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[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Good morning! It's 4:45am here in beautiful British Columbia and I am AWAKE! (I really wish I knew why) Due to unforeseen and unfortunate circumstances, the scheduled DPP driver for this week will not be able to take up the mantle of pilot love, which means... you're stuck with me again!

For today, a question that seems simple on the surface, but is probably actually more complex than that: What is your favourite thing about pilots? Whether that's what drew you to the pairing or why you're still here after the series is over, what makes Kara and Lee so important?

For me, I fell into the pilot love pretty quickly and it's always been about the chemistry, the way that the characters fill each other's weak spots and cover each other's blind spots. Together, they're complete in a way that they aren't individually. And the sizzle when they lock eyes is palpable.

Also, pilotsbigbang is starting to go up so go have a look at some long stories about our favourite pilots!

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[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

I think my favorite thing about Kara/Lee is that they feel real, and that they combine angst and anger and romance and forgiveness and professionalism with an underlying *comfortable* feeling that is hard to resist. No matter what they're doing, something feels right about the two of them standing together in the same room. They just work; on some unspoken level,they fit. It's like their relationship has so many levels that it's impossible to ever mess up all of them at once -- something is always still working between them, some thread (professionalism or friendship or anger or forgiveness) continues to connect them no matter how much else gets broken. And I believe that they see and love in each other the same things that I see and love in them individually -- I feel like I understand why each is worthy of love, and I see why they would be drawn to each other.

Plus, I love the moments when they've been fighting and one of them takes a breath and decides to put their ego aside for a minute and reach out to the other. Or the moments when they've been joking around and then one of them quietly gets serious. Or the moments when they're caught up doing other things and just fall into the rhythm of working together without having to think about it.

They're good together. That's what it boils down to for me. And a lot of the time they don't feel particularly epic, they just feel very genuine -- and sometimes it feels like they are the most normal, human part of each other's lives. It's as if they are the most completely themselves around each other.