Ah, www.sonypictures.com/boards, here I come...

[gategrrl]

I broke down and signed up on the Sony Pictures forum board. The email for confimation finally came through this morning, but it was in the Yahoo spam bin! It's a good thing I decided to check in there before I deleted the bin. I usually don't look!

There's an Atlantis forum and a Stargate forum. I haven't visited the Atlantis forum yet since most of the folks I know socially do the Stargate thang (like I still do). But, at least with BSG, I could get into that fandom, I think. BSG has been bringing up questions about the most basic SF questions of all, lately, which are, "What is humanity?" "What makes us human?" and a score of others like that which I'm just not getting with Stargate or Atlantis. And that's what sets BSG heads above SG and ATL right now. Right now, the only character on SG or ATL bringing a smidgen of that sort of question to those shows are Daniel and Rodney, IMO. And even then, it's shallow.

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[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

Yup, if this was...a network show I think we would see new writers moving in and out. Stargate has the start of a bumpling franchise. If this was in the main public consciousness, well, as much as I hate marketing and overly indulged capitalism, the networks would do whatever they could to get high ratings, shove the show in your face, and run with high merchandise.

I know with me, two things draw me to a show: plot and acting. The, "OMG! He's hot!" always comes second. I put off seeing Stargate the movie for years and I wouldn't watch the show because I hadn't watched the movie. One day, I was bored and figured I'd just watch the show. (I'd already seen some bits and pieces before anyway, out of context.) MS is part of what hooked me; I could partially identify with the character of Daniel and he played him so well. But it was also that I liked the interactions between all the characters and the plots. By the end of watching a week good season 4 reruns, I tuned into Lifeboat and then Abyss in syndication. That was it. Good plot and acting had me. And they used mythology and cleverness. I enjoyed that.

But to tune in just for an actor? I wouldn't do that now. To tune into a show looking for slash or ship before one episode ever airs? Nope.

btw, what is Tigerbeat?

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

http://www.tigerbeatmag.com/

Back when I was a kid, Tigerbeat was aimed at tweenagers and young teens, and had lots of publicity information and "scoops" on the most current teen heart throbs. In my time it was Shaun Cassidy when he was on the Hardy Boys tv show. There were other boy celebs that were featured, but he's the one that sticks in my head from that period.