See what I mean?

[graculus]

I was talking about my lousy attention span on Sunday and then, just now, I got bored in the middle of Stargate SG-1 and wandered off... this may have something to do with the dreadfully slow pacing of the episode and that frankly it's so reminiscent of the plagiarised surely coincidentally similar Voyager episode where Tom Paris gets tormented by false memories he's been given of committing murder that I really don't care. Angst doesn't work so well recycled, I find.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, I've discovered that the job I was all but offered with a big payrise included has suddenly transmuted into a 3-month secondment which would (based on the stated payscale and my employer's policy of employing people on the bottom point if at all possible) leave me a hefty £500 after tax better off if I took it up. Woo and indeed yay. That is nothing like what I'd want to make up for the stresses of dealing with that bunch of problem children writ large. The other managers there are persistent, though - alas, they have not known me long enough to know that when I make my mind up about something, it stays made. ;)

Comments

[lachli.livejournal.com]

It's only Starbuck that I still don't really like. She just feels like they've tried too hard with her, writing and acting. I absolutely hated the cigar smoking, the gambling, it just all felt too contrived.

I didn't dislike her as much by the end of the season, mainly I think because she started acting like a person and not a stereotype. I did love that she went back to Caprica, that surprised me.

That's one thing I do love about BSG, it's ability to surprise me with the characters and the story, but at no point do I feel that the writers are just trying to come up with something shocking or radical, it just all flows together.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

She's been my favourite from the start, though I freely admit to having my reservations about the idea. She's not the other Starbuck made female, she's her own being and we see the path she takes as the series goes on.

Not sure how this is all going to end this season, because the mid-season cliffhanger is still being worked out in the US (woe, for I cannot find a torrent that works!) and it's all good...