DPP: Lee Adama Has No Friends

[cynicalshadows.livejournal.com]

Friends can be lovers, and lovers can be friends, but what if the person involved is your only friend? This is a question that has been floating around in my head for a while concerning Lee. Kara has Helo, but Lee seems to have nobody as a friend besides Kara. Could this have contributed to his reluctance to admit his feelings for her? Was Lee just scared to risk his sole friendship for a chance at love? Who else could Lee have befriended and could a confidant have affected his relationship with Kara?

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[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Dee was Lee's only friend (besides Kara) pretty much. (Helo and Chief happened later and we didn't see any development of those relationships really.) I think that's a good part of why he married her. She was someone he confided in and someone who supported him (enabled him to a detrimental amount too).

I think Lee in general was rather awkward with people. His dad, Roslin (you'd think they'd be closer but I always found their exchanges to be somewhat awkward all along), the pilots, the deck crew. Part of it is because he was always having to be someone's superior (the pilots/deck crew) or inferior (Adama/Roslin). Dee was outside his chain of command so he could be a little more relaxed. And Kara was Kara, who was everything to him all at once, so he never knew how to stand on ceremony with her in any way and he just had to be himself. But really, I just think Lee wasn't good with people one-on-one. He loved the greater good, but close relationships were not his forte. He was always too wary of people's motives.

[entaiaime.livejournal.com]

But really, I just think Lee wasn't good with people one-on-one. He loved the greater good, but close relationships were not his forte. He was always too wary of people's motives.

Yes. This. He wasn't even that good with Kara one-on-one. I wonder if he didn't understand how his words or actions affected other people. It was almost as if he operated outside of society. He could see society for what it was and what it should be as an idealist. But he didn't know his place in it.

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Yeah sometimes he knew just how to handle her and what to say, but other times, not at all. For people who knew each other so incredibly well in some ways, in other ways they were entirely uncertain of what the other one felt/thought.