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

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

After Earth is what I mean.

Baltar's statment is correct so far. His angel appears as Six, Six's as Baltar, and Kara's (one or two?) as Leoben and her father.

How did the Five gather information on what was happening in the Colonial system in the first place? Go to ground and pretend to be humans? I wonder what the negotiations with the Cenurions were like. They first had to prove that they were Cylons, of course. Why didn't they make themselves known to the Colonials at the treaty signing? Would they eventually have used Armistice Station? Would Sam and Kara ever have met if Cavil hadn't done his thing?

And Sam was around, presumably at his current apparent age, when Bill was young and Kara wasn't born yet. That's freaky.

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

I would guess that not revealing themselves to the humans was part of the deal with the Centurions in making Humlons. Perhaps the Centruions wanted their Humlons to be able to infiltrate the Humans and live among them, and thought that wouldn't happen if the humans were already aware that there were Human-form Cylons around? In terms of fearing prejudice from the Humans, more than out of nefarious purpose, I mean, though that's possible too. Or it could've been the Five's idea to keep themselves secret, not wanting to have to talk about the fall of Earth, maybe, or to keep their technology out of Human hands? Lots of possible reasons...

The age thing is weird, between subjective time and resurrection. Like, we know Tigh has aged, so did Cavil pull him out of the clone/rez tank "early" or was he pulled out 'finished' and he's aged beyond what he was 'originally'?

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Tigh was older in the Earth flashback than when he met Adama, so it would seem Cavil set his body to a slightly younger age on purpose.

Did you see my post of Pyramid of Dreams with plot bunnies? If so, what do you think of them?

[lizardbeth-j.livejournal.com]

hm, good point, Tigh wasn't the bearer of hair on Earth, was he? (I think I was too stunned by two eyes again to really notice *g*) So. I wonder if Tigh's age when sent to the Colonies was selected because Cavil already had a rough idea of when he was going to attack and worked backward so his "dad" would be the right apparent age, or if it just happened to come out that way?

sorry, no. I have so little time to write as it is, if I get distracted with "oooo shiny!", I'll never finish the things I've already started! So I avoid temptation by not looking...

[noybusiness.livejournal.com]

Either works.

Curses! Foiled again.