Sunny Sunday

[lls_mutant]

So, I posted Chapter 6 of A Lot to Live Up To yesterday. You know, I kind of wish I could get this finished before Remix assignments went out. I don't know that my remixer would choose it, especially because it's so long, but I would LOVE to see Hoshi's side of this story.

Working on Chapter 7. First of all, I do NOT want to play "No Exit" here and do a backstory info dump. But also, Cottle of all people is driving me nuts. I think after I'm done with this, I'm going to go through and eliminate half the medical talk in it. The entire chapter takes place in sickbay, and Cottle's more a role than a character (which makes sense), but he's driving me bonkers. People don't want to read all the medical technobabble, dude. Go smoke a cigarette instead.

Ran four miles this morning, and am now sunburned and still guzzling water like it's going out of style. But it's been a good weekend- picnic and carnival yesterday, beautiful weather, nice night last night, and chocolate covered strawberries :)

We also watched Caprica on Friday. Okay, if this gets picked up, I'll watch it. But the minute we see a young ANYONE ELSE or any other family name we know- with the exception of Lampkin, because it's canon that Romo knew Joseph Adama- I'm going to freak. Young William Adama is fine, especially because Joseph was a bit of a character in the actual series. We'd better not see a young Laura Roslin or a young Saul Tigh (that one I doubt, although I hear the Final Five comic book is something else again, and I DON'T mean that in a good way) or a young Sherman Cottle or whatever. There'd better not be a Gaeta family or a Baltar family or a Cain family represented.

But I liked the grays, and I liked Daniel Graystone as a character- I think he's got a lot of potential to be interesting. But man, where is the Graystone/Adama slashfic after the field of wildflowers scene? I was laughing my ass off.

That said, can I just say I actually found one aspect about the V-club very annoying? There have been comments from the writers that we'll see more in the way of homosexual characters. But anyone else notice every time we saw the V-club, it was all girl on girl? (I can totally see Lacy being a lesbian, and as long as they kept her an interesting character, I'm fine with that. And Lacy/Zoe makes total sense to me, if they went that way.) But I didn't even see much guy-on-girl (although damn, Ron, can you use another sexual position besides woman on top?) in the V-club.)

But yeah, I'm interested enough to keep watching.

I'll have to write up a real review for MRFH.

Back to trying to get Cottle to stop jargoning. Yay :)

Comments

[rayruz.livejournal.com]

I ship Joseph/Daniel more than I probably should. ALOT. My friend pointed out that the Caprica Buccaneers logo, if you look at it the right way, more or less says "Bi" and so there's that fantastic shot of Joseph and Daniel walking down the hallway and you see the Buc's logo between them... lawl.

I also ship Lacy/Zoe, I mean did you see the jealous look on her face when Zoe kissed whats-his-face-her-boyfriend. I wish there had been less "omgslesbians" in the V club too... that was rather irksome. I have a feeling a LOT of that is going to get cut when the actual show airs.

[kappamaki33.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen Caprica yet, but your observation about the V-Club reminds me of something I found funny in RDM's commentary on "Daybreak." He said he'd written the strip club that Adama, Tigh, and Ellen are in in the flashbacks as having both male and female strippers as well as male and female patrons. Anyway, he somewhat awkwardly said he was a bit flummoxed when he got the film back from the strip club scenes and there were no half-naked men.

Other than it making me chuckle a little, it also made me think about how those sort of non-dialogued background elements would be as much directorial choices as authorial ones. And I may complain sometimes about the lack of female TV and movie writers, but that's *nothing* compared to the gender imbalance in directors. I think there were something like 16 or 17 episodes of BSG written by women, but only two directed by women. Not that either of those episodes struck me as having some super-feminist take on BSG or totally breaking with the traditional "male gaze" of the camera (I think the eps were "Water" and "No Exit"), but I'd be curious to see what a female director might do differently with what I'm assuming are background elements in a script like that.

[aome.livejournal.com]

Whoo hoo! Congrats on running 4 miles. I managed that twice last summer, but it's been my absolute limit.

[frolicndetour.livejournal.com]

I've heard from People Who Claim To Know that woman on top is a preferred position in tv/movies because if you're filming multiple takes, it's easier on the actress's back. Take that bit of internet expertise for what it's worth, though.

Still need to watch Caprica...