Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Wow, you guys are brilliant and the conversation this week has been awesome. It's been great hosting this week of DPP and I'm looking forward to my next turn in August.

To close out this DPP week, it's a Free-For-All! What do you want to say to K/L shippers? To the pilots themselves? To the world at large?

I would like to say thank you to this amazing community who welcomed me in and I hope we keep going strong. After all, there's a million and one things we haven't written yet!

Comments

[damao2010.livejournal.com]

I guess I love Lee/Adama as much as I love Lee/Kara. There is not enough fic about it out there, though.

I can't imagine it would have been very different from the boredom and lax routine that the fleet fell into during their time at New Caprica. For *that* he spent his life away from home?

I have to confess I don't know a lot about what the military do on an everyday basis in peacetime, but I wouldn't go so far as calling it boring and I wouldn't say "for *that* his spent his life away from home". I don't know, it kind of sound that the job is not important enough. So, I won't go into this. What I want to say is I have a very good friend who is married to a navy officer. He has just retired and he almost made admiral. They moved around a lot because of his career. Both inside the country and abroad. There were times it was very difficult for the family (it took her almost ten years to finish college, the kids had to change schools a lot, and when they moved to different countries, the school year was different, the language, etc). He did spend periods of time away at see. But none of that prevented him from being part of his family life. His family never felt abandoned because of it. So, yes, the blame for Adama's behavior can't be put on his career alone.

"Dad, I know you like to think that, but...you know what? It doesn't matter. It was a long time ago." Breaks my heart every time.

Mine, too. :(

And he surrounded himself with misfits, people who would have been rejected or broken

I read this a lot in fics, but I don't recall anything like that being said on the show. I only remember that he and the ship were thought to be old-fashioned and that both need to be retired.

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't go so far as calling it boring and I wouldn't say "for *that* his spent his life away from home". I don't know, it kind of sound that the job is not important enough.

Good points, thanks for calling me on that. You're right that the military in peacetime is an important defensive and rescue service that deserves to be taken seriously and respectfully, and I'm sorry that my comment seemed to devalue that. It's just that I didn't think that military officers in peacetime would really be unable to make time for their families, whereas in wartime it would be more plausible to envision them as constantly deployed to dangerous areas.

The "surrounding himself with misfits" idea is speculation, but I don't think that Tigh, as we see him in the miniseries, would be second-in-command on anyone else's ship. In the flashbacks in the Season Two premiere, we see that Bill used his personal influence to get Tigh reinstated into the service. And I think he treated Starbuck's disciplinary issues with more leniency than most other commanders would have (that's what Tigh implies in the miniseries when Bill bargains with him to keep her insubordination off the record). And Tigh also suggests that the Chief and Sharon were permitted to break regulations and carry on a relationship on the Galactica when they all thought the ship was close to retirement. I guess I'm saying that Bill seemed to give a lot of leeway to people whom he valued who would probably have gotten themselves into trouble elsewhere.