Daily Pilots Post

[dramaturgca.livejournal.com]

Two questions today:

1. What's your personal fanon for how Starbuck and Apollo got their callsigns? There's no official reason given in the show (I'm told Kara's is explained in one of the comics, which I have but haven't read yet, but having read most of the comics, I'm rather loathe to count them as any kind of canon) but there has to be a reason she came out Starbuck and he Apollo. (Because there were characters with those names in the original is NOT a valid reason)

2. What advice would you give to a person for whom BSG was her/his first "real" fandom? How would you explain fandom to a newbie?

Comments

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

I'm late (as usual), but wanted to echo what everyone said above re: fandom. BSG (b/c of K/L) is my first and likely my last. (Although I was kinda a RENThead, it wasn't the same...I didn't do the whole o/l comm or anything.) However, I will say that "I love K/L and I don't care who frakking knows!"

And agreed w/ anon above, after the finale, my friends that I watched with (who were actually the ones that introduced me to bsg) got over it. I was devastated by Kara's ending (or lack thereof) and found K/L shipper fandom, which is filled with wonderful people and make it worth sticking around.