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BSG & food
Jan. 27th, 2009 01:28 pmBSG: Still loving the series! I'm four eps into season two.
Yesterday's ep, Fragged, was the second time BSG disturbed me in the same way. Fragged was the ep where there was a small group of characters on Kobol trying to survive while waiting to be rescued, the unskilled/stupid officer in charge of them. The chief disagreed strongly with what the officer was ordering them to do (attack the Cylons with their little group), and told the officer that to his face in private, but when the doctor openly questioned the order the chief backed up the stupid officer... Putting the military culture? hierarchy? ahead of reason and sense. This was the second ep that did exactly that.
That sort of behavior is one of the reasons that I have issues with a military group. No matter how much better the lower ranked people know the situation, no matter how much smarter they are, how much more experienced they are, they have to listen to the higher ranking guy. Yeah, the higher ranking guy should listen to the lower, but he doesn't have to... It was so very disturbing to see these characters I like acting that way. (Though I know it's correct for them to do so.)
It's so nice to have a series where I love almost every single character. (The only one I don't is that horrible Tigh woman, but as I'm assuming we're supposed to hate her, I don't suppose she really counts.)
RL/food: It's depressing how much food makes me feel better. I've been having a bad couple days, not sleeping more than a couple hours a night, stressed at work and on darned FFXI (grr, games should not be adding to my stress!). I just couldn't handle today. Nope, brain wouldn't focus, emotions wouldn't stay stable, I just wanted to go home and cry and curl up in bed. Then I noticed we had some mini candybars at the front desk. I snitched a handful and mmmmmmmmm wow. I feel 95% better! I had a large (though shorter lived) mood improvement after having a "real" breakfast (not just a packet of oatmeal) this morning, too.
Food shouldn't make you feel better (I mean, unless you're hungry). I know it's built into us through evolution that eating = good, but that's so useless now! Bah. Now I have to rely on my laughable willpower not to go get more chocolate to feel better again.
It's like a drug, I tell you! ;)
Yesterday's ep, Fragged, was the second time BSG disturbed me in the same way. Fragged was the ep where there was a small group of characters on Kobol trying to survive while waiting to be rescued, the unskilled/stupid officer in charge of them. The chief disagreed strongly with what the officer was ordering them to do (attack the Cylons with their little group), and told the officer that to his face in private, but when the doctor openly questioned the order the chief backed up the stupid officer... Putting the military culture? hierarchy? ahead of reason and sense. This was the second ep that did exactly that.
That sort of behavior is one of the reasons that I have issues with a military group. No matter how much better the lower ranked people know the situation, no matter how much smarter they are, how much more experienced they are, they have to listen to the higher ranking guy. Yeah, the higher ranking guy should listen to the lower, but he doesn't have to... It was so very disturbing to see these characters I like acting that way. (Though I know it's correct for them to do so.)
It's so nice to have a series where I love almost every single character. (The only one I don't is that horrible Tigh woman, but as I'm assuming we're supposed to hate her, I don't suppose she really counts.)
RL/food: It's depressing how much food makes me feel better. I've been having a bad couple days, not sleeping more than a couple hours a night, stressed at work and on darned FFXI (grr, games should not be adding to my stress!). I just couldn't handle today. Nope, brain wouldn't focus, emotions wouldn't stay stable, I just wanted to go home and cry and curl up in bed. Then I noticed we had some mini candybars at the front desk. I snitched a handful and mmmmmmmmm wow. I feel 95% better! I had a large (though shorter lived) mood improvement after having a "real" breakfast (not just a packet of oatmeal) this morning, too.
Food shouldn't make you feel better (I mean, unless you're hungry). I know it's built into us through evolution that eating = good, but that's so useless now! Bah. Now I have to rely on my laughable willpower not to go get more chocolate to feel better again.
It's like a drug, I tell you! ;)
