BSG and BSC
Apr. 10th, 2006 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
escritoireazulFinally broke into the last two dvds. I had planned to do it this weekend, but stayed far too busy for far too long, between meetings and getting rid of books and gaming all night Saturday night. I continue to love it.
Oh, man. There are some scenes which really hit hard in BSG. The one in the first season where Starbuck is on the leg press and Adama talks to her about whether her knee is healed enough...that's one of them. I really, really love Starbuck right about now--well, okay, all the time. She's amazing and wonderful and I am just completely in love with her. Another scene (well, scenes, really) is the exchange of the lighter between father and son. Beautiful.
Starbuck hugged the president! I love you, Starbuck. She's absolutely beautiful when she's excited and grinning--her smile is fabulous. She's also beautiful when she's sad or angry or--well, okay, all the time.
I'm a little in love with Commander Adama, too.
I can see why people like Lee/Starbuck (they do, don't they? I'm pretty much not in the fandom at all), the way they talk and how she gives him her cigar, but I'm not a fan of them as a pairing. (Plus I've been warned Lee is at his height now, and I'm not all that fond of him as it is, so I expect I'll hate him come season two.)
I do love Six, though. A lot. She's nasty and layered and controlling and manipulative and oh, lovely.
I'm interested in the religious theories about how it is treated in the show; any good essays/thoughts?
I am definitely going to have to buy this show so I can rewatch to my heart's content.
In other news, I did, finally, manage to make it to the gym this morning, and I'm ready to up my weight on a number of moves. I have this problem where I nickle and dime it to death, and I know this, I did it even back when I first started lifting in high school, and I have to stop. I can handle more weight and fewer reps, and work my way back up. It's part of being a perfectionist, I don't like to switch to the higher weight until I am absolutely sure I can do all my sets with full reps, but that's not quite how it works best for my body.
I went to buy black handwraps after work, because I had so much free time. Unfortunately, every place is still out of the black, and I refuse to buy the white, so instead I picked up new trainers, sunglasses, and workout clothes. According to the workout bottoms I just bought, I have dropped three sizes. I still don't see it, but I know I'm down over thirty pounds, so maybe it's true. I don't know. The new clothes are so comfortable, though, and just in time for kickboxing tomorrow night. Plus it was nice to wear the sunglasses out in the late afternoon sun; I really need them this morning after the gym, as I drove into the sunrise to go home to shower. Painful.
I think I need a new PS2. I've had this one (or should I say J. has had this one) since they first came out, and it's starting to mess up on tonight's BSG dvd. Of course, it could just be because it's a Netflix dvd, but it messed up on the last disc of BtVS season seven the other day, too. It's starting to get frustrating. In no small part because I'm saving money for Wiscon, the Salt Lake holiday, and the new place this summer, so I don't want to have to buy a new PS2. I just went and checked the disc, and it is pretty scratched, so maybe that's it.
It's almost bedtime anyway. I want to go back to the gym in the morning, to get lower body lifting done, because after kickboxing I'm too exhausted to do anything else. In a good way, but still. Time to up the weight on the leg work, too, and tomorrow I want to add in some deadlifts, which I've never done before. This morning the gym was just as crowded at 5:30 a.m. as it is at 5:30 p.m., except in the morning the crowds were on the cardio machines and in the afternoon there are a bunch of guys hogging the weights. (The wrestlers from the high school, mostly, I think.) It was easy to get the bench this morning, and tomorrow I shouldn't have any trouble getting the squat wrack. Good times.
I read the BSC Friends Forever Super Special today, Everything Changes or something like that, and I was hit with the need to write Kristy/Abby.
Kristy keeps talking about how wonderful Abby is and how much fun they have together and on and on and on. And then they are alone in their cabin when they make up after Abby says she wants to quit the BSC. And then! And then Abby crawls up into Kristy's bed (or vice versa, I can't remember) late at night, in the dark, when everyone else is asleep, because she is driven to make Kristy understand why she needs to quit.
They so have sex. I have a whole scene in my head during the make-up scene, anyway, when they are alone in the cabin, and so happy to be friends again, and rushed because the campers could be back any second, so it makes it frantic and hotter.
I still need a Starbuck icon. Hmmmm.
Oh, man. There are some scenes which really hit hard in BSG. The one in the first season where Starbuck is on the leg press and Adama talks to her about whether her knee is healed enough...that's one of them. I really, really love Starbuck right about now--well, okay, all the time. She's amazing and wonderful and I am just completely in love with her. Another scene (well, scenes, really) is the exchange of the lighter between father and son. Beautiful.
Starbuck hugged the president! I love you, Starbuck. She's absolutely beautiful when she's excited and grinning--her smile is fabulous. She's also beautiful when she's sad or angry or--well, okay, all the time.
I'm a little in love with Commander Adama, too.
I can see why people like Lee/Starbuck (they do, don't they? I'm pretty much not in the fandom at all), the way they talk and how she gives him her cigar, but I'm not a fan of them as a pairing. (Plus I've been warned Lee is at his height now, and I'm not all that fond of him as it is, so I expect I'll hate him come season two.)
I do love Six, though. A lot. She's nasty and layered and controlling and manipulative and oh, lovely.
I'm interested in the religious theories about how it is treated in the show; any good essays/thoughts?
I am definitely going to have to buy this show so I can rewatch to my heart's content.
In other news, I did, finally, manage to make it to the gym this morning, and I'm ready to up my weight on a number of moves. I have this problem where I nickle and dime it to death, and I know this, I did it even back when I first started lifting in high school, and I have to stop. I can handle more weight and fewer reps, and work my way back up. It's part of being a perfectionist, I don't like to switch to the higher weight until I am absolutely sure I can do all my sets with full reps, but that's not quite how it works best for my body.
I went to buy black handwraps after work, because I had so much free time. Unfortunately, every place is still out of the black, and I refuse to buy the white, so instead I picked up new trainers, sunglasses, and workout clothes. According to the workout bottoms I just bought, I have dropped three sizes. I still don't see it, but I know I'm down over thirty pounds, so maybe it's true. I don't know. The new clothes are so comfortable, though, and just in time for kickboxing tomorrow night. Plus it was nice to wear the sunglasses out in the late afternoon sun; I really need them this morning after the gym, as I drove into the sunrise to go home to shower. Painful.
I think I need a new PS2. I've had this one (or should I say J. has had this one) since they first came out, and it's starting to mess up on tonight's BSG dvd. Of course, it could just be because it's a Netflix dvd, but it messed up on the last disc of BtVS season seven the other day, too. It's starting to get frustrating. In no small part because I'm saving money for Wiscon, the Salt Lake holiday, and the new place this summer, so I don't want to have to buy a new PS2. I just went and checked the disc, and it is pretty scratched, so maybe that's it.
It's almost bedtime anyway. I want to go back to the gym in the morning, to get lower body lifting done, because after kickboxing I'm too exhausted to do anything else. In a good way, but still. Time to up the weight on the leg work, too, and tomorrow I want to add in some deadlifts, which I've never done before. This morning the gym was just as crowded at 5:30 a.m. as it is at 5:30 p.m., except in the morning the crowds were on the cardio machines and in the afternoon there are a bunch of guys hogging the weights. (The wrestlers from the high school, mostly, I think.) It was easy to get the bench this morning, and tomorrow I shouldn't have any trouble getting the squat wrack. Good times.
I read the BSC Friends Forever Super Special today, Everything Changes or something like that, and I was hit with the need to write Kristy/Abby.
Kristy keeps talking about how wonderful Abby is and how much fun they have together and on and on and on. And then they are alone in their cabin when they make up after Abby says she wants to quit the BSC. And then! And then Abby crawls up into Kristy's bed (or vice versa, I can't remember) late at night, in the dark, when everyone else is asleep, because she is driven to make Kristy understand why she needs to quit.
They so have sex. I have a whole scene in my head during the make-up scene, anyway, when they are alone in the cabin, and so happy to be friends again, and rushed because the campers could be back any second, so it makes it frantic and hotter.
I still need a Starbuck icon. Hmmmm.
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Date: 2006-04-11 02:22 am (UTC)You should totally write Kristy/Abby. It would please me.
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Date: 2006-04-11 02:32 pm (UTC)Exactly my problem. Exactly. So much of this is mental!
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Date: 2006-04-11 07:39 pm (UTC)