DPP: Free For All Friday

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Greetings and salutations, 'shipper nation! This is Amy, known on your internets as ninjamonkey73, and I'm driving the DPP bus this week. Sit back and enjoy the ride...





What's on your mind, 'shipper nation? Have a gripe about an episode? Are you such a Lee fangirl you want to shout his praises from the nearest mountaintop? Want to try your hand at a comment!fic and need a prompt (go ahead and ask, we'll enable)? Have a neat picspam you want to stare at for a few minutes? Or that gif. You know the one I'm talking about. From EoJ. Yeah, that one. Mmmm...

The world's your proverbial oyster, people! Chat it up!

Comments

Re: Fat!Lee is an abomination

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But look at what happened to the structure of fleet life after settlement began on New Caprica. Suddenly Lee was in charge of a skeleton crew that did nothing but circle in orbit without anything constructive to do for months on end. Military routine and discipline crashed throughout the fleet, and the constant stress of the previous year was replaced by mind-numbing boredom. He was in a desk job, no longer required to maintain combat readiness (look at his Dad ~ that belly is what happens when Viper jocks move out of their planes and into stagnant peacetime commands). Add in his post-Kara depression and his previously established inclination to self-pity, and voila, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me that he would let his health deteriorate for the sake of some passing comfort.

I think it is reasonable that the men and women would've gotten soft after the chaos of war was over - there's no need for the uberfit body ready for duty. But the emotional eating/bingeing doesn't work for me as a way of expressing Lee's disappointment and depression. When people are taxed, depleted, they resort to the most basic of their coping skills, usually developed in childhood. Lee's childhood, as it's painted, seemed to be about him becoming parentified when his father left and mother was incapacitated (I may be extrapolating from fanon here). Given the way he's characterized, especially in the mini and S1, I see his basic coping skills as rigidity, obsessiveness and isolation. I think he would be more likely to eat less, to deny himself any pleasure (seen as weakness or vulnerability?), as he did when he declared his love to Kara. That "weakness" had cost him dearly. I see him doing every possible thing he could to force Kara out of his mind and to fill his life with as much structure as he could muster.

I can see the argument for just giving in to depression. I think that is very likely, but I don't think he would eat. I think he'd withdraw and wither away first. He does not seem like the type to look easy comfort in food. I can see him lying on his rack, defeated, staring at the ceiling - or pretending everything is fine while he's dying inside. He'd just married Dee - he has to work hard to pretend everything is wonderful. What a heartbreaking thing to have to do. :(

Re: Fat!Lee is an abomination

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I couldn't agree more.