Reading time

[lyssie]

One of the books I brought back with me from St. Louis was 'Battlestar Galactica'. It appears to be based on the original, and probably on the pilot episode.

It opens with Adama's Journal Entry (guess this means Greg Pak is just borrowing old canon like the Pegasus).

And it has phrases like, "[Zac] was a royal pain in the blast-off tubes." (page three, people).

God knows why it wasn't a best-seller.

I opened to a random page and found Starbuck flirting with Inara some chick who was a hooker (guess Whedon wasn't revolutionary). I can feel those Family Values, man. Really.

And Zac is Starbuck. Er, personality-wise.

*snicker*

eta: HAHAHAHAH. I skipped the politics bits (Adar is Adama's old friend).

"To be starbucked meant that you had allowed youself to be maneuvered into a situation in which your defeat was inevitable."

Comments

[morwen_peredhil]

royal pain in the blast-off tubes

Hee! Please post more of this deathless prose.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

The hooker was turned into not-a-hooker right after the pilot.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

THIS DOES NOT SURPRISE ME. (omgbed)

[surreallis.livejournal.com]

Haa! I have that exact same book! Also, I have the sequel. I don't remember AT ALL how good/bad they were. I just remember reading them in junior high, which is just after the series ended in my lifetime. I think I got the first one from the Weekly Reader thing in grade school, where you ordered books from that little newsletter in class, and they sent them to you.

Heh! I used to be sort of on the WTF? page for the "new, female Starbuck", despite the fact that I never even really liked the original, even as a kid. I'm SO laughing over that now because as much as I loved the original series as a kid, it really can't hold up to the current incarnation. And Kara rocks so hard. No wonder Dirk Benedict is being such a dick about it. pfft.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

See, see, in reading even the first ten or so pages, I'm going, "THANK GOD THEY MADE SOME OF THEM WOMEN". The amount of men? Is kind of scary. The only women are there to give the men something to react to. They're not even all that interesting in their own right, from what I've seen. ARG.

[starbuck042786.livejournal.com]

DAAAAAAAAAAAMN! I dont think that book will be on my "To Read" list anytime soon.

On a different note- Why were you in the StL? I am a native St. Louisian so I am just curious. Did you do anything fun there?

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Well, technically, I was in Barnhart. But my parents are there, my brother's in Kirkwood (iirc) and my sister's living right by the Science Center. Somewhere off Oakland. I was a native St. Louisian until... 2 years ago? Heh.

But I was there to see my family (more than once a year, yay). I did very little. Spent most of the time marathonning my mother through Farscape. *is evil*

[starbuck042786.livejournal.com]

lol... I live RIGHT by Kirkwood. Ever hear of Affton? Yup... thats me! I also have family in Hilsborough (sp) which is KINDA near Barnhart.

Farscape- YUM!

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

Yup. Dude, the Borders at Lindbergh and Watson? Best. Borders. Ever. I still kinda miss 'em.

[starbuck042786.livejournal.com]

OMG I AM THERE ALL THE TIME! Last summer when I was taking a class at Meramec, I would go there every night and do my homework in the cafe. MMmmMMmm BORDERS!

[lavidaessueno.livejournal.com]

I READ THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS WEE!

[aj.livejournal.com]

Omg. So Mom and Dad really ARE OldSkoolGodDad split in half?

...

AWESOME.

[lyssie.livejournal.com]

YES. Except that Mom would totally smack Dad if he ever said something about how a woman's only job in life was to get herself a man. And then there would be no sex for, like, two weeks.

And everyone on the Galactica would suffer, except Starbuck, who would mock him a lot.

[aj.livejournal.com]

Oh, she wouldn't smack him. She'd look at him over her glasses and use the icy tone with an "Oh, reeeeeally." And then give him the "You poor, stupid, stupid man." look and THEN cut him off for two weeks.

And yes. They would SUFFER. Except Starbuck and Cally and Dee who'd be all "Well, YOU'RE the fuckup, no sympathy here and if you yell at us... Mom taught us the glare."