DPP: Free For All Friday

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

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

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

I want to start by saying that I do not like Fat!Lee!, I do not subscribe to the lame storyline attached to it and Fat!Lee! is a writing cop out like the stupid porn 'stach. Making people look physically ridiculous to explain their inner turmoil is ridiculous.

Now, having said that, let me be the devil's advocate here for a sec. We all know that Lee is an uber control freak when it comes to his emotions. He has such a tight rein on them that he can't get out of his own way. So now, as Sophia would say: Picture this: Lee, after having for the first time, let go and admitted his feelings to Kara gets dumped unceremoniously without an explanation (okay, fine, he didn't ask for one, but we're moving on cuz I am actually trying to defend Lee here. It sucks to be the devil). In a fit of "frak this, I'll show her," he proposes to Dee in what has to be the poutiest, most 5-year-old way to propose ever and she accepts him with a clear understanding that she KNOWS this isn't a fairytale of love and happiness, but just a "hey, it's the end of the world, so let's get married and we'll have someone to frak every night" kinda way. Then, Lee's stuck on the Pegasus with a crew that's still part hostile and he has to prove himself to them. To top this beautiful sundae off with a big fat red cherry, there is NOTHING to do. People are mustering out, there's no real action, there is nothing. So Lee lets go. Why keep yourself in such tight control when it doesn't even matter?

See, I'd agree that Lee would delve into exercising or coming up with some monster project with crazy ass deadlines to keep working IF he was actually angry, if he still actually cared. I feel like at this point, he just doesn't. He's given up on everything because he feels that HE doesn't matter anymore. To anyone. And he starts believing that and hence lots of crackers and the birth of Fat!Lee!. I bet that every day, when he looked at himself in the mirror he hated himself which would probably send him even deeper into his depression. You can see that the minute the action picks up, he gets reinvigorated and starts taking care of himself.

Continuing on as the devil, I actually really liked Dee before this whole nonsense of her dumping Billy for Lee. I thought she had a quiet strength to her that was very admirable. I hated what they did to her character. It also pissed me off that she LET Lee get fat and lose sight of who he is, although there's a fic begging to be written here for the number of times they argued because Dee saw him giving up and finally, realizing that he just wouldn't listen to her, gave up on him too.

Okay, I'm done. Devil's leaving the building. Bring back Fit!Lee! and a storyline that makes more sense. Oh, and shave that frakking porn stach off.

Re: Fat!Lee is an abomination

[ninjamonkey73.livejournal.com]

Oh, and shave that frakking porn stach off.

So say we all!

Also, I wanted to add that I hated how Dee looks at him in one scene where he's popping algae nuts with such a look of disgust and, I don't know, defeat? I know it must have been hard for her to watch his downward spiral, knowing it was at least partly Kara and that he wasn't with the one he loved (♫ Love the one you're with! ♫). I could go off on an entire other rant on how her character changed, but apropos to this thread, she knew he was in love with Kara. She married him anyway. And then he was clearly miserable. I'd feel bad for her if she hadn't stated she knew going in (at least in UBEX).

Re: Fat!Lee is an abomination

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Excellent comment on the matter.
Also, I actually really liked Dee before this whole nonsense of her dumping Billy for Lee. I liked her a LOT, like more than I would usually like a more minor character. I thought she seemed really interesting in Final Cut. But her character was basically randomly appropriated as the other woman and it was sad that the more we got to know her, the less we wanted to.