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Stargate - the final trip
Quicky update that - believe it or not - has nothing to do with SPN or fanfic.
I have taken up watching Season 10 of Stargate on German TV. Still waiting for Season 3 of Atlantis since it`s not out on DVD either. :/
I only have seen the first 5 or so eps and it`s feeling a lot like Redux of Redux.
"OMG, the uber-powerful Anubis, lets find the secret city of Atlantis - or an outpost - which will contain a secret super-duper weapon of mass destruction, built by the Ancients."
"OMG, the even more uber-powerful Replicators, lets capture the secret temple planet which will contain a secret super-duper weapon of mass destruction, built by the Ancients."
And now we have "OMG, the really uber-powerful Ori, lets find the secret world where Merlin the Ancient stashed the really super-duper weapon of mass destruction he built."
Basically for years now, the solution has been "go to the Ancients". Now making the Ori as powerful AS the Ancients might have been a neat twist - and I`m still terribly unhappy they didn`t go with my theory where the Ori come from :( - but it`s too big for humans, frankly. Realistically, they should be all dead or enslaved within a week and the Supers should fight themselves.
Now as for the additions of the cast, I`m feeling a lot more mellow as I do over such matters in other shows. :-p Mainly because it had 8 years with the original cast and I can`t begrudge any actor the wish to move on there.
Also, coming from Farscape, I like both Ben and Claudia. But I`ll have to judge their merits by their SG1 characters of course and here I`ll have to say: is anyone but Mitchell very drunk?
Okay, Teal`c takes a lot before he voices real displeasure but the ready integration of Vala into the team made no sense. I felt like Mitchell had the right attitude, wary in a "don`t screw it up, I`m watching you" way but not mean about it. He IS willing to give her a chance, he just won`t present the whole team`s back to her.
And it`s not like she never has any ideas or valid strategy to contribute. Frankly in Season 9 with the Supergate and everything when Vala got sucked to Ori-world, I felt they were being doofuses. She tried to share her plan with them but noone would listen. Why? They were in deep trouble and any idea would have been better than none and as a former Goa`uld it`s not like she has nothing to bring to the table. It felt childish and unprofessional how they excluded her there.
Now it feels naive how they include her.
Mitchell and Landry, I rather like. Landry is someone who fights for his teams and the Stargate mission just like Hammond did. And Mitchell tries his best to accomodate to his very unusual team - much like Sheppard does. There seems to be a nice friendship thing going on with everybody which I like.
Daniel remains at his best when he philosophers and geeks. Not when he banters with Vala. Sorry, this seems so forced and contrived.
What I would have found funny? On the Morpheus planet where they fought sleep? If Daniel had been so geeky-excited about the books, he wouldn`t have felt sleepy. And everybody else would have been close to breaking but Daniel all hyped up on "ZOMG, Merlin did bla bla bla" *g*
I have taken up watching Season 10 of Stargate on German TV. Still waiting for Season 3 of Atlantis since it`s not out on DVD either. :/
I only have seen the first 5 or so eps and it`s feeling a lot like Redux of Redux.
"OMG, the uber-powerful Anubis, lets find the secret city of Atlantis - or an outpost - which will contain a secret super-duper weapon of mass destruction, built by the Ancients."
"OMG, the even more uber-powerful Replicators, lets capture the secret temple planet which will contain a secret super-duper weapon of mass destruction, built by the Ancients."
And now we have "OMG, the really uber-powerful Ori, lets find the secret world where Merlin the Ancient stashed the really super-duper weapon of mass destruction he built."
Basically for years now, the solution has been "go to the Ancients". Now making the Ori as powerful AS the Ancients might have been a neat twist - and I`m still terribly unhappy they didn`t go with my theory where the Ori come from :( - but it`s too big for humans, frankly. Realistically, they should be all dead or enslaved within a week and the Supers should fight themselves.
Now as for the additions of the cast, I`m feeling a lot more mellow as I do over such matters in other shows. :-p Mainly because it had 8 years with the original cast and I can`t begrudge any actor the wish to move on there.
Also, coming from Farscape, I like both Ben and Claudia. But I`ll have to judge their merits by their SG1 characters of course and here I`ll have to say: is anyone but Mitchell very drunk?
Okay, Teal`c takes a lot before he voices real displeasure but the ready integration of Vala into the team made no sense. I felt like Mitchell had the right attitude, wary in a "don`t screw it up, I`m watching you" way but not mean about it. He IS willing to give her a chance, he just won`t present the whole team`s back to her.
And it`s not like she never has any ideas or valid strategy to contribute. Frankly in Season 9 with the Supergate and everything when Vala got sucked to Ori-world, I felt they were being doofuses. She tried to share her plan with them but noone would listen. Why? They were in deep trouble and any idea would have been better than none and as a former Goa`uld it`s not like she has nothing to bring to the table. It felt childish and unprofessional how they excluded her there.
Now it feels naive how they include her.
Mitchell and Landry, I rather like. Landry is someone who fights for his teams and the Stargate mission just like Hammond did. And Mitchell tries his best to accomodate to his very unusual team - much like Sheppard does. There seems to be a nice friendship thing going on with everybody which I like.
Daniel remains at his best when he philosophers and geeks. Not when he banters with Vala. Sorry, this seems so forced and contrived.
What I would have found funny? On the Morpheus planet where they fought sleep? If Daniel had been so geeky-excited about the books, he wouldn`t have felt sleepy. And everybody else would have been close to breaking but Daniel all hyped up on "ZOMG, Merlin did bla bla bla" *g*