Total sucker for BSG and pilots that I am, I am way beyond 4 or 5. LOL But I enjoyed it THAT much.
I meta'd in my LJ, I meta'd all over the place. No matter that I feel I have almost no further new words left to comment with, I still enjoyed your entire post immensely and I am really pleased you took the time to type it all up. I wish we could go for coffee, so we could just talk ourselves hoarse about this eppy. Your viewpoint, is pretty much my viewpoint; you said it better, and elaborated beautifully.
One thing I will add, which occured to me after the 3rd viewing, happened right at the beginning of the post-coital bliss. When Kara asks where the complication will go, Lee firmly says, "We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee..."
The "We accept it." is huge to me, almost as much as Kara's "I missed you". IMO Lee is telling her, 'We've danced around this. We've (you've) fought against this. It's time for us to come to terms with this is the way we feel and we get to be happy together.' It even makes me roll around in canonish spec, thking of Katee's long-ago interview that (paraphrasing) "she realizes she met the wrong Adama brother first" and that, as you say up there, "Unfinished Business shows unequivocally that Kara and Lee didn't, and have never, felt brotherly-sisterly about each other. The friendship is real enough - and to those whom I see continually pointing out their two (a whole two!) fights to this point as evidence that Kara's a lousy friend, I can only say that Lee seemed to think she was a great one, right up until Scar - and so is the competetiveness, but the love is not, and probably wasn't even when Zak was alive, siblingesque."
Thank you! (Pssssssst if you have any time before tomorrow night, how about giving us "K/L's 5 first moments after the fight/hug" or "The first time K/L see each other after the fight. LOL *muah*)
oh, yes. Someone to sit on the couch with and laugh and cry over this stupidly addictive TV show. None of my close friends watches, not even the lad, though lately he's expressed interest in my fic. It would be so nice to be able to hash this all out verbally.
You're exactly right about the 'accept' line. If Lee hasn't been fighting it for ages, why the frak hasn't he done something sooner? Why wait until they're both with viable (relatively speaking) alternatives? So his 'acceptance' is as much an admission of his own willingless - lets do it and damn the consequences - as a 'where do we go from here' solution. Unfortunately, Kara's wrapped up in a lifetime of consequences and they scare her out of her wits. Lee, as usual: right feelings, wrong methods. Sigh!
Ooh. That's a nice prompt. I'll think about it. *glares at Contraventions and E&A WIPs* the alternatives are being a bitch, anyway.
Total sucker for BSG and pilots that I am, I am way beyond 4 or 5. LOL But I enjoyed it THAT much.
I meta'd in my LJ, I meta'd all over the place. No matter that I feel I have almost no further new words left to comment with, I still enjoyed your entire post immensely and I am really pleased you took the time to type it all up. I wish we could go for coffee, so we could just talk ourselves hoarse about this eppy. Your viewpoint, is pretty much my viewpoint; you said it better, and elaborated beautifully.
One thing I will add, which occured to me after the 3rd viewing, happened right at the beginning of the post-coital bliss. When Kara asks where the complication will go, Lee firmly says, "We accept it. Tomorrow, I tell Dee..."
The "We accept it." is huge to me, almost as much as Kara's "I missed you". IMO Lee is telling her, 'We've danced around this. We've (you've) fought against this. It's time for us to come to terms with this is the way we feel and we get to be happy together.' It even makes me roll around in canonish spec, thking of Katee's long-ago interview that (paraphrasing) "she realizes she met the wrong Adama brother first" and that, as you say up there, "Unfinished Business shows unequivocally that Kara and Lee didn't, and have never, felt brotherly-sisterly about each other. The friendship is real enough - and to those whom I see continually pointing out their two (a whole two!) fights to this point as evidence that Kara's a lousy friend, I can only say that Lee seemed to think she was a great one, right up until Scar - and so is the competetiveness, but the love is not, and probably wasn't even when Zak was alive, siblingesque."
Thank you! (Pssssssst if you have any time before tomorrow night, how about giving us "K/L's 5 first moments after the fight/hug" or "The first time K/L see each other after the fight. LOL *muah*)
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You're exactly right about the 'accept' line. If Lee hasn't been fighting it for ages, why the frak hasn't he done something sooner? Why wait until they're both with viable (relatively speaking) alternatives? So his 'acceptance' is as much an admission of his own willingless - lets do it and damn the consequences - as a 'where do we go from here' solution. Unfortunately, Kara's wrapped up in a lifetime of consequences and they scare her out of her wits. Lee, as usual: right feelings, wrong methods. Sigh!
Ooh. That's a nice prompt. I'll think about it. *glares at Contraventions and E&A WIPs* the alternatives are being a bitch, anyway.
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