Let's Get One Thing Clear

Okay, so scary-ass Roslin made me wee myself a little in terror (Baltar's pants must be soaking), but otherwise, I could have skipped that episode. Like the one with Adama's backstory and that pilot, this just made shit up to pass the time instead of getting to the meaty morality stuff we'll see not next week but in two weeks (when I will be down in Florida and pining for the Sci-Fi Channel since I already know the hotel we're staying at doesn't have it; pisser! And this was supposed to be the year we got a nice place, too). I also love how they ended really early and then ballyhooed about having an extra scene when it was really "we have enough time to fill our slot, but this one scene has nowhere to go, so let's just end early and call it an 'exclusive.'"

Sigh. I remain steadfast of the opinion that, of the four miscreants running around without a clue how to act like adults on Galactica, Anders is still the only one who isn't an asshole. Dee got some of her own back with slapping Starbuck around last week, but Anders remains committed to not-sucking as hard as the other three work at sucking. This means he is totally a Cylon. Probably. Whatever, it doesn't matter. He should be like the tremendous chump, seeing as he comes over for Starbuck's booty call and then gets chucked out on his ear, but he's entirely too sympathetic to see as simply pathetic. Dee with her "well, it's good that I got what I wanted for as long as I got it" martyrdom is the chump. How about you fucking fight for it, woman? Also, if you were really as cool as you used to be, you wouldn't ever have gone for Lee fucking Adama.

( Bitty spoilers here, but mostly me ranting at Apollo. )

The very wise moonlightalice pondered aloud if this show wouldn't be well served by having an entire episode without dialogue. I think she might be onto something. If this past episode had to be conveyed on looks and acting alone, I would have been in less pain. This is a cast that is definitely talented enough to speak the volumes a space empty of words would require. There are also enough reasons for silence to be had that you could do it without it being horribly artsy or contrived (imagine all the scenes on the Basestar, with its gently whirring background noises, opera, and quietly working models and then transplant that and add chaos, and imagine how beautiful it would on Galactica). I think, in addition to petitioning the Sci-Fi Channel to hire Jonathan Frakes as Cylon model No. 1, this is what we should all write in to the producers to request of this show. It's not like they haven't got episodes to waste, as this and a few others this season have proved.

In which I recap my weekend

Holy Jeezum, did I do a lot of nothing this weekend. And it was awesome. I am sure that no one other than the involved parties read the live-blogging of the horrid Sci-Fi channel movies, but that was a lot more fun than I expected it to be, mostly because the first set of terrible movies were watched while drinking.

Also? You can really get into the absolute ridiculosity of movies like Manticore and Gryphon which don't attempt to explain their crazy-ass no-make-sense-ed-ness after watching about fifteen billion hours of The Outer Limits. ( Hear me out on this. )

The point of doing nothing this weekend was the point. I was so tired by Friday that I actually managed to fall back asleep Saturday morning when I woke up way too early to get out of bed, which is something I so rarely manage. I needed--craved--sleep like food. Hanging out with moonlightalice and wellgull was great. Chatting with usually MIA roommate was fun. Sleeping was awesome. I stayed up so late on Sunday that I slept until my former roommate called me at 2 pm and was like, "Soooo, I guess this means you're not coming ice skating, like, right now?" Nope. I got up, but that was as much a concession to not-laziness as I could make.

If I haven't said it here before, let me state for the record that my personal hero is Peter Gibbons from Office Space. When I saw that movie for the first time, before it achieved cult icon status and the jokes made more sense to me, the one thing I got, just instinctively, was his idea that, if he could, he would do nothing with his time and like it. When he spent his post-hypnosis weekend in bed ignoring the phone? Yesssss. I need one of those weekends every so often.

They're terribly productive, too, even if that's kind of counter-intuitive. I got a tiny chunk of my sister's wedding cross-stitch done, which doesn't look like much but requires so many thread changes and such that I know it was a lot more work than it seems (stupid tiny flowers needing to be stitched ::grumblecakes::). Only just last night I started to use the fill-in color between the small parts of the design on the lady's dress, and now it's full and pretty and I'm renewed in my vigor to work on it. Which is great because I have another half-day's worth of The Outer Limits to get through, and the only way I can survive that is to be doing something with my hands so I don't throttle the DVDs...

Fic Rec and Meme

Can't help it. I saw this entry called 'King Ianto' and I had to read it. Spit up my water at work at the last one. Plus, it helps explain that "5 things" meme going around, and I think I'm rather tempted to try it myself. Go read the fic. Helps to have seen Torchwood, but nothing spoilery.

So, since I'm stupid and like explaining rules to, well, me, let's do this:

Give me a prompt for a 'Five things...' fill in the blank type fic in the genre of your choice that you know I watch/ready/enjoy in other medium (examples: "Five ways Jack Skellington could have had a happy Christmas").

Suggestions for fandoms I'm familiar with: Batman (Begins-verse, but cartoon and some comics, too), Battlestar Galactica, Blade, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Discworld, Doctor Who, Farscape, Firefly, Heroes, House, Lord of the Rings, LOST, The Matrix, Smallville, Torchwood, X-Men (movies), Voltron

(just a few; feel free to request one, and I'll see if I can't work some mojo for you)

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Congratulations, Heroes, you still can't make me pay attention to Claire and her whiny shit when omgChristopherEcclestonissoawesome. He can speak three words and steal the show.

The following plot lines can go: Niki/DL/Micah (Jessica can stay); anything with Mohinder; Matt and wife. Leaves more time for the Hiro&Ando, Nathan&Peter, Peter&Claude hour, cheers.