Lucy Talks

baliao asked me: Why Pilots?

The shallow answer is because they’re pretty together.  A less shallow answer is because
Jamie and Katee knocked it out every time they had a scene together.  They put so much
subtext into every interaction that I couldn’t help myself.

I didn’t fall for Kara/Starbuck the first time I saw her.  It wasn’t until the brig scene that I really
saw there was more to this woman than met the eye.  That’s also when I fell in love with Pilots.

Jamie and Katee played Lee and Kara as formerly intimate friends who’d fallen out with
each other somehow.  There were subtle clues in their body language that told me these
two had known each other - well - once upon a time.  To me, it was obvious there was
more to their relationship than just whatever she’d been to his brother.

They gave that scene a sense of physical synchronicity - leaning toward each other and
leaning away again at the same time as each other.  And even as Lee was leaving after

their exchange grew heated, they were still comfortable with each other in a way two
people wouldn’t be who had never been close.

I love the friends-to-lovers trope, and I love couples who have a LOT to overcome to be
together.  Obviously, her being involved with his brother in some way would be a huge
impediment to a future relationship.

Kara’s line “And what was he to me, nothing?” sealed that for me.  I thought fiance or
husband, and they didn’t clear that up until Act of Contrition.  Either way, it would have
made for delicious drama, in my opinion.  This sort of angsty end-of-the-world foundation
for a pairing between these two was totally up my alley.

The bottom line is that without Jamie and Katee, it might not have (read probably wouldn’t
have) worked for me.  There was just so much in their facial expressions and body
language that hooked me but good from their first interaction.

Today's BlogHer prompt:  Tell us about a blog post that you didn't publish.

Hmm.  I've got two posts languishing in my blogger drafts:  Invisible Illness and Facing Our Demons.  Both are intensely personal, and though I'm pretty open about many things on my blog, these two have just sat there in my drafts waiting for the right moment or something.  I'm not sure whether I'm afraid to post them, or really just waiting for a signal that it's the right time.  

Caught up on Crossing Lines.  I'm still liking it, especially the international flavor, but if it went away, I probably wouldn't even notice.

Sleepy Hollow.  Watched the first three eps.  Love.  It.  And not just because Tom Mison is a hottie.  Which he totally is.  I want to watch more, right frakkin' now.  It's got me intrigued.

Blue Bloods.  I'm kind of rooting for Jamie to finally get a relationship -
there seem to be hints of that in the new partner, which would of course be totally against regs, but not the first time patrol partners have gotten busy.
Anyway.  Tom Selleck still has it when he grins - really grins, not the fake ones.  He gets this glint of mischief in his eyes, and it does not matter even a tiny bit that he's actually 68 years old.  This one is a habit, rather than must-see TV, but it's a good habit.  To me it's just a great family drama with some police work thrown in.  lol

NCIS LA.  I'll admit I was looking for something a little more than just Kensi showing up at the last minute and
talking Deeks to sleep.
It was cute, but just seemed a little last minute - "oh yeah, we still have to figure out how to 'fix' Deeks and Kensi, so let's do this."  I loved Sam and Deeks' moment in the hospital room, though.  Very vague and male and saying everything without saying anything.  Much more emotionally impactful to me than that Kensi/Deeks moment at the end of the second ep.  Renee Felice Smith wore a rather unflattering outfit in the second ep.

CSI.  Hmm.  While it's good to finally get a resolution to the Ellie thing, it was an awful lot of trouble for Ellie to go to in order to get back at dear old dad.  Camera angles were odd on both Jorja Fox and Elizabeth Harnois.  I don't know.  They both looked like they're either pregnant or they've put on weight - not that either of them looked bad.  I wish they would figure out what to do with Morgan romantically.  They keep playing pinball and giving us these little moments of friendship that seem like more, and then going nowhere with them.  I did like Ecklie's comment to Morgan about how they need to steer clear of hospitals for a while.

I still need to watch Blacklist, but I can't get into the On Demand to watch the first ep, and only the second ep is on M's DVR.  Annoying.  Haven't gotten to NCIS yet.  Haven't gotten to Person of Interest yet.  Not going to bother with Bones.  Not going to bother with Under the Dome. Continuum got erased from the DVR, so I'll have to find a different way to watch the rest of what's aired.  :(

And there has not been enough smutty writing in this smut weekend - none, in fact.  Whatever is the world coming to when Willow and I cannot write some smut together?  Maybe this afternoon - she'll be gone until at least one for lunch with the fam.

And my long fic is at 77K words, which both thrills and scares me.  If I can write nearly eighty-thousand words of fic, I can write that much or more of original stuff, which kind of covers both the thrilling and the frightening.  Yes, I'm contrary.  I haven't written on it in over a week (hell, I haven't written anything in over a week).  I've been going over things from the beginning and examining from someone else's perspective, since she was kind enough to give it to me, and that has had the rather unfortunate side-effect of making my muse pouty and uncommunicative.  Such a brat.

( Overclocked )

( After Earth )

ETA:  Also, just got another editing enquiry!  For money!  Woot!

Stolen from someone who stole it from someone else.  I've slept since then, so I don't remember from whom.  OK.
My tags lied.  There's not much thinky here, just answers to the questions.

1.How did you get into this fandom?

Watched Dollhouse. Loved Tahmoh. Went looking for anything else he'd been in. Thought, well, people have
been telling me how great BSG is. Found out it was free on Amazon Prime. Mainlined BSG in September.
Went looking for fanfic to fix the Poof.  Found callmeonetrack on ff, then stalked her on lj until she friended
me so I could read the rest of her stuff.  Found lots more fans on lj and decided to come back and play. Started
at the beginning in several comms and worked my way through every single post, and kajillions of comments.

2.If I were to be written in as a character how would I be integrated into the storyline?

Someone behind the scenes who gets things done, organizes stuff, soothes crying babies, doesn't get noticed
until something doesn't happen the way it's supposed to. I would probably not have any lines. At the most, I'd
be an under-five. However, I would not hesitate to point out that Baltar is talking to thin air and somebody needs
to check that man's brain. I'm just blunt that way.

3.What is your current OTP and why?

Lee and Kara.  They love each other.  It’s not always healthy, and it’s not always sane, but it’s always love.
I also love to explore the frakbuddy backstory with Kara and Helo, 'cause Helo's my favorite tall character. :D

4.What is one pairing you hate and why?

I don’t know about hate, but I’m not a Kara/Sam fan, a Helo/Athena fan, an Adama/Roslin fan.  Those pairings just
don’t appeal to me. Like, at all. I can read K/S smut if there's a third party involved. Doesn't even have to be Lee.
I've found very little H/A fic that - I just can't. No matter how good the writer is, I find the two of them boring as hell.
I can read A/R gen fic - like that most recent remix - that was fantastic! The smut is just too much for my delicate
sensibilities. There are some things I just do not wish to see in my head.

CSI - 02/06 - Opens with Greg and Sarah, easily my two favorite characters.  No poker face today, for either of them.  BTW, I hate the predictable thing they're doing with Sarah and Grissom.  There are ways to keep Grissom alive in Sarah's life without Peterson being on the show, but instead they're going with outta sight, Sarah's unhappy.  Ugh.  As for the mystery - much as I want Mac to be happy, and much as I liked Megan Dodds' characters in Ever After and MI-5, I think the character of Christine on CSI:NY is boring.  Mac doesn't need boring.  

CSI:NY - 02/01 - They telegraphed the thing with Lovato and Flack from the very beginning, which is unfortunate. We'll see if they manage to maintain interest in the pairing, and how long they wait to let them sleep together.  I like Lovato a lot, though.  She's fiesty and smart.  I really liked the background music in the scenes where they're working the cars.  Nice emotional ending, uncle remembering his nephew and laughing.  That sort of memory is hard after a death - difficult, but makes the grief process easier in the long run, remembering happy things about the deceased.

02/08 - Conclusion to the 02/06 CSI ep.  So far, much as I hate to say it, I'm just not particularly impressed.