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

[workerbee73.livejournal.com]

Huzzah for pilotSpam! Spam is good!

Dadgummit, I hate that I missed the thinky-thought Zak discussion. Lots of good stuff going on there. And yep, I totally agree with lapedprof's comment... RDM's subtle understanding of human nature for the FAIL! Woo!

[jeeshee.livejournal.com]

wow, the words nail and head come to mind with that comment. Kara is not impressed!

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I'll continue with some Home gifs and come back later with more...

(http://s784.photobucket.com/albums/yy126/scifishipper/BSG/BSG%20GIFS/?action=view&current=karaleepyramidball.gif)

(http://s784.photobucket.com/albums/yy126/scifishipper/BSG/BSG%20GIFS/?action=view&current=leecrinkleeyes.gif)

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Spam is so good!! (especially when work gets in the way of writing an actual post! ;P) And I am sure you are going to enjoy all the Zak essays... Really good stuff.

As for RDM... you know, I'd love to know him in person lol

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

That comment has been a sort of RDM!epiphany for me... He was jealous of Lee!

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

That comment has been a sort of RDM!epiphany for me... He was jealous of Lee!

Now it makes sense! He hate Lee because he is golden boy and hates Jamie for the body!

Because They're Pretty

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

(http://s784.photobucket.com/albums/yy126/scifishipper/BSG/?action=view&current=starbuckpromocropped.jpg)

(http://s784.photobucket.com/albums/yy126/scifishipper/BSG/?action=view&current=jamieladder.jpg)

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

I could look at that bottom gif ALL. DAY. LONG.

[thrace-adama.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That theory makes so much sense!

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Wow... that theory makes... everything make more sense.

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Pilots have the best hugs.



And smooches.



And... yeah that.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

More hot pilots!!! :D :D

[somethingusual.livejournal.com]

Home Pilots were full of adorableness.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

I never understood some RDM comments like Jamie not being the viper pilot type... Really? And then why did he cast him as Apollo?

[somethingusual.livejournal.com]

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Love this one! (it was my LJ header for a while!).

The UBEX ending!<33

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

As for RDM... you know, I'd love to know him in person lol

So you could go all Starbuck on him for the finale?:)

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

Oh the pretty! I love it!:)

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

I think that RDM started confusing Apollo and Jamie. Apollo the character, fully formed and consistent is present in S1&2 (and bits of 3). Jamie!Apollo took over with the presidential arc (which I live, but is inconsistent in many ways). Again, as has been said many times, RDM lost Apollo's essential nature in favor of writing for Jamie as a person, not Apollo the character.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah me neither, he said they noticed Jamie wasn't the action hero type, yet the episode that has him blow up the tylium refinery shows up on so many favourite episode lists. Obviously Jamie could totally pull it off.
I think Jamie worked so well as Apollo because he acted as a counterpart to Kara, he was the more pensive character. I don't think the chemistry would have been as interesting if they'd have cast a tall all American football hero kind of guy.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

Yeah, your Jamie!Apollo theory makes sense. But you know, the thing is that Apollo was not supposed to be the typical action hero (and that was glaringly obvious from the beginning, hello Bastille Day?), and that's exactly why I --and all of us here-- fell in love with him, I guess. So I can't understnad while RDM changed his mind about the character later. Also, he always said the he never knew how to handle the character, if I remember well --which frankly, I don't get.

[cosetteferaud.livejournal.com]

I don't think the chemistry would have been as interesting if they'd have cast a tall all American football hero kind of guy.

ITA. And I believe Jamie did all the action hero stuff damn well --love all his alphaness in "Hand of God" ;)

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

I agree with you guys are saying! It almost seems like RDM had a personality disorder that he passed onto Apollo. The writing for Apollo/Lee was very strong early on and then we were lucky if he was on screen for more 5 minutes.

The character did such a 180, lost all that made him Apollo.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

So true! Apollo complimented Starbuck and Lee complimented Kara. Here were two people who were different in many ways yet work the best with each other. What made people love Jamie/Apollo was that he didn't look like the typical action hero with crazy(steroid style) muscles and was close 7foot tall.

Apollo could do that badass super hero stuff and still hold your hand or give you a shoulder to cry on if you needed.

[scifishipper.livejournal.com]

Mmmm. I love this. *sighs*