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

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

I have the late-DVD-watcher's issue of having watched the extended episodes instead of the aired ones (we never watched the aired version when there was an extended).

I agree with shah that whether or not I consider deleted/extended scenes canon depends on whether or not I like the direction it takes the characters. But then, actual canon sometimes failed, so...

Scenes I would have loved to see? Oo! There's a list!

* How did K/L get from the end of UBEX to EoJ? The "every time we do this" line in EoJ made me want to know how they got from "I missed you" to that-flight-suit-looks-uncomfortably-hot-let-me-get-that-for-you. There was a good scene to be had in there. How do you go from months estranged AND MARRIED to making out in a raptor on the sly?
* I wanted something during 33 where they're all stimmed up and on edge and totally frak in a supply closet!
* It's been fic'd more than once, but a scene where they steal a moment for sexytime during the mutiny (in The Oath?) with gunfire in the background. I liked the one where they were in a crawlspace... *sigh*
* And I'll second the more/better flashbacks of pre-mini. The Zak/Lee/Kara dynamic fascinates me (been the third wheel, had the awkward feelings for someone else's SO). Someday, I'll write the one in my head.

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

a scene where they steal a moment for sexytime during the mutiny (in The Oath?) with gunfire in the background.
I'm sure there are more now but I once made a recs list of sexytime fics (http://daybreak777.livejournal.com/127136.html#cutid1) written that week. It was one of the best weeks for K/L in season 4.5. I have fond memories of it. :-)

Enjoy!

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

GUH. I'll be in my rack... :)

[daybreak777.livejournal.com]

It was good times, dude. :-D

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Indeed. : )

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

The Oath. So much fun :)