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Guys, you guys, you ALL need to see this vid!

loved her to ribbons by chaila43.

Don't worry if you've never seen Damages, cus I haven't, but I still love it. All I know about that show is 1) apparently the main character, played by Glenn Close and named Patty Hewes (and I'm not even sure I spelled that right) is a badass lawyer who does all kinds of dodgy shit in the name of greater goals, and 2) IN THIS VID I AM HER.

Cus the premise? Patty is a Laura Roslin fangirl watching in increasing despair, drunkenness and violence as 4.5 destroys her beloved TV crush.

It works on three levels.

1) HILARIOUS.

2) HEARTBREAKINGLY RAGE-INDUCINGLY TRUE.

3) Actual powerful and subtle commentary, not just on the fact that the show failed but on all the ways it was the FAULT of the show that it failed. That it should have known better. For...a more eloquent summation of these things, see grrl_unscripted's comment at the above link.

Really guys, you all need to watch this vid.

Again, it makes me feel vindicated for my belief that all the best things, serious or not, are deadly serious crack.

( General Overview of That Political Thing that was Going On. )

( In which Adama handles things poorly. )

( In which Laura, for the first time in the history of the Colonies, handles things worse than Bill Adama. But still more awesomely. )

( Kara's brief appearance and why that scene was awesome. )

( CYLONSES! WHERE WERE YOU?! )

( That Whole Nicky Thing was Not Cool, dudes. )

( But at least That Whole Nicky Thing included... )

( And the GENUINE robotic baby! )

( I should probably mention Gaeta. )

I feel bad for having nothing to say about Lee but basically all he did this episode was wander around.

So, I totally failed at being AT ALL productive yesterday - no vidding (though the next challenge vidlet is in hand), no writing, didn't read over my essay, nuttin' but cruisin' the internet in a generally bored fashion and being nowhere near as excited about getting my first paycheck in 8 months as I should be because...I have nothing to spend it on!

SO, I randomly found this meme on the wilds of the internet and the last time I tried one of these it was HILARIOUS (at least I thought so). So even if it entertains no one but me, I'll feel like I "achieved" something today. RAH.

Pick 10 characters from as many fandoms as you wish.
Answer 16 questions. Drabble responses are very welcome, too.

Bonus: Name the meme pairing you like best and least.

( MEME! )

And that's that, folks!

So I got really, really bored yesterday and today and wrote 7 pages of BSG 'fic which is...unusual for me (and probably not to be encouraged since I should have been writing something else). I wasn't going to post it because it's unbeta'd and unfinished, but then I thought blah, why not? If I wait until it's actually finished, BSG will probably be over and perhaps it'll entertain someone for a few minutes. SO, with all errors entirely my own, and in the hope I complete it at some point:

Title: The Body is a Myth
Rating: Um, PG?
Spoilers: Through 4.09 The Hub
Disclaimer: I don't own them! I make no money!
Summary: What happens to Laura Roslin after she dies? What happens to Kara Thrace after D'anna reveals the name of the final cylon?

( The Body is a Myth. )

So, yeah, there's that. :)

Well, I didn't get around to this last weekend cus of being quasi-unconscious through most of it, and then it sort of slipped away from me, but there's NEW BSG tomorrow and I don't want to not do a reaction as, well, it's BSG, and I liked it, and I'm wordy.

SO!

( The Scene I Hated. )

( Faith vs Truth: or This Wasn't Very Interesting, Good Thing Mary McDonnell Is A Kickass Actress! )

*sigh*

I feel mean. This is probably the most negative review I've written so far this season, which seems very unfair to the episode. Which I liked. I just...I hated the last scene and while I enjoyed the acting, I had some thematic issues with the B-plot because this show is usually better than this. If I'm tearing it to shreds, I'm not doing so because I think it's an example of awful television or insulting storytelling, but just because...usually it doesn't give me this ammunition.

( Messy Sam Makes A Mess. )

( Prophetic Hybrid Makes a Prophecy. )

Yeah.

Gotta wonder about that... I mean, I don't think the show will forget. But it'd be like, the FIRST thing I asked her.

Or maybe not. Maybe they're all scared of her, like, shooting them or something. She was pretty scary back on the Demetrius. "So Kara about that Harbinger of...kittens thing. That's what she said, right? Harbinger of kittens?"

Hmm!

So, projectjulie asked me - if I was sure that having a bizarre reversal of religious significance and making Kara a human, but a tool of the Cylon God and figure in Cylon scripture, while making Laura the final Cylon but still being a figure of religious significance to the humans and working to save them, was an awesome idea - how did Gaius Baltar fit in?

Because he's the other character with bizarre humanocylon religiousness going on.

So I figure: if we're using the Matrix as a metaphor - he's Agent Smith.

Srsly, stay with me here:

( Spoilers for the Matrix Trilogy and BSG Season Four follow... )

Anyway, that was what I was thinking about last night!

I just got to rewatch this episode without glitching every other moment, so I think I'm ready to talk about it now. Although I fear a great deal of what I'm about to say is massively personally biased crack!

So, I give you: the episode in which everyone except Adama learns that you can wake up one day and decide, "to hell with the rules."

( How the quieter Lee scenes fit to illustrate the theme. )

( Kara is free. )

( Adama can't deal with the way Kara keeps moving sideways. )

( And Adama can't cope with Lee moving sideways either. )

( I am not a Kara/Lee shipper, but moving sideways, I think this is beautiful. )

( Laura is free. )

( So, can Adama cope with Laura moving the same way as his kids? )

Also: NOOOO! NOT THE HAIR! NOT THE BEAUTIFUL HAIR!

( Natalie is free. )

Other issues in this episode:

( The Lee/Dee thing. )

( Is Tory free or is she trapped? )

And...that's it. That episode was awesome. The end. :)

Next, on becca-write-to-order-with-sucky-titles (srsly, if anyone has a better one I'm open to suggestions) we have projectjulie's story! It's ZOMG 5,350 words.

The prompt I used was: Roslin/Maya/Six, shape of future - they thought Maya was just an ordinary girl, an innocent bystander to history (they couldn't have been more wrong)

Disclaimer: don't own, no money!

( I am Maya Argo. )

* * *

( Authorial Ramblings... )

Next up is more BSG for greycoupon this time probably feature Hera instead of Isis! Again, I'm looking to keep up with momentum, so I don't like using excuses but I'm moving house in about a week and I have to spend at least some of the upcoming weekend buying packing materials and starting that whole awful process so it may be Sunday by the time I get yours done. Hope that's all good!

See y'all soon! :)

Yes. It's actually finished. For sordid details, see vidder's comments below:

Title: Hallelujah
Pairing: Lee/Laura (Lee POV)
Spoilers: Through 3.20
Summary: Lee and Laura; love is a cold and a broken hallelujah.
Link: Hallelujah - 35mb, .wmv file.

Password: vidses


Feedback is love.

( Commentary on this video from the crazed vidder. )

I’ve been putting off writing this for a while and I can’t really explain why. Perhaps the episode needed time to settle in my mind. It left me with a strange sense that this should be the last episode, unresolved as it is. Also, this is monster long, even for me. Use of cut-tags to skip to more interesting sections is encouraged.

( This is a Donnie Darko ending, right? You don't realize how many answers you've been given. )

( So, if this WAS the finale, here are the answers I'd claim we'd been given. )

( Enough with philosophy, let's move on to social commentary! )

( My horribly, horribly biased view of the Laura-Lee-Adama dynamic. )

( Ships! OTP, OT3, OT4?! )

( Crazy Mad Love For Tigh! Also, Adama yet again wins the prize as Enabling Douchebag Friend of the Year! )

Finally, Meme! Gacked from asta77

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