Of Books, Battlestar and Broody Bloodsuckers
I’ve been rereading The Oasis by Pauline Gedge, a novel about Kamose (I mentioned it earlier this weekend), and yeah, it’s just as good as I remembered. PG is someone who is hit or miss with me (I love TO and her Child of the Morning about Hatshepsut is also wonderful, but her Akhenaton novels, while well written, don’t really grab me), but this is my favorite novel of hers. I’ve forgotten a lot of it, since it was such a long time ago I first read it, but yeah. Love it. Kamose is my fiction bf for the week, as I like my fiction with a tinge of insanity. Angsty guilty determination (starting a civil war and offing men of towns isn’t so fun, even for a Egyptian battle commander apparently) is always fictionally hot.
I have also been clearly corrupted by being in fandom because one of my earliest thoughts was that if his book had a fandom, there would be a LOT of Kamose/Ahmose brother-slash, as Ahmose is the one person Kamose seems to be able to open up to and who helps him with the burden of fearing to lose your soul. I actually wouldn’t even object to it since Egyptian views on incest clearly didn’t comport with our own.
So yeah. Kamose. Rock on with your fictionally awesome self.
And speaking of characters on the thin edge of insanity…Baltar. As in ‘Trial Of.’ Which brings me to last night’s Battlestar Galactica.
I liked it. Didn’t love it, but liked it pretty well. Mainly because the legal stuff didn’t make me want to climb the walls for once.
First off, Romo Lamkin! Love him. LOVE HIM. I wish they’d keep him. I love the ambiguous charismatic ruthless pragmatists, and since Tom Zarek seems to have melted into the walls, I am all for Romo.
I loved the scene with Adama and Lee. They are so good at connecting-not-connecting, hurt and love and pride on both sides. Ultimately, I think they are too different and too strong willed to really meld well. Might be different if they saw each other regularly but not all the time the way normal families do, but they don’t have the luxury.
Lee looked good in his pinstripes but I wonder where he got the suit ;)
For the record, I have no problem whatsoever with his conduct at trial. That is what you do. In a way, his actions and views are identical to a Public Defender. PDs take on all criminal cases that come to them (aka for people below a certain income threshold), and they do the best they can with the defense, even though most of those people are unquestionably guilty of whatever crime, the question is only the degree of crime or if there is enough evidence or if the cops behaved themselves. And some of those crimes are pretty nasty. But they do it not because they think the defendants are all little lambs or because they are perverse, but because there is a belief in the integrity of the system and everyone being entitled to a fair trial regardless of personal views on the worthiness of the individual defendant.
So, go Lee! And asking Roslin about chamalla on the stand? Once again, credibility of the witness and Lee has proven that he largely functions by ‘personal is not the same as important’ motto (tm Carrot from Terry Pratchett books). Roslin was totally trying to sway him in the witness stand, but also I think there was genuine regret over how much they’ve drifted apart. Of course, Lee, hint. You NEVER let a hostile witness explain her answer, if you got the answer you wanted. K?
So, Dee and Lee are over. Not with a bang but with a whimper. Like the whole lame relationship. I never disliked D/L but I never saw anything interesting or catching in it either. So good riddance to the relationship. I really like that it fell apart not because of Starbuck, but post-Starbuck. Ironically, if Kara was still alive, they might have worked harder on their marriage because there was a concrete obstacle/issue/something to face/pressure to work it out. But she is not there, and the marriage finally falls apart because they are ultimately too different as people and don’t ‘get’ each other and there is no burning love to overcome, and yes, seeing your husband a zombie for two weeks for another woman’s death probably didn’t help either. They just are not close.
I loved seeing Anders training as a pilot. It’s as if he must keep alive the Starbuck within him. Loved Tigh on the stand and Adama-Tigh friendship so strong.
Last comment. Baltar? Drown. Please. Your scenes annoy the heck out of me.
I was having Damo withdrawal and was wondering what else the very awesome Lee Seo Jin (Hwangbo Yoon) has been in, preferably sans beard. But never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to run across Freeze.
Why? IT’S A VAMPIRE STORY.
A kdrama vampire story. If there is any medium suited, it would be kdramas, as fiction!vampires like to dress stylishly and wallow in endless angst, which basically sums up kdramas.
And it is short! (Only five eps). And you know the best part? LSJ plays a VAMPIRE.
Oh man.
OH MAN.
This is the synopsis:
Lee Seo Jin (Damo, Phoenix) is Jung Won, a vampire who has lived for most of his 350 years of age trying to forget the love he lost. He runs a luxurious bar with his friend and fellow vampire Ihwa (Son Tae Young of Ode To The Han River and Wishing Stairs). All she could do was observe and protect her friend from afar, as he closed himself to any new emotion, afraid of suffering the same tragedy. But once he meets human Ji Woo (Park Han Byul of Yeon Gaesomun and To Marry a Millionaire), all those emotions frozen by time start to melt away for Jung Won. And of course Ihwa is not too happy about that...
And you know what the poster looks like?
Like this:
I think it’s my birthday.
I have also been clearly corrupted by being in fandom because one of my earliest thoughts was that if his book had a fandom, there would be a LOT of Kamose/Ahmose brother-slash, as Ahmose is the one person Kamose seems to be able to open up to and who helps him with the burden of fearing to lose your soul. I actually wouldn’t even object to it since Egyptian views on incest clearly didn’t comport with our own.
So yeah. Kamose. Rock on with your fictionally awesome self.
And speaking of characters on the thin edge of insanity…Baltar. As in ‘Trial Of.’ Which brings me to last night’s Battlestar Galactica.
I liked it. Didn’t love it, but liked it pretty well. Mainly because the legal stuff didn’t make me want to climb the walls for once.
First off, Romo Lamkin! Love him. LOVE HIM. I wish they’d keep him. I love the ambiguous charismatic ruthless pragmatists, and since Tom Zarek seems to have melted into the walls, I am all for Romo.
I loved the scene with Adama and Lee. They are so good at connecting-not-connecting, hurt and love and pride on both sides. Ultimately, I think they are too different and too strong willed to really meld well. Might be different if they saw each other regularly but not all the time the way normal families do, but they don’t have the luxury.
Lee looked good in his pinstripes but I wonder where he got the suit ;)
For the record, I have no problem whatsoever with his conduct at trial. That is what you do. In a way, his actions and views are identical to a Public Defender. PDs take on all criminal cases that come to them (aka for people below a certain income threshold), and they do the best they can with the defense, even though most of those people are unquestionably guilty of whatever crime, the question is only the degree of crime or if there is enough evidence or if the cops behaved themselves. And some of those crimes are pretty nasty. But they do it not because they think the defendants are all little lambs or because they are perverse, but because there is a belief in the integrity of the system and everyone being entitled to a fair trial regardless of personal views on the worthiness of the individual defendant.
So, go Lee! And asking Roslin about chamalla on the stand? Once again, credibility of the witness and Lee has proven that he largely functions by ‘personal is not the same as important’ motto (tm Carrot from Terry Pratchett books). Roslin was totally trying to sway him in the witness stand, but also I think there was genuine regret over how much they’ve drifted apart. Of course, Lee, hint. You NEVER let a hostile witness explain her answer, if you got the answer you wanted. K?
So, Dee and Lee are over. Not with a bang but with a whimper. Like the whole lame relationship. I never disliked D/L but I never saw anything interesting or catching in it either. So good riddance to the relationship. I really like that it fell apart not because of Starbuck, but post-Starbuck. Ironically, if Kara was still alive, they might have worked harder on their marriage because there was a concrete obstacle/issue/something to face/pressure to work it out. But she is not there, and the marriage finally falls apart because they are ultimately too different as people and don’t ‘get’ each other and there is no burning love to overcome, and yes, seeing your husband a zombie for two weeks for another woman’s death probably didn’t help either. They just are not close.
I loved seeing Anders training as a pilot. It’s as if he must keep alive the Starbuck within him. Loved Tigh on the stand and Adama-Tigh friendship so strong.
Last comment. Baltar? Drown. Please. Your scenes annoy the heck out of me.
I was having Damo withdrawal and was wondering what else the very awesome Lee Seo Jin (Hwangbo Yoon) has been in, preferably sans beard. But never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going to run across Freeze.
Why? IT’S A VAMPIRE STORY.
A kdrama vampire story. If there is any medium suited, it would be kdramas, as fiction!vampires like to dress stylishly and wallow in endless angst, which basically sums up kdramas.
And it is short! (Only five eps). And you know the best part? LSJ plays a VAMPIRE.
Oh man.
OH MAN.
This is the synopsis:
Lee Seo Jin (Damo, Phoenix) is Jung Won, a vampire who has lived for most of his 350 years of age trying to forget the love he lost. He runs a luxurious bar with his friend and fellow vampire Ihwa (Son Tae Young of Ode To The Han River and Wishing Stairs). All she could do was observe and protect her friend from afar, as he closed himself to any new emotion, afraid of suffering the same tragedy. But once he meets human Ji Woo (Park Han Byul of Yeon Gaesomun and To Marry a Millionaire), all those emotions frozen by time start to melt away for Jung Won. And of course Ihwa is not too happy about that...
And you know what the poster looks like?
Like this:
I think it’s my birthday.