More about work and even more about BSG

[raven]

I've just noticed something rather interesting. According to my website referral stats, someone did a Yahoo search for the phrase "she walks in sunlight and sleeps where shadow never falls." I don't know the significance of that, or even if there is any, but I went to see what came up when you search for it. The link to my own site is to Love Is Not Love, which apparently contains all those words, but also linked as a search result on that first page is Leigh's M*A*S*H fic Never Ask Why Build. Weird, but interesting.

A slight peeve while I'm here - I don't like it when real-life people come up to me and complain they don't understand my website, or assume I write porn. There was a rumour going round a year ago that I review porn, (huh?), but I couldn't ever be bothered to explain. I don't write in here nor maintain the fic website for their benefit. I'm more and more grateful that I'm leaving school in less than two months. I can stay in touch with the cool people and happily lose touch with the idiots.

Anyway, random rant over - I'm mostly happy and haven't been updating because not much is going on. I've been working most days this week, and Tony, bless him, decided to give me all the money at once, along with the money for the days I'm not working in April. I hate depositing money as a general thing, but even I can see that carrying around a hundred quid in cash is unnecessary. That said, I decided to organise the till this morning and ended up carrying more than that across the village to get coins. The bank know me, thankfully, and didn't bat an eyelid when I asked for a tenner in tuppence pieces.

While all this was going on, Tony stopped mid-sentence and asked, "You are still enjoying it, right?" in the sort of voice that indicates he really wants to know and really wants the answer to be yes.

Which it was; I do love my job. I love the way I wander around shelving books and talking to people, messing about with the computer and the phone, talking to wholesalers, and drinking coffee, and they pay me for it. I'm particularly amused by the elderly ladies who call in and say they can't remember who served them, "but it was a very young girl." He can rest assured that I'm not quitting any time soon.

In other news, Battlestar Galactica is the best thing in the universe. It makes me cry. In the good way. But ohgod, it does. It made me cry in the very first episode - the bit when the baby was born - and I just watched Flesh and Bone, and Starbuck praying for the captive's soul made me tear up like a girl. Other things of note:

-Starbuck is such a good character. She's bright, foul-mouthed, beautiful and butch (yay!), and she can be vulnerable (actually, that was another thing that made me cry - Adama telling her "Walk out of here while you still can" when she admitted to what she'd done to Zach) and extremely strong (as when persuading the Raptor to fly). I was surprised by how much in character her turn as torturer was. The way she flicks her fingers - drown him in the water, let him out, drown him again - was ruthless. And the weird, twisted, horribly affecting way in which she tries to touch him through the glass really stuck with me. Ouch.

-Does Caprica!Boomer really love Helo? I'm tempted to say yes, but I'm not sure. Meanwhile, Galactica!Boomer really annoys me (in a good characterisation sort of way). The way she's purposely blind to everything she's done is very human, which makes it no less irritating.

-Apollo bores me, but his relationship with his father doesn't. Commander Adama declaring "If it were you, I'd never leave" really got to me for some reason.

-Surely Gaius will be clinically insane by the end of the series? At the moment he's a little whacked-out, and I'm sure everyone on board thinks he's a flake, but wouldn't that kind of constant internal dialogue destroy what's left of his mind?

-Cally! I love Cally. That guy tries to rape her and she bites off his fucking ear. I love it.

-Actually, one other yay-girl-power thing I like - Roslin, Starbuck and Boomer are all addressed as "sir" without hesitation. And this is a show that really does have as many strong female characters as male ones - on the guy side, there's Apollo, his father, Helo, Tigh and Tyrol, but with Starbuck, Boomer (Caprica and Galactica), Roslin, Six and Cally to counteract them. The one drawback of this is that I can't see any immediately suggestive slash pairings. Heh.

-They have a still. Oh, yeah.

Comments

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

New BSG is shockingly devoid of slash. Unlike the original, which was slashtastic, yeah! So far, the only slash I've seen is Baltar/Gaita, which comes with it's own freaky het vibe, thanks to invisible!Six.

I love Starbuck. She rocks my socks. I was an old-school fan, up until I saw '33', and then I shamelessly rolled over and showed my soft underbelly to Starbuck. She's my big girl-crush at the moment.

And I really want to write Cylon slash. Leoben/Doral, not the mechanical kind ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I suppose it was to be expected, as a price to pay for turning Starbuck and Boomer into women. Which I do love them for, as it works so well. Yay Starbuck! I have a crush, too.

Also, I have to admit to not really knowing who Gaeta is. Help me?

[maryavatar.livejournal.com]

He's the navigation guy who was co-opted as Baltar's assistant.

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Real life people can be very frustrating.

Also, as much as I love my job, I do envy you yours.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

They really can. And I've always liked the idea of your job, too. It involves books, doesn't it?

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

Haha... Yes. Books, books, everywhere. I'm a sort of specialised library assistant.

[shipperkitten.livejournal.com]

Apollo gets much, much better in the latter part of the season. I started liking the character then (and shipping Apollo/Starbuck! I'm so predictable...)

Though for me there is a redeeming factor - his arms. ;) Guh *thunk*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

I'll take your word for that. :) Also - just read the review/synopsis of the episode I'm missing out. You're kidding, right? Tigh has a slutty wife (no wonder he was driven to drink), Roslin thinks Adama is a Cylon, Billy takes Dualla out on a date (yay!) and Gaius spins round in a chair with Six! And I missed it! Heh.

Love this show. Love.

[shipperkitten.livejournal.com]

It was a strange episode, not integral to the plot but a fun distraction from it.

Roslin thinking Adama was a Cylon - this was logical because of what the guy they threw out the airlock said to her in the previous episode. He never said which Adama though - I know they usually refer to Lee as Apollo, but wouldn't she think about it? Hmm.

I think most people are pissed off by Ellen Tigh. Ugh.

I thought the date was cute, but GAH why did he report back on what she said! Grrrr.

Gaius is annoying me with his "everybody passes" Cylon test, dammit - what is he going to do now he knows who is and who isn't a Cylon?

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

That's a good point! The Cylon could well have been Lee.

I think poor Billy is a bit overwhelmed by his job - I mean, he didn't expect to be secretary to the President! - so he's always on the job, so to speak. Poor boy. *pets him*

I would suggest that Gaius is absolutely fucking terrified. If it gets out that he really does know who the Cylons are, not only is Boomer likely to kill him but so is Six (and getting killed by something in your head must be interesting!), and there might be other sleeper agents in the fleet, too. Which isn't to say he's doing the right thing, but, yeah.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

I am steadfastly refusing to read your episode reactions, in the hopes that someday I will actually have reliable TV access and will be able to get caught up on my own. But I must say, I definitely have a thing for Starbuck, too. And I was skeptical when the gender change was announced initially, because I was a diehard fan of the original series.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hang on - hasn't the show finished over there, too? I thought the episodes were airing concurrently in the US and in Britain. I've half a mind to copy Em's discs and stick them in the post for you.

I never saw much of the original series, but from what I hear, Starbuck/Apollo was the pairing of choice in it, too. Which only serves to reinforce my theory that Gender Matters Not.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I thought it was still going on, but then I haven't had TV access, so I wouldn't know.

And, squee. That would be amazing if you could.

It was, which amuses me to no end. Clearly they were in love; it's just that The Viewing Public apparently can't deal with their love being made explicit unless one's got female bits. Bleh.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Other people have complained about spoilers, so I'm not sure.

I'll happily copy the discs if you don't mind it taking a while - I thought I could do it tomorrow, but I can't get any blank discs because of its being Good Friday. I'll do my level best to get them in the post this weekend, but failing that, in a week when I get back.

Bleh, indeed. I have trouble seeing Starbuck as straight, to be honest.

[Are you on AIM?]

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

That would be great. Let me know if there's anything I can send you in return. I don't have DVD-burning equipment, though, so I can't offer anything in that vein.

I have trouble seeing Starbuck as straight, to be honest.

Hee. I was just thinking about this today, too. I seem to be leaning the same way. Of course, this might just be because I don't particularly want Starbuck/Apollo now. It seems like a cop-out.

[I am now, but you're not! Wah.]