Daily Pilots Post: Filling In the Blanks

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Hi shippers! First of all, thank you very much for all your great thinking and lovely contributions, I am really enjoying being the DPP driver this week. I adore this fandom <3. Well, we have already talked about your K/L favorite moments/scenes, but today I’d like to focus on the extended/deleted scenes… How do you feel about them?

I have always had the feeling that so much juicy piloty material was left on the cutting room floor… In RDM's podcasts we have heard of a lot of scenes that were filmed, but yet many of them had never been seen… For instance, if I remember well, from “The Passage” there was supposed to be a scene after Kara hung up Kat's picture, she turns and runs into Lee's arms and he comforts her. Also, in this episode there was a scene where Kara and Lee sit side by side throwing a ball against the wall and talk about what happened in UB. I wonder if they were actually filmed.

I honestly will never understand why certain scenes weren’t included in their respective aired episodes (hello, K/L TABFAYW scene??). But bitterness aside, I am glad that, at least, we had the chance to see those –I love most of them, and I adore all the awesomeness that was UBEX. So my questions for today revolve around this particular topic:

*Which is your favorite K/L deleted/extended scene? Why?

Given that my favorite pilots moment is the second brig scene, I guess that the extended version of this one is my fave. I love seeing Kara so vulnerable for once (even crying a little), and the picture of Lee giving her the Aurora figurine –the only meaningful token he had from his father-- as the symbol of his faith kills me. It’s very touching and sweet.
Also, even though it breaks my heart into tiny pieces, I really like the TABFYW deleted scene. So well acted and poignant. I believe this was the only time we see Kara being so honest and straightforward in her personal relationships, finally trying to be true to herself ("maybe I'm just cheating myself", gah!).
And I must confess that I have a huge amount of love for the extended “Scar” scene too, when Kara asks Lee if he can picture himself with a wife, a porch swing and a stinky rugrat pissing on his knee. I know it’s not a popular opinion, but I love “Scar” so much.

*Do you consider those scenes canon?

Personally, yes (if they don’t contradict canon, that is).

*Also, which scenes you’d have loved to see?

I guess I have a veeery long list, mainly because I am a greedy shipper and I never had enough of pilots interaction *g*. I think the scene I really, really needed to see is the Kara and Lee’s reunion after the Demetrius story arc. I mean, their farewell was pretty intense and, even though I love their next scene together –that one in Papadama’s office just before they frakked each other senseless on that desk in “Revelations”—, on a narrative level I found it contrived without a previous reunion scene.
Also, another moment I‘d have wanted to see is the beginning of their "fling" –don’t get me wrong, I love the raptor scene and the way we discovered that pilots were having a torrid affair--, but I wouldn’t have minded at all to see how it started. And another one? Well, maybe the moment when Kara met the adorable aberration that was Fat!Lee after the exodus. Can you imagine her reaction? LOL

And, here there is some inspiration for your answers. Discuss! :)

S1 pilots cuteness. Probably one of the most adorable scenes they have together –and the evidence that Lee and Kara shared little routines like jogging every morning.

Extended brig scene. I see this scene as the proof that pilots were far from over at that point –and probably that was the reason why they left the scene out.

TABFAYW extended scene. It's a totally heartbreaking scene, but I wish they'd left the full version of it in the final cut because this is probably the only time Kara actually admits in Lee's face that she loves him more than anyone and should've married him and not Sam. I would really like to know why EJO edited so much out of this scene, since it does add so much to both their characterizations.

"I think things just got more complicated" (UBEX). How much do I adore this one? I really like way UB ends, but this version… I don’t know, it's even more pilots to me, so dysfunctionally adorable (and it’s funny, I feel like it's been so long since I watched pilots… after rewatching all these moments I feel so nostalgic, this scene specifically reminded me of my emotions when I first saw UB and tore me up a little bit).



Comments

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Well I think you nailed it right there.

She's so quiet

I think that scares Lee more than anything else. That she's not acting Kara-like about it. I mean also with the quiet "frak you" instead of some quip about getting laid more than he does or some such in the hallway deleted scene.

Lee, I think, maybe, fears that this frak means something to Kara? He clearly has no idea she said his name, despite Baltar's squirrelly behavior in the rec room. But hey it's the end of the world, there's only so many thousand people left and she's making a choice here and it's not him. And then he's further unsettled by her not responding the way he thinks she will. So he keeps pushing. "It doesn't matter to you? I don't matter to you? You're just a pilot and I'm a CAG? This is just like any other frak, like that time you frakked the major instead of me?"

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

Lee, I think, maybe, fears that this frak means something to Kara?
Yes, that's it!!!! That's how they set this episode up. Baltar clearly looks devastated and frakked up in the rec room. Head!Six and Lee are not happy about this turn of affairs and both are angry and jealous as hell. They think this may actually mean something for Kara and Baltar.

So he keeps pushing.
Ah, Lee, Lee. Pushing Kara never works. Sigh. And even later she even says, "I'm really sorry." Again, I'm not sure what more Lee wants than that. She can't tell him she said his name. I mean, whoa. Though I love reading fics where he finds that out. ;-)

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't matter to you? I don't matter to you? You're just a pilot and I'm a CAG? This is just like any other frak, like that time you frakked the major instead of me?"

I agree. I take the CAG/pilot line to be him aggravated that they never get past their roles in the fleet. Hmmm... the major instead of him... New twist to add to my fanon!