DPP: Doing the roster
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no_takebacksHi, I'll take over here for a couple of days.
Today's proposed topic is the one from the title of the post: DOING THE ROSTER. or if you want Scheduling for the Air Group.
What do you think about this? Are you sorry that we didn't got to see them arguing about it? Do you believe that Lee (or Kara for that matter) took advantage of their position to schedule him(or her)self with someone in particular? Or to avoid someone? Who had the last word when scheduling the rookies? What about squadrons?
Yes, I know it's not really a shippy subject but it started bugging me a while back that even if in fic we see some of this in canon we see nothing. And then it's the difference in between the board that we see in "33" and the one from "Passage". Not to mention that I trust the shipper nation to make everything shippy :)
One last comment: we accept all kinds of payment here at the DPP - pics, ideas, discussions, drabbles, fic recs, etc.....
Today's proposed topic is the one from the title of the post: DOING THE ROSTER. or if you want Scheduling for the Air Group.
What do you think about this? Are you sorry that we didn't got to see them arguing about it? Do you believe that Lee (or Kara for that matter) took advantage of their position to schedule him(or her)self with someone in particular? Or to avoid someone? Who had the last word when scheduling the rookies? What about squadrons?
Yes, I know it's not really a shippy subject but it started bugging me a while back that even if in fic we see some of this in canon we see nothing. And then it's the difference in between the board that we see in "33" and the one from "Passage". Not to mention that I trust the shipper nation to make everything shippy :)
One last comment: we accept all kinds of payment here at the DPP - pics, ideas, discussions, drabbles, fic recs, etc.....
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Date: 2012-09-27 05:59 pm (UTC)(and of course in EoJ we have it all but stated that Lee's been scheduling Kara on the doughnut runs, pulling some CAGly strings to make it happen :)
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Date: 2012-09-27 07:17 pm (UTC)Annotations (http://inlovewithnight.livejournal.com/309500.html) by
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Date: 2012-09-27 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-27 09:20 pm (UTC)P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 07:33 pm (UTC)1
“I’m taking over CAG duties immediately. We’ve got a lot to get through, and in a minute I’m gonna go over deployments and try and get a handle on a few more names. But first, please join me in a moment of silence to honor the fallen.”
They bow their heads, listening to each other breathe.
“Thank you. Okay, I’ve got a note from the deck chief about combat landing procedures…”
17
“He’s actually gonna make us sit through this every time, isn’t he?”
23
“It’s like everything he knows about being CAG he learned from the job description.”
“I hate this by-the-book crap. It’s the end of the worlds, here, we’re all adults. We don’t need to be reminded to double-check our frakking instrument calibrations.”
35
After Pretty Boy skips a checklist, clips a wing, and ends up in medical with half a face, they all start tuning back in.
64
“Who’s in Viper 22?”
“Me, sir. Boondock.”
“Boondock, you’ve got a nice Vinta spiral, but you’ve pulled it once too often and last time it put you too far from your wingman. I don’t want you second-guessing yourself out there, so sit down now with your number two and agree on a different go-to evasion.”
“Yes, sir.”
It’s a bad way to work his exhausted crowd, calling out individual critiques like a schoolmaster. The CAG isn’t oblivious to the resentment he’s building, but it has to be done. The experienced pilots respect him for it and the rooks hated him long before now.
Hopefully they’ll still be around next briefing to complain.
71
“Have you noticed that man is smokin’ hot?”
“I know. Too bad he’s boring as hell.”
114
Half the room’s asleep. He stands at the podium without a word for two minutes, leaning forward heavily. Then he walks to the filing cabinet to grab the thousand-page tech manual perched on top. He returns to stand before the podium, lifting the book up to the full height of his extended arm. His conscious audience stares, transfixed.
The crack of impact when the volume hits the floor ricochets around the room. Yelping, a dozen sleepers start, wide-eyed, from their seats, and the rest of the pilots double over in scratchy, hysterical laughter.
It’s a sick, manic energy, but it sparks hot through the whole squad. They feel awake for the first time in days.
173
“If you’re experiencing numbness in your feet, fingers, or other extremities, I’ve got some pills here from Doc Cottle that’ll boost your blood sugar. And stop sleeping through meals.”
192
“I doubt any of you need to hear this, but don’t throw your thrusters into full reverse in the middle of a 4-G turn.”
“It worked for me.”
“Which reminds me, I need help planning an SAR to recover Starbuck’s sanity. Any volunteers?”
There aren’t.
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“If your peripheral vision blacks out, report in immediately. I’ll deploy a bird to spot you through maneuvers and landing.”
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“Good luck. And be careful out there.”
Starbuck curses under her breath.
238
“Anyone want to tell me what the frak you think you’re doing out there?”
He’s stormed in like the wrath of the gods, and even though he still looks nothing like his father, the resemblance is intangibly there.
“’Cause from where I’m standing, it looks like you’re saving the human race. Raise your hand if you noticed.”
Starbuck’s fingers are first in the air.
The ready room grows a forest of shaking, upturned palms. “Well, I can tell you the Admiral’s noticed. The President’s noticed. The frakkin’ toasters have sure as hell noticed, don’t you think?”
“Sir, yes, sir.”
“Say again?”
“Sir, yes, sir!”
“Keep it up.” He rakes his eyes over them all, alive and focused, ending, as if by chance, on her.
“Good hunting.”
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Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 07:39 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 07:42 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 08:58 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:06 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:05 pm (UTC)“I know. Too bad he’s boring as hell.”
I think that's my favorite part!
You're totally spoiling us with this wonderful snippets. Thank you!
Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:16 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:10 pm (UTC)(and also Lee in Daddy Pilot check-everything-twice mode is one of my favourite things in the world)
Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:18 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:20 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:30 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:59 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:44 pm (UTC)Lovely piece, dear. Really lovely. I love the way he grows into the role, getting more confident and comfortable in the position despite the awful circumstances (or perhaps because of them) and how his "by the book" approach is appreciated in the end (and it's not so by the book, or at least not only by the book - loved the idea that there's something of Adama in him, after all.)
On a completely irrelevant nitpicking note (only here to show just how much I pay attention to your every word), Adama wasn't Admiral yet, though, was he?
*hugs*
PS. Do you have any other little gem like this stocked away?
Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:46 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 10:00 pm (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-27 09:59 pm (UTC)I've got a few very random BSG bits and pieces lying around in the old hard drive, but not much, sadly. This one was actually posted long ago over on leeadama-daily, I just happened to run across it again when I was looking through my files yesterday for the Batman stuff :)
Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-28 01:38 am (UTC)Re: P.S. Possibly relevant, not rosters per say but CAGly stuff
Date: 2012-09-28 01:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-09-28 03:38 am (UTC)I wish I could watch '33' again for the firs time. Thank you. :)