Be careful what you wish for...
That awkward moment when, after ten months of persuasion, you finally manage to convince your best mate (and someone you know has fangirling tendencies, and who you have every reason to suspect will be a pilots shipper) to watch Battlestar Galactica
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I'm so sorry dude.
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I wanted to grab her by the shoulders, shake her violently and yell, ''HOW THE HELL CAN YOU, 'NOT SEE IT'?!? WHAT THE F#@$ ARE YOU EVEN SAYING RIGHT NOW. YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE (AND NO I DON'T MEAN EPISCOPALIAN.) DID OUR SQUEEING OVER JOSH AND DONNA MEAN NOTHING TO YOU? I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO YOU ARE ANYMORE.''
But I wasn't sure that would help the cause...
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That said... I saw her last night and got some more info. It seems she may not be 'not seeing' it, so much as she seems a bit stuck on the 'but she was in love with his brother' thing...
I feel we can work with that, me and show. I remain hopeful that UB and the hard-deck and associated fallout may bring her over to the right side ;P
... It's actually hilarious the extent to which I'm invested in this. Thank god for my fandom friends at least! hee hee :)
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Roslyn? Ugh, no. I kind of see why people go bananas over her but I don't like her one bit. Give me Lee/Kara any day.
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As for Adama and Laura... Ugh. I really liked her in season 1, and a bit of season 2, but I seriously disliked her by the end too!! And I guess I was kinda happy for her and Adama, but in a detached, 'yeah whatevs' kinda way, y'know? I was just a bit bored by them, really.
I guess on the upside, she also said, 'But that Sam is a bit pointless too isn't he? Like, he's a bit pathetic.' So, y'know, at least we can share our hatred of Sam I guess, but....
OH LE SIGH!!!
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Secretly, I want to ask those who really love Laura why cuz I never got it. At all. *blushes*
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I will pray for your UB conversion, but your friend will just think stoned Roslin and Adama is too cute for words. *rolls eyes* and *giggles*
BTW, I'm pretty sure this is why I've never tried to get anyone to watch BSG with me. hee.
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OMG I KNOW!!!! PREACH SISTA, PREACH!!!
And I hadn't even thought of stoned Adama and Roslin.... aaaaaaahh crap. You are so right *facepalm* I remember monkeytwin telling me she'd only really been pushed into shipper territory post-poof, because then it became a justice issue for her... But I think it's too much to hope that particular bolt of lighting could strike twice. I *g*
And dude, there is literally NO ONE else in the rl world I would have expected a pilots shipper response from, but the two of us are so freakishly and consistently the same about so many things, already it's vaguely disconcerting to feel strongly about something when she's 'meh'....... the being A/R and Lee-is-boring though... *hangs head* Why universe? How did I fail thee?? :)
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Stoned Roslin and Adams make me laugh but it's also the point at which, looking back, I realize that TPTB were going to have them make some incredibly inappropriate and kind of irresponsible choices going forward. Because I don't think acting like love sick teenagers when you're the leaders of humanities remnants in cute or clever.
On the other hand, I do think that saying 'frak it, it's the end of the worlds, I'm going to love my brother's fiancé/fiancé’s brother' is perfectly reasonable. ;)
I was going to make my husband watch BSG with me. I still think he would enjoy it, but he's simply not a shipper and I'm pretty darned sure Kara and Lee would drive him up a wall so I kept BSG to myself. bwa-ha-ha!
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I'm with you on stoned Roslin and Adama, actually. It really pissed me off for sort of ill-defined and probably illegitimate reasons. I just... I guess everyone has a right to a blowout, to be irresponsible sometimes, and I guess they were both in need of a blowout and they thought they were safe and everything, but... yeah. No. Not good enough. You're not teenagers. Bleugh. Admitedly, I was watching UB through my OMGPILOTS prism, so really anything on screen that was Not Them was bound to piss me off really!!
On the other hand, I do think that saying 'frak it, it's the end of the worlds, I'm going to love my brother's fiancé/fiancé’s brother' is perfectly reasonable. ;)*high fives, standing ovation* EXACTLY ( ... )
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I don't know if that'll help you, though, because I did see the K/L potential from 33 (if I'd started watching at the mini, I'm sure I would have seen it there too), it's just that I found the power plays in B/L more interesting. I liked Kara and Lee as characters, but felt like they were the "kids", in a way, which is less ( ... )
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BUT THIS IS ACTUALLY VERY REASSURING THANKING YOU!!
Maybe there's hope yet. I shall remember that when I catch up with her tonight... try and keep myself from throttling her! :D
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You're not alone. *solidarity*
Oh, and she thinks Sam is boring and she hates Dee.
\o/ Definitely hope there. :D
The funny thing about all that for me is that I find him SO accessible. And relatable. He just speaks to me, leaps off the screen at me, in fact. Don't know why, really... just a gut thing, maybe.
Yes, this seems to be the case for a lot of Lee!girls (I'm assuming you're okay with being called that?), I see that around a reasonable amount among pilotshippers. Being late to that particular party myself, all I can do is offer that perspective, really, that for a lot of us it did take time, and those are the reasons why. Personally, I feel like of the main, series-long cast, he and Tigh are the only ones who really came into their own as it progressed (rather than the other way around, like Laura, or remained steady, like Adama, Kara, Helo). So if your friend is following my trajectory, she'll start warming to Lee more through the end of S3 and into 4.
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