Aw....

[selenak]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: one of the great things about fandom is when fellow fen you know from one fandom get interested in another fandom you're pimping to them also interested in. No sooner has nolivingman finished her Babylon 5 run that gentilhomme starts hers, helped by eirena. Also, artaxastra asked me whether she'd like Alias. andrastewhite, as a past victim fellow fan, you must support me here!

And then there are the professionals. Because Joss is cute when he goes all fanboy on us: Joss Whedon about the new Battlestar Galactica. Now, given that the last time he went fanboy about a current tv show, this resulted in him getting a cameo on Veronica Mars, I can't help but wonder whether Ron Moore will give him either a cameo (the Cylon God, perhaps?) or a writing gig next season. You know, because Mr. Moore doesn't torture his characters nearly enough. *nods in anticipation*

One Alias fanfic rec, which I discovered thanks to yahtzee63: Assassin's Tango, an absolutely fantastic story covering the relationship of Jack Bristow and Arvin Sloane from their first meeting to the series finale, Jack pov. I squeed about that one all day.

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[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

and speaking of, I'm planning to get on B5 season 3 tonight.

I recently pimped Alias to quicknow as featuring lots of vaguely inappropriate family closeness, plenty of hotness and girlslash potential, and above-average continuity.

inlovewithnight and I were discussing the Joss-BSG thing, and I think we decided he'd be all over Lee Adama and his daddy issues, and have loads of fun with Six and Baltar. We were also trying to figure out the logistics by which Lee and Scott Summers might actually be related (isn't Scott's father some kind of space pirate in the comics?)

Thanks for linking that Jack/Sloane fic, I'm going to read it now!

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Scott's father: as far as I know, but I haven't read the relevant issues. What I do know through fannish osmosis is that Scott thought the guy was dead until he shows up pirating.

And yeah, those would be my guesses about Joss as well... plus he'd find a way to insert canon girlslash (Starbuck/Racetrack?) and increasingly obvious m/m subtext. *g*

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

Can his father be Tom Zarek? Because that would be awesome.

Also thanks for the Jean/Scott/Logan link elsewhere; that story is a beautful thing.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that idea. And Zarek's prison stint completely explains why he didn't show up before.*g*

I thought you might like it.*g*

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

*cue earnestly emo Scott*

HOW CAN I ACCEPT YOU AS MY FATHER WHEN YOU BLEW UP A GOVERNMENT BUILDING??

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Oh, Scott already went through that when his adopted Daddies divorced and Erik became Magneto.*g*

Though moving from movieverse to comicverse, Scott has been known to blow up a few goverment buidings in his time. (Note that in Astonishing X-Men, it's the X-Men, not the brotherhood, who destroy Rao's lab (though without killing anyone), and that's a Scott-lead mission.) And remember the exchange he had with Nick Fury:

Fury: ...when your boy Magneto turned it into a pretzel.

Scott: Our boy? What makes him "our boy"?

Fury: He taught at your school once, didn't you.

Scott: Years ago. When he was a lot more stable. Do you really think we'd knowingly harbour a dangerous criminal?

Fury: How is Miss Frost?

Scott: *glowers*

To wit: Scott, as Mark Millar and Joss have observed, has a tendency to fall for bad guys/gals. Methinks he'd struggle a bit at first but would be charmed by Dad!Zarek anyway.

[likeadeuce.livejournal.com]

True enough; the more ambiguous Scott of Astonishing would fit in the BSG 'verse very well (I've mostly been in movies and the earlier comics lately, but I ought to reread the Joss series before the new issue comes out).