Crazy What You Could've Had

[redbrunja]

Yeah, I basically did this two days ago, but it's different, it's character specific. Plus, I'm cleaning just about everything in the house, including my computer, but I think I have ants under my keyboard or behind my bed. Or both. *shudders*


1) Comment with one of my fandoms or a character or two from that fandom.
2) I'll answer with one or two of my unpopular opinions about that fandom or character.

Comments

[birdsarecalling.livejournal.com]

OMG! I just noticed Tramps Like Us in your tags! And no one has ever read it!

*Cough* But that fandom isn't big enough for popular versus unpopular opinions. SO.

I'll say... Starbuck.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD YOU ARE LIKE MY SMALL-FANDOM OTHER HALF! *hugs*

And yes, I actually need to do a pimp post for Tramps Like Us, because it is awesome (have you read the final volume yet?) Is there even an lj com for it?

But on to Starbuck (I've been out of the fandom for a while, so I'm not sure how current these are):

1.) Starbuck is just as awesome as the writers and her fans think she is.

2.) It makes perfect sense for her to go marry Anders after Lee said "i love you" because she is just that self-destructive and fracked up, but that doesn't permit you, Lee Adama, to compound her stupidity and drag Dee into it, even if I did lose all respect for her after she trash-talked Billy after breaking up with him.

3.) I'm sorry she got promoted. I wish they could have fanagled it so that she was Lee's second and he was the CAG forever.

And for you... Adama senior.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

"And yes, I actually need to do a pimp post for Tramps Like Us, because it is awesome (have you read the final volume yet?) Is there even an lj com for it?"

The drama was pretty popular, and had carryover manga fans, and when you get that combo, a community tends to spring up.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I am going to have to track down the drama, because I didn't get to watch it before they took it off youtube.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The drama is...decent? I very much like the leads, nd it had a number of good moments, but I think the only one I really liked was Sumire.

Note: Domyoji plays Momo.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Domyoji of the flawless skin, high cheekbones and bitable mouth? He's in everything.

I'm going to need to learn his actual name.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Matsumoto Jun.

HYD 1 and 2(have you seen/are you going to see HYD2?)

He does a good bit of stuff, though I think he mostly does his band stuff and movies these days. He's a very good actor.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

I'm slowly going through HYD 1 -we'll see if I end up liking it enough to get the second season/series.

Yeah, he is a good actor. Although so far in Gokusen, I keep wanting to tell him to dial the volume down and stop yelling.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Heh. In Gokusen's defense, it's meant to be rather cracked out, and the boys are meant to be more of obnoxious hoodlums than they are in the live action, hence the yelling. It was also one of his first really big roles(he did kindaichi before it, which was good, but I don't think it was a big role for him...it was straightforward story and mystery, not a vehicle.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I get the cracked out vibes from it. ...also, I'm watching the live action. Do you mean it's meant to be more cracked out than the anime?

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I don't think that it's more cracked out than the anime, really. It's more like it's a live action that treats itself like an anime, if that makes sense.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Totally.

[birdsarecalling.livejournal.com]

I have! It was great. ;__; I'm going to miss it now that it's gone, but I'm glad the author didn't try to drag things out for too long.

I'm not sure if there's an LJ comm. The drama came out a few years ago, so there's not really any new content left for the series. Hm.


1) Adama isn't that bad of a father. While he may have been a absent parent while Lee was a child, most of their current rift comes down to Lee's constant petulance.

2) Like Starbuck, Adama can't really function as a person outside of the military. That's why he's such a good commander. Being an officer isn't his job, it's what he is.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I read the 12 manga and thought "this was perfect - oh no, should I stop reading now?' (partially because I didn't get that the women talking were his sister - I thought they were going to try and do some, 'oh, he's been cheat on Sumire' thing, which. No. No way.) and then I found out that the next volume was the last, and I was like, 'thank you so much for not ruining this for me.'

ETA: by_the_leash

And I like your comments about Adama. Especially about how alike he and Starbuck are.

[birdsarecalling.livejournal.com]

I like your comment that Starbuck is awesome! Because she is.

I've always thought she and Adama were sort of alike, in that being military officers is an integral part of their being. I think that's why she works so well as a surrogate daughter for him. Neither Lee nor Zach have that quality (which isn't to say that I think Lee is a poor officer, but I think he could have been just as successful in another career.)

Damn, I forgot to tag you of.

Ummm... hows about Light Yagami?

DEATH NOTE SPOILERS!!!!!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, totally. And yes, about them being the kind of people who don't belong anywhere else. And I agree that Lee could be happy doing many other things, where Adama and Starbuck... not so much.

1.) The thought of Light begging like a little bitch is the only thing tempting me to finally finishing that series.

2.) Misa annoyed Light to no end but the fact that she lived to the end of the series tells me that he had some fucked up feelings for her.

3.) Light should have realized that if he killed every murderer on the planet, there would still have been him, and if I thought he, I don't know, planned to kill himself after he was done, I might have... hated him less?

And for you... Misa.