beccatoria | Oh, all right TSCC, but your fandom has a tragic lack Agent Ellison icons.

Oh, all right. I still don't love it like burning, but when you start getting vid bunnies (even if they're the ones you're trying to ignore), it's time to call it quits and get an icon.

Plus there's the fact that I appear to be developing a rather large crush on Agent Ellison. It's somewhat embarassing. But not quite as embarassing as the time I realised I fancied Sam Anders. (Yes, I always get embarassed about having crushes on people; I go through denial, then bargaining, then acceptance. No, I'm not sure why either).

But seriously, where are all the Agent Ellison icons? Am I going to be forced to accept that NOT everyone thinks the show should be all about him, and perhaps Sarah? And that every episode ought to feature them having angsty conversations and nuanced portrayals of faith and robots?

I looked for like a whole THIRTY MINUTES and I only found two, and the other one was kinda crappy. It could have been worse, I could have been looking for ~~Shirely Manson~~ Catherine Weaver icons. There weren't any of those. But that's okay cus I don't really like her. Whereas:

AGENT ELLISON, DAMMIT! HE DOES AWESOME THINGS LIKE TEACH ROBOTS ABOUT GOD BECAUSE THAT ALWAYS LEADS TO PEACE AND HARMONY, AMIRITE?

And...there wasn't really any point to this post. Like, at all.

Also: I have inexplicably finished that fic I started about six months ago (where Natalie was alive and stuff), and I'm not really sure how that happened or how it got to be so long. I've become comfortable with being a fanvidder but I still feel odd about writing fiction like this that's not, like, as a result of a prompt or something. Which I'd try to explain but I already established I get embarassed and awkward about the stupidest stuff. So, my goal is to get it beta'd and such by the time the new series starts so it can invalidate it all. GO ME!

Also: Happy New Year to all you suckers who have to wait an extra 9 - 17ish hours for 2009!

Also: I am reading the script for the Caprica pilot. I am, so far, supremely unimpressed but I'm not that far through with it yet. It could redeem itself. More news as it breaks.

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I'm always afraid they'll kill him eventually, but then I tell myself, no, he's the only black character, if they kill him it'd look like racism.

TSSC... I don't love it with a burning passion, either, but I'm enjoying it. I think that's the right word. It engages me enough to want to watch the next ep, and check out the occasional vid (I recommend LithiumDoll's "Human Behaviour" and, err, a totally amazing vid by, I think, kiki_miserichick, whose title I have forgotten - it's a song by Laura Veirs. There's also a pretty nice one called 'Paris Is Burning' by I don't know who. They're all in the tags at vidding, I think.)

I suspect that if I allowed myself to think more about it, the show would annoy me, but I'm watching it very much like 'normal' people watch TV, without thinking too much about it. I've always had a weak spot for the Terminator universe, but in a 'guilty pleasure' kind of way, and I'm comfortable adding another version of Terminator to the guilty pleasure vault of my brain, where all the stuff that requires a healthy dose of suspension of disbelief is stored. *g*

Also, if they killed him, I would cry.

I guess I know what you mean about "normal person TV" style watching. It's kind of the way I used to watch Heroes which was nice because then I wasn't quite so crushed when I had to quit it for becoming awful.

The problem with TSCC is, I think, that slowly it's getting into my brain on a deeper level of being interested but it's not like, flat-out obsessiveness like I have for BSG or Farscape or something. And my brain does not know how to handle this. Because I don't know the series well enough to get all thinky about it, nor am I sure I want to because I have a sneaking suspicion I couldn't make it make sense. But my brain dislikes not being able to do that too. :/

I GUESS WE'LL SEE.

Re: vids - I hae actually seen Human Behaviour and Paris is Burning (omg that vid is awesome!) I think I've probably seen the

kiki_miserychic one too? I've seen a very cool one by her, "Does Cameron dream of Electric Sheep," which may be the one you're referring to? (Can't remember the name of the song, offhand.) Though she also recently made a cool one about Sarah - Ding! Dong! (http://kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com/142043.html).

>The problem with TSCC is, I think, that slowly it's getting into my brain on a deeper level of being interested but it's not like, flat-out obsessiveness like I have for BSG or Farscape or something. And my brain does not know how to handle this. Because I don't know the series well enough to get all thinky about it, nor am I sure I want to because I have a sneaking suspicion I couldn't make it make sense. But my brain dislikes not being able to do that too. :/

This is why I'm lucky that my main approach to fandom is mostly emotions-based... I've always had fandoms - primary, i.e. active ones (Highlander), and secondary, i.e. passive, occasional ones (Terminator and a dozen more) - that really aren't all that great, or don't make that much sense etc. As long as there's the right emotional hook, I can ignore a lot of nonsense, suspend my disbelief, and just enjoy.

But yeah, I do try pretty hard not to think about TSSC too much. *g*

Re: vids: Yes, "Does Cameron..." is the one I meant. Thanks for the rec for the Sarah one; downloaded, and will watch at home. :-)

Oh, all right TSCC, but your fandom has a tragic lack Agent Ellison icons.

Yay Agent Ellison!

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