Lizardbeth's Tale

Some fun stuff I've gotten lately--

The Escape from the Mirkwood Spiders from The Hobbit LEGO set
(also the Helm's Deep set, but that's not put together yet).

It does actually spoil a bit of that scene in next year's movie, by the way, because it shows one of Jackson's changes.

( photos )

Meanwhile, while I was making mistakes building stupid small LEGO trees, A was building his gift from Santa: a LEGO Technic Unimog. 2060 pieces. Motors. Pneumatic pumps.

( pic 2 )

And in BSG loot news, it happened to come up that I own BSG stuff with the dad of a schoolmate of kiddo, and he happened to have the Emmy screener for S4 which he gave me.

now, dude, I am the first to admit that 4.5 had some issues and didn't deserve an Emmy anyway, BUT, if you see this hideous monstrosity you'll understand why it was never going to happen, regardless of the content.

( when BSG screeners go bad )

I also got awesome minimates but I need to take pics.

Now to put together my Fanfiction Wrap Up of 2012 Post for launch New Year's Day. Gonna skip the Fandom Meme because the answer is "Still sort of clinging to BSG even while Tom Hiddleston's face took over my brain and pulled the rest of the MCU with it somehow". (But when I start plotting fics of Loki in Middle-Earth? I MAY HAVE A PROBLEM JUST SAYING)

Project for twelvecolonies to photoshop BSG characters into another show.

Since I was thinking about robots and people named Sam --

( Kara and Sam pose while wary for another Decepticon attack )

Still one of the most perfect hours of television.

( so I have to find something to say about it )

Rewatch - already a day late. heh. Well, there you go. At least I did it though.


I did start with the Razor flashbacks - at least the ones I could find easily, since I discovered I didn't have them as a separate file as I thought. But I found them today, so I'll talk about them with the other 'extras' for tomorrow.

A little about my first experience watching the show. I watched when it first aired, and as a childhood fan of OldSkool I was ... a bit nervous. I realized it could be updated and improved, plus I was at least somewhat familiar with RDM's work on Star Trek so I knew he had the experience, so rebooting it as such didn't bother me. Making Starbuck a woman was fine (Apollo was my favorite in Old Skool - had they switched that instead, I might have been more dubious, but as it was, I didn't mind). Eliminating Athena as Adama's daughter - of course, I had no idea that there would eventually be an Athena was less fine. Making Boomer female and Asian was awesome. Making Tigh white was the change I disliked the most - both Boomer and Tigh were black in Classic, and suddenly there were none. It still bothers me a bit, tbh - I do love Michael Hogan and I think he did a fabulous job, but yeah. Anyway.

So it was with a bit of trepidation that I watched it. And I remember liking it, but the funny thing is I don't really remember much more than that because my son was born later that week. :) I have watched it again, once, since, but even that was several years ago. So here we go from the beginning, a bit of liveblog as I watch.

( The miniseries )

Tomorrow will be all the 'extra bits" relating to the attacks -- Razor flashbacks, the first part of The Plan dealing with the attacks, and the part of Downloaded that deals with Caprica's resurrection.

Hope you had fun. It was fun for me to go back and revisit!

Feel free to comment on anything regarding the miniseries that you want to - what I mentioned, what I didn't. It's not a recap as such, so I skip over a lot.

y'know, because I haven't been in this fandom long enough *kof* I've been thinking about doing a rewatch from the beginning. Back when it restarted on BBCA I was intending to watch it then, but Saturday is always a terrible day to watch t.v. so I haven't done a total rewatch in ... a long time. And I realized I've kind of forgotten things and maybe I'd be more inclined to finish my WIPs again if I watched it all again in order, not random eps.

Also, this LJ has been pretty quiet. Even when I do have something to write about I don't, so in the spirit of the Blog About A Hundred Things challenge, I think maybe I could at least blog about something I actually know.

[Poll #1836296]

So I don't know if it'll be daily or sort of daily or whatever, but I do know that if I have some other people sort of waiting on it (even if you aren't, feel free to lie, because that's motivating), I'll do it.

17th Precinct being Ron Moore's pilot for his new t.v. show that's shooting right now, and JUST SO HAPPENS to have BSG/Caprica alumni starring in it.

Okay, since this whole project is OBVIOUSLY a BSG AU that Ron thought up while doing one of those BSG commentaries drunk on absinthe, here's my theory (which I thought up all by myself right before I went to sleep last night.)

If we assume Stockard Channing's character was really Mary McDonnell originally in Ron's head... (which, duh. obvious)

Then...

Was Kristin Kreuk's character (Jamie Bamber's t.v. wife), originally Grace Park?

Doesn't that sort of imply that somewhere in Ron's brain there lurks a BSG AU in which Sharon and Lee got together?

Or, wait.

Maybe Jamie's character was actually originally conceived as Tahmoh (they're both blue eyed and Tahmoh's been a cop a zillion times),

and if so, THEREFORE, if that couple was originally Grace and Tahmoh THEN Jamie and Kristin play alterna-future Agathons.

Q.E.D.

MY LOGIC IS FLAWLESS.

So much for needing until Nov 12. Caprica canned . I'm sorry, all of you watching the show. :(

Caramel frapp. The new Anberlin. I also somehow managed to add 1K of my BB, without even filling in the scene that's missing.

And new gif gifts from mfirefly10! *squish*

( farscape and bsg )

If it weren't for the stupid soccer meeting getting rescheduled right on top of my bday dinner and/or Vampire Diaries and Nikita tonight, it'd be pretty perfect. :)

I am offering Action Figure Theater in the help_haiti Auction. (yes, inspired by abyssinia4077 because good ideas are there to be stolen!)

Some of you may recall the halcyon days of Action Figure Theater in this LJ. I have, sadly, not done it lately. This was the last time. I think..

Fandoms are BSG and SG1. Both 6" and Minimates for BSG. If you have a particular crack desire, I actually have lots of other figures, including X-Men, Babylon 5, and lots of LotR, etc.

My thread is here for bidding

I just lost every single Ebay auction for any C-Bucs costume I might possibly fit into. I hope it was to fellow fans/cosplayers, willing to spend more money than I was. Though for one nervewracking moment I thought I might win two--- right before one or more people completely kicked my ass. *sigh* ah well, can't be lucky with those auctions all the time, I guess, and my credit card is happier.