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: How much did Dee know about NuCapFrak?

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

"WHY would any sane person do that? Why?"

I don't really know. My guess is fear of loneliness. Being alone is scary so people settle. We see that happening everyday around us. It is better to stick with the nice guy here now than to wait forever for prince charming (who may or may not come one day). In our world, I'd add fear of other people's judgement. Even if it ends up in divorce, at least you can say you have been married once and prove to the world that there is nothing wrong with you since someone once wanted to be with you. Not very evolved, but real, nonetheless.

I never hated Dee. In fact I really liked in the beginning, especially when she helped Lee to break Laura from the brig back in season 2 and when she convinced Bill to go after them in Kobol. I don't think she was disloyal to Billy or that what she did when she was with him compares to what Lee did to her when he cheated on her with Kara (with or without sex). I was never convinced she really loved Lee, though. The love she felt for him certainly is not the kind of love Kara and Lee had. But then again, most people never experience anything so deep and strong. I think she really liked/loved him more than she ever liked/loved Billy, though. So, she settled. You have to take what you can now because you don't know if there is going to be a tomorrow. And as fas as settling goes, she didn't do so badly - after all, she got Lee (magical hip dents and all). She already had the admiral as a father figure and I guess she had her own daddy issues to deal with. She did say something about her father in that interview with D'Anna Biers, didn't she?

But she didn't need to marry him, especially if she knew he really loved Kara. I'm not saying she should necessarily have broken up with him and be alone. But marriage is a big deal. It may be conservative of me, but I think this is not a step you should take knowing beforehand it is not going to last. In this sense, her behavior accepting his proposal was even worse than his (the proposal itself) because we could argue that he at least was trying to convince himself he was going to forget Kara and make it work whereas Dee seemed to have a clearer understanding of the situation she was getting in. She had no delusions. This could be sign of how afraid she was , how much she needed to play make believe while she still could.

Re: How much did Dee know about NuCapFrak?

[kag523.livejournal.com]

I love how you explain this, especially In our world, I'd add fear of other people's judgement. Even if it ends up in divorce, at least you can say you have been married once and prove to the world that there is nothing wrong with you since someone once wanted to be with you. Not very evolved, but real, nonetheless That is so insanely TRUE. *sigh* I think I'll have to admit that all this talk about "why" Dee marries into a terrible situation has made me a lot more sympathetic to her. You can't help but feeling sad.