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misscamI am a bit distracted and incommunicado this week, for which I apologize, but sadly work has a pile of deadlines this week that's eating my brainpower a bit.
I shall be glad when it's next week, truly. And not just for that reason, which brings us to this week's Battlestar Galactica, or as I like to call it, 'say, that was about as subtle as a Viking berserker'.
This episode feels like a cross between filler and set-up, and parts of it felt really off to me, but still had its moments of awesome. General opinion, unsure. Also, it couldn't have been less obvious with the 'Bill Adama loves Laura Roslin!' (aww!) if all Cylon models dressed in cheerleading outfits and did a chant with it. Given that I was expecting more subtle, it did smack me a bit unprepared, though they managed to do all this without using the word once. Ramdom rambling opinions:
1. NOOOOO Natalie!Six :( But did she die or did she download? I am hoping in some insane way she downloads and pops up in The Hub and kicks ass. Sniff.
2. Poor Athena. But man, she got more issues with Cylons than humans do. I'm not sure it's going to end well for her at all. But at least she got Hera still for now.
3. Romo has a head!cat. Romo has a head!cat. ... Okay, only in this show could that even resemble sense. But I didn't feel the Romo-love this time around - something about the plot around Lee becoming president really bugged me. And not just because the concept of the military having a say in who is president - I mean, take Laura out of the picture and Bill's attitude towards civilian government gets a bit scary. The scenes just jarred, and WTF with the gun pulling? But Lee giving Romo Jake the dog? Genius! Jake the dog and head!cat should have lots of amazing adventures together, y/y?
4. Lee and his emo hair. I can live with the porn!shirt, mainly to allow![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lotus79 her eyecandy, but surely they have hairdressers in the fleet? Get thee some presidential grace in your hair too. Also, I know lotus79 would enjoy the glance Lee and Kara exchange.
5. Saul knocked up Caprica-Six. Bwhahaha. I so called that last week, and also, bwhaha. That's so fucked up on so many levels, and the final five can breed either way, it seems. So they are really the Cylon attempt at going human, aren't they? And Tigh lets the Six know Bill loves Laura which is might be interesting given the Six fixation on love, and is now Admiral after smacking Bill around. With Lee as President. Oi.
6. Bill. Oh, Bill, where do I start with you? Okay, not the first time Bill has flipped his shit over potentially losing people close to him. 'You Can't go Home Again' in season one, and even in this season with his giving Kara a ship with crew when she's pretty much just returned unexplained from the dead. Hell, he even remembers his wedding anniversary year after year, and that wasn't a very sucessful marriage. Bill doesn't lose people - even when they die, he hangs on to them. So on one hand, this episode doesn't really surprise me. On the other... Holy shit. His face when they find the damaged ship and waits for what's in it, and when he sees the book - Guh. Guh. Everyone sees it, and when they don't, he pretty much tells them. (To Lee - 'I can't let her go. I can't give up on her.' and later the 'I can't live without her' which is such a romance novel cliche and EJO just delivered it so matter of factly and awesomely I still bought it. Damn you, show.) And then he realises he has in fact lost his shit and decides to do a leap of faith. Waiting, alone in a ship left behind with only their book, because he has to believe Laura will make it or he has lost his shit. (His recollection to Lee of his first alone mission and facing his fear and that 'That's a good memory'? Guh too.) Okay, I got a little teary-eyed at the last scene, because I am a sap and shippy fangirl and also shut up. I do hope Laura smacks him a bit over leaving the fleet, though after she's snogged him a great deal. Damn. They better have some reunion.
NEED NEXT EPISODE. OR ALTERNATIVELY TRIP IN TARDIS TO NEXT WEEK.
In TARDIS land: Spoilers from DWM about Rose and Donna.
Coupled with the upcming two-parter this weekend and next, I have this feeling in my bones fandom is going to get very trying. I mean, RTD's writing for Doctor Who hasn't exactly struck me as subtle in previous season finales (floating Doctor WTF?) and yeah, I fear the Viking beserking and fandom going mental. Or some such.
Meanwhile, WTF?
A woman named Rachel Moss put a post on Something Awful mocking attendees not because of their politics or their feminism or their willingness to come to Wisconsin, but because they were too fat, too white, too male, or too black for her taste.
... And off it goes. Er. Aren't there people on my flist who went to this con? What's up with this thing?
Meme taken from the flist:
Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about my plans for future parts of my current series if you want to, but keep in mind, I may not have anything firm/definite in the works. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
(Mah stuff.)
I shall be glad when it's next week, truly. And not just for that reason, which brings us to this week's Battlestar Galactica, or as I like to call it, 'say, that was about as subtle as a Viking berserker'.
This episode feels like a cross between filler and set-up, and parts of it felt really off to me, but still had its moments of awesome. General opinion, unsure. Also, it couldn't have been less obvious with the 'Bill Adama loves Laura Roslin!' (aww!) if all Cylon models dressed in cheerleading outfits and did a chant with it. Given that I was expecting more subtle, it did smack me a bit unprepared, though they managed to do all this without using the word once. Ramdom rambling opinions:
1. NOOOOO Natalie!Six :( But did she die or did she download? I am hoping in some insane way she downloads and pops up in The Hub and kicks ass. Sniff.
2. Poor Athena. But man, she got more issues with Cylons than humans do. I'm not sure it's going to end well for her at all. But at least she got Hera still for now.
3. Romo has a head!cat. Romo has a head!cat. ... Okay, only in this show could that even resemble sense. But I didn't feel the Romo-love this time around - something about the plot around Lee becoming president really bugged me. And not just because the concept of the military having a say in who is president - I mean, take Laura out of the picture and Bill's attitude towards civilian government gets a bit scary. The scenes just jarred, and WTF with the gun pulling? But Lee giving Romo Jake the dog? Genius! Jake the dog and head!cat should have lots of amazing adventures together, y/y?
4. Lee and his emo hair. I can live with the porn!shirt, mainly to allow
lotus79 her eyecandy, but surely they have hairdressers in the fleet? Get thee some presidential grace in your hair too. Also, I know lotus79 would enjoy the glance Lee and Kara exchange. 5. Saul knocked up Caprica-Six. Bwhahaha. I so called that last week, and also, bwhaha. That's so fucked up on so many levels, and the final five can breed either way, it seems. So they are really the Cylon attempt at going human, aren't they? And Tigh lets the Six know Bill loves Laura which is might be interesting given the Six fixation on love, and is now Admiral after smacking Bill around. With Lee as President. Oi.
6. Bill. Oh, Bill, where do I start with you? Okay, not the first time Bill has flipped his shit over potentially losing people close to him. 'You Can't go Home Again' in season one, and even in this season with his giving Kara a ship with crew when she's pretty much just returned unexplained from the dead. Hell, he even remembers his wedding anniversary year after year, and that wasn't a very sucessful marriage. Bill doesn't lose people - even when they die, he hangs on to them. So on one hand, this episode doesn't really surprise me. On the other... Holy shit. His face when they find the damaged ship and waits for what's in it, and when he sees the book - Guh. Guh. Everyone sees it, and when they don't, he pretty much tells them. (To Lee - 'I can't let her go. I can't give up on her.' and later the 'I can't live without her' which is such a romance novel cliche and EJO just delivered it so matter of factly and awesomely I still bought it. Damn you, show.) And then he realises he has in fact lost his shit and decides to do a leap of faith. Waiting, alone in a ship left behind with only their book, because he has to believe Laura will make it or he has lost his shit. (His recollection to Lee of his first alone mission and facing his fear and that 'That's a good memory'? Guh too.) Okay, I got a little teary-eyed at the last scene, because I am a sap and shippy fangirl and also shut up. I do hope Laura smacks him a bit over leaving the fleet, though after she's snogged him a great deal. Damn. They better have some reunion.
NEED NEXT EPISODE. OR ALTERNATIVELY TRIP IN TARDIS TO NEXT WEEK.
In TARDIS land: Spoilers from DWM about Rose and Donna.
Coupled with the upcming two-parter this weekend and next, I have this feeling in my bones fandom is going to get very trying. I mean, RTD's writing for Doctor Who hasn't exactly struck me as subtle in previous season finales (floating Doctor WTF?) and yeah, I fear the Viking beserking and fandom going mental. Or some such.
Meanwhile, WTF?
A woman named Rachel Moss put a post on Something Awful mocking attendees not because of their politics or their feminism or their willingness to come to Wisconsin, but because they were too fat, too white, too male, or too black for her taste.
... And off it goes. Er. Aren't there people on my flist who went to this con? What's up with this thing?
Meme taken from the flist:
Ask me a question about one of my stories. It can be absolutely anything in any fic and I will tell you the honest-to-god answer. Don’t hold back. Ask about my plans for future parts of my current series if you want to, but keep in mind, I may not have anything firm/definite in the works. Anything. Whatever you ask, I will try my best to answer.
(Mah stuff.)
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Date: 2008-05-29 09:42 am (UTC)5) So Tigh the Cylon is Admiral and Lee the Emo is President. Yeah, they're pretty screwed.
6) Oh, Bill, how I loe thee. ♥ I really have no idea how EJO managed to deliver that line and make it not even cliché or cheesy in the slightest. I totally teared up at the last scene too because, well, guh, he's just sitting there on his own, having abandoned his family and his job, putting himself at major risk of death, just so he can wait for her when there's no guarantee she'll even turn up. URGH. *dies* This ship is frakking perfect. XD
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Date: 2008-05-29 09:57 am (UTC)I kinda home we get to see Lee and Saul have meetings on fleet status and so on. The images in my head are fab!
I think the line was partly saved by his matter-of-fact delivery (doing it too emotionally just kills it, I think) and the look he gave Lee, which was a bit 'yeah, I know how it sounds, but it's true'. At least that was how I read it.
He was so calm about what he did too, once he gave up command. Just made his decision and that was that and to have enough love and faith in a person to do that is just scary and wonderful at the same time. He's gonna kill me if Laura dies. KILL.
And he brought the book. Sniff.
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Date: 2008-05-29 10:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-29 03:40 pm (UTC)But I suspect Moffat will bring a change, and so will the fact that next year it's specials and not a full series. Given their slightly more stand-alone nature, I suspect whatever happens in the finale will not leek as much into the future as other finales have.
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Date: 2008-05-29 03:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-29 03:50 pm (UTC)(Plus, I guess it's the closest to closure there was in the ship - you take what you get?)
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Date: 2008-05-29 01:30 pm (UTC)What made you want to write East of the Sun, West of the Moon? Like... from conception to actual action, what were you thinking when you wrote it?
And I have a 'personal' question (it's about food):
What is your favourite Norwegian food?
(It's for my Anthropology class. I've to make food and bring it in.)
I'd really appreciate your input.
♥
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Date: 2008-05-29 03:47 pm (UTC)Honestly? 'How can I get CSI to Norway and thus write something I know?' That was pretty much the first thought. So I pondered Norwegian things and thought of that title, which is a famous fairytale in Norway and also a phrase to indicate something being a dream and beyond reach.So thus I thought about fairytales and children, and that gave me the idea of killing the daughter and making the father a killer and the story came from there. It made the bones - the meat was just what I wanted the CSI characters to go through and what would be interesting to explore.
Er. Reindeer steak is probably my favourite of traditional food. I'm not too fond of the weirdest of our fish dishes. You can see some of our traditional stuff here, if you were looking for ideas.
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Date: 2008-06-02 12:33 pm (UTC)Have you considered writing like... hard-copy novels?
Because you've got this process and this talent and this ability to tell a story and to give the reader graphic without being graphic.
"East/West" is a phaenomenal fic and it's obvious that you put a lot into it.
That site seems to be really popular.
Thanks for your help, Camilla. :D
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Date: 2008-05-29 05:09 pm (UTC)