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thedeadlyhook) wrote2007-04-15 09:38 am
thedeadlyhook) wrote2007-04-15 09:38 am
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Open the 'Gates!
Wow, nobody on my flist has anything to say about Friday's new Stargate episodes? I guess I'm the only one who hadn't seen them already in download, woe.
Stargate SG-1
• SG-1 made solid showing. Which is really more than I'd expected given the CG dragon they were saddled with, although that lamely animated beast actually prompted the funniest line of the episode ("perhaps 'Puff'?"). Baal was funny as usual, and I got waaaay more out of Adria once I realized that her outfit signaled "evil villain" to anyone familiar with Mortal Kombat. (This last happened because of one of our viewing guests, who doesn't normally watch Stargate, responded to "oh, she's the bad guy" with "well, DUH - look at what she's wearing.")
• In general, I'm feeling better about the overall Ori plotline now, having rewatched bits and pieces of the last season in SciFi's marathon showing, but it's still pretty clear that SG-1 is entering its victory lap. Which is fine - ten years is a long time for any show, and while this is hardly going to go down as the series' greatest season, in the long run, I think it's going to hold up well in the Stargate tradition of confronting "false gods." And I continue to be impressed by the way the characters have been allowed to "graduate," and move into new positions (this bodes well for later Stargate: Atlantis spoilers I've heard).
• Claudia Black really sold that scene with Vala all tearful and reluctant to leave Michael behind - I think it may be the first time on this show that Browder and Black have exchanged dialogue, and I wasn't mentally squeeing with Farscape nostalgia somewhere in the back of my mind.
Stargate: Atlantis
• Dude, it was just plain good! It's always hard to quantify the appeal of Richard Dean Anderson until you get an episode like this one, where Jack's reactions are so important. He adds SO much to the enjoyment.
• Finally, Rodney gets a plan that works! Nice to see him actually be a genius in a way that works on occasion.
• I'm generally just really enjoying SGA. It may still have its WTF days - next ep, I'm not even going to make guesses about - but that's kind of becoming part of the fun. I have no idea what to expect.
After the 'Gates, we made the mistake of hanging around to check out Painkiller Jane and... whoa, I haven't seen something that excreble in awhile. Even... shitty, one might say.
Painkiller Jane, or "Please, somebody, make it stop"
• Our viewing audience started playing Mystery Science Theater with the episode about 10 mintues in, when DEA agent Jane pulls out a gun on the dance floor of a crowded nightclub (!!) and starts opening fire at - gasp! - drug dealers! At a nightclub!!! Gee, how DO these writers get their ideas?
• It's a very green show. Someone has watched The Matrix again and again. Because it's better than Cats.
• The dialogue. OMG, the dialogue. Yes, bad writers can still find work. I find that kind of heartening, in a way.
• Did you know that Painkiller Jane was based on a comic? I didn't either, and I haven't read it, but one of our viewing guests had. It's about - go figure! - a girl who feels no pain. Although the TV series eliminates this and substitutes fast-healing powers instead, like Wolverine in the X-Men, or Claire in Heroes, so she does feel pain, which makes her name kind of, uh, meaningless. (I shan't delve deeply into the observation that it was apparently a nickname given to her by her father, which has a whole other connotation without it being her actual power, similar to the ewwww moment in Octopussy when Maud Adams says "Octopussy was my father's nickname for me." Yick.)
• In the fine old tradition of Natasha Henstridge, who made a great emotionless monster in Species, but when asked to carry a movie in Ghost of Mars proved that, uh, emotionless kind of was her best casting niche, Kristanna Lokken may have made a great robot in Terminator 3, but playing a believeable human is unfortunately out of her range. Sigh.
Start the betting pool on this one's cancellation now.
On a totally different, unrelated note, I've been thinking a lot about concrit, which I'll put off to the next post. There will be a poll!
Stargate SG-1
• SG-1 made solid showing. Which is really more than I'd expected given the CG dragon they were saddled with, although that lamely animated beast actually prompted the funniest line of the episode ("perhaps 'Puff'?"). Baal was funny as usual, and I got waaaay more out of Adria once I realized that her outfit signaled "evil villain" to anyone familiar with Mortal Kombat. (This last happened because of one of our viewing guests, who doesn't normally watch Stargate, responded to "oh, she's the bad guy" with "well, DUH - look at what she's wearing.")
• In general, I'm feeling better about the overall Ori plotline now, having rewatched bits and pieces of the last season in SciFi's marathon showing, but it's still pretty clear that SG-1 is entering its victory lap. Which is fine - ten years is a long time for any show, and while this is hardly going to go down as the series' greatest season, in the long run, I think it's going to hold up well in the Stargate tradition of confronting "false gods." And I continue to be impressed by the way the characters have been allowed to "graduate," and move into new positions (this bodes well for later Stargate: Atlantis spoilers I've heard).
• Claudia Black really sold that scene with Vala all tearful and reluctant to leave Michael behind - I think it may be the first time on this show that Browder and Black have exchanged dialogue, and I wasn't mentally squeeing with Farscape nostalgia somewhere in the back of my mind.
Stargate: Atlantis
• Dude, it was just plain good! It's always hard to quantify the appeal of Richard Dean Anderson until you get an episode like this one, where Jack's reactions are so important. He adds SO much to the enjoyment.
• Finally, Rodney gets a plan that works! Nice to see him actually be a genius in a way that works on occasion.
• I'm generally just really enjoying SGA. It may still have its WTF days - next ep, I'm not even going to make guesses about - but that's kind of becoming part of the fun. I have no idea what to expect.
After the 'Gates, we made the mistake of hanging around to check out Painkiller Jane and... whoa, I haven't seen something that excreble in awhile. Even... shitty, one might say.
Painkiller Jane, or "Please, somebody, make it stop"
• Our viewing audience started playing Mystery Science Theater with the episode about 10 mintues in, when DEA agent Jane pulls out a gun on the dance floor of a crowded nightclub (!!) and starts opening fire at - gasp! - drug dealers! At a nightclub!!! Gee, how DO these writers get their ideas?
• It's a very green show. Someone has watched The Matrix again and again. Because it's better than Cats.
• The dialogue. OMG, the dialogue. Yes, bad writers can still find work. I find that kind of heartening, in a way.
• Did you know that Painkiller Jane was based on a comic? I didn't either, and I haven't read it, but one of our viewing guests had. It's about - go figure! - a girl who feels no pain. Although the TV series eliminates this and substitutes fast-healing powers instead, like Wolverine in the X-Men, or Claire in Heroes, so she does feel pain, which makes her name kind of, uh, meaningless. (I shan't delve deeply into the observation that it was apparently a nickname given to her by her father, which has a whole other connotation without it being her actual power, similar to the ewwww moment in Octopussy when Maud Adams says "Octopussy was my father's nickname for me." Yick.)
• In the fine old tradition of Natasha Henstridge, who made a great emotionless monster in Species, but when asked to carry a movie in Ghost of Mars proved that, uh, emotionless kind of was her best casting niche, Kristanna Lokken may have made a great robot in Terminator 3, but playing a believeable human is unfortunately out of her range. Sigh.
Start the betting pool on this one's cancellation now.
On a totally different, unrelated note, I've been thinking a lot about concrit, which I'll put off to the next post. There will be a poll!
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I just adored that conversation between Vala and Mitchell where Mitchell tells her the hardest part is watching your friends risk their lives, not the least because I think 50% of it was Mitchell psyching himself up for what he knew he had to do. Finally, Mitchell has someone newer than him to bounce off of.
Start the betting pool on this one's cancellation now.
I don't know if I'd be betting so much as hoping and cheering.
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I don't know if I'd be betting so much as hoping and cheering.
Oh, yes. But then SciFi's logic is such a mysterious creature - things come and go based on god only knows what. This one, though, is so damn bad I can't see it lasting long no matter how hot someone in the front office thinks Loken is. Damn, that was just embarrassing.