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[gategrrl]

It's all over my flist--Atlantis cancelled. After a five year run with a turnstile for the actors and halfway through a new set of producers, it was finally officially canned by SciFi.

Did you really want to continue twisting in the wind with the pallid story-lines, revolving cast, and improbable romantic relationships? Would it *really* be desirable to have it spiral down in quality even *more*?

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[nialla]

Sadly, my first reaction to the news was, "Great! Now they'd never be able to f*** it up to the extent that they did SG-1."

I sort of agree with you there, but I'm curious how far in the planning stage things were. Are they planning to go out shipping characters all to hell and gone now that the end is nigh and there's nothing fans could do about it at this point? Or at least push it as far as they dare, considering there's movies in the pipe.

The ethical points were always something that troubled me with Atlantis. I get the whole, "We're in a war!" thing, but sometimes decisions were made with a reason given (if we were lucky) but no indication it was made after any deliberation over the options.

This was an unfortunate result of TPTB wanting to just get on with the action, because we all know that's what everyone's tuning in for, right?

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

The premiere episode had me gnashing my teeth. It was too easy for them, and they fubared it all up all by themselves. Not to mention the shady, unethical and utterly jaw-droppingly bad decisions made by everyone up and down the line and everyone thinking it was a-okay!

On a good day, Atlantis engendered a strong feeling of complete disgust. These people weren't heroes in any sense of the word. But sure, characters like Zelenka were entertaining, and the actors tried their best to get around shitty writing and written characterization.