Best Pilots Scene: Round 4

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[Poll #1570921]Sorry this is so rushed this morning!

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[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Argh.

Also with thinking this is NOT EASY.

Before Baltar's Hair Ate The Universe...

Smack You in the Mouth sets up the balance that defines Pilots. They recognize each other as complete equals, but understand that there are times when their jobs (or the situation or whatever) will require one of them to take direction from the other. They also light up the damn flight deck. They bring out the best in each other and pull it to the fore. They help each other find hope when everything seems impossible. They keep each other going.

No Takebacks sets us up for the angst that will follow -- I don't think that Scar or the night on NC would have happened without that scene (or the kiss that came before). It's the point where their feelings (or at least Lee's) get laid out on the table, even if he tries to disguise them by placing the word "friend" next to them.

But I think Smack You In The Mouth is the better scene.

After The Conquest of Baltar's Hair...

Gods, this is impossible.

The Match... They've nursed their anger and their fear, their resentment and their UST and their broken hearts for over a year. They've danced around each other and around their feelings and it finally, FINALLY comes to a head. Kara's behavior toward Dee (and Lee) is disgusting and Lee's frantic scrambling to reassure her is pathetic at best and at it's heart equally disrespectful. But Pilots often speak louder through their actions than through their words, and once they're in that ring the world disappears again. It's the two of them and their hearts on their sleeves and while they beat each other to a pulp before they get to it, in the end they've reaffirmed that they can't stay away from each other. They need each other on a soul-deep level that they simply cannot deny.

But the Brig Scene is Pilots at their finest. It's what we all hoped the end of the journey would be. It sets up the acceptance and understanding and maturity and actual communication that really does define the end of their journey (lies in a field be damned). And again they reaffirm that they are what they want. They each carry a piece of the others' heart in their soul. And the acceptance they find in this moment is so sweet and deep and profound... It pays back all the tortured moments when they pulled themselves apart because they were afraid being together was the wrong thing to do. Like a reward for all that's gone before.

So I'm voting the Brig Scene.