Okay. Now that that's out of the way. The new BSG is one of the best shows I've seen in the past... ever. I watched the two-part pilot and the first few episodes of season one, then dropped everything, went out, and bought the complete seasons 1 and 2 box-set.
If you're not of that particular geeky bent, you're going to look at me funny when I tell you that a sci-fi show will be the most utterly devastatingly emotionally real, intellectually incisive, politically accurate and just plain relevant thing you'll have seen on tv in a long time, but it's true. And don't let that put you off, because it's FRAKKING AWESOME as well. It has everything. No, seriously. Everything. Spot-on politics, heart-rendingly flawed characters, thought-provoking moral questions, Classics geekery (♥!!!), musings on religion and spirituality, and EXPLOSIONS. Whatever you like, BSG has it.
Unless you like never crying. In that case, BSG may not be for you.
Flawed, sure; its overall pacing is a bit jerky, and the second half of season 2 loses the thread a bit. But it still beats most anything else on tv hands down.
This is such a lame review. I am just too floored to speak coherently about the show.
...and I just felt the urge to let the world know that Anna Torv's Leonard Nimoy impression is causing me to lose it in possibly permanently damaging ways.
This show has gone completely bananas, and I love it.
I did another thing! For Chrome and Firefox this time.
Good: Via a bit of URL wizardry, both Dreamwidth and LiveJournal allow you to filter entries by multiple tags, and - in communities - by poster. Awesome!
Bad: The only place these functions are noted on either site is in the FAQs, where you have to go and look up the formulae every time you want to use them. Boo!
In non-geeky slightly less geeky news, apologies to everyone I was chatting with last night when I vanished! My internets crapped out, and after several rather cross attempts to reconnect, I instead decided to take it as a sign and went to bed.
So, Firefox has an excellent extension called LiveJournal Hook, which adds a right-click menu to the update/comment boxes on LJ, for easy insertion of HTML and site-specific tags. It's compatible with Dreamwidth, and includes the ability to save your own custom bits of text or code to add to the menu.
Chrome, alas, does not have LJ Hook, and there are at present no plans to port it. What Chrome does have is the Insert Text extension, which, similar to LJ Hook, allows you to save custom snippets to a right-click menu and drop them into any text area.
What it also does, is allow you to import pre-configured text snippets.
Take one free afternoon, a cup of common HTML tags, and a liberal dash of LJ & DW-specific markup, mix well, and let set.
→ Finally finishing unpacking! Look, shut up, I am constitutionally incapable of throwing away useless crap in case I need it some day, so finding space for everything I brought home and chucking out as much as I did is a big achievement! Also, ALL MY BOOKS ARE NOW ON BOOKSHELVES or satisfactory approximations thereof. THIS IS A STATE OF AFFAIRS THAT HAS NOT EXISTED FOR SOME YEARS.
→ Somewhat relatedly: packages! Specifically, ones from silveraspen and unravels. Thank you guys so much. I may or may not have gotten a little verklempt in a seasonally-appropriate manner; what is certain is that I am currently keeping my ears warm with a silly hat, and that Full Dark, No Stars has just jumped up to the next spot in my reading list.
→ T-minus 3 days until the premiere of Eternal Law. A genial Good Omens rip-off with Tobias Menzies, Sam West, silly wigs and shitty special effects? BE STILL MY BEATING HEART. I don't know why fandom isn't all over this show - as it is, the entire '#eternal law' tag on Tumblr is basically elb and I screaming joyfully at each other. Get on this, fandom!
The Bad:
→ Finally finishing unpacking. I'm just saying, there's a reason it took me so long. Depressing process, depressing symbolism, depressing drawers full of depressing relics, etc.
→ Family. Never change. Or... do. Yeah.
The Ugly:
→ I am still spitting mad over the Sherlock premiere. Without spoiling anything, it was made all the more bitter by the fact that it was actually amazing!... right up until it plowed head-on into the iceberg of Steven Moffat's misogyny and sank straight to the ocean floor of fail. It's like he and Julian Fellowes had a competition to see who could make the most egregiously offensive holiday special, and oust Ryan Murphy from his throne of prime-time insensitivity. I... I'm so angry, I am mixing metaphors!
I've already spent quite some time ranting about this over on Tumblr (as those of you who follow me are no doubt painfully aware /o\); if I can manage to assemble all my thoughts into a coherent whole, I may post about it here, but, uh. Since I keep devolving into keysmashing and capslock whenever I talk about it, I wouldn't necessarily hold out much hope.
(If you want to talk about it in the comments, though, that is another story altogether. Just saying.)
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