life is a strange thing

[lyssie]

1. Today was Administration Assistants Appreciation Day. How do I know this? Because I got FLOWERS from my work. BEST JOB EVER.

2. Dear BSG fandom, yes, you, the ones who keep saying the show has gone downhill/wasn't a soap opera/crack!fic in the beginning: please stop watching my show and leave fandom. Because, since you missed it, BSG has always been crack!fic Space Opera.

3. Sages has a McGee now, YAY.

4. Lindt makes these raspberry-filled chocolate things. Very good.

5. BONES IS GLEE. Seriously. I loved tonight's episode (sick days for teh win). I love that it's less like a Glitzy Murder Spree and more like... Midsomer Murders, actually. Hrm.

6. DID I MENTION I GOT FLOWERS FROM WORK?

7. Booth, throat-clearing is not going to stop her.

8. The crack!fic keeps multiplying in my brain. Now I've got Grace Holloway not-killing Romana after she's pulled from the bay.

9. Has anyone done a BSG-Six vid to Madonna's "Who's That Girl?" Because someone should. Someone who isn't me.

10. Best Buy is evil. They put half-naked Thomas Jane two slots over from The Professional. Sigh. To off-set the testosterone, I also got Aeon Flux. Mmm.

ETA: Also. kkglinka showed me the picture of the Sam Carter figure and I am all gleeful, and now I just need a KARA. Hrm...

Comments

[angualupin.livejournal.com]

Dude. I'm sorry, but -- I think BSG has gone downhill. A lot. And yeah, I'm not really so much in the fandom any more. Although I won't leave it totally, because, well, there's always hope...

But I'm glad you like it. I'm glad there are people who still do. I just can't.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

And, see, I've always thought it wasn't all that fabulous--full of crack-induced glee? Yes. The best thing since sliced bread? No.

[angualupin.livejournal.com]

It wasn't the best thing since sliced bread. (It wasn't Firefly.) But I did used to think it was good. A very, very solid and interesting show, with an interesting conceit, good writing and enjoyable characters.

It's not that for me at all any more. The writing has lost a lot of its quality, the conceit has lost everything that made it fascinating, and the characters... Well, when I look at the show and think that the only characters whom I can still appreciate as fundementally interesting are the ones I've always hated -- Baltar and the Tighs -- there is a problem.

There's nothing wrong with you still liking it. I'm glad you can. But there's also nothing wrong with those of us who used to enjoy it and now can't see much worthwhile about it being really, really disappointed. I think we're allowed to talk about that.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

We're going to have to agree to disagree, and you'll have to do what I have to do when reading every anti-S2 rant: STOP READING AND IGNORE IT.

[ilanala]

1. I thought it was "Administrative Professionals Day", which sounds even fancier. But whatever you want to call it, happy that. :-)

2. Well, most TV is soap opera-y to some degree, but BSG has definitely moved more in that direction since it started. I pretty much have stopped watching the show, so I guess it doesn't so much matter, but I protest that it wasn't always this kind of crack and was in fact once a much better show.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

1. I have no idea. My little card said Admin Assistant on it.

2. *points above* I don't think it ever was all that good, though.

[ilanala]

I know you were always of the opinion that BSG was crack, but have some sympathy for those of us who did think it was good and are mourning its descent into suckiness? *looks pathetic* You don't have to pretend to agree, but you don't have to order us out of fandom either.

[hyari.livejournal.com]

Aww...but that's what Lyss does! She has, in fact, ordered me out of fandom on EIGHT SEPARATE OCCASIONS

Course, watching all Season 1 episodes straight through in two days doesn't make me the most objective person about the show. I still have 20 eps to watch (impatiently waiting on dvd's) and I'd hate think it gets sucky. :( Aw well, there is always the Bones gleeeeeeee.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I HAVE. YES. For I am, y'know, evil like that and stuff.

BONES IS VERY GLEE. So is season two of BSG.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I can try. But since I don't think it's a descent, and you do, I don't think we'll ever agree.

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

They change the name every damned year, I think. Sorry, but I still call it Secretaries' Day. "Administrative Professionals" don't need a special day. My secretaries do, 'cuz they rock. Oh yes, they rock. ;)

And yay! Flowers!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

heh. I called it what was on the card, as it seemed most appropriate.

Indeed.

[dreagoddess.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. But doesn't "Happy Administrative Professionals Day!" sound really dumb? ;)

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it does. *giggles*

[fallenbelle.livejournal.com]

Yay! Flowers! You totally deserve a job that thinks to give you flowers after some of the previous employers you've had.

And Sam Carter figure? Whaaa?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

I'll need, like, four or five of them. Then I can have one for my Crichton figure, one for a Jack, one for Kara... hrm. And maybe one for random people she should have sex with. Yes.

[quietdarkness.livejournal.com]

Flowers from any source is always good.

And I will verify for all and sundry that Battlestar Galactica has always been a space opera. Quite an enjoyable one, in fact. I am dying for October.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*dances* It's made me all gleeful.

[alryssa.livejournal.com]

Flowers from work? THAT IS AWESOME.

You deserve 'em, babe!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

*glees* Thank you! =)

[greycoupon.livejournal.com]

1. *claps* That's great! I only knew it was today since I saw an article on msn.com. Ah well. Are they pretty flowers that smell nice?

2. Can't it still be crack!fic and awesome? I think it's both and nothing has changed my mind.

I think there's a decent chance we will get action figures of the main cast if it's not already in the works. I want a KARA, too!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

2. YES. Even if, er, it is not awesomely awesome, it is still awesome, because there is Kara to watch.

[kali921.livejournal.com]

I got a really nice card from my boss. :-) Seeing that I'm a contractor, that was especially nice of him.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Cooool!

[rabbit-the-wise.livejournal.com]

4. Lindt makes these raspberry-filled chocolate things. Very good.
am addicted to them...

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

They are love.