Field Reports

There's a sort of house style in BSG fanfic already, all present tense minimalism with certain lines (over-)calculated for dramatic punch, and it doesn't always work for me. But svilleficrecs makes it work in Intra, which fills in some backstory for "33." The prose is unadorned, a bit rough at times, but the story takes a good long look at the characters and their memories of the time before in the midst of the hell they're currently going through.

Feeding my love of pre-series Kara fic is stars_like_dust's All Feelings But This One. This is a much deeper exploration of Kara's relationship with Zak than I've seen done, and it's totally plausible as backstory. Things do get that much more interesting when Lee enters the story, but Zak is so well-drawn here that I really wanted to know more about him. And Kara, as well -- even though the story is told from her perspective, there's a certain emotional distance in the narrative which is quite tantalizing even as it feels like the right thing for her character.

rheanna27's Twelve is the only really long story I've seen in BSG. It's full of some extremely interesting speculation on the Cylons/human relationship -- but to say more would be to spoil. The story didn't quite click with me on an emotional level, but considering it's Rheanna, I think that's more of a Scorsese effect (you know, like comparing The Aviator to Taxi Driver or Raging Bull *grin*).

I also liked Five Deaths, a Roslin-centric series of short what-ifs in the "Five Things That Never Happened To..." format, because it's a skillful experimentation with the character under different lights.

Trying to break up the HP monopoly, because I do actually have a shiny new fandom: Battlestar Galactica -- the remake.

The first story I read in BSG was anr's Stimmed, set during/after "33." It's got a sharp, minimalist style befitting Kara's state of mind while on stims, but isn't quite as minimalist as a lot of the fandom's writers seem to be. Anyway, for being the first story I read in the fandom, it's held its own. Although this depiction of Kara gives me a sort of young heroin-chic rock star impression, I do like it a lot.