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Firstly, congrats to all my fine American friends! *throws confetti* I admit to getting just a wee bit teary myself when watching the proceedings. Just a little. ;)

Also, and I realize I may be alone in this, I've actually really been enjoying being outside in the bone-chilling temperatures of the last ten days or so. (And I should add that's in part because I don't have to spend very long outside at a time - generally just getting to and from work. There's something very...cleansing about it. My grandmother was right: it IS brisk and bracing. Though it helps that I like it because I have warm, warm clothes, so it's just my face that gets cold, not my body. That's at work. :P Stupid desk against an outside uninsulated wall. *kicks it*

And because I blather on so much about That One Show Wot I Love (new episodes, wheee!), I thought this time I'd focus on a different one: Battlestar Galactica! They're back, yaaay! I'll put my few thoughts about the webisodes and this first episode so far under a cut, but I also had to share this exchange from an improv show I went to last weekend called Battleawesome Awesomestar (see, this post title isn't a spoiler, it's the name of the show! *beams*). It was based on the loose script of the cylons having sabotaged something, with the audience choosing the something. It ended up being cellphones and toothbrushes, which led to the following exchange.

President Laura Roslin (who has cancer, for those who don't watch the show), dramatically, after she realizes her toothbrush is gone: I have CANCER and I have PLAQUE. And there's only one of those things I can do anything about!
Billy (her aide): *nods sympathetically, then looks puzzled* ...wait, you mean the plaque, righ-
Roslin: YES I MEAN THE PLAQUE!


Also, there seems to be a vid of another bit I really liked on YouTube

Hee! Okay, maybe I just amuse easily. Anyway, if any Torontonians are interested, the show runs for another couple of Saturdays; details here.

OMG GAETA'S QUEEEEEEER! YAAAAY!!! I swear, that realization had me riding a little high the rest of the evening. Also, they really seem to be setting him up as the Fifth cylon, eh?

I love Gaeta. MOAR GAETA PLEASE.

Apparently today's episode was brought to you by the word "despair" and the letter "Y". And Lee and Kara being all baffled at Dualla's suicide? Look, I understand that there are times when it can be really hard to understand why people kill themselves, but I would argue that days when you discover there is no hope for humanity would be PRETTY EASY TO FIGURE OUT, GUYS.

I have to admit to being amused by everyone wandering around despondently whenever they're on a Vancouver beach with fucked-up lighting applied the nuclear wasteland that is now Earth. Particularly during that first flashback scene to the end of last season. I know it's supposed to be a terrible moment, but I have to keep fighting the urge to giggle, because all I can do is picture the director's directions to everyone:

"Okay, so you're all full of DESPAIR as you wander about. So what I need you to all do is MILL DESPONDENTLY. Got that? Okay, ready, set, aaaand...MILL!"

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Date: 2009-01-21 02:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nixwilliams.livejournal.com
hi you! if you want to exchange just a few degrees of cool for some of our heat, i think a lot of people would thank you!

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Date: 2009-01-22 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dendritejungle.livejournal.com
O HAI MISTER! *GLOMPS*

Heh. I'm happy to swap some cold - but only if I get to travel with it. XD

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Date: 2009-01-23 03:09 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] neeuqdrazil.livejournal.com
And I'll only let you take it if I get to go with you!

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Date: 2009-01-21 10:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lostandalone22.livejournal.com
I enjoy being outside in the cold sometimes, too.

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Date: 2009-01-22 01:43 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dendritejungle.livejournal.com
It can be really lovely, eh?

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Date: 2009-01-22 01:53 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] soprano-yvonne.livejournal.com
I am SO excited to be moving to the US. As for all the people who questioned my decision? Looks like the tables may have turned...

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Date: 2009-01-24 10:33 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dendritejungle.livejournal.com
Aw, I'm glad you're happy to be going! :D I have to admit I'd still rather be here where I grew up and know best, but it's definitely a better time to be going to the States than this time last week! :)

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Date: 2009-01-24 08:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacredwhimsy.livejournal.com
Ouch cancer spoiler! Though that is a great quote.
(Yes, I know that I am a bad, bad nerd and it's my own fault for not having caught up on BSG since, um, the miniseries, but still...;_;)

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Date: 2009-01-24 10:40 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dendritejungle.livejournal.com
I thought that was in one of her first scenes in the miniseries, which makes it not much of a spoiler? (Or was it a flashback and I'm just confused, and we don't find that out until later!?!) Either way, sort of sorry...it is a five-year-old spoiler, after all. ;P But go! Watch! Excellent series! I didn't like the miniseries much, but loved the show proper...

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Date: 2009-01-26 08:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sacredwhimsy.livejournal.com
Y'know, you might be right? It was SO LONG ago. Definitely she doesn't spend much time dealing with it that I've seen, because of the whole "Oops, Education Minister now = prez of humanity" thing taking up her attention. My laptop's been on the fritz since like November, I should be FINALLY getting it back today so I can start downloading things again. W00t!

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