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Oh my gods, the BSG Wiki is actually going to either (a) make me blind (b) destroy my grades or (c) all of the above. I went on for five minutes to check a point of canon and emerged two hours later having discovered the transcripts of the BSG podcasts by Ron Moore. The eye strain comes from the fact that the wiki is white text on dark red and the font is a size or smaller than is actually comfortable to read. I can feel my eyes dying.

BLIND. I'M GOING BLIND.

I was going to write for fifteen minutes and then do my Greek homework. This was at 5 pm. TWO HOURS AGO. Agh agh agh.

And I only wrote two hundred words before getting sucked in, too. On the bright side, I now know many and varied points of BSG trivia. Did you know Grace Park was one of two finalists for Starbuck? MIND-BOGGLING, I tell you. Or that the actress that plays Ischay is Jamie Bamber's wife? OR, hmm, what's something actually show-related, that Hera's name when she's being fostered with Maya is Isis? BLIND. (Or how many times Ron Moore and David Eick apparently went, "Hey, do we know why we're doing this?" "Because it'll look cool.")

yeah, I don't even know what I'm doing at this point in my life

*eyetwitch* I think that I have at least finished going through the overwhelming majority of podcast transcripts for the episodes I care about.

I also think that I may have accidentally started going back through the series from the beginning. Or at least I have "33" on in the background right now, anyway.

Mostly my reaction from the podcast transcripts -- which I tended to skim through looking for stuff about Helo and Sharon, heh -- is a fairly impressed, "Wow, they had no idea what they were doing and they still managed to pull it off in a really awesome way." (Like: "How do we start this? Let's have Tricia Helfer in a bikini on a beach.")

Random trivia: I know it. I love making of stuff about half the time; I love the bits where the PTB talk about what could have been or what was cut or what the original plan was. The, um, the making of LotR books? The ones where you have all of Tolkein's drafts? Love those. (Or, well, I read the first one, I should go through the rest of them while I'm at Tulane, since Tilton has them.)

So much random trivia! Apparently at one point Helo and Sharon were going to move into Sharon's cell in the beginning of S3. And Sharon was going to beat the shit out of Gaeta in "Unfinished Business." And Lee and Dualla were going to become marines after "Exodus."