In which the internets offer us endless trivia

[sadiane]

Randomly:

Hey, Sanctuary people, did we all know that Tesla is the same guy that played Parrish on SGA? 'Tis true! (nice makeover, Parrish!) And that the actor playing Watson is a pole vaulting trampolinist who plays the flute? This is trufax . Apparently, he is also on Highlander, which is one of those shows my mother always had a near-

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[meresy]

I am sorry you don't love, BSG, for I love it, indeedly. Leoben is a total creep, though. I see why he would put a person off. For whatever reason, my fannish psyche likes to treat him like a cat that brings home many dead things. Wrong! But still ♥. IDK.

I don't know why the octagons, but there is sure a hell of a pile of triangles in Vancouver somewhere...

[sadiane]

I keep trying to love BsG, but it's just not working. It sort of makes me realize that for some odd reason, I need television to be aspirational: it's not enough to have the people on TV just be smarter and funnier and FAR better looking than regular people! I want to believe they actually are better people, too. And BsG is full of so many people that are so realistically mean to each other that it's painful.

Loeben scares me so badly I almost didn't watch dS because I couldn't imagine seeing his face and not freaking out (I had seen the first three seasons of BsG this spring before watching dS this summer). I'm very glad I did, because it took about 5 minutes of Kowalski before I totally forgot to be scared of him, but Leoben isn't getting any easier.

[meresy]

Yeah, I hear that. I like it for the massive grey areas, myself, but lots of folks find it off-putting. No denying it's well-done, I think... it takes something to either draw people in or put people off that strongly.

Leoben is one scary s.o.b. I like him and I was crying for the whole New Caprica arc in season three, so. Yeah. Bravo, Callum, you have perfected that crazy mofo allure. *g*

Ray is too adorable not to love. The thing that makes Callum a GREAT actor is how he inhabits different roles. I swear to god Ray LOOKS different than Leoben, and I'm not just talking age. Mannerisms, movement, the look in his eye... everything is switched.

[sadiane]

I think I just need one person who I can unconditionally love. I can gray area the rest of the cast, but I need someone who makes me swoon and smile and squee. I get close with Apollo, from time to time, as he is a pretty angsty woobie with daddy issues that at least seems to feel honestly bad when he's mean to people, but then it slips a little, or there's so much other going on that it gets lost

[sol_se]

my fannish psyche likes to treat him like a cat that brings home many dead things. Wrong! But still ♥.

That is an awesome description of Leoben. I agree.

[meresy]

LOL. It's been noted before. Way back in the day, on the scifi.com forums, I said "He's like a cat bringing home dead birds. 'EW! Wrong!'... *pets*" The Skiffy crew liked it so much it showed up in some sigs. Helped (?) us explain ourselves to some folks. *g*