Oh hai, internets!

[lizbee]

It's not that I don't love you and all, but it's really hot at the moment, and there's nothing more horrible than typing with sweaty palms. Much better to spend time sitting in my armchair drawing bad Avatar fan art like this.

All this sitting around means that I'm racing through my All-Of-Star-Trek-Except-The-Crap-Bits-Oh-God-Do-I-Have-To-Watch-Enterprise? rewatch. I've just finished season 6 of TNG, and am a few episodes into DS9. Just in time for the existence of ds9_rewatch!

Re: TNG, all I have to say is that, wow, season 6 was a good year for Troi. Not just because she got a meaty starring role in "Face of the Enemy" (ROMULANS, HOW MUCH DO I LOVE YOU? LOTS.) but also some fun supporting things, like playing the Mysterious Stranger in Alexander's Western holonovel. These are all good things, of course, but mostly I associate season 6 with Good Troi Time because they stopped using that horrible hairpiece, and got her out of the unflattering and cleavage-tastic "counselling" outfits, and into a proper Starfleet uniform. Seriously, I think Marina Sirtis may have been the only actress who was actually built for that thing, so it's a shame it took so long before she got to wear it.

Srs meta: it's what I'm here for.

Otherwise, my white_lotus fic is with the betas, and I'm kind of a bit sad that I have only just now become obsessed with Mai/Aang, because if my timing had been a bit better, I'd have requested it. It probably says something profound that the Emo Boy/Nice Girl pairing of Zutara leaves me absolutely cold, but I really groove on the Trickster Hero Boy/Emotionally Repressed Morally Ambiguous Girl pairing. Or I just enjoy AUs. It could go either way, really.

Real life-wise, work continues to happen, so that's nice. I got my full birth certificate, so I can apply for a passport, and I have all of $50 in my Saving For America Account. Don't look at me like that; I also spent $150 on a bike this pay. More will be saved.

Oh yeah, I bought a bike, and put it together, and went for a ride, and promptly remembered how unfit I am. I can remember a time when riding a bike was more fun than physical torture, but that was 13 years ago.

In other news, I fear I may have developed an addiction to Korean barbecue. SEND HELP SOJU.

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[purple_smurf]

I love this quote from an interview with Sirtis:

"I was thrilled when I got my regulation Star Fleet uniform, or the regulation space suit, as we call it. First of all, it covered up my cleavage and, consequently, I got all my brains back, because when you have a cleavage you can't have brains in Hollywood. So I got all my brains back and I was allowed to do things that I hadn't been allowed to do for five or six years. I went on away teams, I was in charge of staff, I had my pips back, I had phasers, I had all the equipment again, and it was fabulous. I was absolutely thrilled." -- Marina Sirtis

Of course, all the talk about her being too heavy etc makes me go o.O given the outfits she was wearing!!

...I need to sort out my icons here on Dreamwidth. I have TNG ones on LJ!

[trouble]

I was going to bring that up, too. I felt bad for her, because there's so much they could have done with that character but they refused to.

[lizbee]

Too heavy WHAT?

[purple_smurf]

"It's fair to say that the costume and design didn't make a very strong impression on you?"

"We inherited my cosmic cheerleader outfit in the very first episode from the original show. It was 'can we get Marina's skirt any shorter than this?'. Fortunately, they decided that the outfit didn't suit my character and we lost it by the second episode.

"The only good thing about the show coming to an end after seven years, was that I was finally able to breathe out. Those costumes were tight - you had a grape for lunch and it showed. Watching the episodes now I can see the ones where I had gained two or three pounds, or when I'd lost two or three pounds - it's absolutely mortifying. My hat goes off to Jeri Ryan, because she manages to maintain this perfect silhouette, and unfortunately, I didn't."

"Did you have any input at all into what you were going to wear?"

"There were discussions about the wardrobe but they didn't involve the actors - well, they didn't involve me. I was just the clothes horse, and they put stuff on me. In those days, I was a tad heavier than I am now and getting my costume together was basically finding something that looked good - or looked not as bad as the other things.

"I remember when I got the job, they said, 'You've got the job, lose five pounds.' And they were being generous, I needed to lose much more than five pounds. It was just a question of how the heck do we make her look half decent?

"I was thrilled when I got my regulation Star Fleet uniform, or the regulation space suit, as we call it. First of all, it covered up my cleavage and, consequently, I got all my brains back, because when you have a cleavage you can't have brains in Hollywood. So I got all my brains back and I was allowed to do things that I hadn't been allowed to do for five or six years. I went on away teams, I was in charge of staff, I had my pips back, I had phasers, I had all the equipment again, and it was fabulous. I was absolutely thrilled."

From here and here. I think I want to curl in a corner and cry.

[myniamh]

I think Jeri Ryan doesn't so much hold her breath as gets some kind of industrial device to shut the cast iron corset they have her jammed into.

It's a pity, there is nothing less attractive than a stupid sci-fi costume that won't let the actors breath.

Or that time that Jason Momoa (SG:A) cut off his dreads and the show made a wig of them he had to wear. :(

[myniamh]

OK. Never google 'deana troi costume'. ever.

I'm glad she got out of that bloody green lycra thing too.