Question Meme Answer #6

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kdbleu asked: At what point could (or should) the story of Kara and Lee be changed to have a happier, or at least a more satisfying, ending?

Honestly, the shortest possible answer is that I would have been satisfied, but not happy, if at the end of Daybreak, the epic friendship of Kara and Lee had gone out with a hug, even if she still poofed. They were good at those hugs, and it would have been in keeping with their relationship over the years.

The Kara who came back after Maelstrom didn't know she wasn't Kara anymore: she believed that she was Kara, with a detour here and there for angsty wondering if she was a Cylon. So Kara and Lee continued to have moments that could, at the very LEAST, be interpreted as friendshippy, all the way to the end.

That friendship deserved better than "Neither am I" and "You won't be forgotten." Kiss my fat white ass, RDM.

As for earlier, they could have started exploring things, maybe not full-on romance, but their complex palette of feelings for each other, as early as the aftermath of Colonial Day. Lee could have been a bit more assertive after their aborted makeout in Scar, made her examine her feelings for Sam and Zak, how intertwined the two were in her mind - put his possessive jealousy aside and been her friend. She needed one. Or Kara could have not run away when her emotions got too ugly and too confusing and too close to the surface.

By the time of the mutiny, they could totally have started to make things work with each other, not in a happily-ever-after way, because I'm not sure those two could ever have happily ever after, but in a 'let's get real and admit how we feel and go from there' way. After Sam was shot, she could have gone with 'yeah, I still love my husband, but I've always loved you, so let's see what happens, can you be patient with me' and I bet Lee would have been. By the end of the series, he'd grown so much from the spoiled little daddy-hating brat that I fell in love with despite/because of his flaws, had become a man tested by life and still standing.

That man would have been more than a match for a damaged-but-still swinging Kara Thrace.

Those two people that stood in the field at the end of Daybreak could have been happy with each other, knock-down drag-out fights and all, and in my mind, they are.