Staying Dead revisions update

I just realized that I need another scene in chapter six. This annoys me, despite the fact that it's a good scene, will set some later developments up nicely, and will be fun to write. How did I miss the fact that this scene was so clearly needed?

Ah well.

Otherwise things are moving along well, making many notes and scribbling dialogue snippets into the margins, and nodding my head in a pleased and satisfied manner as I solve the problems La Editor has pointed out. Which beats the hell out of lamenting "dreck, dreck, it's all unreadable dreck!"

This feeling of personal satisfaction can't last. But I'll enjoy it while it does.

And Pandora seems to have gotten over the novelty of having me home. Especially since I'm not letting her sleep on the monitor any more. She's gone back to sleeping on the bed. I feel so... abandoned. Think I'll take a break and go annoy her a bit.

Galactica redux

I promised myself I'd give this remake a try. Half an hour, to see if it could hold me.

It couldn't.

I dunno, maybe it will get better. Hope so. But where the first BG was somewhat (okay, very) cheesy, fast-paced fun frm the very beginning, this is sort of slow, very dark, and appears to suffer from Duneitis. The only thing I really enjoyed was Starbuck; ego, cigar and all.

The thing is, this either needed to be so totally "whoa" at the fx and dialogue as you were watching that you didn't care that you knew what was going on, or it should have the easy comfort of a Known and Beloved Quantity. This, for me, fell into the bland territory between those two.

Peter's still watching. If he says it gets better, I'll catch it in repeats. I'm not setting aside any chunks of time, though.

(and what was with the doctor's office that couldn't afford soundproofing? Huh? Totally threw me out of the scene wondering why the hell they did that. Not to mention the scene with the so-called diplomat at the beginning, which made me think "oh, good, one less idiot to worry about" when She-cylon took him on.)