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[quigonejinn]

- AIN'T NOTHING LIKE THE SMELL OF DUMB ON PUSSY MIXED WITH BETRAYAL IN THE MORNIN' :D

- Look! It's a Bamber character that I can like without feeling vaguely ill about hordes of stupid fangirls! Yes, I know that there are a lot of wanktastic jackass morons in the BSG fandom, but really, aww, lookit his emo! Lookit his daddy issues! I got all sniffly when Daddy E broke down and started yelling for his last remaining boy and <3. He is so practical in this.

Plus, I'm digging the roided out, dark-haired Bamber. Yes, I do like Archie, but after reading 29384029348 terrible fics about his flaxen-haired beauty and sapphire orbs, I'm pretty much 128% down with the fact that I can enjoy Bamber without any fandom >:|

- PS: Lee is totally banging Madam President. There's no way they're not. They totally get it on in an empty hangar bay or even that black leather chair in the lounge or whatever? COME ON. Lee sticks his head under her skirt, gives her head, and afterwards, she calls him her little baby and makes him feel less lonely. YOU KNOW IT'S HAPPENING.

- And the Secretary of Education shall inheirit the universe.

- PS: LEE IS SO TOTALLY BANGING MADAM PRESIDENT.

- The burial scene made goosebumps prickle on my arms.

- Leaving the dude on the planet = cool, badass, and totally fucking awesome. Madame President = REALLY FUCKING AWESOME. The badass evil toughmindedness of the writers? TRULY. MOTHERFUCKING. AWESOME. When they leave the ships that can't make the FTL jump? OMG. OMG. OMG. The flashes of light through the aboretum view, that slow gong music, even that cliche'd bit with the little girl. This show cranks up the pain and pressure and OMG.

- I love the speech between Crazypants Cylon and Olmos in the pipes room. Man. The idea of God giving souls to machines because he realized he didn't get it right with humanity? The idea of machines have a real, honest-to-God theology GOOD SHIT.

- I approve of the sassy, tempermental little AZN chick getting her engineer. :>

- PSS: LEE IS SO TOTALLY BANGING MADAM PRESIDENT.

In short, I love the miniseries for Battlestar Galactica. It is tough-minded and crazy and horrifyingly practical. It takes paranoia to an art form, and man, I love Jamie Bamber's character because he is tough-minded and crazy and has daddy issues like you would not believe.

Comments

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

The miniseries is solid, man. Solid, solid, solid. There are some obvious nods to fanboyism, but man.

And ahahha. :| I am all flattered and big-headed now, and yes. Fandom. It really kind of ruins things. It's relaly hard for me to enjoy some of the early HH episodes now because I'm either being irritated at myself for being like :D NO LIFE SAVING SPANISH :D or feeling guilty for, uh. Yeah. Enjoying the fact that there is no life-saving Spanish.

*hopes the exam-grading is going well, is quietly working her way around to Supernatural*

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

The Duchess and Devil ep is pretty much a curse, however much I love it like the plebetastic fangirl I am. Movie that launched a thousand bad fics or something. I pulled back from searching out HH fic because of the fact either people wrote Archiekins-fic or hated him, and I couldn't find anything that had the actual character that I thought was on-screen. *eats some cheese with her whine* You are a joy to have on my flist, because you write tough, complex men that I recognise.

I'm not sure you will like Supernatural. :> The episode-level writing is not solid. Although it is a very masculine show. It's pretty much a western with a muscle car instead of horses, including the fact that whatever town they're riding into and out of each week just about don't matter, you know? Whatever keeps me glued to the screen is in, and with, the two central characters instead. *rambles at you*

I read an interview with Bamber a while ago where he said he doesn't like prosthetic aliens, etc, but he chose to do BSG because it was actually about humanity.

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

My current feeling about D&D is pretty much entirely built out of fandom-induced revulsion -- I think I told you that, like, the first HH fic that ever popped into my head was one about post-Ferrol? It was Archie trying to piece together in his head why he follows Hornblower back to the prison where so many terrible things happened to him. And yeah. It's just hard writing Archie. I've been trying again to write that fic about D&D never happening, where Archie just stays in the prison until Amiens, but it's not working.

And I'm not too worried about the individual quality of SPN XD I used to be an X-Files fan back in the day, and yeah. I caught a little of the show the other day, and it was a little hard to watch because the actors look so American?

But I'll be fine. And I need something to watch that doesn't poke holes in my heart.

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, he is hard to write. I find Bush easier to access somehow, maybe because the things he wants and likes are more simple. Not simplistic, though. So I need to try and simplify Kennedy a bit in my head, and I think that might help. I'm pretty much pretending that most of the fandom doesn't exist, too. XD

*wanks ALL OVER YOUR CHARACTER AND WRITING*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure Kennedy -- your Kennedy and the Kennedy in the books, the only Kennedy worth writing about -- is all that simplifiable. He's pretty much all about conflicts and contradictions and so forth. Man who loves theater and art and books, man who loves the Navy in all of her fearsome, bloody glory, and so on. Whenever I read your fic about him, I always get this sense of the back-and-forth pull.

Like in the first one, the one about him and the lake in Scotland. On the one hand, it's about him asserting control and taking himself away to a safe place, and on the other and at the very same time, it's about him losing control in the deepest way possible -- losing control over his memories.

That sort of contradiction is what I love the most about him, really.

Re: *wanks ALL OVER YOUR CHARACTER AND WRITING*

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

See, you're so incsive with characters. It's wonderful. I think the contradictions thing is a really great point. People see all the ways he can be refined and think that he can't also be ruthless and stupid and tough. As if he didn't get covered in blood and crow about killing men in the very first episode.

If I set out to focus on the contradictions and try to write it, however, I think I would tie myself up in knots and miss the mark. *muses*

[quigonejinn.livejournal.com]

Would it help to figure out just the way that you'd instinctively respond in that scene? And then check it for being properly contradictory, etc? Because you've got such a grasp of Kennedy. I know that writing is a very involved, thinking process for you, but you write him so richly and believably, and you've done so much thinking about him.

And you've mentioned that you identify a bit with Kennedy, and that general method is the way that I handle both Hornblower and Qui-Gon, who I, er. Yes. Captain Crazypants Longhair Jedi here.

[randomalia.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, you need a metre-long nametag for that one. XD And yeah, that's a really good suggestion. I hadn't thought of that before. I do try to write behaviour/responses that just seem right for the character, but yours seems like a more direct approach.