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I woke up during a dream in which I was playing The Sims 3 on a supercomputer. I got bored and had my avatar try to convince the other Sims that they were Sims. I told the computer to change the settings to prove it to them, but it kept arguing with me because the scientist who made it hadn't told it to that. I threatened to delete all its file folders, but it knew I was bluffing.
Firefly: The Complete Series has arrived, along with the soundtracks for Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away. I hope Firefly lives up to expectations. I'm going to wait to see it until there's a discount to purchase the movie Serenity, though. Then I can view it all in one run.
I'm enjoying reading the Babylon 5 novel, To Dream In the City of Sorrows, which arrived yesterday. I finished re-reading The Golden Compass recently and started re-reading The Subtle Knife. My parents and I watched the DVD of The Golden Compass yesterday, which was the first time my father had seen the movie. My parents still need to read the His Dark Materials trilogy. My mother and I are starting a re-watch of Neverwhere today.
Excited for Dollhouse tomorrow! Battlestar Galactica: The Plan and Doctor Who: The Next Doctor will be arriving next week!
If you haven't already, I suggest all BSG fans without spoilerphobia head to http://www.battlestargalacticadvd.com/, where there are three clips from The Plan.
Sidenote: The Final Five comic issue #3 actually has Tyrol use the abbreviation "Rez Hub". Too bad it's not canon.
Last night, I was struck by the similarity between what the Dollhouse does to its Actives and Yubaba's taking of her servants' true names in Spirited Away.
Just came back from seeing the movie 9 with my mother. Good stuff. Great visuals, interesting characters and story. It's foggy what the scientist's master plan with the talisman and the BRAIN was, but not too foggy for my brain to fill in the gaps, and it doesn't detract enough from the rest of the movie.
Only one female ragdoll, but she's the only warrior and voiced by Sarah from Labyrinth, so.
Carmen from Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead set a bunch of grey terrier dogs, tabby cats, and pidgeons on Eve and Lindsey from Angel while Alec from Dark Angel watched stupefied and the Series 4 "Doctor's Theme" played. Then I woke up and was disappointed that it hadn't been a real episode, but resolved to write it into my plot bunnies. Then I woke up again, this time for real.
Had several unrelated dreams of little coherence last night. Some were BSG and had the characters in the wrong places because it was supposed to be different characters in those scenes. For example, Tory when it was supposed to be Boomer. My brain's explanation for this: It's an episode where the characters are having a dream sequence.
Dreams I can remember:
*Tory/Boomer with Cavil. For some reason the Eights were with Cavil whereas the Sixes were correctly with Galactica. Something was going on about human families, including children, being processed and killed. Eights were cooing over the fact that there were children around. It was supposed to be Cavil's fleet but it was a lot like New Caprica. In appearance, it was like a hotel designed by MC Escher. Cavil studying All Along the Watchtower (except it was actually random paragraphs of words and not AATW, but I thought it was AATW and I got the tune right at least) to uncover the Final Five's master plan. Plan was put into motion. New Caprica-esque explosions.
*Draco Malfoy in Ravenclaw AU. I thought this was a fanfic I was creating, even though I was seeing it play out before me in the dream. I argued with myself about what kind of changes to canon plot development make sense. I planned to do Sirius Black in Slytherin next.
*Myself skimming through episodes of that old show Max Steel online. The dream videos, of course, bore little resemblance to the show in reality. They were very short and all the action happened either at the end or the beginning of each one. This annoyed me.
Edit: Agreement over at Battlestar Blog: http://community.livejournal.com/battles
And yes, I know Maren died, but in my dream, she hadn't.
Since the Cylons of Battlestar Galactica have the ability to manufacture hordes of living humanoid bodies with no consciousness in them, they would be able to peacefully solve the host body problems of the Animorphs Yeerks or the food source problems of the Stargate Atlantis Wraith.
Hey, Battlestar fans on the flist. Someone uploaded the video from the Season 4.5 Set about making The Plan to Youtube six days ago. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iehQ_2X6y
My Battlestar Wiki summary and analysis for issue 4 is up, and it's the best issue yet, so please go and look at it, flist, and let me know here what you think!
http://en.battlestarwiki.org/wiki/Battle
The polls are open. One vote per day per valid email address. http://www.airlockalpha.com/genre-awards/2
My choices:
Best Actor/Television - Jensen Ackles
Best Actress/Televsion - Catherine Tate
Best Supporting Actor/Television - James Callis
Best Supporting Actress/Television - Grace Park
Best Episode/Television - Turn Left (alternatively, Daybreak, Part II)
Best Guest Star/Television - Kate Vernon
Best Young Actor - Thomas Dekker (alternatively, Thomas Knight)
Best Actor/Movie - Zachary Quinto
Best Actress/Movie - Maggie Gwyllenhaal
Best Website - Gateworld
Best Web Production - Battlestar Galactica: The Face of the Enemy
Best Movie - The Dark Knight
Best Series/Television - Battlestar Galactica
Gene Roddenberry Lifetime Achievement Award - Majel Barrett Roddenberry
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