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[beccatoria]

So, it's been like, a week since I posted, which is...silly. But honestly, nothing much has happened. I went back to work, which kind of sucked, but not so much as either being broke or having to work full-time, and I console myself with the knowledge that yes, I am actually paid to sit there and type as fast as a robot. (One day I'm gonna clock my typing speed again; I totally think I can break 100wpm now, my last temp test had me at 88, but the copy-typing sheet fell off the stand in the middle of the test, so I had to stop, bend down, pick it up and reattach it (which was fiddly) right in the middle. Plus that was before 8 months of going to work and typing like a machine.)

Things that have been happening in my life that you may or may not care about:

- OMGZ my D&D game is reaching the final big showdown after like, five years of playing. This is v. exciting. My law-abiding, chaos-worshipping (because what's the point in having faith in something that makes sense? That's just logic!) paladin has the hilarious choice of either doing what her chaotic god wants her to do and maintain the order of the multiverse, or let the lawful god win and plunge everything into mayhem. Also there might be a fight. And a giant cat-tiger man with wings. And a robot who looks like Lucy Lawless and has reincarnation and reproductive issues that Kev made up before Xena ever showed up on BSG. Though currently said robot is being held captive by an ex-pacifist squid-creature that we might have accidentally cursed with 10,000 lost and cursed swords that we agreed to dispose of. AND LET THAT BE A LESSON AGAINST THE DANGERS OF DUMPING YOUR WASTE INTO THE OCEAN. Also in this game I am married to a realtor.

- VIDS. It might be a while before I post something but that's only cus I'm working on something big. I could say more, but I'd have to kill you. Or possibly someone would declare war on me. And that was totally my plan. Um. The point is, I'm vidding loads which is half of why I'm not here, but it's...not exactly secret, but will pack more punch if I don't go on about it loads until it's done. So I shalln't.

- SHIPS? Honestly, I'm not entirely sure what the hell has happened, but I appear to have acquired a new 'ship. *glances at icon, courtesy of frolicndetour* I should clarify, I don't ship Tory/Cally. I ship Tory/Cylon!Cally. I blame a combination of frolicndetour, merrykk, the stories both of them wrote and feminism. SRSLY. TORY/CYLON!CALLY, providing disgruntled straight girls with girlslash goggles since 2009 (before that it was down to Laura to provide them, often with the help of her teaching assistant).

Now, I know what you're all saying. Well, okay, I probably don't, but I'm going to pretend I do. You're all saying, "But Becka, you don't even like Cally all that much. In fact, I distinctly remember you thinking that Cally would be a shitty choice for the fifth..."

And this is true. But then 4.5 happened and I understood the five's backstory and I would like to point out a number of awesome things that are awesome if it is Cally, not Chief who is a Cylon:

1) Better robot gender balance.
2) No Nicky retcon.
3) They can't make both of their robot women into sexist cliches! Wait *glances at other robot women* It's at least less likely.
4) WHUT, some actual female bonding on this show?!
5) I honestly think that minus the homicide, the relationship between Tory and Cally could have been fascinating. Neither of them is a particularly empathetic character, both are vicious in their own ways, specifically about whichever "family" they owe loyalty to at that point in time, and further, at the start of S4, both of them are increasingly isolated and want a place to belong.
6) Come ON, watching Cally deal with being a Cylon? With all her hatred of them? From a character perspective, rather than a show-wide perspective, she's actually a really interesting choice. (Though I concede that from a show-wide perspective she kind of lacks oomph, but then, so did all the others, individually.)

(There's also a part of me intrigued by the possibility that Cally is the fifth instead of Ellen, but didn't wake up in Crossroads cus she was drugged up. Then when Tory kills her she resurrects on the baseship. This means that Nicky isn't challenging to Hera's hybridity because he's a pure cylon like Liam. We lose out on Ellen's amazing relationship with Cavil, but equally she's not going to come back and cause all kinds of FAIL to break loose and seeing CALLY try to embrace her son, Al from Quantum Leap and also have to deal with trying to reconcile her newfound love of Boomer with her hatred of her from her mortal life would almost make up for that. In this scenario, obviously Cally was a bitter child genius lab assistance and protege of Tory... But equally that leaves less room for hilarious IN YOUR FACE GENDERFAIL! romance between Tory and Cally as, um, airlocking obviously still happens. Plus then we'd still end up with the same number of GIRLZ and we want more of them. So sorry Chief, you are the weakest cylon, GOODBYE.)

Um...

That's the end of my weird update.

Comments

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I know and it's so frustrating since he really did have a lot of potential. Before Crossroads he was probably the one for whom it was the most interesting development, what with his previous associations with Boomer, his paranoia about being a Cylon in the season two finale, his finding the Temple of Five... But after that, we don't really see anything. I mean, I did actually quite like his quiet acceptance/depression/indifference toward the end of S4.0, like, when he was standing on Earth quietly smiling like it was all a joke. But it was so subtle, it never went anywhere. Tigh had the conflict with Adama and later got a lot of scenes with fully Cylon Ellen, Tory, well, they made her evil which sucked but at least it was a story and a response to it all, and Sam had the issues with Kara and then got shot and had to tell the whole backstory.

Tyrol really doesn't do anything with his cylonness. We're left to like...make up why he's suddenly all up for jumping away with the basestar or his reaction to losing Nicky and stuff like...maybe that was the same as his "peace" in 4.0? For someone who completely took over a bunch of women's storylines, he...was remarkably bland, or at least, disinteresting in terms of his cylonness. If that makes sense.

I have to give credit to frolicndetour for Cally as the fifth, though, I think she mentioned some of the awesome possibilities therein in the comments of her post.

As to Ellen, I'm mainly for swapping out Chief for two reasons, one being better gender balance and two being that I don't want to lose Ellen either. Originally I was really disappointed with the choice because it felt totally random, but I completely ate my words once I saw No Exit and the way that worked and the thing with Cavil and what happened on New Caprica and stuff and the crack of it being her really worked.

I just wish...they hadn't screwed it up and made her so...evil afterwards. Cus yeah, I know, Ellen has always been Ellen, but that doesn't mean she has to regress to a really weird level. Plus...we never even really see her being cylony after that either. I loved the fragments we got - her performing the cylon funeral or mentioning computery stuff when Sam was a hybrid, but in general, there was far too much of reverting Ellen to a drunken floozy and far too little of her being an awesome robot like she was in No Exit (where she was totally ALSO still Ellen Tigh, a slightly drunken sort-of-floozy!)

So yes. Ellen. I <3 her as a robot and thus it must remain so!

[emmiere.livejournal.com]

Before Crossroads he was probably the one for whom it was the most interesting development, what with his previous associations with Boomer, his paranoia about being a Cylon in the season two finale, his finding the Temple of Five...

I would have said this too, and that was at a point when I did love Chief. Even through Revelations with the sardonic "Ahahaha, the universe is frakking with us again" had that potential, but then:

Tyrol really doesn't do anything with his cylonness.

Was massively disappointing and sadly became the default for the rest of the Five too. Ellen, Sam, and Tory were all doing potentially interesting robotic things and Tigh was amusingly still NOT, but I can really not remember much of anything Chief DID significantly for a whole string of episodes (QOF blocking I suspect). I think he infected them all with boring. *nods*

Also Ellen. <3. I'm torn for how much potential AWESOME there is in Cally as the Fifth, but I really couldn't stand to lose her, even with how much emotional investment I had in her original final scene.

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

Yeah, pretty much all Tyrol did was turn his "ahahaaha, the universe is frakking with us again," attitude into one of psychotic woman-hating.

All he did in 4.5 was lose Nicky, never bother to see him again, then boredly fix Galactica for a while. Then he lost Boomer, boredly sat in a cell for a while and murdered Tory. Which like, okay, that's some stuff, but not ROBOT stuff, and the whole time he was bored and I was offended. SO BLAH.

Also Ellen. <3. I'm torn for how much potential AWESOME there is in Cally as the Fifth, but I really couldn't stand to lose her, even with how much emotional investment I had in her original final scene.

This is exactly how I feel! *TORN*