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sabinelagrande

LJ Is for Happymaking: Day 5; additionally, you can has rant

Apr 10, 2009 23:48

We don't take holidays off around here; my school doesn't even observe Labor Day. So I dragged my ass to Nahuatl this morning... and then I decided I just didn't feel like working any more ( Read more... )

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taste_is_sweet April 11 2009, 05:44:06 UTC

Word, there. Yeah. SGU looks so much like BSG it's awful, right down to the Scientist with the British Accent and Dubious Motives and the Beautiful Young (mostly White and Male) People Trapped in Space. And yes, the McKaylet will be slashed with the greenhorn (but earnest as fuck and oh, so very competent) Boy-Lieutenant by the time the title sequence starts, but it will be done with desperation and misery, let me tell you.

And then they'll fight Cylons some new, terrible enemy, and be very dark and angsty and exactly what I don't watch SG shows for. Can't wait.

sabinelagrande April 11 2009, 05:52:05 UTC

And the Boy-Lieutenant would never, never! consider the buttsex uh, desperate measures, but now they are lost in space, and he is lonely, and he has emo angst for some reason to be determined later, maybe about being lost in space, and the surprisingly urbane McKaylet will guide him (to his pants).

Hell, maybe I should just start writing it now and get it out of the way.

taste_is_sweet April 14 2009, 02:25:38 UTC

Hehe!

The emo angst is all about how the Boy Lieutenant doesn't feel Ready for Command! Which is nothing like Sheppard's not feeling Ready for Command. Not at all. Just like the McKaylet's sarcasm which covers up his lack of self-esteem is nothing like McKay at all, either.

You could totally write it now. You could post it right after the pilot, and I'd bet you'd get the characters exactly right!

sabinelagrande April 14 2009, 02:27:29 UTC

No, no, the Boy Lieutenant's not feeling Ready for Command is special. It is true and lovely and moist and pretty, just like McKaylet's tendency to run off at the mouth when under stress.

Oh god, I'm so tempted to. Is that trolling, I wonder?

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sabinelagrande April 11 2009, 05:53:23 UTC

Thank you, my dear! I do love to rant so.

yevgenie April 11 2009, 10:20:13 UTC

Yeah, wow, SG != BSG. >.> I went to see the trailer and yiiikes (also they are all *babies* aaaargh). I got into sci-fi differently from you, for sure, and BSG is the thing I've been loving most, but *goddamn*. Not good.

I was dragged into finally watching SGA kicking and screaming at, like, the intro to year 4 or something, and I fully expect to hold out at *least* as long on SGU. Heh.

sabinelagrande April 11 2009, 17:25:03 UTC

Somebody on the Gateworld forums (I was not on them, mind, because they are a travesty- I was googling for the SGU cast list) pointed out that the average age of the cast members on SGU is actually higher than SGA- but that's because three of them are in their forties and the other six are like twelve.

I'm still a little weirded out that one of them is Gerald from Hey Arnold, though.

Man, I've never consistently watched any portion of the Gateverse as it aired, and I get the feeling this isn't going to make me start.

half_elf_lost April 11 2009, 16:18:44 UTC

Love your rants.

(but I'm still stuck back on...Labor Day isn't a school holiday?!)

sabinelagrande April 11 2009, 16:50:38 UTC

The story I've always heard goes that we don't get Labor Day off because the school was originally endowed by Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was a notorious union hater, and it was a provision of his gift- I'm not certain that's true, though. But we've never celebrated it.

It is a pain in the ass.