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I find it deeply amusing that your moodtheme shows Gaius' Beard while you mention your fear of hairdressers.

(He had such a bad beard-removal experience!)

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HA! I totally missed that...

Fortunately my hair removal experience wasn't nearly as horrifying as his beard removal experience. No blood at all! Just like...a foot of hair. So, comparable to the amount of hair Baltar lost, really. I think that beard was sentient or something.

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That beard was a source of ENDLESS fascination for me throughout S3, because I spent basically every closeup trying to decide if it was a real beard or a fake one, and if so how did they do the scenes where Callis was clean-shaven as a hallucination - CGI? Did they shave him and do all those scenes in one go?

I. . .really miss having the beard around. But I'm glad your experience wasn't anywhere as traumatic.

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YES! HOW DID THEY DO THAT? Because I highly doubt that they filmed that Head!Baltar scene from the middle of season 3.5 after Crossroads because it was like...five episodes later. AND YET THE BEARD LOOKS REAL.

Perhaps James Callis is secretly a twin. Or has two heads and decides which one to wear each morning.

Although if he were a twin then there would be NO EXCUSE not to have more Baltar & Head!Baltar scenes and...now I am sad. Because there aren't more.

Damned beard.

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*chokes* THIS IS WHY IT IS GOOD THAT WE ARE FRIENDS.

I was SO UPSET when they shaved him, you have no idea, but in a way it was good for me? Because I spent AGES going "god, is that real hair? It has to be real hair. Or do they stick it on in the morning, one by one? I MUST KNOW."

I like the idea that he has two heads. Because, like. In S4, his beard was OBVIOUSLY false, but not in S3. Yet. . .seriously.

It is maddening in its magnificence.

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YOU REALISE THAT I HAD LARGELY PUT THIS QUESTION BEHIND ME BUT NOW IT BURNS US AGAIN PRECIOUS?

BECAUSE HOW? JUST HOW?

...I am going with the two-heads theory. Until I can kidnap James Callis and force him to tell me. Or failing that, shanghai unwitting barbers and other haircare professionals and make THEM spin theories!

...and now I discover I have no icon about hair. So I shall use this one in honour of how much I love Roslin's hair. (Her wig is my other BSG hair-related trauma...)

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YOU KNOW, I AM OKAY WITH THAT.

YOU KNOW WHAT I DO NOT UNDERSTAND, THOUGH, IS HOW THIS DOES NOT COME UP MORE OFTEN. Like, if I met James Callis at a con, that would be the VERY FIRST THING I asked him, and everyone's all "OOOH, TELL US ABOUT NUMBER SIX AGAIN."

I think the real mystery, here, is 'what is wrong with humanity?'

Thanks to Patrick Dempsey, I have an embarrassment of hair icons. Sadly, none of them are BSG-related.

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I didn't really think it was as clever as I think it thought it was.

I agree. I'll go even further and say I don't find Joss as clever as he thinks he is. Or does he think recycling Buffy episodes is clever? Because that's what it felt like to me.

Fear of hairdressers? Huh. Well, I've cut my own hair since I was 15. Feel free to drop by. ;)

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Yeah, I'm not a huge Whedon fan. I mean, I liked some of Buffy. The first season of Angel was good. But the only one I think he knocked out of the park was Firefly. So I think he's a good writer, I think he's smart, but I think that he often...succumbs to his own legend, perhaps?

It's a cruel comparison because really they aren't in the same league, but I guess I feel about him a little bit the way I feel about George Lucas? Lucas got so big by the time they made the prequel movies, no one could tell him "George, you can write this shit, but you can't say it..."

Whedon's a good writer, a great ideas man, but he's not a trailblazing feminist and he sometimes needs someone to...go through his stuff with a machete and make him stop being lazy?

I'm impressed by your hair cutting! I cut my own fringe when it gets too long (although I generally leave it way long because I like it that way), but I couldn't actually cut all my hair because I wear it long and I couldn't reach around the back.

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I wouldn't make a comparison to Lucas because a) Joss has had more than one good idea, b) he can write good dialogue and, c) he didn't create Jar Jar Binks. But I do think Joss has bought into his own press and the fan adoration and I'm not sure if there is anyone to tell him when an idea sucks or at least has significant problems. I'll throw Ron Moore a bone and say that he has surrounded himself with people who are willing to tell him when an idea isn't working. He may not head their warning, but he does let them speak up and take it into consideration.

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Yes, you do make excellent points, and I do concede it's a horribly unfair comparison. Because NO ONE should EVER be compared to anyone who CREATED JAR JAR F*CKING BINKS.

But yeah, I totally get what you're saying. Moore might drop the ball sometimes, but he usually admits it, or at least admits it's possible. And he listens to his actors. He's admitted the fat suit "wasn't his finest hour" *snurk* and let Tricia Helfer talk him out of having a rape victim make out with Baltar at the first opportunity. Perhaps I'm just indulging in snarkiness, but my understanding of Joss Whedon is that he sort of...doesn't even let his actors change a word of dialogue and stands by like, everything he does?

Yeah...I'm pretty sure by this point I'm just overtired and indulging in fan-favouritism *BAD FANGIRL*, but...I do think that there's a point in there somewhere about getting so huge there's no one left to tell you when you're being a jerk. And that can harm you just as badly if you're a brilliant person full of awesome ideas or a one-shot wonder who stole his ideas from old Hong Kong movies and 50s Pulp SciFi to begin with. ;)

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JAR JAR F*CKING BINKS.

ahhh - so im not the only person who knows his full name... ;)

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havent seen dr horrible yet (partly because, although ive **ahem** acquired it, im put off by remembering that his joss' previous musical efforts were what put me off buffy for good, partly because im trying to get to the end of SG1 S09 & SGA S02!)

and i take it this means im not the only one with a morbid fear of hairdressers - which would explain my almost-arse-length hair...

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Really? I liked the Buffy musical episode! It was one of my favourite things they did in Buffy! Then again, I'm the sort of tasteless person that enjoyed the Xena musicals too, so...perhaps your opinion of me will drop... :p

And hooray for almost arse-length hair. Be warned, if you do go to a hairdressers and ask them to cut it so it's now halfway down your back they will instead cut it until it's halfway down your shoulderblades, the bastards!

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my sister is a hair stylist - shes the only person who has cut my hair in years.
and every time i say "just take a couple of inches off" it ends up halfway down my shoulder blades.
and every time, i end up screaming "i said two inches, not ten, BITCH!"
which is why, every couple of years, my sister ends up not speaking to me...

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I didn't think it was that awesome either, despite loving Buffy and Firefly like very lovely things. It was just.. meh. And kind of self-satisfied. *clings to you*

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YES! Self-satisfied, that's the best way to describe it. It...came across as thinking it was so clever, when really it was pretty average. Funny, but average and in a few places downright lazy.

*clings back*

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*Hides with you in the corner*

Had it's moments, but not overwhelmingly so. I did enjoy Nathan's manly chest and arms though.

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YAY! It's so gratifying to know I'm not alone. There seems to be a small but sizable contingent of us in this corner.

And...I will not say bad things about Nathan Fillion's arms, no, because they were quite...armly. But to be honest, I spent most of it wondering why he wasn't anywhere near as pretty as he used to be on Firefly... But I'm probably just being bitter by this point!

Plus everyone knows that in the sheer sex-on-legs stakes, NO ONE beats the Operative. I probably would have liked this mediocre offering 10x more if Chiwetel Ejiofor had been the armly Captain Hammer. But he's probably off standing behind Denzel Washington in some serious film. *le sigh*

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But he's probably off standing behind Denzel Washington in some serious film. *le sigh*

Oooh le ouch. Was he in more than that heist film with Denzel? I have to admit again though, I was admiring Clive Owen in that one.. I do so <3 him...

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Not a heist film, but he was also in American Gangster (which was actually a great film; my snark is just the bitterness of a b-list actor fan), where he played Denzel Washington's character's younger brother. Which basically meant he spent lots of time being far prettier than Mr Washington and standing behind him without a lot of lines... :(

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Ahh well he was doing the same thing in .. I think it's Inside Man.

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Yes! I love that film! I went to see it entirely because of the three seconds of Chiwetel Ejiofor in the trailer, which turned out a fabulous decision! Although, as you say, he was generally relegated to standing behind Denzel Washington. If he does another one of those, I'll start to think it's part of some insidious plan... ;)

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You spend a lot of time quietly repeating his name, don't you. *g*

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oh dear - dr horrible was so, well... horrible, i didnt see very much of it before ~~pouring bleach in my ears~~ removing all traces of it from my mac - it was pretty crap...
open letter to joss on my LJ.

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I FEEL ALL TINGLY. PEOPLE ARE FLOCKING TO OUR CAUSE!

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IT WAS RUBBISH LIKE EVERYTHING JOSS WHEDON DOES IS RUBBISH. *irrational implacable hatred of Joss Whedon* But yes, even within the RUBBISHNESS OF JOSS WHEDON it wasn't that great. I quite liked the song where they harmonised greatly though. And I actually really liked Penny, she was my favourite character by far, I totally think she DID have a personality! *SWIMS AGAINST THE TIDE omg*

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