[discussion] kara in a dress

[bantha_fodder]

Look, to those of you who are still spoiler free, the subject line of this post is not a spoiler. I'm sure, by now, you've seen her wearing a dress in someone's icon. However, the rest of this spec may get spoilery, so please proceed to under the cut.


Let's talk about The Dress.

1. Where did Kara get it from? She doesn't strike me as the sort of soldier to keep a dress in her locker. If she's going to an official celebration, she's more likely to wear her dress uniform. So, random officer? Cashing in a favour with a civilian? If the latter, then when would she have had a chance to make contact (real contact) with a civilian, and bring the conversation around to a dress in her size that flatters her?

2. WHY is she wearing a dress? I feel like Kara would have worn her dress uniform to her own wedding. If we ever see her imagining herself in a flowing white wedding gown, there will be some mighty fist shaking. My personal pet theory, is that she is wearing the dress (however she came across it) in order to make Lee notice. Which of course, does not gel with the notion that she is a bit fucked up, and therefore sees big DO NOT TOUCH signs pointing to Lee.

3. Could she be the sort of loud, boisterous tomboy kind of girl who occasionally likes to dress up and remember that she's pretty? I only mention this because it is possible. That was me, at one point.

4. On a ship that I believe is really, really gender equal, that doesn't just pay lip service but actually is, why is it that the men are still in uniform but the women are in dresses? I refuse to believe they had that many dresses that fit that well and were that pretty left on the Battlestar Galactica. Yes, they could have scrounged them out of the fleet, but I find that highly unlikely.

5. Unless all survivors had to hand their clothes over to some central depot, in order to redistribute/ration. Because surely some people had entire wardrobes whilst others had the clothes on their backs; there will be rationing, and I bet some people are losing weight (especially those on the Galactica).


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Comments

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

This is why I really, really, really want Baltar to break down and tell Lee what she said.

Hee! Yes, it would be fun – except that I think there’s no way in hell that any Guy A would tell Guy B that the girl Guy A was boffing called out Guy B’s name in the throes of passion. Because talk about your emasculation there … Heh!

I’m waiting for Lee to be in charge of the mission to rescue everyone on Kobol (because what are the pilot options now Boomer’s shot Adama; Starbuck is missing; Crashdown is on the planet – Hot Dog? Um, no!) and be the one to find Baltar waltzing with an either imaginary or entirely real Six. That could get … interesting!

[meyerlemon.livejournal.com]

I could make it work! It would start with a fight, and then some punching, because Lee would be really angry with Baltar for having sex with his girl, and then Baltar would allude to something, and then Lee would go to Kara and be like "What did you do?" "Lee--" "What did you do, Kara?"

And then, in this fabulously bitter tone, possibly on the hangar deck, just before her cockpit canopy comes down, she'd say something that could be interpreted one of several ways, and then take off and fight Cylons and maybe get shot down or something, and then Lee would sort of figure it out.

And he'd be all happy! Only when Kara comes back, and he confronts her, she'll deny it categorically, in a really mean and dismissive way, like, um, I'm sorry, you think I have sexual thoughts about you?

And he'll be so sad! And then of course it would turn out that someone- possibly Adama- told her that Lee needs to keep his edge, and if she fucks it up by entangling him in some kind of warped romance, she's dooming him, so for his own good, she rejects him.

*wallows in angst*

[queenofthorns.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, I am kind of swooning from all the delicious hurt-y angst that is inherent in this scenario … Can we have a side of “frack you, asshat” from Kara as well? Like that he always wants to believe the worst of her, and she loooooves him and she wants him, sorta, to know that she does, but the main part of her doesn’t want him to know, but if he REALLY loved her he’d guess anyway?

We really are all about the pain!

[meyerlemon.livejournal.com]

Swooning? ME TOO! Gosh, I love angst. Sigh.

I need to somehow avoid the inevitable idiots who are going to be like "Why can't lee and kara get maaarrrieed???????"