have some thoughts.

[lizardbeth]

So, I really suck at the posting lately. Sorry, new flisters! But boring life is better than "interesting".

So. The "news". I have 3000-ish brand new words of fic. Would this be for any WIP? Anything with a deadline? Any project ongoing with eager readers already out there?

nooooooo, of course not.

Though I'm sure certain people will be pleased that I also did some Shadow in the Pattern (that would be the B5/BSG x-over) - this is unfortunately not the NEXT bit in the sequence, which I still need to do. But, it's something, yes?



1. I'm sort of sad that we've now lost the fanon of Sam Anders: Rockstar, though I have to also love the play against expectation a bit to have him be some kind of scientist. It's somewhat reminiscent of his turn on BBT, actually - I kind of wonder if Trucco laughed when he got the script, having finished BSG by that time.

I figure Original Recipe Sam must have been rather brilliant, and maybe a bit of a loner, in-his-head kind of guy (the beach, guitar, music writing as a hobby), so to punish him, John Cavil took away his science and made him a 'dumb' jock. I wonder if he also made Sam good at pyramid, or that was just Sam discovering a hitherto unknown talent. Did Cavil gnash his teeth at Sam's success, or was he glad because the higher Sam was, the harder he'd fall when armageddon came?

Damn, that is a horrible, twisted evil plan of revenge. And that's just Sam. Plus there's the horribleness of making his "mother" into a drunken slut, making Saul a drunk and a war vet (I'd say put him in the military, but that seems to have been Adama's doing to get him (back) in uniform), and maybe intending Galen to be in the clergy, given how Galen's faux-parents were an oracle and a priest. Interesting that Galen sort of rebelled against it and turned into an engineer anyway - maybe Galen's block of his past was always a bit cracked.

I still hold to the belief that Sam must have come to the Colonies at LEAST ten years ago, if not more. Celebrity sports stars need some kind of track record - the Colonies were a culture with journalists, after all, and he played on a team and would have a previous team and all that at least for aways back.

Anyway, Ellen MUST fix Sam. Because I suspect if he rezzes, Pyramid!Sam will be gone, just as (faux) Ellen is gone. *sad*


2.

Speaking of RockStar!Sam... so he played the song for the woman he loved. Which is not Tory, apparently. So who? Both Tory and Ellen were already coupled up - so either he was unrequitedly in love with one of them, or there was someone else who didn't make it, leaving him to make that long voyage as odd man out. :(

Or, since he saw a woman (the angel/head!person), I wonder if SHE was the one he loved. Like Baltar loves his Head!Six. Furthermore, I wonder if one of the three female Humlons are modeled after her, in the same way Ellen modeled Cavil on her father. (and perhaps Tory modeled another model after the male she saw, too)

I don't know... I don't even know if I like it. Ship-wise, I want to push that into being Kara (or Aurora, if Kara is Aurora's avatar and the Head!folk/angels are also the LoK), but you'd think Sparkly!NEw!Memories!Sam would've mentioned if Kara was the same as the image he saw, so I don't think it works.

But if he IS gonna die, I want his angel, whoever she is, to come back to him and take him home. Because he frakking DESERVES it.



3.

In a not-Sam spec, is Boomer helping Ellen escape, or is she "helping" in order to find the rest of the Five for Cavil? I hope she had an epiphany that John was not what he claimed to be to her, but... I've grown sadly dubious over the last few days. Poor Boomer.


Also, dear fandom, I know there was a lot of information to take in, but please, get it through your heads that the Humlons on Earth had BABIES, not copies. There are still people who seem to think Earth was populated by multiple copies of the five. hello there - I'd like to introduce you to the point of the show.

Jeez.



LOST tonight. mmm, I do love my plotty crack.

Comments

[jashyr.livejournal.com]

Well even the great and incomparable Sir Patrick Moore is rather well known for playing the xylophone.

He could be Old Earth's version of Fiorella Terenzi. (She's an Astrophysicist but as a musician also worked with Thomas Dolby, Herbie Hancock, put out a few albums...)

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

he plays guitar, we know that. He even wrote Watchtower, apparently, according to the podcast. So he's a multitalented renaissance dude. I think that's cool enough on its own without adding throngs of screaming fans, too.