Yay! It's Superplin day!

[gwyn]

Happy, happy birthday to superplin -- one of the first people I met here on LJ, and still one of my favorites. She has a big, wonderful brain and I never get tired of reading the thoughts that come out of it -- whether it's the Buffyverse or just school stuff, it's all good. I hope you have a fantastic day, darlin'!


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In other news, I hate Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica with the white-hot fury of a thousand burning suns. I have long since grown tired of him and Six, with her breathy, nasal seductress shtick and the whole baby thing and just... it's my least favorite part of the series, and what he did at the end of last season was so inexcusably horrible to me, so unforgivably criminal in the most epic sense, that I'm not even looking forward to Friday night's season premiere, because I can't get the taste out of my mouth.

And yet, what do I have? A really great vid idea. And I have to admit, he's a great vid subject because he's so facially expressive (don't get me wrong, I love James Callis, but I'd prefer to watch him in Bridget Jones's Diary, thankyouverymuch), and the blocking with Six is always fantastic visually.

Curse this stupid vidding gene! Why can't I write in a fandom I love instead?

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[monanotlisa.livejournal.com]

In other news, I hate Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica with the white-hot fury of a thousand burning suns. I have long since grown tired of him and Six, with her breathy, nasal seductress shtick and the whole baby thing and just...

YESYESYESABSOLUTELYOMG -- I adore them all, the Battlestar folks, evil and good alike, but those two I just wanna throw in the brink and never let out again. Well, Hero!Six seems a little different, and Not!Sharon, but the whole Gaius/Six thing made me grind my teeth.

[namastenancy.livejournal.com]

Embrace the dark side! You know you want to - and what a good way to work hate out of your system. Who better to punish than Gaius? Who loves ya baby? It sounds like your healing process is moving along as it should and I await the masterpiece (for it will be a masterpiece like all your others) with great anticipation.

[tavella.livejournal.com]

In other news, I hate Gaius Baltar from Battlestar Galactica with the white-hot fury of a thousand burning suns. I have long since grown tired of him and Six, with her breathy, nasal seductress shtick and the whole baby thing and just... it's my least favorite part of the series, and what he did at the end of last season was so inexcusably horrible to me, so unforgivably criminal in the most epic sense, that I'm not even looking forward to Friday night's season premiere, because I can't get the taste out of my mouth.

Werd, and all that.

While I think what drove me away from BSG was the everpresent blue gloom (both visually and spiritually), even when I was watching and mostly enjoying in first season, Gaius, Six, and the stupidity around them always had my teeth gritting. They are all supposedly terrified and paranoid and no one gets alarmed about his freaky behavior? They let him be the single gatekeeper of who is a Cylon and who is not? What the fuck?

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

YOu know, it's interesting, but when that episode where Six and Sharon decided to change things, I had been about to give up on the series, because the relentless and unchanging actions of the cylons especially angered me with its illogicalness. I was just tired of it, and tired of it being unexplained -- if they were simply out for revenge, they could easily have left it at that. If there's some greater purpose (the baby, I suppose), then for frak's sake, get on with it and don't keep dragging it out. But that episode really gave me what I wanted and showed that they could learn from their mistakes, that they could change, and then the showrunners just took it all away and wiped it out in one fell swoop with the last ep. I'm going into this season very dubious. If this situation with Hero!Six and Sharon doesn't change, I'm going to have to give it up. It makes no sense to me that the rest of the people in the fleet could not have stood up to Baltar anywhere along the line, and I'm not sure how patient I can be...

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

LOL -- well, I've always strongly believed that to tell a character's story, you have to love them, so this will definitely be a challenge...

[gwyn-r.livejournal.com]

I know!! I just... the thing that has made me lose patience with the series isn't the gloom nearly so much as the stupidity centered around Baltar. I know they need a villain on the ship, one who's human and therefor more identifiable, but... no one has ever once seemed to do anything sensible about him. There's no sane reason they let him work on the cylon detection thing alone (and out of nearly 50,000 people, not one of them had a science or biology background? WTF?), and then at the end of last season, they didn't even try to act on their suspicions that he proffered the bomb that wiped out all the people on Cloud 9... no. I just don't buy it, and Adama especially is too smart to let someone so visibly insane take any kind of responsible role. It makes me grind my teeth... and making a vid would be really hard. Maybe it will be easier with the sound off when I don't have to listen to the dumbassness or the breathy pronouncements.