Oh me oh my.
So, due to a combination of fandomsecrets, The Big Bang Theory, Dwight Schrute, and dollsome, I've finally been enticed to watch Battlestar Galactica. And... well, I sort of enjoyed the miniseries. But I... oh lordy, I was mightily drawn to Starbuck/Tigh, and just... WHY? WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN TO ME? It's so dirtybadwrong and yet my ship-o-meter was dinging up a storm. And, I mean, it even squicks me to a point, BUT I CANNOT STOP SHIPPING IT, OH GOD. It doesn't help that the first time we are introduced to these two characters they are FACING OFF and having INTENSE EYE ACTION and Tigh THROWS A TABLE ON STARBUCK and Starbuck responds by PUNCHING THE OLD DRUNK DUDE IN THE FACE and it was AWESOME and Tigh sends her to the brig which is basically the spaceship equivalent of THE DUNGEON and HOW CAN I RESIST THAT? And oh god, that scene at the end where he goes to tell her that he was wrong about her and his jaw is clenching like crazy and there's all this tension and it's just so CREEPY and then Starbuck is like "WHATEVER ASSHOLE, YOU SUCK" and he's just like "ARRRRGH, I HATE YOU" and god there is so much creepy UST there, and not only that, but Starbuck made him look at himself and acknowledge that his drinking problem makes him weak and he decides to rectify this, and it's all because Starbuck got under his skin. OH, JEEZ, I DO NOT WANT TO SHIP THEM. Mostly because Colonel Tigh looks exactly like John McCain and that is just... he's really, really old, and Starbuck is probably my age.
I can already tell that I will despise Kara/Lee, OH GOD, HOW BORING THEY ARE. Gaius/Six is friggin' hot. Oh god, Gaius Baltar is one sexy beast. I am tempted to keep watching purely because of him. And all the space battles were so reminiscent of my brothers' old Atari games that I had quite a fondness for those scenes. And the plot is pretty interesting. It is basically The Terminator, only without time travel. Or the Connors. And it's in outerspace... No, but really, robots humans created wiping out the human race. Terminator! But much more bleak. Terminator always had a good dose of humor and hope, whereas this show has more irony and darkness. But anyway, I will probably watch a few more eps to see if I truly dig it. I recall mocking my oldest brother for saying I would enjoy this show not too long ago, so, if I end up liking it, I will have to retract my "Please, I'm not that kind of nerd," comment. (I basically just meant that I'm a comedy nerd and not a scifi nerd, but the longer I'm on LiveJournal, the deeper into scifi fandom I get. Oy vey).
Also, I watched NCIS tonight, and OH HOW I SHIP DINOZZO/MCGEE! I am kind of sad that Ziva's coming back because that means LESS McGee/DiNozzo banter, and that is just not cool. Those boys are just so darn delightful with their disagreement over who is actually the sidekick! And McGee acknowledges DiNozzo's good looks while their faces are within an inch from each other! Seriously, they were thisclose to making out. Mmmhmm. But anyway, tonight's episode was awesome, loved it. And oh, how the Gibbs/Ziva scene near the end got me right in the heart. Gah! So beautiful. I am sad that neither this ep nor the last one had any Abby/Gibbs to speak of though. Although in this ep he said her name softly, and I was like, "Oooooh, they are in love." Because I am insane. But it's interesting to look at Gibbs' relationship with Ziva, who outright calls him her father figure, and compare that to Abby, who people keep insisting he has a father/daughter relationship with, and yet his interactions with Abby are so much more intimate than his interactions with DiNozzo, Ziva, and McGee, all of whom have referred to Gibbs as their father in some way at one point or another. And if Gibbs is the father, then Abby is definitely the mother. She scolds them all and supports them all and looks out for each and every one of them. MOTHER. Well, not to McGee, because... that would just be wrong. *sigh* I need to stop typing now.
AND, I was flipping through the channels and got stuck on TLC, which should just put a P in there because it is basically "The Little People Channel," and they were showing that documentary about the little girl with primordial dwarfism, and, oh man, I cried about five times while watching it. She's just so adorable! And happy! And she's going to face so many challenges growing up and just... I don't think I could ever be that awesome.
And then I flipped over to Bravo to watch Flipping Out, because that is totally my guilty pleasure show. I am so, so addicted to it that it's sad. But the show is hilarious. And the drama is just ridiculous. And that dude is so anal retentive that I can't not love him. He is like a real life, house-selling, kind of douchey, gay version of Adrian Monk. He's awesome.
I can already tell that I will despise Kara/Lee, OH GOD, HOW BORING THEY ARE. Gaius/Six is friggin' hot. Oh god, Gaius Baltar is one sexy beast. I am tempted to keep watching purely because of him. And all the space battles were so reminiscent of my brothers' old Atari games that I had quite a fondness for those scenes. And the plot is pretty interesting. It is basically The Terminator, only without time travel. Or the Connors. And it's in outerspace... No, but really, robots humans created wiping out the human race. Terminator! But much more bleak. Terminator always had a good dose of humor and hope, whereas this show has more irony and darkness. But anyway, I will probably watch a few more eps to see if I truly dig it. I recall mocking my oldest brother for saying I would enjoy this show not too long ago, so, if I end up liking it, I will have to retract my "Please, I'm not that kind of nerd," comment. (I basically just meant that I'm a comedy nerd and not a scifi nerd, but the longer I'm on LiveJournal, the deeper into scifi fandom I get. Oy vey).
Also, I watched NCIS tonight, and OH HOW I SHIP DINOZZO/MCGEE! I am kind of sad that Ziva's coming back because that means LESS McGee/DiNozzo banter, and that is just not cool. Those boys are just so darn delightful with their disagreement over who is actually the sidekick! And McGee acknowledges DiNozzo's good looks while their faces are within an inch from each other! Seriously, they were thisclose to making out. Mmmhmm. But anyway, tonight's episode was awesome, loved it. And oh, how the Gibbs/Ziva scene near the end got me right in the heart. Gah! So beautiful. I am sad that neither this ep nor the last one had any Abby/Gibbs to speak of though. Although in this ep he said her name softly, and I was like, "Oooooh, they are in love." Because I am insane. But it's interesting to look at Gibbs' relationship with Ziva, who outright calls him her father figure, and compare that to Abby, who people keep insisting he has a father/daughter relationship with, and yet his interactions with Abby are so much more intimate than his interactions with DiNozzo, Ziva, and McGee, all of whom have referred to Gibbs as their father in some way at one point or another. And if Gibbs is the father, then Abby is definitely the mother. She scolds them all and supports them all and looks out for each and every one of them. MOTHER. Well, not to McGee, because... that would just be wrong. *sigh* I need to stop typing now.
AND, I was flipping through the channels and got stuck on TLC, which should just put a P in there because it is basically "The Little People Channel," and they were showing that documentary about the little girl with primordial dwarfism, and, oh man, I cried about five times while watching it. She's just so adorable! And happy! And she's going to face so many challenges growing up and just... I don't think I could ever be that awesome.
And then I flipped over to Bravo to watch Flipping Out, because that is totally my guilty pleasure show. I am so, so addicted to it that it's sad. But the show is hilarious. And the drama is just ridiculous. And that dude is so anal retentive that I can't not love him. He is like a real life, house-selling, kind of douchey, gay version of Adrian Monk. He's awesome.