hackthis_archive ([personal profile] hackthis_archive) wrote2006-01-17 11:29 am

Just a little bit weird.

a) [livejournal.com profile] oxoniensis has discovered the love that is Grey's Anatomy. I know you all want to go and share the George!love with her. Read Fuck the Details, which totally wins for best title award.

b) [livejournal.com profile] prairiedawn wins The OMG!Gary<33333 Award for linking me to this Snow Patrol gig in Vancouver, and uh, Tahmoh Penikett just wins for being dead hot and making me want to do nothing but write Helo porn.

c) ISO the following songs: Bobby Brown 'Don’t Be Cruel'; Stardust 'Music Sounds Better with You', Franz Ferdinand 'Take Me Out'; Modest Mouse 'Ocean Breathes Salty Water;' Beck 'New Pollution'; Blondie 'Call Me'; ETA: The Beatles 'Get Back'

d) I'm working on discrediting myself with Battlestar Galactica and everything I said about a) not seeing slash on the show and b) not needing to write for it, because it's so complete on its own. I mean, yeah, I was all what slash, and now my brain is all, think about the Helo/Lee pretty and hello, how angsty is the Chief/Helo? Sadly, one cannot have the Chief/Helo without addressing the Sharon Factor, and I'm not a Sharon fan. And yet, I just keep thinking I could actually make the Helo/Lee work.

Imagine if you thought your boyfriend was dead, and then your dead brother's fiancée (who you'd been in love with prior to your boyfriend) showed up. And then, you lost her again, only to have her come back with your dead boyfriend, who had impregnated the person who'd tried to kill your father. You'd be a really unhappy person, wouldn't you? Yeah, Lee should get laid.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:14 am (UTC)(link)
The man in this icon is Lee. We love Lee, because you've never seen anyone try as hard to be good and just get disappointed time and again. Everything I said about Lee being in love with his dead brother's fiancee is true (see the girl, her name is Kara. I love Kara. She is the ONLY female character I have come across in the last five years that I truly admire and relate to. She's as stubborn as a mule and twice as pig-headed. The difference is that she's got the goods to go with the mouthiness). Right, back to Lee. Lee is the CAG (Commander of the AirGroup), which is like the Head Boy of all the pilots. He takes his very seriously. Sometimes a little too seriously. He needs to get laid, a lot. Except that he's in love with Kara, and she's in love with him, but the whole dead brother things makes it difficult. And he has issues with his father, who is the Commander of the Galactica. Lee could use a therapist, or six, instead he boxes with his father. Oh, Freud would plotz.

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
Now, are these the two guys in prison on that crazy woman's ship? Or is that someone else? The whole experience was very confusing. I really need to see them from the beginning but Limewire has been failing me for 2 weeks straight on this front.

I think (knowing nothing about it, of course) that Lee needs to get over Kara and drown his sorrows with Helo. Yesss, that sounds like the perfect plan. Then Kara can, um, rule the universe and be happily unattached and like, um, clone the dead brother or something.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:29 am (UTC)(link)
No, Lee isn't trapped in prison. The crazy woman just demoted him. The person that Helo is trapped with with Galen "Chief" Tyrol (see icon). Tyrol is the Cheif of Deck on the Galactica, that means he's charge of keeping all the planes in the air. Think of him as the Head Mechanic. Tyrol is loved by, well, everyone. There is not one person I know who doesn't love him, when he walks on set, everyone hollers, "Cheif!" Really. You could take a poll and people would admit to this. The reason that everyone loves the Chief is that he's just that right mix of loyalty and intelligence and manliness that every woman craves. He's got more brain than Helo and less analness than Lee. Tyrol is The Boyfriend, except that the woman that Tyrol used to be in love who (Sharon) turned out to be one of the machines (A Cylon). She shot Lee's father and was then killed by one of Tyrol's underlings out of misguided loyalty. Wait, it gets better. Cylons only have twelve models, so while Tyrol's Sharon was shooting the Commander and being killed, another model was back on their home planet with Helo, seducing him, and well, now she's pregnant. This is obvious hard for the people on Galactica to digest.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
I forgot to tell you that the reason Tyrol and Helo are in prison is because an officer on the other ship (the one run by the crazy lady) tried to rape Helo's Sharon when she was in the Galactica prison. It was seen as breaking the enemy. When Helo and Galen found out what was about to happen there was a huge fight in the jail cell and the officer hit his head on an exposed bit and died. Helo and Tyrol were then arrested for treason and murder.

Yeah, I know.

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
Wait, I thought that some guy was being raped? MAN, I am confused. My friends were convinced that a man had been like, gang raped or something. Holy crap, this is complicated.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
No, no men have been raped on the show. Yet. They did allude to the possibility last week though, which really freaked out a lot of people, including me, but I think what really had people reeling what the realization was that this was just *so* possible in RL.

What, IMO, makes BSG so amazing is the way that the storylines run parallel with modern day concerns and politics. The idea of terrorists living among us; the idea that every decision really does have raminfications; and what really tends to draw people -- the fact that there is no good and bad on this show. A lot of shows get bogged down with the whole "this is right and this is wrong, because we say so" shlock, but BSG doesn't do that. BSG knows that people are multi-layered and that no one is good all the time. What you would think of as "good" people do henious things. Stereotypically "bad" people do great things. It would be easy to write off the Cylons as heartless machines, but they have a God, they have beliefs, they fall in love and have dreams and stuff. It's all grey. It's really fucking fantastic.

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
It sounds awesome. Now if only I could find season 1 for free...
ravurian: (rodney is a squib (Not All Who Wander))

[personal profile] ravurian 2006-01-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)

Dude, the crazy lady is Ensign Ro from ST:TNG and that's a whole level of crazy all on its own. It's like, Ensign Ro and Captain Picard had a lovechild and then it got exiled to an alternate universe where its genetics made it perfect for both crazy fucked-upness and for commanding spaceships. See, the crack writes itself!

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:38 am (UTC)(link)
Okay I remember the pregnant machine bit. So. No one I watched it with could explain to me how that was even possible. Like, do the machines have ovaries? Do they produce eggs? How can the machine support life? Do they eat and all that?

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
The machines aren't machines in the sense that you are thinking of like The Terminator. They're a next generation human simulations. They were "created" by other machines, but for all intents as far as we've seen they're human enough biologically to feel emotions and have sex and laugh and cry and hurt and all the things that make us who we are. The difference, well there are a lot, but one of the big ones is that when they die, their conscious and their memories are uploaded to the next model in the line. Imagine if you could keep living over and over as you, looking exactly the same, but you could learn from all your mistakes. It improves on humanity's one shot model a lot, no?

[identity profile] phaballa.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Ah! So it's like the Sims in Hyperion, if you've read that (which if you haven't, you should, you'd love it I think). Are they connected to the machines that created them in any way, like... through their consciousness?

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Not in a remote control sort of way, if that's what you're thinking, but yes, their memories are uploaded when they die for the next iteration. The models all have assigned "tasks" shall we say, when they are sent out in the world. Their consciouses are all their own, however, and so while they may do whatever they're programmed to do, a fair amount don't know what their task is. Most don't even know they're Cylons. Sharon, for example, didn't know she was Cylon until she shot the Commander, and even afterwards, it was like she'd repressed the whole thing. She did a lot of sabotage on the ship without remembering until everything came to a head. What was even worse was that Galen had covered for her, and so it was pretty fucking tragic for both of them.

[identity profile] kismeteve.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
If I had never seen an ep of BSG, these characters recaps would be enough to make me do so.

[identity profile] hackthis.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Aw, thank you. I am very passionate about this show, can you tell? Also, your icon cracks me up.

[identity profile] kismeteve.livejournal.com 2006-01-18 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
I love Baltar. He's mentally unstable, but he means well.

*pats*