I found the Socrata (sp?) Thrace actress by going to epguides and the actress is Dorothy Lyman which name made me go - huh? when I read it, for reasons that have NOTHING to do with acting or tv or Battlestar Galactica.
Spike: Ladies. Come on in. Plenty of blood in the fridge, don't be shy. Dawn: You mean like, real blood? Spike: What do you think? Dawn: Mostly I think, 'Eew!'
'Potential'
Boxed Set, Vol. III: "That Can't Be Good..."
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
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sumi - Mar 05, 2007 2:41:08 pm PST #7725 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
Theodosia - Mar 05, 2007 3:05:16 pm PST #7726 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
It strikes me that it would be violating a basic tenet of the creator-viewer relationship to build up a character like that with a capital-D Destiny -- it's like putting a loaded gun on the mantlepiece in the first season and then destroying the house in the third without the gun paying off in the plot. It makes the whole Destiny thing into a McGuffin which is just wrong.
Me, I'm going with the thought of Cylons standing with a big net on the planet's surface right where Kara is fated to land.
smonster - Mar 05, 2007 3:16:29 pm PST #7727 of 10001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Not purely for shock value! To bring smonster back to the b.org!
Awww. I get traumatized and I need my people around me!
Sometimes LJ just ain't enough. Hold me?
amych - Mar 05, 2007 3:19:11 pm PST #7728 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Hold me?
tackles smonster
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wait, was there supposed to be fandom this somewhere?
Kate P. - Mar 05, 2007 3:57:09 pm PST #7729 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So in a way, I think it would be pretty cool for Starbuck, with all her painfully human characteristics and contradictions, to be a Cylon as well; it would prove that there really is no difference between the two.
In another sense, I kind of feel like we've already gotten this story with Sharon/Boomer/Athena -- and how love made her an actual velveteen rabbit, or at least indistinguishable from them.
Well, but Athena is a very different character from Starbuck. Love is what gave Athena her humanity -- a simple, "noble" emotion. It was easy to sympathize with her. I'd be down with seeing a Cylon (or hybrid) embody a very different kind of humanity, one full of pain and anger.
They knew! They knew that they would crush the fan base. They fed on the audacity of killing Starbuck like sharks in a feeding frenzy.... Ron admits that it was purely for shock value.
Ugh. That's just... ugh. Kill a loved (and despised) character to serve the plot, sure. But purely for shock value? It seems like a waste of a destiny.
I totally agree. That left such a bad taste in my mouth. I think it's total bullshit, but still, that just made me mad to read it. To treat the character (and the fans) so callously just never seems like a good idea to me, first off. But -- yeah, it's a total waste of all that buildup about her destiny and her whole relationship with Leoben and the Eye of Jupiter and all -- is that seriously all going to be for nothing? NOT ON.
Ooh, Heroes time!
Laura - Mar 05, 2007 4:00:49 pm PST #7730 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Whee! Heroes!
Laura - Mar 05, 2007 4:05:01 pm PST #7731 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
He remembers the love. Awww.
Topic!Cindy - Mar 05, 2007 4:06:23 pm PST #7732 of 10001
What is even happening?
I'd rather see Roslin a Cylon, than Starbuck. I could see Starbuck as a hybrid, though.
Laura - Mar 05, 2007 4:07:19 pm PST #7733 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
OK. French speaking people, what did Haitian dude say?
Kate P. - Mar 05, 2007 4:08:22 pm PST #7734 of 10001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
So he actually remembers almost everything about Claire? Just not her escape? Huh. I mean, I like it, because the other option made me REALLY sad, but on the other hand, that scene at the end of last week's episode doesn't really carry the same weight now.
I'm not really complaining, though, because it just makes me happy that he still remembers & loves her!