thank you for that ray of sunshine
I watched two episodes of Babylon 5 yesterday that were the equivalent to Lee's Mysterious Woman Friend with Flashbacks to a Decision He Regrets Which Occurred Before Caprica Gets Blown Up plotline in season two of Battlestar Galactica, which is to say that I thought Garibaldi's field trip to Mars missed the mark, not that it was secretly meant to be about Starbuck, although that certainly wouldn't have hurt. Sheridan is being insufferable and I told kjabernathy last night that I just kind of wanted Delenn to crack Garibaldi's spine in half, but I would settle for Delenn and Sheridan in the same scene together now that Delenn's stopped a civil war with her people and Sheridan's starting one with his.
I'm in an Ivanova mood, and by that, I mean that I am pessimistic and cranky but laughing at the absurdity of things and how bleak it all seems.1 I'm going to make an omelette and some 7-grain toast and a whole pot of tea and see if I can chase the chill of this day away long enough to confront Wednesday head-on. Ivanova says, "You have to crack some eggs to make an omelette. Also, Wednesday is going to hit you head-on before you hit it. You can only hope it'll crack a few of your eggs for you along the way."
1. There ought to be a universal fandom metaphor translator. In this context, an "Ivanova mood" is roughly equivalent to: 1. Aeryn Sun dragging the obnoxious mountain-climbing suitor across the terrain with a broken leg in Look at the Princess (Farscape), 2. Starbuck taking off to Caprica after the arrow of Apollo in Kobol's Last Gleaming (Battlestar Galactica), 3. Scully's side of the story in Bad Blood (X-Files), 4. Buffy confronting the Master in Prophecy Girl (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), 5. the cliffhanger in Almost Thirty Years (Alias). See also, Gibbs arguing with Kate (NCIS), an angry Teyla with Sheppard making pop-culture references over her shoulder (Stargate Atlantis), and anytime any incarnation of the Doctor makes fun of a threatening alien (Doctor Who).
I'm in an Ivanova mood, and by that, I mean that I am pessimistic and cranky but laughing at the absurdity of things and how bleak it all seems.1 I'm going to make an omelette and some 7-grain toast and a whole pot of tea and see if I can chase the chill of this day away long enough to confront Wednesday head-on. Ivanova says, "You have to crack some eggs to make an omelette. Also, Wednesday is going to hit you head-on before you hit it. You can only hope it'll crack a few of your eggs for you along the way."
1. There ought to be a universal fandom metaphor translator. In this context, an "Ivanova mood" is roughly equivalent to: 1. Aeryn Sun dragging the obnoxious mountain-climbing suitor across the terrain with a broken leg in Look at the Princess (Farscape), 2. Starbuck taking off to Caprica after the arrow of Apollo in Kobol's Last Gleaming (Battlestar Galactica), 3. Scully's side of the story in Bad Blood (X-Files), 4. Buffy confronting the Master in Prophecy Girl (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), 5. the cliffhanger in Almost Thirty Years (Alias). See also, Gibbs arguing with Kate (NCIS), an angry Teyla with Sheppard making pop-culture references over her shoulder (Stargate Atlantis), and anytime any incarnation of the Doctor makes fun of a threatening alien (Doctor Who).