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[rose_griffes]

I say this every year, but it's going to be so obvious which bsg_remix story is mine. The more I wrote (finished a second draft last night) the more all of the themes I love kept popping out. It's sort of embarrassing, actually. I should write a post about id-fic and WHAT THE HECK DOES IT SAY ABOUT MY ID when I keep writing [theme redacted for

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[rap541]

S'ok - I still feel sorry for whoever got stuck with me as their assignment :)

[rose_griffes]

That's part of why we ask the 'how far out of your comfort zone' question. Happily there were enough other Gaeta fans signed up. ;-)

I think this happens in almost every fandom with a wide selection of characters--we all pick our favorites and write mostly them. Something like 20% of all my stories are about Leoben/the Twos. Probably a (much) higher percentage if you go by word count.

(Honestly, this is part of why I won't do the multi-fandom remix. They only match fandoms, not preferred characters, and there are characters I simply could not write on BSG and Doctor Who. And I get why they do that, but it's scary!)

[nicole_anell]

I wish this weren't an April Fools joke, 'cause I would watch this.
"17th Precinct", baby! :p

And yes, I'm gonna tell you to finish watching "Wall-E". At the risk of spoilers -- it DOES get much, much less bleak and depressing after that first section, and [white text? more cartoony in its third act when we start seeing humans, and it has an uplifting ending.]

[rose_griffes]

Okay. As long as Wall-E doesn't get more bleak, I can probably handle it. Thanks.

"17th Precinct", baby! :p
Heh. I'm pretty sure I'll be watching, provided it's available online reasonably soon after the episodes air.

[daybreak777]

That's funny about the cobra tweets. I didn't know you were on Twitter! I'd join except nothing I've written has ever been within 140 characters. :-)

I recently watched Wall-E. I didn't find it that sad. I actually found it funny at times. I don't know. I liked the film but I didn't get why people cried so much.

Will I cry and resent all of you who loved it if I finish watching it?
Probably? You feel about the first fifteen minutes of Wall-E the way I feel about the first 1 and a 1/2 seasons of Fringe. So there might be resentment. But then you might get to good stuff at the end as I did with Fringe and that might help. Maybe. :-)

[rose_griffes]

I'm not on Twitter, but if I see links to online Twitter things, I'll check them out. (hah, never written less than 140 characters... *giggles*)

As for Wall-E, the whole premise is just so bleak. Our whole planet covered in trash and abandoned? *sniffles* One tiny robot who has been adorably anthropomorphized, left alone to deal with it? I'll probably watch the rest while paying bills, so I can take refuge in losing money if it makes me too broken-hearted.

Your resentment of the first part of Fringe is beginning to make me giggle. (Sorry!) And I know Walter got you through it, but I still find it amazing that you stuck through it that long.

[rose_griffes]

...what actually takes place on screen becomes less awful, but there's a lot of horror implied to have taken place before (and maybe after) the movie. I found the ending about as hopeful as the end of BSG, for a lot of the same reasons. In both cases, when you have a starting situation that is so utterly horrific there's a limit to how hopeful you can get at the end without being completely unbelievable.

I remember watching Up and just being devastated by the first twelve minutes, but the implication was that things would get better. And they did. (Plus, while losing a spouse is deeply tragic on a personal level, it's not the same as a planet-wide disaster caused by our own wastefulness.) So far Wall-E hasn't given me a reason to believe that it's going to get better.

But I'm probably going to watch the rest anyway. Apparently it doesn't get worse, so I already know the maximum level of bleakness.

(Also, as Wall-E progresses, people being fat becomes a running metaphor for people being stupid and lazy, which I did not enjoy.)

[rose_griffes]

I don't mind some crying, as long as it's not over how depressed I am over Wall-E's doomed ending or a doomed romance. (I knew a bit about the basic set-up, but it was way more dark than I expected.)

I love depressing movies, as long as I know that's what I'm going to get. Jean de Florette and Manon des sources are two of my favorite films ever, and I cried buckets over them. Multiple times, even, 'cause I rewatched and cried again.

I need a ridiculous crying-face userpic of some kind. Some sort of overblown tragic sobby face.