DPP: How Did It Begin?

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Welcome to the DPP, everyone! Sorry for the delayed start to the week, but to kick it off, here is a question that all of Shipper Nation has an answer to, and ABSOLUTELY NEEDS TO SHARE, because we all need to hear it: when did you first start shipping pilots?

(for that matter, how did you end up watching BSG in the first place, and did any of you

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[ninety6tears]

I think I certainly liked the idea of them having feelings for each other but definitely didn't quite feel like they actually did until the Lee-gasm and the events of that episode, and was then totally giddy about it because they suddenly seemed complicated in a way I hadn't seen before with a potential pairing. Thinking back on it, I wasn't quite as into internet fandom back then - I'd read and written fanfic but it wasn't my go-to thing at the time - and probably would have eventually spoiled myself somewhere if I had been because the show was at the end of S2 when I first started catching up. These days it would be really hard for me to go into a show completely oblivious to one ship or another being a Thing or just something only in my head, and it was a lot of fun gradually realizing we were kinda supposed to see what I saw in pilots from the beginning.

I needed a lot of convincing to watch BSG because I'm usually peripherally aware of anything my boyfriend gets into and by chance the scenes I'd seen of BSG were mostly the ones of Gaius and Six and his whole Destinycakes, and while that wasn't something I hated when I actually got the context for it it wasn't something that grabbed me from the start. At some point my boredom nudged me to sit down and watch the miniseries and then I met Starbuck and I guess the rest is history :)

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Yeah, up until the Leegasm I was in the territory of 'omg they're cute and adorable and crazy about each other and they NEED to hook up, I can even live with a breakup afterwards', but KLG1 was what tipped me into 'these two have so much more to work through than I thought, inferior substitutes are unacceptable as love interests!'.

It's weird how denying pilots a chance to be together in the early seasons just fanned the shipper flames even higher.

(and I can understand initial avoidance too - I initially avoided BSG because Ron Moore had come on board a show I loved when I was a teen and ruined its second season with out-of-left-field sci-fi bullshit in the name of plot, it took Joss to convince me to give it a chance).