DPP: For those who couldn't make the rewatch...

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

...or just can't contain their squee to a single post (and an afterparty).

Today's DPP is all about Eye of Jupiter (with maybe a bit of bonus Rapture as well).  I decided a few days ago that one of my ideas for the DPP was lame, so I started looking around for a replacement post...and then I remembered, of course, that this is a rewatch comm.  And obviously yes we have the rewatches, but we used to have other episode-themed posts as well.  So, for this week anyway, we have an all you can post EoJ rewatch day!

A little motivation:



Obviously, this is a noteworthy episode in the story of our pilots, but it's also a fairly controversial one.  How did you feel the first time you saw it, when Lee walked into Kara's Raptor and then we got pretty much the hottest scene in all of BSG?  Were you surprised?  Were you angry that they were cheating?  Sad that Lee wouldn't cheat (oops) and Kara wouldn't divorce? 

I remember being absolutely thrilled, and I loved the way they did the reveal.  Later, it gave me hope throughout much of season four that one day we would just turn a corner and see them randomly outmaking and it would be like "Oh hi, didn't you know we've been sleeping together all this time?"  Of course, it didn't exactly happen that way.  But at least EoJ gave us the possibility.

As for them having an affair...well that's kind of a complicated question for me, since while I don't think it was right I also can't quite fault either of them for it.  Which makes me feel like something of a hypocrite, as I normally cannot forgive anyone who cheats on their partner, no way no how. So why do I continue to love them and sympathize with them?  Maybe because I was already attached to the idea of them as a pair before their significant others showed up.  Maybe because I can forgive Kara anything.  Maybe it's because I know it meant something to them and wasn't just meaningless frakking around.  Or maybe it's because I'm so drawn to the idea of them as characters who are so incredibly screwed up that they marry the wrong people...characters who are so lost that the only moment they have together is one that's stolen and fleeting.

Or maybe it's just because I'm a crazy fangirl.  Thoughts?

Now, this doesn't have to be all somber reflection.  Bring the pics.  The gifs.  The squee.  The random thoughts you have about this episode.  The recs!

Of course, I have a fic rec to start us off. 

The Chandrasekhar Limit by vnilla : This fic does not directly deal with the events of EoJ, but is all about that twisted and all-too-fleeting period between Unfinished Business and Maelstrom.  And it's beautiful.

Go ahead and rec your favorite fics about EoJ/Rapture, or the events surrounding it.  Have you written an infidelicious fic yourself?  Don't be afraid to do a little self-promotion!

P.S. Congratulations on the overwhelming participation in the friending meme!  My inbox is still recovering (I was afraid that turning off notifications would jinx it and nobody would join in...).  Well done, shippers.  Well done.  Although I'm a little disappointed that nobody guessed my name.

Bonus: I had intended to do a line on the friending meme about favorite pairing(s) other than K/L (because such a thing does exist).  Somehow, this got lost, so if you want to answer it you can do that now.

Comments

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Edited for original comment editing failure! I should learn to write in some sort of linear fashion, really.

I feel like there were several infidelicious fics at the bsg_pornbattle this time around-- our round-up list is here (http://community.livejournal.com/no_takebacks/81909.html) and I think taragel and olaf47 definitely have a couple of lovely fics that fit that description in the list. I think the only one I've (sorta infidelity-fic, but not really) got to my name is here (it's NSFW, btw) (http://community.livejournal.com/bsg_pornbattle/19256.html?thread=2131512#t2131512), and that's a damn shame, really. (Note to self: write more infidelity fic. Why? Because secrets are hot, that's why. That whole thrill-of-getting-caught adrenaline rush is hot. Maybe my Id is showing? Yes. Yes, it is.)

Did I want them to cheat? Hell no. Did they? Hell yes. Was it hot? Hell to the motherfrakking yes. When we got to that episode, I think my reaction was approximately, "Well, of course they are." They can't get away from each other. They don't even want to. So the kissing was a foregone conclusion, marriages or no. It also kinda confirmed for me that there probably wouldn't be a happy ending for anybody, but hey, that's what the Eternal Fanfiction is for, right? Right.

So it didn't bother me like it would have if I knew them and we all hung out on the weekends or something. In my real, three-dimensional life, I don't forgive cheating very easily. On my television screen or in my books, well, it's not so much that I'm comfortable with it, but if it works in the story and it's not like it was thrown in because the writers' various Ids are showing, well, I'm okay with it. And I agree with you, Shah-- there's probably not anything that Kara could do that I wouldn't forgive her for. She has an all-access pass to my heart. So does Lee. I love them even when I think they're wrong.

Other ships on the show: Adama/Roslin, forever. Squealed like the tiniest fangirl in Res Ship II. Watched the scene a zillion times. Shouted "THAT SHIT IS CANON" when they finally got around to it (although I don't care what Ron and Mary have to say about it, I'm with EJO: they totally did it on New Caprica, hellooooooooo). Zak/Dee (I know, I know, it wasn't on the show ever, but ♥_♥, you guys). Gaeta/Hoshi, Gaius/Caprica.

Does Zarek/Airlock count as a ship? Because they are Made For Each Other, and he should have met up with his One True Love the airlock back in Bastille Day and they should have been together FOR ALL TIME. >:(

Let's see, other people I ship: Han/Leia (FOREVER♥-- first OTP, y'all), Horatio/Archie (Horatio Hornblower), McKay/Sheppard (SGA), Weir/Caldwell (SGA), Sam/Jack/Daniel (SG-1 OT3!), Luke/Mara (SW EU), Zoe/Wash (Firefly), Buffy/Angel (BtVS), Willow/Tara (BtVS) (and Willow/Oz, because they were adorable and they broke my heart)...I could keep going, but those are the big ones.

[entaiaime.livejournal.com]

Did I want them to cheat? Hell no. Did they? Hell yes. Was it hot? Hell to the motherfrakking yes.

LOL. I think you summed this up perfectly for me. Too funny!

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thank you. :D

Oh pilots. I just love 'em.

[nazkey.livejournal.com]

Does Zarek/Airlock count as a ship? Because they are Made For Each Other, and he should have met up with his One True Love the airlock back in Bastille Day and they should have been together FOR ALL TIME. >:( *snerk* Poor Tom. I like him if for no other reason than he challenges Lee and gets him to think. I love Romo for the same reason (notice I "love" Romo, but just "like" Tom)

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Lol. See, I like that Lee read his book. I even (sort of) tolerate his existence in Colonial Day-- the General Patton line to Laura Roslin was nicely done, as was the real-life political handshake, and it was creepily interesting to watch his relationship with Ellen, Galactica's very own Lady MacBeth, unfold-- and I almost, almost want to like him when he and Laura are about to be executed on New Caprica, but as the seasons spun along to Daybreak, I found that if there was one character I hated more than any other character ever in the history of time, it was Tom Zarek. I yelled so loudly at the television that my throat was raw the next day, during that horrible scene in Blood on the Sclaes where he tells Bill that his best friend has been killed. That just stung. I don't believe that he was ever anything other than a selfish megalomaniac who tried to paint himself as the Savior of the People and the Living Embodiment of Great Justice so he could get what he really wanted, which was control. I see what you mean about him being something of a foil as far as Lee is concerned (and to some extent, Laura), but I wish we'd had eighty times more Romo and no Tom Zarek at all. Blerg. :(

Thus endeth the rant. Lol.

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

We have all the same Firefly and BtVS ships. Also Zarek/Airlock TOTALLY COUNTS.

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

High five, brain twin! :D

Zarek/Airlock is my OTP. ;)

[coffeesuperhero.livejournal.com]

Okay, I fail forever. How did I forget Mulder and Scully and their epic love?