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Party time ahead!

Well, yes, dear folks, it's this time of the year again. The big, one-week virtual party from today to the 9th of October starts here. Come on in, be welcome, make yourself comfortable, and post a comment. May we have many collapsed threads again!

Last year we had 559 comments on 4 pages, which is an impressive record to break. But I have an excellent apple pie in the oven, and offer a virtual slice to every party guest.

Let's party!

Addition: someone asked for the apple pie recipe. Here it is, behind the cut.

400 gr wheat flour
200 gr butter or margarine
200 gr sugar
1/10 litre sour cream
1 pinch of salt
ground peel of 1/lemon
2 gr baking soda

For the filling:
2 kg apples
sugar,cinnamon, cardamom, vanilla and ground lemon peel as you like

One eggyolk for painting the top.

How to make it?
1) Make a dough from abovementioned ingredients.
2) Cut it in two equal pieces. Roll out one piece, lay it into a baking tin (baking paper under it is helpful).
3) Spread some dried bread crubms all over it.
4) Peel and plane (slice???) the apples, press out the juice with your hands (it shouldn't be too dry, though) and mix them with the spices.
5) Spread the apples over the dough.
6) Roll out the other half of the dough. Cover the apples with it.
7) Paint the top with eggyolk and bake it in a pre-heated oven, on 200°C for twenty minutes.
8) Cut it when it's cooled down.

Sorry, but I had to use the metric system. My brain doesn't work in cups and pounds and that stuff. I hope you can still figure out how much you need from the ingredients.

Addition: I also wish to gift upon my dear party guests a birthday-present, Hobbit-style: Chapter 03 - Puer Natus Est Nobis of my Cadfael fic "Sparrows" has just been posted to

hiddenrealms and to FF.Net. Enjoy!

And the end results are: 735 comments on 6 pages! It's more than I could have dreamed of, and I thank you - all of you - who contributed to this record. It will be a hard one to break next year indeed, but I hope you'll be back. :)

Thanks again, I had a fantastic time and met great new people - it was fun!

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*nods* I think the contradicting is impossible to avoid. Ideas just keep growing and changing. It even happens to the pros. Just look at long-living TV shows or book series, they contradict another as well at some point.

We can always start the insanity and *then* invite other people, so that they'd see what's expected of them. I assume we'll need the complete Andromeda crew, right?

Are you going to create the new comm or do you want me to do it? I don't think an RPG would work on

otherworlds_lib all that well.

*squees at the B5 mention*

Totally agree with you on both Talia and Sheridan!

I seriously recommend it. Could I do this online shopping thing (and would they accept our lousy currency), I'd have started looking for it ages ago.

It has been broken? That is wonderful!

So we've been talking about a lot of favourites already, how about everyone's favourite favourite...

...food!

:)

I'll look :)

Might be just the other way around and there isn't any at all, though. Worth a chance anyway!

No, that would be too confusing on othersworld_lib, the RP thread(s) would be lost amidst the stories.

Since you have experience with comms, would you do it? I've never created a comm.

Well, the Andromeda has a pretty small crew, so it might be possible to get the whole crew!

Starting first so people know what they're getting into sounds like a good idea :)

Reply part 1 (I'm separating out bits of conversation)

Studio60 is an American show that only had one season - made by Aaron Sorkin (West Wing) about a political sketch show. Very fast moving with loads going on at every point. It is very funny and clever. It had so much potential, but was probably too overtly political to do very well, and thus got cancelled.

The same cocky pilot type who can do anything and can get away with it, without bearing the consequences, and gets to decide in big questions that aren't his frigging business, just because he's the Big American Hero (TM).
Too true. In some cases these can be good characters, but it gets very boring that there are so many of them.

The ex-wives were really annoying, too. And despite what one might think of Lochley: to choose her as the commanding officer of B5, despite that she'd fought for the other side, based on the fact that they were married? Hello? Didn't that happen after having too much booze or whatnot? A truly thought-out and responsible choice, eh?
I'm wondering whether it was because they had been married or despite it. I'm thinking he was trying to find someone who: had been on the other side; was at an appropriate rank; and he could work with; which probably left a very short list. I think that he wanted someone who had been on the other side as a symbol. I'm not sure that I remember clearly but I got the impression that they were friends before they were married, so he should at least have know her enough to know whether she was competent.
Personally I think it would have been far more interesting if she had been brought in as deputy to Ivanova. The main problem I can see is bringing in someone who had no experience of Babylon 5 to serve as commander (especially without an experienced deputy commander), especially someone who doesn't seem to have had much experience in diplomacy.
However, that brings me on to an separate complaint about how they seem to have so few officers - there doesn't seem to be anyone except the commander and the second in command at any point, except very junior officers. I would have thought that they would want at least 3 or 4 officers who could be left in charge in C&C etc. It is partly the fact that at various point Garibaldi or Delenn seem to be in charge when by normal uses of the command structure this wouldn't happen.

Sheridan and Delenn
The whole relationship doesn't make a lot of sense - it seems a jump from where Delenn's character is in season 1. I can see how it would have worked with Sinclair, partly because they spent a whole season building up towards them being friends and I can see how it would have worked to go from there, but it feels very rushed - like the fact that she has metamorphosed does mean that she has changed personality. She has her moments after then, but seems to become more and more arrogant, out of touch with anything apart from her ideas of destiny and Sheridan. I wonder whether there was something that we aren't told that was in the prophecies of Valen that pushed her into the relationship so quickly, and that when she was there she felt compelled to take a place behind him. Although if that was the case, I would have expected her to revert more when he was supposed to be dead. Possibly it was a cultural thing to her.
I can't help thinking that the whole solution to the Shadow War being what it was would have worked a lot better with a different character there. Given how eager to fight Sheridan had been at most points it seemed very odd for him to be suggesting a peaceful solution.

This got very long! I should probably leave it at that for the moment. :D

No need to apologise. Sadly it seems that most remakes, like most adaptations, are done by people how have a degree of disregard for the original. Whether they turn out well or not, therefore is a matter of opinion, it seems to me, depending on whether the bits that are changed are the bits that you consider good or bad, and whether the good of the new is worth the changes.
I could make a list of films etc that are appalling from books I like, but I can also list some that are enjoyable despite the changes (and some that are actually good). :)

Favourite food? Anything from my favourite restaurant, Midsummer House.

I've just pulled out of the oven a fresh tin of apple pie - this time the spicy version of it - and several tins of the biscuits that will become Ischler tomorrow, when I've glued the halves together with red currant jam and covered the finished product with chocolate icing. Yum!

Apple pie will be cut in half an hour or so - it has to cool down a bit first - so have a seat and prepare your eating utensils! The pretty young man above - points at Ianto icon - will serve his best coffee to the pie... or tea, if that is your pleasure. :)

It looks like a beautiful place. Do they have any specialities?

And we're just a handful of comments away from #600, which is one of the declared goals of this party. I think we'll reach it tonight. Now all we have to do is to get to Page 5.

*licks her lips hungrily and takes turns eyeing the apple pie and Ianto*

Not to mention that Sheridan apparently took the fact that Delenn had been the one who'd ordered the eradication of the human race over a tragic misunderstanding in stride. Was he so besotted, did he think with his dick or didn't he give up the position that being married to Delenn meant to him?

IMO, the metamorphosis caused Delenn to completely lose her personality. I still prefer the androgynous appearance of the pilot episode, even though it was perhaps less pretty than the first season version. I've read somewhere that the original metamorphosis would have been Delenn changing from an androgynous being into a female one, but with the prettied-up appearance it probably wouldn't have worked. Too bad.

Also, originally she was supposed to have a relationship with Sinclair, if I remember correctly. That would have made so much more sense.

Yeah, 600 should be doable tonight!

You know, I'd have accepted many of the changes if Ron Moore would have made a BSG - The Next Generation, á la Star Trek. He could have given a plause explanation even for the names - around the end of the original series, when the writing began to deteriorate in earnest, they ran into humans who had English- or even German-sounding names. He could have explained that after, say, a hundred years of hopeless odyssey through unknown space, things might have taken a dramatic change.

I could have accepted all that. After all, ST: TNG was quite different from the original Trek, and DS9 even more so. But the raping and gender-bending of beloved characters is something I can't forgive. Because it was a slap into the face of devoted fans who kept the fandom alive for 20 years for him to rape it, and because it wasn't necessary. He could have had his cake and eaten it, without dragging the original characters through felgercarb.

Well, I like to think that I'm more devoted to my own stuff than they are - getting it just right *is* the only payment I get, after all, unlike them who get the big bucks to do a lousy job. *g*

Will do. We need a good name, though. A catchy one, as Ianto would say. All I can think of is "The Nietzschean Web", but that is 1) the title of a story I'm already plannig to write one day, and 2) not catchy enough.

Creating a conn is pretty easy, though. I just klicked on the link and followed the instructions. You can imagine how easy it is if even I managed to do it, techno-wheenie that I am. ;)

*laughs* There is that!

I'm far too tired to think of a name, catchy or otherwise right now, but I'll see if I can think of some ideas :)

It is hard to choose, isn't it? And this should be comment #600!

An edited one cuz I apparently can't spell...

Edited 2010-10-07 21:58 (UTC)

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