A day of sloth...

[fajrdrako]

There were countless things I intended to do today... now mostly postponed till tomorrow. Oh dear. I should write a list.

The morning: I went to the Parkdale Market with Lynne and Lisa, then we had brunch at "The Table", a vegetarian restaurant in the west end. Lynne and I discussed my weight-training, among other things.

I went to for a walk to the Sunnyside library with maaboroshi, bought vanilla and Windex (how exciting!).

I read a pile of Torchwood fanfic, how wonderful that there are piles already! And some Doctor Who stories.

Watched the week's Veronica Mars, 3x05, "President Evil". Enjoyed it. Watched this week's episode of Heroes, "Better Halves", enjoyed it, too. Then maaboroshi and I watched Battlestar Galactica and it absolutely blue me away - one of the best episodes yet, in my opinion, in a series which has been showing consistent excellence since it began. "Torn (1)". There's a scene between Admiral Adama, Starbuck and Saul Tigh that - well, I just loved it. But I've always been an Adama fan. So much about this episode was amazing, made me gasp - and amazing visuals on the Cylon ship and from Baltar's point of view. And as a bonus - as if the episode wasn't brilliant already - we get a shirtless Lee Adama, back in shape, and I must say, I'm impressed at how he lost weight and buffed up so much quicker and better than I have been able to.

Comments

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I can't speak to the other series you refer to, but that scene between Bill Adama, Kara Thrace and Saul Tigh...you're right. That was a Defining Moment for the three of them. So much more I could say, but as flattering to the actors as it would be, it'd be an absolute profanity-fest to say it.

[msilverstar]

Please to rec good Torchwood fanfic, slash or het. I find myself intolerant of the not-good stuff.

[lmondegreen.livejournal.com]

bought vanilla and Windex (how exciting!)

Only if you use them together ;-)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Vanilla-flavoured Windex? The windows might prefer it...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Will do. I promise. As with most fanfic, you have to go through a lot of inferior stories to find the good ones - and I'm getting a little glazed-over with things that obviously aren't proofread, its and it's used randomly, dizzy oscillation of verb tense and viewpoint, and pointless plots. But. There are some good ones and I'll try to find time to do a rec post today.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

as flattering to the actors as it would be, it'd be an absolute profanity-fest to say it.

Yes! I found that scene had me spellbound. And what brilliant acting. I liked the resolutions too: that Starbuck (I hope) rose to the challenge and is going to pull herself together and maybe start recovering; Tigh doesn't have the heart and is sinking deeper into a morass of - what? I thought he might try to shoot himself, fail, and then start to recover after that. But nothing on this show is predictable. We are seeing Tigh's strengths - the strengths that made him a capable resistence leader on New Caprica, and made him able to kill Ellen - are also his weaknesses. He in inflexible and, of course, stupid and alocholic.

I could go on at length too about Baltar among the Cylons and the device he found that is destroying them. They know he is lying to him - where will that lead?

Was that a version of Three, who was babbling in the bathtub?

Did you notice the Cylon/Human symmetries in this one? There's one human (Baltar) among the Cylons, one Cylon (Boomer) among the humans, both tolerated but not fully accepted. Dissention among the Cylons, dissention among the humans. Both looking for Earth. Each with an oracle.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

No idea where the exposure of his deception will lead yet. The man is now certainly under the influence of a Third Party on the board whose interests are only occasionally in accord with either the Cylons or the Colonials.

The Hybrids? They're what runs the basestars. Consider them separate from anything else you've seen among the Cylons, as they themselves do.

The symmetry has been noticed, by myself and others. Whether it'll remain a perfect symmetry? I've no clue. I'm looking forward to finding out.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

The man is now certainly under the influence of a Third Party on the board whose interests are only occasionally in accord with either the Cylons or the Colonials.

Yes, it's like a collective of nested brains. And doesn't one of the still-living Sixes have a Baltar tucked in her brain still?

[cupati.livejournal.com]

There were countless things I intended to do today... now mostly postponed till tomorrow - And do yer know what? So have I! ;)

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

I made a list! And I've done some of the stuff on it, too!

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Thus suggesting that Dr. Baltar is not alone in being influenced by that Third Party.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

So it seems. And who else, I wonder?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Any normal human who's ever been under the influence of Kamala extract, I'd suspect...including a certain President who hasn't had the need for it to cope with her other medical issues for a while.

I think we have enough clues to make a list of medical characteristics necessary to be targeted for influencing now...

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

A list? Who besides Roslin?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

That seer who told one of the Number Threes in either "Precipice" or "Occupation" that Hera was alive, when no one should have been able to know outside of Roslin and Cottle so far as I know. She was under the influence of Kamala at the time, as I recall.

So...what do the following people/Cylons have in common?

• Gaius Baltar
• Caprica Six(and possibly all human-infiltrator Cylons as well, owing to that "projection reveal")
• Laura Roslin
• the New Caprica seer

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

That seer who told one of the Number Threes in either "Precipice" or "Occupation" that Hera was alive

Oh yes, of course - I forgot her.

Things to ponder.