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seriousficSo I recently took a look at the series bible for Battlestar Galactica. For those who don't know, a series bible is sort of a cheat sheet for writers. Before you start writing a TV show or a comic book, you write up a series bible which contains the backstory of your characters, the look and feel of your project, and other miscellany. That way, when you're in the middle of writing a script, you don't have to comb through other scripts for a detail, you can just flip to the appropriate page in the series bible.
Also, after the series has ended, fans can look at the series bible and laugh up how wrong everything is. Take Battlestar Galatica. At first, it seems like just cheap irony... the show bible goes on and on about how it's about characters and not sci-fi bullshit, when the final season ended up being almost entirely sci-fi bullshit (sorry, metaphysical bullshit. That's profound!). But then we get to Kara Thrace... Folks, I don't know what I can say to this, so I'm just going to use some of my gifs.
She drank too much, gambled too much, broke curfew almost daily, somehow always managed to be involved in any bar fight at the local watering holes and had a reputation for leaving a string of men with broken hearts and broken backs after sexual encounters that were more akin to a game of tackle Pyramid than lovemaking.
It was there that Kara met Zak Adama and fell in love for the first time in her life. There'd never been a lack of men in her life, but she'd never seriously considered the possibility of a long-term relationship. Zak was different. Something about him touched and moved Kara, made her want to break all the rules of the heart she'd lived by all her life.
When she met Zak's brother Lee, she briefly thought she'd made a profound mistake. While Zak touched her maternal instincts, made her want to protect and nurture the shy, young pilot, his brother touched her in a deeper and more womanly way.
Lee Adama's entire carriage and attitude was a challenge to Kara Thrace, and Kara Thrace had never walked away from a challenge. But then the weekend passed, and Lee left to rejoin his squadron, and Kara firmly put aside the feelings as the momentary wandering of a rogue's heart.
Now comes the Saul/Ellen relationship. You should know that Ellen used to be named Sherry. Because how much does Tigh love alcohol? So much that he MARRIED SHERRY.
Then came Sherry. She was gorgeous, vivacious and everything that Saul could want in a woman. The whirlwind courtship lasted all of two months and then they were married. It was the biggest mistake of his life. Sherry didn't take to military life, didn't like the customs and protocols, certainly didn't like having her husband away for long period of time when she was supposed to play the loving wife all by herself back at the base. Sherry had appetites and once Saul was gone, she began to feed them. Saul was no fool and he quickly became aware that he was being cuckolded. But Sherry had some almost mystical hold over him and he found himself unable to either stop her infidelities or to leave her. He began drinking again.
Tl;dr -
Also, did you know that Kara was supposed to have a threesome with Six and Baltar? Yes, after Lee and Kara have a one-night stand (!)...
At first holding [Baltar] in contempt as an arrogant intellectual, [Kara] finds that the more she abuses him and punctures his ego, the more oddly attracted to her he seems to be, and slowly she finds herself beginning to feel the same way. Truly, they will become the oddest couple of all.
I'm assuming that means S&M.
Six will challenge and seduce him both intellectually and physically, even seeming to join in one heated night when Baltar and another woman find themselves in bed.
Well, okay, if that's the "oddest couple," then I guess this whole thing wasn't too shocking...
Perhaps most unexpected of all, Lee will develop a budding attraction for Laura on a personal level--an unexpected quality of their close interaction and one that actually makes him a quasi-rival to his father, increasing rather than decreasing their conflicted relationship.
...the subtext was intentional.
THE SUBTEXT WAS INTENTIONAL.
THE SUBTEXT WAS INTENTIONAL!
Also, after the series has ended, fans can look at the series bible and laugh up how wrong everything is. Take Battlestar Galatica. At first, it seems like just cheap irony... the show bible goes on and on about how it's about characters and not sci-fi bullshit, when the final season ended up being almost entirely sci-fi bullshit (sorry, metaphysical bullshit. That's profound!). But then we get to Kara Thrace... Folks, I don't know what I can say to this, so I'm just going to use some of my gifs.
She drank too much, gambled too much, broke curfew almost daily, somehow always managed to be involved in any bar fight at the local watering holes and had a reputation for leaving a string of men with broken hearts and broken backs after sexual encounters that were more akin to a game of tackle Pyramid than lovemaking.
It was there that Kara met Zak Adama and fell in love for the first time in her life. There'd never been a lack of men in her life, but she'd never seriously considered the possibility of a long-term relationship. Zak was different. Something about him touched and moved Kara, made her want to break all the rules of the heart she'd lived by all her life.
When she met Zak's brother Lee, she briefly thought she'd made a profound mistake. While Zak touched her maternal instincts, made her want to protect and nurture the shy, young pilot, his brother touched her in a deeper and more womanly way.
Lee Adama's entire carriage and attitude was a challenge to Kara Thrace, and Kara Thrace had never walked away from a challenge. But then the weekend passed, and Lee left to rejoin his squadron, and Kara firmly put aside the feelings as the momentary wandering of a rogue's heart.
Now comes the Saul/Ellen relationship. You should know that Ellen used to be named Sherry. Because how much does Tigh love alcohol? So much that he MARRIED SHERRY.
Then came Sherry. She was gorgeous, vivacious and everything that Saul could want in a woman. The whirlwind courtship lasted all of two months and then they were married. It was the biggest mistake of his life. Sherry didn't take to military life, didn't like the customs and protocols, certainly didn't like having her husband away for long period of time when she was supposed to play the loving wife all by herself back at the base. Sherry had appetites and once Saul was gone, she began to feed them. Saul was no fool and he quickly became aware that he was being cuckolded. But Sherry had some almost mystical hold over him and he found himself unable to either stop her infidelities or to leave her. He began drinking again.
Tl;dr -
Also, did you know that Kara was supposed to have a threesome with Six and Baltar? Yes, after Lee and Kara have a one-night stand (!)...
At first holding [Baltar] in contempt as an arrogant intellectual, [Kara] finds that the more she abuses him and punctures his ego, the more oddly attracted to her he seems to be, and slowly she finds herself beginning to feel the same way. Truly, they will become the oddest couple of all.
I'm assuming that means S&M.
Six will challenge and seduce him both intellectually and physically, even seeming to join in one heated night when Baltar and another woman find themselves in bed.
Well, okay, if that's the "oddest couple," then I guess this whole thing wasn't too shocking...
Perhaps most unexpected of all, Lee will develop a budding attraction for Laura on a personal level--an unexpected quality of their close interaction and one that actually makes him a quasi-rival to his father, increasing rather than decreasing their conflicted relationship.
...the subtext was intentional.
THE SUBTEXT WAS INTENTIONAL.
THE SUBTEXT WAS INTENTIONAL!
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Date: 2010-12-23 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-23 08:12 pm (UTC)I WIN
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Date: 2010-12-23 11:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-23 11:28 pm (UTC)I WILL find a way to work this phrase into a conversation.
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Date: 2010-12-24 12:23 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-12-24 02:15 am (UTC)That and Laura turning out to be the Final Cylon. GAH! It was *so* easy not to mess this up.
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Date: 2010-12-24 03:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-24 04:09 am (UTC)Which, really, is sort of the story of BSG, in general.