BSG, fandoms, etc...
Feb. 22nd, 2008 12:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dangermousieI am sure everyone has seen the promo S4 Battlestar Galactica photos.
1. The hair! Is it to indicate inner turmoil or something? Both Anders and Lee should seriously learn to spare the hairgel. It's not like they can make more.
2. I remain, as always, humbled by the sheer anatomical impossibility of Six' outfits.
3. I am sorry, that suit, in combo with the pose and hair, makes Lee look not like a defender of rights and freedoms but a sleazy personal injury lawyer from a firm that advertises on billboards with slogans like 'Injured? In trouble? In jail? Call Lee 'the Hammer' Adama, always there for you.'
4. Helo and Athena always makes me squee. If they kill either one off permanently, I will...likely do nothing. But will sulk.
5. Starbuck! Lots of Starbuck. OMG is always appropriate.
6. Baltar's hair seems to have migrated from his head to his chest. Thought of either is unappetizing.
7. Airbrushing of doom.
In other news, this is something that I was thinking about in response to one of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
meganbmoore's posts. I realized I am rather weird in my fiction preferences in one respect: I've seen a lot of comments by people through the years that in order to really enjoy book/movie/whatever, they need a character they can identify with. And I realized that I not only do not need it, I prefer not to have a character like that. Because if there is one, I either get distracted by personal issues or bored because they aren't 'new to me.' I know I generally read/watch to get away from things in everyday, but that is pretty odd. I prefer to have no one to identify with, even if I do usually want characters to like. As I posted in the comments, 'my favorite narratives/characters are never that [identifying-with]. My favorite books are either Lymond Chronicles or Remarque's Three Comrades and I have no identification with any characters in them, male or female. My fave shows are BSG and Farscape and I really have no character who is 'like me' at all in it and don't identify with anyone. Even for my dramas, I don't really identify with most anyone in my fave dramas at all...'
To use the freshest example, I am adoring Hello My Teacher, but even though Bori is an awesome awesome heroine (smart, and optimistic, and kickass), I don't identify with her at all. And I adore Tae-In (ep 7? best confession of love ever. I loled so hard) but it would be a bit odd for me to identify with a 19-year-old troublemaker/gang leader from an abusive family with a dorky sense of humor. So yeah.
Anyway, is anyone else like this? Preferring to have characters to like but not identify with or as a POV character?
Also, checking for Hong Gil Dong subs is torture. But reading Kitchen Confidential is not.
1. The hair! Is it to indicate inner turmoil or something? Both Anders and Lee should seriously learn to spare the hairgel. It's not like they can make more.
2. I remain, as always, humbled by the sheer anatomical impossibility of Six' outfits.
3. I am sorry, that suit, in combo with the pose and hair, makes Lee look not like a defender of rights and freedoms but a sleazy personal injury lawyer from a firm that advertises on billboards with slogans like 'Injured? In trouble? In jail? Call Lee 'the Hammer' Adama, always there for you.'
4. Helo and Athena always makes me squee. If they kill either one off permanently, I will...likely do nothing. But will sulk.
5. Starbuck! Lots of Starbuck. OMG is always appropriate.
6. Baltar's hair seems to have migrated from his head to his chest. Thought of either is unappetizing.
7. Airbrushing of doom.
In other news, this is something that I was thinking about in response to one of
meganbmoore's posts. I realized I am rather weird in my fiction preferences in one respect: I've seen a lot of comments by people through the years that in order to really enjoy book/movie/whatever, they need a character they can identify with. And I realized that I not only do not need it, I prefer not to have a character like that. Because if there is one, I either get distracted by personal issues or bored because they aren't 'new to me.' I know I generally read/watch to get away from things in everyday, but that is pretty odd. I prefer to have no one to identify with, even if I do usually want characters to like. As I posted in the comments, 'my favorite narratives/characters are never that [identifying-with]. My favorite books are either Lymond Chronicles or Remarque's Three Comrades and I have no identification with any characters in them, male or female. My fave shows are BSG and Farscape and I really have no character who is 'like me' at all in it and don't identify with anyone. Even for my dramas, I don't really identify with most anyone in my fave dramas at all...'To use the freshest example, I am adoring Hello My Teacher, but even though Bori is an awesome awesome heroine (smart, and optimistic, and kickass), I don't identify with her at all. And I adore Tae-In (ep 7? best confession of love ever. I loled so hard) but it would be a bit odd for me to identify with a 19-year-old troublemaker/gang leader from an abusive family with a dorky sense of humor. So yeah.
Anyway, is anyone else like this? Preferring to have characters to like but not identify with or as a POV character?
Also, checking for Hong Gil Dong subs is torture. But reading Kitchen Confidential is not.
