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Had dinner with

yahtzee63 tonight and she was kind enough to listen to me rant and rave about the BSG finale whilst consuming a decent amount of cheap white wine. Cheap wine and pasta does help make things a little better. But the wine also made me a bit morose and then on the train home I read this gorgeous fic by

loki013 and I got all verklempt and aaaaargh. Sniffle.

I need to bring back my rage. Here, this quote from RDM from the SCI FI boards (SyFy boards?) certainly helps bring back the anger:

"The image of the bird was just than [sic] -- an image. I had no idea what it meant or symbolized, but just saw this picture of a man (didn't even know it was Lee) trying to chase a bird out of his house with a broom. We put it up on the board and then folded it into the story of Lee without trying to define exactly what it meant. I still don't know exactly what it meant. I don't want to."

...

OH MY GOD YOU ARE SUCH A FUCKING HACK I CAN'T EVEN STAND IT. YOU INSUFFERABLE DOUCHE.

So: Gave Kara an inexplicable fear of being forgotten because you admit it's your greatest fear (shocker): check.

Made Lee an explorer because you want to be an explorer: check.

Inserted a really stupid scene of Lee chasing a pigeon with a broom because you thought it would be cool (it wasn't) and not because it actually meant anything at all....

You do realize you were supposed to be writing YOUR CHARACTERS in this finale, and not YOURSELF, right?

Not for the first time do I wish big name showrunners had an editor to keep them in check. (I don't mean a film editor, I mean an editor to read the teleplay and say, "Um, what the fuck is this?")

I hate people.

In related news, I love this post by

rawles imploring fandom to stop telling people how to engage with their fiction. Well said.

And I still haven't gotten my fucking computer from Dell! They keep pushing the estimated delivery date back. Latest is April 9th. WTF? I AM DISPLEASED.

In brighter news, I saw that Friday Night Lights is being renewed for another two seasons or something, so I am very happy for you FNL fans!

Also, this article about the Obamas around town is really cute.

Ready to start getting over this any time now.