[bsg] magnitudes of zero - a remix of 'high ground' by fahye

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Title: Magnitudes of Zero: A remix of High Ground, by fahye
Author: Claira
Rating: PG
Summary: Cutting off her hair turns out to be the easy part. PILOTS. This no longer fits easily into canon, but ... that's what remixes are for?
Spoilers: Up to Season 3
A/N:: This was written for pxremix and oh my god, this is so late. Like, eight months late, and I

Comments

[muppet47]

This was so great. I haven't read any fic that deals with Kara's return to the Galactica in Season 3 (I'm new to BSG fandom) and this was just perfect.

Kara had known just by the way Lee started penning the first line, laboriously neat, that he had no idea of what the next line was, or anyway of getting to the solution at all.

I love this. So Lee, and so especially Lee dealing with Kara. And in a literal sense, it shows how well, how instinctively, she knows him.

"So I had to leave him. He deserves better. He deserves someone who isn't going to take out her own shit on him."

I loved the split second fake-out of this line, how Kara starts out talking about Sam but is immediately talking about Lee.

She remembers something from Hilcher’s physics class: the product of vectors moving perpendicularly is zero - nothing.This line makes me so sad for them. I really didn't much enjoy this part of season 3. I think I was watching about three episodes a night on DVD to try to find some K/L interaction

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If you're new to BSG fandom, you have some amazing reading aheard of you. Have you got a good recs list? There are so many excellent writers in this fandom - some have stopped writing now, but others are just hitting their stride.

I found Kara hard to watch during this period - not because of the lack of K/L, but because it was awful to watch her self-destructing and no one noticing except to condemn her, without anyone thinking to get her some help. It was nice that this fic addressed that, with Helo's unobtrusive concern and Lee making her talk to someone.I know! I felt so bad for her, seriously! I was just like "... what? Why is everyone so angry at her and not trying to help?!" I realise that she was being horrible, but nobody tried to find out WHY she was. Sure, Kara's not an easy person to drag answer out of but surely someone could have thought that her actions were symptoms of a bigger problem? I really had issues with that in the show. As I'm sure you can tell

[mintenergy]

Here via a rec from taragel and I hope you don't mind me telling you that this was beautiful.

I've been a BSG fan since 2006 but never read fan fic until the last couple of months. (Daybreak has apparently made it necessary for me to read every good pilots fic out there to ensure the healing process... I'm not sure what that says about my obsession w/ this fictional pairing...)

I discovered fahye's fic not so long ago and spent several nights devouring her entire fic list. She is a wonder. What you've done here, w/ a fic I already enjoyed, is just delicious. The expansion of depth and feeling and how I feel as if I am right there in Kara's head, understanding her complicated emotions and feeling her pain. Amazing characterization, truly. You deserve some praise and apparently I am here to provide. Some of my fav lines:

Cutting off her hair turns out to be the easy part.

Bam. Perfect first line. Right out of the gate; awesome.

She’d missed flying; on New Caprica, it had been a dull ache, like pressing a bruise that hadn’t fully faded. With

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Oh, wow, this was such amazing feedback to receive! I don't really know what to say. Thank you so very much!

fahye's a fantastic writer in everything that she does. It was daunting remixing her, but I'm lucky that she's such a good friend.

Lee so driven and hell bent on being correct and Kara being brash and protective and reckless w/ her own reputation in defense of his.

This is what I adore about Academy pilots. I realise that that whole idea has been jossed, but ... I don't care? I love thinking of them together while they were at the Academy, because they would have been these insane opposites who made such a good team, drove all their lecturers crazy and Lee would have spend heaps of time totally exasperated but secretly loving that Starbuck hung out with him. I think, anyway. :D

Thank you so much for such a fantastic comment. You really made my day!

[starringsarah]

I love the way you write Kara, and Kara/Lee. This is beautiful. Home callbacks for the win.

Plus, I hated Kara's end. This helps.

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Thank you so much for your lovely comment. :) I love callbacks to other episodes; I'm a sucker for that in any fic at all!

I hated her end, too. In fact, I'm pretty much in denial! I'm just ignoring basically the second half of S4 on, and pretending it never happened!

I love your icon.

[smcki10]

Loved it! can never get enough of pilots. :D

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Thank you! Pilots = win, it's true. :)

[cherylad]

This was awesome! Very nicely done.

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Thank you very much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. :)