SciFi Friday, SG-1, Atlantis and BSG

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Stargate SG-1
Vala's back, and boy, has she gotten boring. Or is it simply that her character depends a lot more than expected on Daniel Jackson to liven her up? The baby idea is a really really bad one. The story she told made no sense on a basic story-logic level, again, with the baby, who seemed more or less an excuse to get her to marry an Ori Warrior. If she was carrying a Speshul Ori Baby, the Ori should have protected her better, or at least fessed up to Tomin, her husband so she would not have had to lie to him. And her story meandered, telling SG-1 completely unnecessary details *in order that they happened* as if every detail were important to the REAL story, which was that the Ori were sending a Jihad to the Milky Way Galaxy. I didn't see where her personal life was important to the long-winded warning. And simply because "Vala's BACK!" doesn't mean that her story has any relevance to what the SGC needed to hear at that moment in time. Maybe she was delaying the point of her story because, although Landry and Mitchell and Carter and TEal'c didn't seem to give a shit about her being "back", SHE wanted as much time as possible with people she knew before she was whisked off to that horrible Ori place.

Stargate Atlantis
Guest Star Blond Bimbo was ridiculous. She was distracting in how she bounced and flounced and pranced across the set, swinging her hair and flirting in such a campy obviously way with Rodney and John...hon, it's not Andromeda, and you're not on a porn shoot. I only found out who she was tonight, matter of fact. Didn't even know she was an Andromeda cast member. The Ancient warship was hard to see in that hangar - whoever did the CGI didn't make the background colors and the ship color different enough. Rodney was too much the Dr Smith Buffoon on this episode, and John should really either get a cockring or plaster it down with duct tape. His Kirk act is getting as tiresome as Blond Bimbo's "acting". The episode was more or less fluff the only reason for being written was to give this show yet another kick-butt ship that the Earth People could get to use, sans the Stargate. In another season, they won't even use that stupid ring, will they? What's its purpose again? "Stargate? Stargate? What is Stargate!!!"

Battlestar Galactica
Much as I love this show, and adored Dean Stockwell in this role as the hardhitting priest (the best part of the whole episode), I'm getting feelings of "Haven't I seen this before?" or "Wait, of COURSE this was going to happen". It's becoming more predictable. Oh, not in the sense that I can recite what will be said next (like the Guy did with various episodes of Lost before we gave up on it). But more in the they've run out of storytelling time and have to rush it sense. In vein of "Gee, Apollo is angsted, Starbuck is angsted, Helo is angsted, Dee is angsted (sort of) Baltar is psycho and everybody if so fucking angsted it puts Buffy to shame!" I'm not asking for a lame humor episode. Geez no. But a restful episode maybe? That said, depending on how this series ends and how the characters are treated, I might invest in the DVD sets.

Oh. One more thing. I keep getting the feeling that I'm missing story there that's between the lines - as if there's actually more that supposed to be there, but it's not there. And I've since heard that Moore, the producer, actually DOES go online and explains what's going on, what storylines were cut for time...and yet expects that many noninternet fans of the show will "know" this information about the characters by osmosis. Or something.

Comments

BSG podcasts

[(Anonymous)]

From what I've read online, you really are missing part of the story. It seems that Moore does podcasts for the episodes that fill in the blanks or clarify the storyline. Apparently, he expects everyone to listen to these podcasts. Apparently, you are not supposed to watch and interpret the story to suit yourself. Apparently, being spoon fed the Correct Interpretation is a Whole New Paradigm (tm) to TV viewing. And apparently, if you don't have internet access you simply don't get the whole story, or you form an Incorrect Interpretation, because Moore and his writers can't be bothered to make sure the aired version contains all the relevant story information.

Will I waste my time on podcasts? Heck, no! It's not my problem that sometimes the story ain't complete without them. It's Moore's. If he wants viewers to keep watching and not give up in disgust, he'd better work harder to make sure the stories actually work without supplemental material from the internet.

And I thought the Stargate writers were bad about misuse of the internet to force online viewers to just accept Stuff That Doesn't Necessarily Make Sense and to enforce the Correct Interpretation of what happened onscreen. At least they don't try to fix their story weirdnesses with podcasts, and then claim it's a whole new paradigm or some other such nonsense.

Re: BSG podcasts

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I can only hope that the DVDs will have the deleted scenes on them that got cut from the aired version. I have a feeling that the folks who bought the early release version of season 2 are going to be wishing they'd waited: they'll release a new SuperDVD set with all that stuff on it. *unless it's already included, in which case, nevermind!