I so wish we could have gotten more of Dee apart from the Sam/Kara/Lee/Dee clusterfrak too. Once that began, it seemed like she was just around as an obstacle to Kara/Lee, and I hated that because in the earlier seasons she was such an interesting character. I remember being shocked when she committed suicide. It gutted me really.
I'm fairly certain I sat around in shock for a good while after Dee's death, even as the rest of the episode kept moving forward. There's definitely a lot more to work with in the early seasons; I'm sorry too that they stopped writing Dee in a well-rounded way later on.
This is lovely. I love that you celebrate her as an individual and as a person within her relationships. And that you place her as an 'everyman'(er, so to speak ;)) for the show, because YES, and I hear Chief given this role and used it myself before 4.5 at least, but she's better and is easier for me to identify with in that anyway. <3
ETA: The smiling of that deleted scene (which I haven't seen, woe!) just makes my heart ache. So good!
The idea of Dee as an everyman hadn't occurred to me until I was rewatching season one to get a reminder of her early arc, but it pops up again and again, and I think that's a part of what her death was about. Chief takes over the role in season three or maybe even earlier, but I think she does a much better job of it early on. And agreed, I identify with her much more strongly anyway.
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This is lovely. I love that you celebrate her as an individual and as a person within her relationships. And that you place her as an 'everyman'(er, so to speak ;)) for the show, because YES, and I hear Chief given this role and used it myself before 4.5 at least, but she's better and is easier for me to identify with in that anyway. <3
ETA: The smiling of that deleted scene (which I haven't seen, woe!) just makes my heart ache. So good!
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(The scene is on YouTube here!)
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