Daily Pilots Post

[lyras.livejournal.com]

Hi everyone! Firstly, I'm sorry I've been a bit quiet on the commenting front over the past couple of days. It's harder for me to get online at weekends. *eyes nosy boyfriend* I will hopefully catch up with comments later today!

The answers to Friday's 'guess the episode' quiz have been edited into the post, in case you'd like to check them out.

Okay, your final prompt for the week is:

unfinished business

As always, feel free to post anything you like in response, as long as it's to do with Kara and Lee. :)

My final question for you all is: what do you feel are Kara's and Lee's best and worst traits, and how do these traits affect their relationship?

For me, in both cases their worst traits can also be their best, depending on the situation. Kara is so unforgiving (for example, of Gaeta in season 3), but I feel this is because she gives so much of herself in any situation, and she can't understand why others don't do the same. She treats herself just as harshly as she treats others ("Because I'm a frak-up, Lee", she says early on in the show). Similarly, Lee can be ridiculously stubborn, but the points he tends to be stubborn about are those that his sense of honour requires him to uphold.

I think what I love about their relationship in the final two seasons (and there is much I don't love) is the way both Kara and Lee confront the worst about each other and end up in complete acceptance. Kara, in a way, is willing to encourage Lee in his desire to be honourable even when he himself isn't really sure where he's heading. And Lee's unconditional support for Kara in those later seasons just makes me swoon.

Thoughts?

Comments

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Agreed. And I always thought her religious faith was a big motivator there, too: not just loyalty to Sam, but loyalty to the gods themselves (vow made in the sight of the gods and all that).

(That said: I haven't seen the Passage in awhile. Didn't Kara come back to see Kat as she was dying? I swear I remembered being all, "WHATEVER KAT TALK TO THE HAND," when Kara came back to see her in sick bay or something. Does she sort of take back what she said earlier? And give her some pills so she can die peacefully? Way more forgiving than I'd have a mind to be. The Emperor and I are not as forgiving as Kara is.)

And now I have to go and write an unrelated comment!fic. Whee!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

OH yes, she totally came back and forgave Kat as she was dying (er in a way, sorta the same with Sam the cylon too in Daybreak). And actually, I don't even think she wrote Gaeta off completely, she tried to save his leg on the Demetrius and even in the mutiny at first when she was on the phone with him she was trying to reason with him by using his name and starting to appeal to him when he hung up on her.

So saying she writes them off completely isn't even true. It's still only temporary.