DPP: Vent at Joe's Bar

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

Hey, I know I said I was going to post a two day thing? Eh... I changed my mind! :D I'm not sure if we've done this one before but I figured I'm going to go for it anyways. Tomorrow's post is going to come a little bit late in the day and I might do the two-day challenge then, because it's a little involved and takes a bit more time.

Anyways, what are we venting at Joe's about? 

Unpopular Pilots (and other Fandom) Opinions.

I thought some of these might be coming up since we've been thinking so much about the scenes and the voting. Ever feel alone in what you think? Are you afraid to speak your mind sometimes because the other shippers don't agree with your opinion? Well pull up a barstool, get a drink, and spill it. Bartenders are, of course, the everyman's therapist.

Comments

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

You make good points - I also agree that Lee and Dee's marriage was a mistake from the start. I think in the end divorce was the right choice. But I think he owed it to her to be honest about his feelings and to ask her for a divorce upfront rather than having an affair. And I also think it wasn't unreasonable of him to try to recommit to the marriage and see if he could make it work in TABFAYW. I don't think he'd ever really committed to his wife before; I don't think he had made a conscious choice to put Dee before Kara the way he tried to do in this episode. I think he wanted to try, really try. But you're right that feelings can't be forced. I doubt he could have made it work in the end, but I think he needed to find that out - I think the marriage needed to rise or fall on its own merits rather than on Kara Thrace, which is what it wound up doing by the end of the season.

In short, I hear what you're saying, and I think Lee should have learned by that point that he was not going to get over Kara, and I think if he lied to Dee about what he was feeling during their reconciliation scene then that was another tragic and hurtful decision. But I think that maybe he was sincere in thinking that he was ready to finally give himself a chance to fall in love with his wife. Maybe that's just another way of saying that he continued to lie to himself - but I'm not sure he and Dee were wrong in deciding to give their relationship a chance before they abandoned it. We can agree to disagree, there, I guess :)