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

[beccatoria]

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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Yeah, I can get how that sounds bad on paper. Maybe it even is bad. I think the reason that, for me, it doesn't set of OMG STEREOTYPE alarms is the way his religion is portrayed within the show.

As someone who's nonreligious and even actively hostile to using it as a moral barometer in social contexts the way Ellison does, I'm still convinced by both his faith and his existence as a rational and moral person independent of that fact, even though it informs his behaviour (or rather, he uses it to understand his behaviour).

It's interesting to me because generally if you're going to have a religious character on television, they are either Wrong and Short-Sighted and Judgemental, or they are Magically Right because it's God and being Religious makes you Better.

And I really don't feel that Agent Ellison comes down on one side or the other of that fence. I never get the sense he's moral because he's religious. In fact I get the sense that he recommits in some ways to his faith because of the events he witnesses, but that he doesn't use his faith as an excuse to simplify them. He uses it as a framework through which to understand his world and his own instinctive reactions to it, but never a rigid framework, and never to the detriment of rationality?

Like, I'm sure other arguments exist, and as I said, I'm not even sure they'd be wrong. But I guess that's why I actually like the super religious aspect of it. Because as a non-religious person he's one of the few super religious characters from an essentially conservative religious background who actually makes me want to understand that mentality and even respect it?