vid recs!
So chaila43 has been working on her very first vid for some time now, and she posted it today. And omg, y'all! BSG, D'Anna, Laura, and Caprica dealing with journeys of faith and the search for home, spoilers through "Revelations." The song ("Cathedrals," by Jump Little Children, a song I love anyway) is utterly perfect, and I'd have never believed this was
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First OTPs for me? Heck, it might have been Pam and Bobby on Dallas. No! It was totally Jenny and Greg on All My Children. You don't know what I'm talking about but it's okay. It was tragic. That's all you need to know. So much of a pairing for me is about the acting. They can be in an absolutely ridiculous show, but then they just look at each other and GUH.
That was Mulder and Scully (in a good show, mostly) and Olivia and Elliot. Olivia and Elliot live to keeeeel me! Well, mostly watching SVU go down from where it was kills me. (Remember Alex Cabot? I do.) Can't watch anymore but when I do, yeah, it's The Olivia and Elliot Against the World Show. And Munch and Ice-T too. ;-)
Not some love-at-first-sight frenzy of hormones and attraction, but growing closeness until one day someone wakes up and realizes they're in love with their best friend.
Awwww! See, I want both. I want the hormones and passion for my peeps and for them to be best friends! I get both with Kara/Lee which is why I love them. I guess for me, it's like they're friends or they're something more. But no middles! I hate middle grounds, feels like a tease to me. So I like when mutual attraction pushes the characters to admit/act upon their feelings finally. I can take the slow burn but only for so long before clicking away. I don't mind them flipping between both aspects of their relationship. It doesn't have to be all shippy all the time. But. It must be clear to me whether these two people will ever admit their love for each other or not.
Funny about Mulder and Scully. They didn't strike me as hugely passionate people. So I didn't expect the grand gestures with them. I would have been okay with them just being friends with hints of romance. But I loved that show, love sci-fi, so I was happy with the aliens and creatures and the mythology. Hmm. That's interesting. If the show is that good enough, I don't really care if my people hook-up. Well, not as much. :-) And you're right. It depends on the overall tone of the show.
I love to hear you talk about Farscape. There is this glow you get about them and it's very sweet and sincere. That show is obviously in a class by itself for you. :-) Funny, I haven't seen an episode of it at all, but I like to hear you talk about it.
You think A/R is BSG's great canonical romance? Hee! I think it's Kara/Lee. So much time spent on them in the past (and for evidence, watch my vid again. :-)). But maybe it's both of them! Two grand romances. That's wonderful in a show about war; that's dark and gritty and messy, to have such love growing out of the ashes. Love will win, no matter what happens at series' end. We've got two romances going on here! Winning won't be the happily ever after some want, but if these two couples can stick it out together to whatever end there is, they will have won. I'm full of shippy love for my show now!
And yes, both couples need some serious KISSING before show's end. They better hear that out there! :-)
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Oh, SVU! I call it my abusive boyfriend show. I keep declaring that this is it, I'm done, never again! And then they bring me back with the shippiness, all "oh, I'm sorry, baby, I'll never hit you again," and then BAM! Another stretch of a dozen awful episodes that make me want to bleach my brain and in which Elliot and Olivia never share a scene. Stupid show!!! ;)
What I mean by A/R becoming BSG's great canonical romance is the centrality it has come to have to everything that is going on, plotwise, in these recent episodes. And believe me, no one was more surprised by that than I was! I would have never dreamed it before "Sine Qua Non" and "The Hub," but those episodes were not just about the two of them; they were about how the two of them are sort of at the center of everything, symbolic in so many ways of everyone's journey. And I don't think this means that their romance is "better" than anyone else's; it's certainly not, as Chaila says below, some kind of fated-to-be-together thing, which is part of why I adore it. But for all the talk of the role of destiny on this show, I suspect in the end that choice and personal responsibility may win out, and those are the buttons the Adama/Roslin relationship pushes.
But I also fully admit that I have a strong tendency to read this show through Laura-colored glasses primarily and Bill/Laura-colored glasses to some extent, as well. But the crazy thing about 4.0 is that for all the anvils, they kept time after time confirming the way I'd been viewing the show, and the centrality in particular of Laura and her struggles with faith and love really made me all "omg, this show really is all about what I thought it was about!" Again, very likely my bias talking!
I do think that Kara/Lee has been a key part of the show, certainly, and may end up being more thematically significant before it's all said and done than I see it at the moment. Right now it's hard for me to see a direction they would take them that would tie their relationship really strongly into all of the "what's it all about?" themes that need to unfold in the remaining episodes. I do very much hope, as I said above, that they pay attention to them in the back half of the season and give them some good closure, in whatever direction that happens to go. They have been really important, and I hope that gets acknowledged, to whatever extent. And if they look more like the great romance of the show by the end of it, I won't complain. I'm not necessarily rooting in any one direction with any of this; I just want it all to be well-written!
And I totally agree with what Chaila says below, incidentally. :)
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