Daily Pilots Post: Pilots Spam!

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Hi friends! First of all, I want to thank you all for your participation and wonderful comments --yesterday's essays contributions were fantastic, all of them--, you are absolutely the best! :D So, after a whole week of discussion, thinky thoughts and porn, I’ve just realized that there’s barely been any squee this week! (my fault, I tend to get lost in fic and meta). Tomorrow I will be back torture you with more introspection –sorry, in two days it will be over, heh!--, but today I am going to emulate our dearworkerbee73 and devote this Friday's PPD to…

PILOTS SPAM!!

Bring your questions, general love, musings, squee, pics, gifs -- whatever you want! Let’s have fun because it’s FRIDAY!!!

And here is my first contribution to the party… I was doing some catch-up with all the DDP posts and comments earlier today, and just read this observationlapsedprof  made days ago:

“My husband's theory - based on some commentary stuff and his intuitive understanding of RDM and crew - is that to RDM, Kara is the girl you want but can never have. So there's some lethal resentment projected onto her (slut!) - and on to those who do get to have her (shot in the head and incinerated by the sun; made irrelevant, dismissed, and abandoned). And - it just occurs to me - let's not forget who gets the porch-swing ending - the very man she sexually humiliated in the most cringeworthy way. It's just a theory - but I see it as another way to get at the madonna/whore stuff that innibis has mentioned and that I slapped me in the face during the finale.”

Dudes, this is pretty brilliant and makes perfect sense, right?

ETA. I do actually have a question for today… lol How have pilots changed your RL? What’s been their impact on your life? When did you realize you were obsessed with them? I am curious about stuff like that :).

(Myself, I think the first time it really, really hit me the depth of my emotional attachment to them  was that period after the finale, when I spent a whole week crying and I couldn't tell anyone why I was so down –because honestly, who was supposed to understand the whole thing? Thank God I found my particular self-help group in LJ).

Comments

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Lapsedprof's husband = very smart man.

RDM = Fail.

I let myself get lost in Pilots during the hiatus between S4 and S4.5, as part of an avoidance tactic, so that some shit in the rest of my life could be ignored. Maybe not the best coping strategy ever, but it served me for the time. I don't think I realized it had become more than that until the finale, when I was so completely upset by the ending. And for almost exactly the reasons you said. I was so upset that this fictional pair had gotten exactly the ending I'd feared (I was calling Kara the "Jesus" of BSG as soon as I learned about Kara coming back from the dead, and hoping that I was wrong, or that it was at least going to be well done), that I just could not let it go! Which... They're fictional characters. The actors were still getting paid what they'd agreed to, and etc. Where is the logic in getting so upset about a story?!?

But then...


They're so pretty and fabulous together.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Your comment made me smile. That's exactly how I feel :)

(and hey, pilots are the best therapy for RL shit ever, I've been there and it works! :D).

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

Yes, to the above. Pilots are good therapy.

I was devastated by their ending too, which made no rational sense, but then I'd never fallen for a ship like I did for K/L.

There's no way to explain it to anyone not involved, which is why our LJ community is so lovely. We can share our daily lives with each other but we also have this fundamental link that others don't share.

My mother (who did watch some of bsg) asked me the other day why K/L was so fascinating/special and I just replied "they're only the best coupling since Romeo and Juliet...star-crossed lovers and all". She just gave me a sort-of baffled look...a look that was curious how the rational scientist daughter with an English major in classic lit and a theater minor could say that some couple from a tv show was the best ever since the Bard...and I just smiled serenely back. ;)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

They're fictional characters. The actors were still getting paid what they'd agreed to, and etc. Where is the logic in getting so upset about a story?!?

There is every reason to be upset about the show. These shows are designed to create emotional reactions, among other reasons, of course, and most people who watch regularly get emotionally involved.

I hate the poof and I don't frakking care who knows it. And they are very pretty and fabulous together. *squishes pilots*