Yep!

Yay W&P!

I'm a Cylon.

You misspelled bitch.

I mostly disagree with him (for once), but for those who disliked the Galactica finale, and for those who'll get the joke, I must share:

I can only assume we're meant to believe that the Cylons are actually super-evolved forms of iPods. And that next season, they'll discover the Ship of Lights, which, in retrospect, always did look a lot like Apple Stores do now. And they'll meet with Steve Jobs there, who'll talk for 20 minutes about a bunch of shit nobody cares about, and then do his "Oh, and one more thing..." bit and make the surprise announcement of his newest product, the iBlis.

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I didn't watch the original BSG, so I didn't get the joke until I read his links, but I read the entry and laughed at much of it, even though I really liked the finale.

I liked this bit:

No word yet on how their devious scheme to refuel a Raptor with booze while taking a memo about having sex with Starbuck will actually play out long-term, but I'm sure it's very sneaky. They're Cylons, after all.

In LiveJournal, fabu discusses an interesting (meta) topic in Squees, rants and everything in between. A sample:

jlh points out that a common cultural assumption is that those who like something have a less examined, less thought-through reaction than those who don't like it. As someone who tends to focus my analysis and thought on things I *like* (if I don't like something, I mostly just lose interest, so I don't spend a lot of time analyzing why it didn't work for me), this assumption really gets my goat.

This is something I've been thinking about a lot, lately. I've yet to read any of the posts she's linked to. Has anyone else read them, or fabu's post? Thoughts?

Ha! Adama Trauma. Love it. Shorter than "Lee's emo manpain," and it rhymes!

I may stay up for the WnP. Undecided.

Haven't read fabu or links, but

a common cultural assumption is that those who like something have a less examined, less thought-through reaction than those who don't like it.

This is something I tend to think about myself when people seem to have good reasons for disparaging something I like - that I haven't examined that closely. It isn't anything I ever think about someone else.

"Adama and the Angst" is another thing that made me slap myself and say "How did I MISS that one, damn it?"

I hate him. In a loving way.

jlh points out that a common cultural assumption is that those who like something have a less examined, less thought-through reaction than those who don't like it

I think it's equal on both sides, honestly. The flip side is, "Oh, you don't get it because you're shallow and it's SO DEEP if you really think about it." Both are kind of grating. I won't claim I've totally avoided doing that, because I'm sure that's asking for trouble, but I do made an effort to avoid saying "you're (overthinking it/not thinking about it enough) if you disagree with my take."

I mean, unless it was, like, "The exploding spaceships here are AWESOME and if you don't agree, go away" where I'm clearly reveling in the shallowness.

Er. Anyway. LJ conversation is kind of a different thing, since there I expect to see more personal "How can you NOT love the spaceships?!" stuff in a personal journal/blog than I would in a general forum where you have to be more diffident. Even if the line between the two is getting increasingly hazy.

"Adama and the Angst"

...and I just now got that. Wow.