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Day 03 → Your favorite television program
So, the way I felt as this day of this meme approached is best explained in a quote from Jessie Spano: "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so... so... scaaaaared." Because it meant I had to choose my TV show, and that would've always been an easy answer before, but NOW IT IS NOT. So I've been thinking about this since before I even started the meme and now... now I'm ready.
The current winner for my favorite TV show is... Battlestar Galactica.
Oh, I know. What the frak, you might ask! What of Alias! And I'll have to say... it had a good run? Alias had my imagination completely from immediately after my sixteenth birthday until I was twenty-one, and that's a damn long time to be 100% invested in one fandom, especially since it's been over for four years. And it's not that I don't love it anymore! I still get excited when it's mentioned and I love the actors on it and I'll still get all emotionally vehement if you mention how they treated Nadia in Season Five and ragey if you talk about any of the many, many Hong Kongs.
I still love you, bb!
But right now my favorite thing is BSG. Here's why!
Perhaps you would like some music to go along with your enjoyment. Don't worry, that's been taken care of!
ALSO THE CAST IS FUN AND ADORABLE:
Maybe some more music will convince you?
Or maybe the second best pairing on the show?
Perhaps FatLee can convince you.
But what about the other things! Like, for example:
In suppose you would like some words, too. Very well: Battlestar Galactica is an amazing program. On a superficial level, it has everything you could possibly ask for: the occasional breathtakingly gorgeous scene, music that makes emotion swell in your throat, an astonishingly pretty cast (including scenes that involve multiple Tricia Helfers. That alone is worth the price of admission.) To go a bit deeper, the acting in this show is... really beyond measure. Other shows (like Alias) have a few extremely fantastic performances (Victor Garber, Lena Olin) and a lot of very good ones (everyone else!) BSG? Every. Single. Person. No one in that show is a mediocre actor, or an okay actor, they are all spectacular. Sure, sometimes the plots make me want to bash my head in (LIAM WTF) and there are some inconsistencies (Daniel what Daniel?) and sometimes people are fascists or unnecessarily emo or sexhounds, but generally the plots are well-written and amazing. The arcs on this show are some of the best things I've ever watched- yes, I am looking at you, Mutiny, Pegasus and New Caprica! Issues are never just black and white, but subtle variances of grey, and I, for one, have changed my opinions completely from the first time I watched, from wanting all the Cylons to be eradicated in a fiery end to realizing that you really... can't do that and keep the moral high ground. I've watched people make horrifying decisions and thought about how I would react myself, and not in a selfish way, but in a real "holy god, how can someone even function after making calls like that?" (Answer: becoming a razor.) It's a multifaceted, layered, complex show and I am so glad that I watch it.
In Conclusion:
Almost every single picspam on here was culled from tumblr, therefore not mine. If you made it, please let me know! You're awesome.
So that's embarrassingly long winded.
So, the way I felt as this day of this meme approached is best explained in a quote from Jessie Spano: "I'm so excited! I'm so excited! I'm so... so... scaaaaared." Because it meant I had to choose my TV show, and that would've always been an easy answer before, but NOW IT IS NOT. So I've been thinking about this since before I even started the meme and now... now I'm ready.
The current winner for my favorite TV show is... Battlestar Galactica.
Oh, I know. What the frak, you might ask! What of Alias! And I'll have to say... it had a good run? Alias had my imagination completely from immediately after my sixteenth birthday until I was twenty-one, and that's a damn long time to be 100% invested in one fandom, especially since it's been over for four years. And it's not that I don't love it anymore! I still get excited when it's mentioned and I love the actors on it and I'll still get all emotionally vehement if you mention how they treated Nadia in Season Five and ragey if you talk about any of the many, many Hong Kongs.
I still love you, bb!
But right now my favorite thing is BSG. Here's why!
Perhaps you would like some music to go along with your enjoyment. Don't worry, that's been taken care of!
Click to viewALSO THE CAST IS FUN AND ADORABLE:
Maybe some more music will convince you?
Or maybe the second best pairing on the show?
Perhaps FatLee can convince you.
But what about the other things! Like, for example:
In suppose you would like some words, too. Very well: Battlestar Galactica is an amazing program. On a superficial level, it has everything you could possibly ask for: the occasional breathtakingly gorgeous scene, music that makes emotion swell in your throat, an astonishingly pretty cast (including scenes that involve multiple Tricia Helfers. That alone is worth the price of admission.) To go a bit deeper, the acting in this show is... really beyond measure. Other shows (like Alias) have a few extremely fantastic performances (Victor Garber, Lena Olin) and a lot of very good ones (everyone else!) BSG? Every. Single. Person. No one in that show is a mediocre actor, or an okay actor, they are all spectacular. Sure, sometimes the plots make me want to bash my head in (LIAM WTF) and there are some inconsistencies (Daniel what Daniel?) and sometimes people are fascists or unnecessarily emo or sexhounds, but generally the plots are well-written and amazing. The arcs on this show are some of the best things I've ever watched- yes, I am looking at you, Mutiny, Pegasus and New Caprica! Issues are never just black and white, but subtle variances of grey, and I, for one, have changed my opinions completely from the first time I watched, from wanting all the Cylons to be eradicated in a fiery end to realizing that you really... can't do that and keep the moral high ground. I've watched people make horrifying decisions and thought about how I would react myself, and not in a selfish way, but in a real "holy god, how can someone even function after making calls like that?" (Answer: becoming a razor.) It's a multifaceted, layered, complex show and I am so glad that I watch it.
In Conclusion:
Almost every single picspam on here was culled from tumblr, therefore not mine. If you made it, please let me know! You're awesome.
So that's embarrassingly long winded.