L fic?
I have a few, but this one is really special because it is the first one I read and it really got me into K/L fic. And this is how the relationship should have gone and it would have been interesting to watch.
http://svilleficrecs.livejournal.com/102660.html
*Your favorite K/L song?
A tossup between these two (yes, they are poppish, but I am a sap, what can I say):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2czPkz5c9c8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDvkOwmE2ZU
*Your favorite K/L vid?
http://m-a-r-i-k-s.livejournal.com/7069.html
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Date: 2010-04-26 07:13 pm (UTC)*Your favorite K/L scene. And why?
I don't know why, but the first scene that comes to mind is in the shooting range, when the oxygen starts getting "rerouted". They're goofy and relaxed. There's the tension of how they might escape (I'm willing to look past the SCIENCE! issue of how do you fire a combustable weapon in minimal oxygen and have the bullet fly with enough force to break the safety glass. I will consider the explosive round to be self-contained for space vacuum reasons). There's no baggage and angst in that one moment. *sigh*
*Your favorite Kara/Starbuck moment. And why?
I'm gonna' split hairs here and do one for Kara and one for Starbuck. For Kara, when she's trying to reassure Lee after Resurrection Ship 2 when he wanted to die. For Starbuck, the scene when she ends up slamming Lee's viper to push him back to Galactica in the mini- sums her callsign persona up for me somehow.
*Your favorite Lee/Apollo moment. And why?
Without question, Lee's speech during Baltar's trial. I don't really have a favorite Apollo moment, as he was always Lee in the good moments, for me. :)
*Your favorite pic of them?
*Your favorite K/L fic?
Periapsis (http://community.livejournal.com/shewhohathapen/26014.html)by
*Your favorite K/L song?
"Strong Enough" by Sheryl Crow
*Your favorite K/L vid?
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Date: 2010-04-26 07:45 pm (UTC)Oh, sorry, girl... But you can do favorites V2.0, I am pretty sure that all my choices would be different! :p
it's the first scene where I really knew without a shadow of a doubt that I was a shipper.
I don't think you are a weird shipper ;) This is the scene that made me get completely hooked on the show. Love it, and love Apollo and Starbuck epic angst --and as I was telling you before, all this Lee-is-abusive thing is a very distorted way to read the character and the K/L dynamic, imo.
Love "Supply and Demand". And "Honeythief" is stunning. So beautiful and insightful and fresh at the same time.