The Resistance Is Futile Meme
* Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."
* I shall try to resist the temptation to respond with "I am Locutus of Borg." and instead respond by asking you 5 questions.
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
The most awesome five questions ever were given to me by the super fantabulous and uber sparkly mammothluv…and so off we go:
1. Kara Thrace and Meredith Grey in a drinking contest. Who wins and who ends up passed out under the table?
2. You are going on a super secret and super dangerous mission. You may pick either Starbuck or Apollo to fly your wing. Who do you pick and why?
3. You want to repay James Duff for introducing us to the awesomeness that is BSG, what do you tell him to watch (assume he's only ever watched BSG and The Closer so anything else you'd suggest would be new to him)?
4. What is your favorite scene in The Sound of Music and why?
5. You may go on vacation anywhere you want and take any one fictional character with you. Where do you go, who do you take, what do you do?
1. Kara Thrace and Meredith Grey in a drinking contest. Who wins and who ends up passed out under the table?
Can I win simply for being a spectator of something as fantabulous as this? ;) Okay, this is a tough one. It might depend on some really important factors. I think my question needs more padding. Are they drinking tequila, ambrosia, or Tyrol's special brand of bootleg insanity in a bottle? :op
It is going to take a lot to land one of these girls under a table. They can both do some seriously hardcore 'drinking it out.' In a head to head competition that wouldn't see its end until somebody had to eventually end up kissing some alluvial deposits under the table---you'd be moving your chair to make way for Meredith. It seemed like Kara could function on benders that were days long at a time, and as awesome as Meredith can be at downing the tequila, I think she has an entire prayerbook dedicated to the Porcelain God(s). ;)
I think I'm going to need these two ultra awesome ladies to get together somewhere and put my theory to the test, though.
2. You are going on a super secret and super dangerous mission. You may pick either Starbuck or Apollo to fly your wing. Who do you pick and why?
OMG, the cruelness of this question!! I couldn't even decide who to name the computer after, and now you set me up with this dilemma of epic (and sexy) proportions? *wrings hands* *frets* *bites nails*
I think I also need more elaboration on the set-up here. When you say 'fly my wing,' do you mean in the traditional Viper sense or do you mean something dirty and all drenched in pornaliciousness?
Okay, you know what? Elaborating on that doesn't help. I'm still in a quandary. :op
You know I thought it was the bestest thing ever when Apollo offered to fly Starbuck's wing, but I have to say, it didn't turn out too well for her. In the race for the ultimate Viper pilot, I have to say---girls rule. Or this particular one does, anyway. So Starbuck to fly my wing it is.
And when I come back, I want Apollo to be waiting on the hangar deck for me where he'll greet me with something along the lines of "Deb, you Magnificent Bastard, that was one hell of a piece of flying" and then we'll retire to the Officer's rack room where....okay, yeah. Your interest in my answer is probably over now. :op
3. You want to repay James Duff for introducing us to the awesomeness that is BSG, what do you tell him to watch (assume he's only ever watched BSG and The Closer so anything else you'd suggest would be new to him)?
Something worthy of the inner fanboy in the Epic James Duff, eh? *rubs hands together* A great question! While I'm not worthy, this show is SO FRAKKIN' worthy that I'd be all about recommending---- *drumroll*
The Wire.
I sense that James likes his Sci-Fi and his escapist fandom loves, and this is neither, but I truly feel that in the history of epic world changing television, this show falls just below Battlestar Galactica in terms of quality, shades of grey storytelling, making a place into a character, exploration of humanity, and metaphor, and really---you walk away from it a changed person. It challenges the hell out of you and what you think you believe. It tells stories that will never leave you, and the stories are fictional...but not. You feel the city of Baltimore. You become present in every battle. You celebrate victories and mourn losses. It is hard to put into words, but it is just EPIC, with cap locks and exclamation points and stuff.
Basically, I think it explores a lot of the same things that James likes to explore through his own stories. In your face. Bam. Big questions. Questions that carry on long after an episode fades to black, if you are interested in looking deeper.
It lacks love relationships (in the traditional sense) for me, and that is one of the only things it might lack to keep me from fully making this show a religion as I have BsG. I'm always a little lost when I don't have a ship to flail over. But there was Deb/Inner-City Baltimore/Shades of Grey Humanity and in this show, I think that was actually more important in a way.
I'm sorry, I can't seem to talk this show without running off at the fingers once I get started. Thank you for the opportunity to get that out of my system. Apparently if I ever get through watching BsG and trying Warehouse13, I’ll have to marathon The Wire. :op
Two scenes that pulled me in early on---
This Is America Man
The King Stay The King
4. What is your favorite scene in The Sound of Music and why?
Ooooh, so hard to narrow down! Look at you with all of these mind benders! :)
Since this is such an impossibly hard question, I'm totally going to cheat, but I'll make myself stop at two.
The first, I've always lovingly referred to as "The Captain Adjusts His Gloves of Love." This would be the scene at the Captain's party, when Maria is out in the garden teaching the children how to dance, and he is watching her, and he is adorably amused at her adorkableness, and so he dons his gloves of dancing love and goes out to sweep her up into his arms and they dance to that traditional song and OMG, I WANT MY DVD BACK!! ;)
And then there is the Edelweiss duet. That one is as sentimental as anything because it made my mother cry every time, so it is kind of a favorite because when I was little, I would tease her about it because I didn't entirely get it (nor did I get the incredible "I Must Have Done Something Good" scene in those earliest years of my youth and then all of a sudden I was struck with OMG, I used to make fun of this mooshy scene and now it is the best thing ever!!)----but now I do, and it is just so darned beautiful. And one of those key moments when they were all falling in love and everyone else kind of disappeared from the room and....*love*
So yes, those two. For now. Ask me tomorrow and I might change my mind and/or add to it. ;)
5. You may go on vacation anywhere you want and take any one fictional character with you. Where do you go, who do you take, what do you do?
*gasp* You are trying to slay me with impossible situations/decisions, aren't you? Seriously, how could I ever narrow this down? I mean, have you seen Alex when he holds a baby? Or Apollo when his eyes do that flashing thing and his jaw sets and his eyes drift downward and.... *takes a minute*... Or Starbuck when she does that thing with her tongue? Or when Patrick Dempsey is all "SOOOOOOO there" in those voiceovers and even if he's not fictional so he doesn't count I still had to mention it? Or Fritz when he's all adorable and calming the hurricane that is Brenda? (Okay, I wouldn't go anywhere with Brenda because she'd find a body and an ensuing murder case, no doubt. So I can eliminate one person, yay!) Or Izzie when she's all "Yay" because seriously, that would be fun to go on vacation with. *wrings hands again* And then there's like...Colonel Tigh, who could be all, "The music is in my frakkin' coconut!!!!!!!!" and that would be amusing to sort of kick back and be entertained by. Notice that I'm not bringing up Helo in this list because I'm totally trying to forget about him and those dreams. What about Sawyer, who gets into this list simply because OMG, he is SAWYER?
Okay, I had the most intense reaction over Apollo, and because I think that this world also needs a Make Lee Happy community and maybe it will be a community consisting of two---me and him---and we'll take it to St. John's where it is very tropical and hot and wet and you really can't wear a lot of clothes or you will overheat and.... *fans self*
To summarize:
St. John's, Virgin Islands. Lee Adama. Get naked, wet, and make Lee happy.
*glomps those awesome questions and the inner fun they created for me*
Futility, anyone?
* I shall try to resist the temptation to respond with "I am Locutus of Borg." and instead respond by asking you 5 questions.
* Update your journal with the answers to the questions.
* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions.
The most awesome five questions ever were given to me by the super fantabulous and uber sparkly mammothluv…and so off we go:
1. Kara Thrace and Meredith Grey in a drinking contest. Who wins and who ends up passed out under the table?
2. You are going on a super secret and super dangerous mission. You may pick either Starbuck or Apollo to fly your wing. Who do you pick and why?
3. You want to repay James Duff for introducing us to the awesomeness that is BSG, what do you tell him to watch (assume he's only ever watched BSG and The Closer so anything else you'd suggest would be new to him)?
4. What is your favorite scene in The Sound of Music and why?
5. You may go on vacation anywhere you want and take any one fictional character with you. Where do you go, who do you take, what do you do?
1. Kara Thrace and Meredith Grey in a drinking contest. Who wins and who ends up passed out under the table?
Can I win simply for being a spectator of something as fantabulous as this? ;) Okay, this is a tough one. It might depend on some really important factors. I think my question needs more padding. Are they drinking tequila, ambrosia, or Tyrol's special brand of bootleg insanity in a bottle? :op
It is going to take a lot to land one of these girls under a table. They can both do some seriously hardcore 'drinking it out.' In a head to head competition that wouldn't see its end until somebody had to eventually end up kissing some alluvial deposits under the table---you'd be moving your chair to make way for Meredith. It seemed like Kara could function on benders that were days long at a time, and as awesome as Meredith can be at downing the tequila, I think she has an entire prayerbook dedicated to the Porcelain God(s). ;)
I think I'm going to need these two ultra awesome ladies to get together somewhere and put my theory to the test, though.
2. You are going on a super secret and super dangerous mission. You may pick either Starbuck or Apollo to fly your wing. Who do you pick and why?
OMG, the cruelness of this question!! I couldn't even decide who to name the computer after, and now you set me up with this dilemma of epic (and sexy) proportions? *wrings hands* *frets* *bites nails*
I think I also need more elaboration on the set-up here. When you say 'fly my wing,' do you mean in the traditional Viper sense or do you mean something dirty and all drenched in pornaliciousness?
Okay, you know what? Elaborating on that doesn't help. I'm still in a quandary. :op
You know I thought it was the bestest thing ever when Apollo offered to fly Starbuck's wing, but I have to say, it didn't turn out too well for her. In the race for the ultimate Viper pilot, I have to say---girls rule. Or this particular one does, anyway. So Starbuck to fly my wing it is.
And when I come back, I want Apollo to be waiting on the hangar deck for me where he'll greet me with something along the lines of "Deb, you Magnificent Bastard, that was one hell of a piece of flying" and then we'll retire to the Officer's rack room where....okay, yeah. Your interest in my answer is probably over now. :op
3. You want to repay James Duff for introducing us to the awesomeness that is BSG, what do you tell him to watch (assume he's only ever watched BSG and The Closer so anything else you'd suggest would be new to him)?
Something worthy of the inner fanboy in the Epic James Duff, eh? *rubs hands together* A great question! While I'm not worthy, this show is SO FRAKKIN' worthy that I'd be all about recommending---- *drumroll*
The Wire.
I sense that James likes his Sci-Fi and his escapist fandom loves, and this is neither, but I truly feel that in the history of epic world changing television, this show falls just below Battlestar Galactica in terms of quality, shades of grey storytelling, making a place into a character, exploration of humanity, and metaphor, and really---you walk away from it a changed person. It challenges the hell out of you and what you think you believe. It tells stories that will never leave you, and the stories are fictional...but not. You feel the city of Baltimore. You become present in every battle. You celebrate victories and mourn losses. It is hard to put into words, but it is just EPIC, with cap locks and exclamation points and stuff.
Basically, I think it explores a lot of the same things that James likes to explore through his own stories. In your face. Bam. Big questions. Questions that carry on long after an episode fades to black, if you are interested in looking deeper.
It lacks love relationships (in the traditional sense) for me, and that is one of the only things it might lack to keep me from fully making this show a religion as I have BsG. I'm always a little lost when I don't have a ship to flail over. But there was Deb/Inner-City Baltimore/Shades of Grey Humanity and in this show, I think that was actually more important in a way.
I'm sorry, I can't seem to talk this show without running off at the fingers once I get started. Thank you for the opportunity to get that out of my system. Apparently if I ever get through watching BsG and trying Warehouse13, I’ll have to marathon The Wire. :op
Two scenes that pulled me in early on---
This Is America Man
The King Stay The King
4. What is your favorite scene in The Sound of Music and why?
Ooooh, so hard to narrow down! Look at you with all of these mind benders! :)
Since this is such an impossibly hard question, I'm totally going to cheat, but I'll make myself stop at two.
The first, I've always lovingly referred to as "The Captain Adjusts His Gloves of Love." This would be the scene at the Captain's party, when Maria is out in the garden teaching the children how to dance, and he is watching her, and he is adorably amused at her adorkableness, and so he dons his gloves of dancing love and goes out to sweep her up into his arms and they dance to that traditional song and OMG, I WANT MY DVD BACK!! ;)
And then there is the Edelweiss duet. That one is as sentimental as anything because it made my mother cry every time, so it is kind of a favorite because when I was little, I would tease her about it because I didn't entirely get it (nor did I get the incredible "I Must Have Done Something Good" scene in those earliest years of my youth and then all of a sudden I was struck with OMG, I used to make fun of this mooshy scene and now it is the best thing ever!!)----but now I do, and it is just so darned beautiful. And one of those key moments when they were all falling in love and everyone else kind of disappeared from the room and....*love*
So yes, those two. For now. Ask me tomorrow and I might change my mind and/or add to it. ;)
5. You may go on vacation anywhere you want and take any one fictional character with you. Where do you go, who do you take, what do you do?
*gasp* You are trying to slay me with impossible situations/decisions, aren't you? Seriously, how could I ever narrow this down? I mean, have you seen Alex when he holds a baby? Or Apollo when his eyes do that flashing thing and his jaw sets and his eyes drift downward and.... *takes a minute*... Or Starbuck when she does that thing with her tongue? Or when Patrick Dempsey is all "SOOOOOOO there" in those voiceovers and even if he's not fictional so he doesn't count I still had to mention it? Or Fritz when he's all adorable and calming the hurricane that is Brenda? (Okay, I wouldn't go anywhere with Brenda because she'd find a body and an ensuing murder case, no doubt. So I can eliminate one person, yay!) Or Izzie when she's all "Yay" because seriously, that would be fun to go on vacation with. *wrings hands again* And then there's like...Colonel Tigh, who could be all, "The music is in my frakkin' coconut!!!!!!!!" and that would be amusing to sort of kick back and be entertained by. Notice that I'm not bringing up Helo in this list because I'm totally trying to forget about him and those dreams. What about Sawyer, who gets into this list simply because OMG, he is SAWYER?
Okay, I had the most intense reaction over Apollo, and because I think that this world also needs a Make Lee Happy community and maybe it will be a community consisting of two---me and him---and we'll take it to St. John's where it is very tropical and hot and wet and you really can't wear a lot of clothes or you will overheat and.... *fans self*
To summarize:
St. John's, Virgin Islands. Lee Adama. Get naked, wet, and make Lee happy.
*glomps those awesome questions and the inner fun they created for me*
Futility, anyone?