Monday: Truth or Dare! (Or Double Dog Dare!)

[embolalia]

Game Day! Truth or Dare

Good morning, everyone! We played this a few months ago when I last ran the DPP, but it was great fun and sparked a good deal of fic, so I thought we'd play again!

Comments

[scifishipper]

Truth

[embolalia]

Prior to Daybreak, how far did you think Kara and Lee's relationship had gone while Zak was still alive?

[scifishipper]

LOL. Depends on the day you ask me.

My rational kind side says that they kissed on the table, the glass broke and that was it. Lee was so riddled with horror that he avoided them as much as he could. Kara shoved it out of her mind and never looked back.

The side of me that doesn't care for Zak says that they frakked right under his nose and really only felt guilty when he died. IDK, that's how I roll with my fictional characters. Is it awful in a thousand ways and might even be against canon? Sure. Do I think they were capable give the right circumstances. Yep. I sure do.

*toddles off to fantasy land*

[embolalia]

Oh, definitely capable. And we know they definitely had more opportunities between that night and meeting each other in the brig...

[anamarya]

What did Kara think about Lee's "political carrier"?

[scifishipper]

I think Kara wanted Lee to be happy and knew that he was never thrilled about being CAG or being in the military. My head!canon says that they'd have a million small conversations about his dad and Zak, even though we don't see them in canon. They were very good friends and I am guessing that if Lee felt happy about it, she would support it.

That said, Lee would be hard pressed to leave Galactica once Kara returned from the dead. It just doesn't make sense. I think he'd choose politics, but somehow stay with Kara. (My brain in firmly planted in AU land today. #screwingcanon)

[anamarya]

I think he'd choose politics, but somehow stay with Kara.

I like this idea. Maybe he convinced them to dock Colonial One for long periods of time? (apparently I'm in AU land also).

[scifishipper]

I think he'd work hard at first to keep his mind focused after Kara left. Once the settlement was on its feet, maybe six months or a year later, he'd leave them. I think he'd go searching for his father.

:(

[word_vomity]

If pilots were destined to ALWAYS be star crossed no matter what, would you have ever been satisfied with a unresolved/unhappy ending if it was something other than the poof? If so, what would that look like?

[scifishipper]

I would have been happy with something that acknowledged their deep love and friendship for each other, even if they could not have been together. That means I could have lived with the poof if they had acknowledge that it was a painful separation. The scene they gave us said NOTHING about what they meant to each other. (It was insulting.)

I could have also lived with a fade-to-black of them standing together on the hill without any real indication of what was to come. I could have made it up in my head. :)

[word_vomity]

Yeah I hear ya. I think I could have been OK with almost anything, so long as it was something. :(

[damao2010]

Is there anything Lee could have done that would have made Kara stay/not run to Sam on that fateful morning after?

If he had agreed to divorce Dee when she offered, would she have kept her part of the bargain?

[scifishipper]

I think if Lee had slowed down and noticed Kara's fear, it could have ended better. Instead he steam rollered her, pushing her to a scary, vulnerable place that she couldn't deal with. I think if they'd talked more, she still might have run, but I don't think she'd needed to have married Sam.

Yes, I think Kara was ready and Sam gave her the out she needed. I think it would have been very rocky, but yes, she would have.