Random stuff
So. There are promo pics for 'Sacrifice" at Dark Thoughts. I won't link them here, because the only one worth looking at is the one of Kara looking all "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" with her white jumpsuit and her fists full of firearms. It's interesting.
But the others? Boring. Except a few in particular, which shall be the focus of this rant.
Let me start by saying that I never really liked Dualla, or Kandyse McClure. I think she's a boring character, I really have no interest in learning anything about her character. She's like...the various comms officers who sat at the helm of the Enterprise D after Wesley left for the Academy and before/after Ensign Ro showed up. All they were really there for is to make the ship go places, give Picard a lot of "aye, sirs" and react to what was happening on the viewscreen. She's talking scenery, that's about it. She's not Wesley Crusher, she's not Ensign Ro, and I could honestly care less about her character development or seeing her doing anything except talking to pilots over the wireless.
I especially do not want to see her kissing Lee Adama. And it has nothing with Lee/Kara being my ship of choice in the BSG-verse.
Honestly. It doesn't. Let me tell you why.
I like my Lee/Kara with a big side of angst. I like the "we want each other, we're soulmates, meant to be together, whatever but we can't because we're so frakked emotionally that we'd probably kill each other if we got together before figuring our shit out, so we're just going to have tense conversations and flirty banter and get jealous and punch each other every so often" dynamic between them. Really? I don't want to see Lee and Kara together (except for possibly the occasional frak) until close to the end of the series. It's my personal speculation that they won't get together until they find Earth; that finding Earth is going to be the catalyst for an actual relationship for them. And in the meanwhile, yeah, they're gonna hook up with other people, I know that. I don't mind Kara/Anders so much, in fact, I kinda liked it. I'm glad he's coming back for the end of the season. And I don't mind Lee/Space Hooker Shevon, although in the promo pics, she looks...well, like a space hooker, and not the classy Inara Serra kind, either, but the kind that has collagen injected lips and too much makeup and only really looks good in dim light, which begs the question, how could he not tell she's a space hooker? But I digress, because my point is, I can deal with that. I can deal with Kara/new random character. I can deal with Lee/new random character.
What I cannot deal with is Lee/Dualla. Would I rather he hook up with Kat or Racetrack? Well, not Kat, because Kat/Hotdog is clearly the nugget OTP. And Racetrack, well, my theory is that she's a dyke, so maybe I'm not really making my point here. I don't know if I have a point anymore, except that Lee/Dualla is just not a good move for Galactica, or for Lee's character. It's coming out of the blue with practically no motivation or reasoning whatsoever - and I don't count one look at Apollo's ass in the causeway (because seriously? Who wouldn't look?) and one sparring session completely lacking in chemistry enough background to set up that these two might actually be attracted to each other. Or, really, to set up that Apollo would be attracted to Dee. Because I doubt there's anyone on that ship who's not attracted to Apollo (except for Racetrack, because she's clearly in love with Starbuck!). But Apollo's attraction to her is coming straight out of nowhere. And no, I don't count the scenes where Dualla was helping Lee plan to spring the President from hack any indication that he might be attracted to her, because there wasn't any indication of that at all in those scenes. They barely even interact on the show (aside from those aforementioned hack-springing-planning scenes)! It's just not believable to me, and maybe that's why it makes me uncomfortable. It would be like...Riker/Crusher. Oh, I shudder at that thought; can you tell i've been watching a lot of Trek lately? But my point being, it's a ship that's completely lacking in motivation, reasoning, and plausibility.
Oh, and Jamie and Kandyse have absolutely no chemistry whatsoever. Sorry, but they don't. Not a bit. The pictures of them kissing are cringeworthy, really. They don't look good together. They don't mesh well, they don't connect, they give off no sparks. There were more sparks on House when Chase kissed that adolsecent girl. Seriously. I don't see where all the Kandyse-love is coming from. She's an okay actress but nothing to write home about. She's not really all that pretty. Her character is kind of naive - way too naive for someone as old and frakked up as Apollo. Not that Apollo's old, and we don't have a canon age for him, but I'm willing to bet the age difference is at least ten years. That wouldn't be squicky if the characters were, like, 30 and 40, or 40 and 50. But we're talking 19 and (probably) 29 - 30. That's just...there's a bigger difference between 19 and almost 30 than 30 and 40. A huge difference. I don't like it.
I don't think Daddy Adama would approve, either. I'll have to ask my Adama-expert about this, but I get the feeling that Fleet!Mom and Dad are both Apollo/Starbuck shippers. Just speculation.
Gods help me if I have to see Lee in bed with Dualla. Because I think I might just throw my TV out the window and then proceed to scrub my eyes with a toilet brush soaked in bleach. I mean, I like the idea of nekkid Lee. Only not with Dualla.
My point? I don't like Dualla. Or really, I just don't care enough about her to want to see any storylines involving her doing more than dualla-ing things to pilots and the occasional exploding console. Lee can fall into the arms of as many random women in the Fleet as he likes, as long as none of them are Dualla. I don't even care if none of them are Kara's arms, even though we already know that's one of the pairs of arms he finds himself in this season. I'll glady give up the hot pilotsex if it means I don't have to watch Lee and Dualla being all shippy.
Seriously.
You know, right after the Lee/Dualla rumors started circulating, I wrote a fic about Kara's reaction to it. About Kara being lost and a little self-destructive. And from the sounds and looks of spoilery things, I'm not in any danger of getting Jossed with this one. And it makes me sad, really.
Come on, RDM. I want to get Jossed with this one. Please?
In case anyone wants to read the fic: Superhero
I think I'm done now.
Le sigh.