There are times in the podcast where RDM talks about how letting the viewer decide what actually happened was the wise decision and I'm all "No, no it wasn't, you just wrote yourself into a corner."

Damn. I was so hoping to make it through a whole day without falling asleep, and also to get some work done. I am a bit rubbish.

Shir, I'm glad to hear your living situation is likely to be less complicated than you thought.

I thought BSG was great, but yeah things make less sense as the series went on.

Yep. Constant battle between 'dude, this is awesome' and 'WTF, please?', with the former generally winning, after I had words with the part of my brain that was determined to argue rather than quietly sit back and love every minute.

Oh, a clarification about my new year's decision:

The stuff-that-I-won't-do-despite-myself? It's stuff that I want to and love to do and feeling somewhat obligated doing in a imaginary perfect world. But since I'm idealist, and striving towards said perfect reality for me and mine, I'm trying to do all those things.

And yes, in the long term, it's exhausting me. You'd think almost-falling-apart 3 years ago would have taught me better. Only idealism (or I don't know what it is or how to call it, really. Perhaps the "I'm SuperWoman who can do all and still bake cookies" complex?) is an itch I cannot keep calm for long.

I know it's immature. I know I'm immature about a lot of things, and don't know what to do so I won't feel like it. And trust me, the part of me who wants to scream "yes I can! I can to all of it!" like a 3 year old is also quite ashamed of itself. And even when I can make everything work, I still want more. I'm an addict to being in control of everything and "getting away with it" (and "it", I guess, is my humanity). And yes, I know I'm not realistic. But the 3 year old in my screams real hard, and I'm tempted to try, everytime.

But hey, realizing your problem is 1/2 way through solving it, right?

Edit: my grammar can be also a bitch, sometimes.

I'm glad Rigatoni's doing slightly better. Continued kitty~ma.

There are times in the podcast where RDM talks about how letting the viewer decide what actually happened was the wise decision and I'm all "No, no it wasn't, you just wrote yourself into a corner."

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Deliberately ambiguous MY ANGELIC CYLON ASS.

I thought BSG was great, but yeah things make less sense as the series went on.

Well, omnis and I were talking about the original series from the 70s, but yeah - for all that every episode in the first season ended with "And They Have a Plan", it's obvious by the 4th that RDM didn't.

He should have known better; the arc of development he chose for ST:DS9 was not half-bad.

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That being the biggest example.

episode in the first season ended with "And They Have a Plan"

Yeah, it turns out NSM.

the ships in his Culture universe are sentient and give themselves what they think are hilarious nicknames, but, being spaceships, their idea of humor differs somewhat from that of their human occupants.

What does it say about me that I find most of them hilarious, and now want to read the books so I can get to know those wacky, wacky ships?

Late for suggestions NoiseDesign but I could suggest Starbird, Blue Tick and Threshold (although that is a space station) from the book Threshold. Or Araminta Station from the book of the same name.

Or how about Straylight from Count Zero?