To ship or to slash
Mar. 2nd, 2005 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woodfaceI'm a shipper. When I watch a show/movie, I tend to pick out a couple that I like and I will squee until they get together (and longer if it's written well). I can give you a long list of pairings in shows that I either adore or just like. (Sam/Jack, Harm/Meg, Carter/Abby, Carter/Lucy, Mark/Susan, Lorelai/Luke, Paris/B'Elanna, Dax/Bashir, Crusher/Picard, John/Aeryn, Wes/Fred, Han/Leia, ... heck I even have a Smallville pairing and I think the show isn't all that great.)
BSG should be no different. In a way it isn't. I'm all for Adama/Roslin and am open for Lee/Cally, Lee/Roslin and maybe Kara/Helo. By default, though, my ship would have been Kara/Lee. Would have. Oh, I see a lot of potential for angst. I can see the basis they're trying to bring in canon but it's just not working for me. I have read some fics (two?) that I like because they end up being unrequited. I truly believe that any attempt of Kara and Lee getting together will result in a messy fall out and them never speaking to each other again. I can not see them being fluffy and all lovey duvey. It was proven to me yet again that I can not make this pairing work in my mind as I tried a (what appeared to be) well written fic with some smut in it and ran off as soon as the smut would have ensued.
So why don't I get Kara/Lee? Big factor is the squick. Emotional incest anyone? Kara is not in love with Lee, she's in love with his brother and he's the next best thing. Hence why anything between them would fail because she would soon enough realise that he is in fact nothing like Zak. So yes, I'm squicked by Kara/Lee. And yet, this is not the main reason why I can't get into it.
When I first saw the mini while being in Chicago![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lyssie announced rather loudly that Kara is girl!Jack and needs a blonde viper pilot to frak with. I brushed the idea off because Kara soon proved to me not to be girl!Jack at all. Only, the blonde viper pilot stayed in my mind. So my mind breathed life into BSG!Sam and she and Kara have been everything that I can not see Kara and Lee be. (Yes, in my head Kara/Sam is messed up but not in a fatal way as Kara/Lee is. The fact that Sam is a complete Mary Sue is something my mind happily ignores, thank you very much.) But alas, now I am incapable of getting into Kara/Lee because Kara is so damn hot and cute when she's with Sam. I'm kinda saddened that this has messed up my ability to squee over Kara and Lee, but as long as Lyssie is willing to satisfy my strange obsession, I shall be a happy Mary Sue slasher. I do try to be open minded for where canon is going with Kara/Lee and maybe, who knows, at some point I will grow to like the pairing. For now though? Bring on the slash, bitch!
BSG should be no different. In a way it isn't. I'm all for Adama/Roslin and am open for Lee/Cally, Lee/Roslin and maybe Kara/Helo. By default, though, my ship would have been Kara/Lee. Would have. Oh, I see a lot of potential for angst. I can see the basis they're trying to bring in canon but it's just not working for me. I have read some fics (two?) that I like because they end up being unrequited. I truly believe that any attempt of Kara and Lee getting together will result in a messy fall out and them never speaking to each other again. I can not see them being fluffy and all lovey duvey. It was proven to me yet again that I can not make this pairing work in my mind as I tried a (what appeared to be) well written fic with some smut in it and ran off as soon as the smut would have ensued.
So why don't I get Kara/Lee? Big factor is the squick. Emotional incest anyone? Kara is not in love with Lee, she's in love with his brother and he's the next best thing. Hence why anything between them would fail because she would soon enough realise that he is in fact nothing like Zak. So yes, I'm squicked by Kara/Lee. And yet, this is not the main reason why I can't get into it.
When I first saw the mini while being in Chicago
lyssie announced rather loudly that Kara is girl!Jack and needs a blonde viper pilot to frak with. I brushed the idea off because Kara soon proved to me not to be girl!Jack at all. Only, the blonde viper pilot stayed in my mind. So my mind breathed life into BSG!Sam and she and Kara have been everything that I can not see Kara and Lee be. (Yes, in my head Kara/Sam is messed up but not in a fatal way as Kara/Lee is. The fact that Sam is a complete Mary Sue is something my mind happily ignores, thank you very much.) But alas, now I am incapable of getting into Kara/Lee because Kara is so damn hot and cute when she's with Sam. I'm kinda saddened that this has messed up my ability to squee over Kara and Lee, but as long as Lyssie is willing to satisfy my strange obsession, I shall be a happy Mary Sue slasher. I do try to be open minded for where canon is going with Kara/Lee and maybe, who knows, at some point I will grow to like the pairing. For now though? Bring on the slash, bitch!
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:00 pm (UTC)Bring on the slash, bitch!
*so totally amused*
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Date: 2005-03-02 09:07 pm (UTC)One really must wonder where she keeps her supplies.