Vala-less? Yippeee!

[gategrrl]

No Vala in the next movie? Light the fireworks, break open the champagne, and let's have a party!

It's back to the original team, which to me is the best thing of all. No word yet about Mitchell? He's a nonentity anyhow, but I do love seeing him on screen together with Michael Shanks, so fine with me there. The Guy is sure to buy the movie. Maybe I'll even watch this one.

blows a noisemaker

Edited to add: Hey all! If Vala is entitled to be in the movie simply because she's a member of SG-1, then let's TOTALLY get mad at Brad Wright for not including Jonas, okay? Okay? Because we can't play favorites amongst the team, past or present! Cuz if HE could be on the team, ANY old tramp could be on the team!

Comments

[nialla]

What we see of Claudia is in the form of Quetesh, and I liked her in that form.

Not just because it's been a while since they've had a good villainess, but also because it didn't require everyone else's character to bend and twist to fit around her.

Didn't care for the temporal wankfest though. I wish they'd leave that stuff alone.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

"Temporal wankfest"? Dare I ask what that is? *g*

[nialla]

Someone else actually came up with the term, but I adore it, as it perfectly describes what Bridge so often does.

They use time travel to play around characters and events they wouldn't normally be able to (such as ship), then reset things at the end. They get to have their cake and eat it too, hence it's a temporal wankfest.

Even if they don't get into AU ship and the like, the time travel angle is getting old. I like traveling to new worlds, not revisiting the past. They've done it way too much, even for a sci fi show.

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Oh, I see. Yes, I agree. I didn't mind it in that season 2 episode where they went through the mirror thing or whatever, but they kept repeating that same theme.

I was just reading some things in aurora_novarum's journal, and there was something about Daniel's injury which...wow. If that's true, I can't believe I have heard nothing about it even outside of discussion of that movie. *g*

[nialla]

Yep. Time travel/AU stuff can be a fun "what if" now and again, but doing essentially the same schtick over and over, especially hitting the reset button at the end, got really old.

It doesn't allow the characters to actually learn something and move forward, as usually nothing really happened. Daniel's peek into the AU world and learning that the Goa'uld were coming had consequences, and was used to good effect in "our" universe, but so often it came down to just figuring out a way to show Sam and Jack were together without consequences.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I agree. We already did something like this in Moebius, but I do think Continuum was thought out better than Moebius. I am tired of them doing the same old thing. Time travel has been done to death in this universe.

Still, it wasn't bad at least.

[nialla]

I think I was so irked with the general state of affairs, the movies just didn't register beyond a meh.

Recycling the same type of plots over and over just isn't working anymore. Even if it's not bad, it's not all that good either. I'm afraid we'll never see good again until they get some fresh blood.

[moonshayde.livejournal.com]

I *really* liked her as Qetesh. I wish TPTB had brought her on as that villian in the series. That could have been interesting,

[nialla]

I would have even enjoyed Vala the Thief as a recurring villain better than what we got, but Qetesh? Yeah, I'd be there with bells on.

Maybe I'll forgo avoiding temporal wankfests if they do one with Qetesh as the villain. ;)