After being confronted by not one but two mods on GW, I've realized that I cannot even insinuate on that forum that there may be conflict between the SGA PTB and one or more actors. Even though Torri stated that she kept on going to the writers asking for more, they waved her away, and later that season they told her she could drop to recurring or leave. Even though JF has made numerous comments at cons about how TPTB no longer do script read-throughs, that his ideas often get rebutted into oblivion, etc etc. Nope, zip it at GW. You aren't allowed to infer that conflicts have occurred or are still occurring. The only assumptions that are apparently allowed are that everything is peachy keen in real life, people are never dumped or otherwise insulted because they don't get along with the people in charge, everyone loves everyone. If you think otherwise, you have to keep your damn mouth shut. Got it. Pass the kool-aid, eh?

And I love how people indirectly slam comments by gushing over their rebuttals. Simpering, "oh, your post was GREAT! So full of LOGIC and COMMON SENSE!" or "Finally, a post with some SANITY!" Bunch of cowards.

Note to self: Do not bother trying to argue with idiots on GW who think that evolution is a bunch of lies propagated by indoctrination by those who "worship" Darwin while simultaneously arguing that creationism is somehow scientific.

Additional note to self: Do not bother trying to argue with idiots on GW who do not think what Lucius did to his wives (and would have potentially done to Weir and/or Teyla) was rape. Apparently the wives and the team still had free will, see, because they weren't running around like a bunch of zombies. Therefore, since they weren't zombies they were obviously making choices and what Lucius did to them was not rape. Yes, his wives deep down chose to marry him, Weir deep down was ready to marry him, Rodney chose to love him after being tortured by him, and Ronon thought he was the cat's meow even though Ronon never trusted outsiders. Wow. Also, I find it interesting that the loudest group of people defending Lucius are teenage boys. Scary.

Further note to self: Do not bother arguing with idiots on GW who are so blinded by their love for the show and TPTB that they have to question your every critique or come riding to the rescue of Joe M every time someone says something bad or even can be construed as bad about him. To those people TPTB can do no wrong and Joe M shits gold, therefore any problems found in the show or with Joe M's poor behavior toward fans are all the viewer's fault. Seriously, some people even posted that if you get upset with how Joe M insults certain fans then it must be because deep down you did something to deserve such insults, not because you have a problem with the EXECUTIVE PRODUCER of a TV show generally acting like a shit. Wow.

Final note to self: Do not bother trying to argue with idiots on GW who think that 1) people should not voice their criticisms with an ep or a season but instead should turn off the TV and shut the hell up or that 2) people are stupid for giving up on the show after s4 because s5 hasn't aired yet and HOW CAN YOU KNOW IT'S GOING TO BE BAD, OMG? In other words, critiquing the show and deciding to still watch it is bad, critiquing the show and deciding not to watch it is bad, praise of any sort no matter how speculative is good. Sigh.


Lots of idiots on GW recently. Maybe I need to slap more people on ignore and go read a nice book instead.

Hmm...LJ go BOOM the last couple of days. Such a loud boom it was even a featured article on slashdot. Yikes.

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what happened. I think the oddest thing is that LJ has taken a hands-off policy with users and coms in the past, claiming that they don't get involved unless and illegal act has occurred. And now this new group (if it is indeed a group and not a couple of individuals. Or Rupert Murdoch. ;)) comes in and somehow scares LJ enough that they suspend all sorts of users and coms, a good chunk of them apparently unwarranted. So what's different about this WFI group? Why did LJ change its policy for this event, since writing and reading fanfic, no matter how sexually deviant, is not an illegal crime? And why did LJ kowtow to them? I have a hard time picturing WFI as a legit, intelligent group when they have rebutted any attempt at discussion on this topic with "if you don't like it, you're really a pedo." Charming.


In other news I took Kiwi to the vet today because he has a dark area between his beak and his nostrils. I was worried about mites or another infestation, but the vet thought it was a bruise. He did whack himself last weekend, so maybe that was it. Kiwi weighed in at 30 grams, which the vet thought was a bit light. The recommendation was to feed him more carbs, like whole grain pasta and rice. He also needs to get more protein, so I'm going to feed him more beans and start feeding him hard boiled egg. There's something...weird about feeding a bird scrambled eggs. They also recommend feeding him chicken! O_O

And in fandom news, it's official. The fourth season of BSG will be its last, starting with the 2 ep-worth Pegasus movie in the fall and concluding with a full 20 episode season. Rumblings are that the season will be split up, with the first half airing starting in January and the second half airing toward the end of 2008. I figured this would be the case after EJO made those comments at the Saturn Awards and Eick posted a half-assed response. It will be sad to see the show go, but now TPTB know exactly what they're dealing with and can (hopefully) write one hell of a final season and series ender.

Because I thought some humor was appropriate...

It's currently in the 20s and snowing. STOP THAT RIGHT NOW! On the positive side, the grass has turned back from sickly yellow to vibrant green and the trees and bushes are finally starting to bud. Hooray for spring!

Alas, I am going to be stuck doing experiments this weekend, so no Easter brunch for me. I'll probably bake my family's traditional Easter lemon crescent rolls and send them with the bf when he goes to see his fam.

In other news, I lost a bit of love for RDM today. Apparently there was a throwdown between him and fans on the TWoP BSG boards regarding spoilers. Someone had posted the entire synopsis of the s3 finale in the spoiler thread because they had seen one of the screeners that TPTB had sent out. RDM sent an email to the forum mod (who also posts extremely detailed and almost overwhelmingly positive episode reviews) basically saying "Hey, love your reviews, but delete this spoiler post immediately." The mod was a bit cranky at the tone of the letter and became even more cranky because they have to go into the spoiler thread, effectively spoiling themselves completely about the finale.

Now I know that RDM really, REALLY dislikes having spoilers sneak out before eps air. According to rumor, he had a fit when those plot-spoilery pictures were posted for the s2 finale. But come on Ron, what did you honestly expect when you released screeners to the general public? It was your mistake and trying to force damage control onto the internet just makes you look demanding.

Also, while on the topic of my crankiness toward TPTBs, I've given up on following Joe M's Stargate blog. It was fun in the beginning, but now the blog comments are overwhelming fan vs. fan infighting. I'm tired of the posters with an agenda. I'm tired of the posters who have ugly things to say about TPTB. I'm tired of the posters who defend TPTB by replying with ugly things about the fans. I'm tired of the posters who always post on his blog and pretend that they're all buddy-buddy with him. I'm tired of the posters who would rather snipe at other comments than post about Joe's blog. I'm tired of Joe obviously feeding the infighting by allowing anonymous posting and letting the nastiest posts through his screen. I'm tired of the fans who lash out at those that post anonymously yet use obviously fake user names. I'm tired of the arrogance and the condescension and the overall insanity. So, bye bye blog!

Fandom can be like a rabid dog in a cage. Often loud, often mean, but ultimately powerless when it comes to big show decisions. Wise PTBs realize this and either ignore the dog, try to help it out, or just be polite. Foolish PTB poke the dog with a stick. I'm fed up with Joe M's stick poking, even if it's not directly aimed at my segment of the fandom.

All the nonstop talk about Atlantis's s4 over on GW has finally wore me out. Same old, same old from everyone involved. Rant rant rant, bash bash bash. Too many threads about the changes in s4 or threads taken over by s4 talk. Fan bashing and fan elitism (in the form of "Oh, I'm going to wait and see what happens, I'm much more RATIONAL and MATURE than anyone complaining.") Time to restrict myself to certain threads to spare my sanity.

Ack. *headdesk* *goes to read a safe damn book*

(spoilery comments about Atlantis s4 likely in any comments)

aaobuttons: And look, This page here: http://telephage4.bloxode.com/page,2.html has a bunch of McWeir prettiness, but it's in French so I don't know what they're saying :(

HyperCaz: there are a lot of French mcweir shippers. It's quite strange. One of them translated my little random fics on a forum. :D

ToasterOnFire: Heh. Our new slogan should be "McWeir: it has that je ne sais quoi". :D :D

HyperCaz: J'adore McWeir!!! :D

Also, I'm taking part in the Stargate friending meme here. It's nice because people are posting their favorite charaters, ships, other fandoms, etc. Anyone looking for new Stargate-y friends should check it out. 1400 posts, wow. O_O

The space bar on my keyboard has gone wonkey and I have to beat the crap out of it with my thumb to get it to work. Really slows down my words per minute, ack.

Lookie! Early Pegasus 2 con photos of David Hewlett snurched from suekay_87!! (click on spoiler tags to see photos.)

http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost.php?p=6288403&postcount=18610
http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost.php?p=6288408&postcount=18611
http://forum.gateworld.net/showpost.php?p=6288425&postcount=18612


OMG, DH AND MY BF HAVE THE SAME BROWN SHIRT OF AWESOME! Is this some sort of sign?

AND THERE ARE REPORTS THAT DH WAS GIVEN A M/W BADGE!!! *dies*

Okay, I think this group of anime fansubbers is acting like a bunch of wankers.

I've been d/ling a fansub of the anime Code Geass. I'm up to episode 14 and it's a great series so far. The subs have been released as .mkv files and I've been playing them on VLC player with no problems.

Today the fansubbers released episode 15 and while the video is fine there's no subtitles. I went to their website and others have posted wondering what's up with the recent change. The fansubbers respond with "VLC Player sucks, use blah blah blah player instead and xxx codec package." They apparently hate VLC Player with a passion, which is their right I guess, but it doesn't explain why the first 14 episodes played just fine on VLC.

And then someone posted about how the fansubbers have somehow altered the code (?) of the episode file to intentionally make it so VLC Player can't recognize the subtitles. So it was working fine before and then they intentionally sabotaged their release to stick it to the "VLC man" or something. And then they act all snooty and rude to all the fans who are wondering what's going on.

Wow, what a bunch of asses. Looks like I'll be waiting for another, more pro-fan fansub group to pick up this anime.