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DPP: Pegasus/Resurrections Ship

Jun 04, 2011 00:32

Sorry I wasn't around yesterday--RL prevented me from getting online, so I'm adjusting my DPP schedule slightly and playing comment catch-up. (And now it's Saturday in my time zone--whoops) But now I'm bring you the combined arc of PEGASUS and RESURRECTION SHIP 1&2. I actually have an appropriate icon for this one, which is very exciting for me.

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witherwings June 4 2011, 10:24:29 UTC

What do you think happened immediately after Lee's confession?

I'm not sure, but I like to think that Kara would have tried to help him in her own frakked up way. What I adore about this is the fact that it's Kara Lee confesses to. At this point in the story he and Dee have something going on, though I'm not sure either of them knows exactly what, but it's Kara he tells all this to. I think it says a lot for their relationship that it's her he chooses at this moment of complete vulnerability. I don't particularly like Dee eavesdropping outside during it either because I think it takes away something from the scene, from Dee as a character (I never really saw her as an eavesdropper like that, but then I never really saw her behaviour towards Billy and Lee in Sacrifice as particularly in character either) and from Lee and Dee's relationship as a whole.

would you have watched Battlestar Pegasus?I think so, but it would have been a very different show to Galactica. I wouldn't give up BSG, but I would quite like to have seen BSP ( ... )

rachelindeed June 4 2011, 11:07:48 UTC

FYI, if you click on the "fic rec" tag for this comm you will find a whole bunch of older DPP posts that have collected a lot of stories together under a lot of different topics :)

witherwings June 4 2011, 11:30:16 UTC

...and with this comment my entire weekend just disappeared in to a fic black hole :D Thanks! :)

rachelindeed June 4 2011, 17:58:21 UTC

Ha. My work here is done.

rachelindeed June 4 2011, 11:03:05 UTC

Just a quick comment, but I'd love to recommend my favorite vid for these episodes: it's amitybaby's haunting Mad World.

callmeonetrack June 4 2011, 12:50:09 UTC

God I feel like maybe that's an extended scene in the Pegasus briefing? I don't remember the punch or the little bit about liking hack! Or her expression right before they get up and go! And I feel like I've seen it so many times I should remember it....but....huh. Maybe it's just been a while.

Ah well. I love this arc too. I kind of wish we'd gotten more buddy same-rank pilots on Pegasus. And even more with Kara as the CAG, Lee as the lieutenant. Verrruh interesting possibilities! ;)

I wonder what happened after his confession too. Maybe Kara was just paralyzed by it. In the two fics I've written dealing with this scene, she tried to sex him out of it (which spectacularly failed kinda) and she tried to shock him out of it (which worked a bit better). ;)

mserrada June 4 2011, 17:08:24 UTC

The bits you aren't remembering were in the extended/deleted section. I suppose they have to trim excess time somewhere, but those bits were golden so glad they saved them for add-ons.

shah_of_blah June 4 2011, 17:27:54 UTC

Hmm, I'm pretty sure "I like hack" was in the aired version. Could be wrong though.

embolalia June 4 2011, 13:12:06 UTC

they have each other's backs. Always.

You know, the things that always hit me most about this episode are things the show never really dwells on. Like in this scene: Kara's asking him to join her on a suicide mission. What did Adama think all of Cain's marines would do when Kara shot Cain? He knew that he probably wouldn't see either of his kids again. I wish they'd acknowledged it more.

The other thing I find fascinating is how he's basically asking Kara to kill her mother. This is a military woman, who Kara herself compares to Socrata in Razor, who is giving Kara her approval and her support. Now Kara would do anything for Adama, but again, there was so much going on that never got explored!

anastashial June 4 2011, 15:52:53 UTC

I always also had the question about why Lee had the surveillance package and it just finally dawned on me. They were going on a surveillance mission. Every one of the viper pilots would have been issued a surveillance package. Duh! No one knew that Lee wouldn't be flying a viper. That was another zing to humiliate him that Stinger dropped during the briefing ( ... )

rachelindeed June 4 2011, 16:39:22 UTC

You are brilliant! That pre-issued equipment thing makes so much sense.

anastashial June 4 2011, 16:48:22 UTC

Funny how the obvious evades us sometimes.

damao2010 June 4 2011, 18:59:00 UTC

It makes sense, I'll give you that. Even if I don't really remember seeing any of the other pilots carrying similar bags when they left the room.

However, for purely personal reasons, I'll stick with my original theory that he was being stealthy himsefl from the beginning and had already planned some kind of "mutinous" action for either himself or Kara when he went to the briefing. *shrugs*

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