don't be dull, be fannish

Man, they all look so young in the pilot! Babies! No wonder, it was filmed 15 years ago. Sheesh on a pogo stick. I remember watching it "live" on RTL2. Ha!

It's so strange, to see them all... not as close as they're going to be. I mean, when you watch season 8 or so, they're like a family. I mean, even in S1 they do care about each other, that's pretty obvious, but the easy rapport isn't there yet.

I wanted to watch the pilot so that I could compare SG-1's Children of Gods to SGA's Rising directly. And even though I love both sets of characters immensely, I like SGA's pilot much better. I think it's because a) SG-1's is a bit... rough around the edges, it was new and not all that well thought through and b) it's too military. SGA's pilot was like a happy extension of SG-1, I mean, everything felt... brighter, more colorful. And what I also adored was the setting, Atlantis itself, the soldiers and the civilians were pretty balanced out, neither faction had the upper hand. They WORKED TOGETHER as a team, they were friends, neither side was trying to upstage the other. They completed each other, together they made a whole. In SG-1, the civilian part was suppressed by the military, the soldiers had the last word. In SGU, both sides were at each other's throat all the time, backstabbing and hidden agendas were on the menu every frickin' day - so not my cuppa. But SGA... that one was perfect - till the writers started mucking about with it, in S4.5 and S5.

I also wanted to watch the pilot to get into the proper headset for some SG books. I chose "Transitions" by Sabine C. Bauer, which is a crossover between SG-1 and SGA :)

Day 9: Your least favorite couple

Ah, another easy one!


Keller & McKay, Stargate: Atlantis

You can't even grasp the depth of my hatred for this pairing. I hate it so much I still haven't re-watched SGA's S5.1. Just because Martin Gero, one of the writers of SGA, decided that it would be awesome if the nerd got the prom queen, his own words paraphrased, they destroyed the build-up of Ronon/Keller and made Keller and McKay a couple. It grated so much that the episode Brainstorm remains my least favorite, most hated episode of all SGA! "Rodney, pay attention to me, don't be so selfish, you always have to be the center of attention, you're embarrassing me etc. and so on!" And THAT's the great love between them? Wow. Just, wow! *bristles like a cat* Oh yes, still mighty pissed, as you can see!

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I just re-watched ep 701, Fallen, of SG-1. You know, the one with nekkid!Daniel returning from the dead - again! - and I realized just how much I missed the show. I'll have to marathon it soon. SG-1 and SGA are two of my most favorite sci-fi shows ever - if you know me even a little, you know that SGU is not - and I feel the need to watch a space based series again - it's like an itch that needs to be scratched. I watched this show religiously till the end of S5 - I guess you know why, right? - and then only here and there, so I have basically 5 seasons of mostly unwatched Stargate waiting for me! \o/

Oh, and why did I watch it? I want to read the SG-1 tie-in novel "Four Dragons" by Diana Dru Botsford and it's set directly after 701&702.

Reports are coming out of the Creation Stargate Convention happening this weekend in Vancouver. The major news, just an hour old, is that Brad Wright said there will be no movies for any of the three Stargate series. Link

Not that I was still holding any real hope, but... They canceled SGA to MAKE THE FRICKIN' MOVIES! And now we have a flop of a series and no movies. Great job, TPTB. Just awesome!

At least we have the "Legacy" book series... *sigh*

Day 30: One thing you would change

I would've never established a connection with Earth. I know that such a prospect would've hurt the writers' collective chicken brain because they would've had to, you know, think up something new, use their imagination to write a consistent story and not use the connection with Earth as some sort of deux ex machina, but I think it would've been awesome. Just imagine it, the expedition losing members and gaining new ones from the various Pegasus societies, identifying themselves more and more as Atlantean, not Earthlings, building a completely new society... And best of all? No IOA medling.

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Day 28: Favorite enemy

Acastus Kolya, hands down. He was the only enemy that felt really... dangerous. Why? Because he was so cold and rational - well, as long as it wasn't about John Sheppard, because John killed Kolya's son. Still, the episode Common Ground is one of the creepiest and most suspenseful episodes of the whole series. And I couldn't believe the lame way in which they killed Kolya - it just proved to me that these writers had the imagination of a gnat.

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Day 26: OMG WHY SGA WHY moment

The McKay/Keller pairing. I accepted everything else they had thrown my way. I went with Carson's death and Elizabeth's... whatever. I learned to live with Carter as Atlantis' leader (for the record, I do like Carter - in SG-1, where she should've stayed!). I fell in love with Woolsey. I accepted the convoluted story of Teyla's pregnancy. But this...

The writers threw all logic out of the window to twist the characters into a shape they wanted them to be. Suddenly, Rodney became meek and accepting and let Keller order him around in the name of his own "improvement"... Blech :(( The fact he was good 15 years her senior aside, what DID she see in him when all she did was try to change him?

So yes, that was my WHY?! moment, the moment when SGA jumped the shark for me.

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Day 24: Favorite in-show lingo

ZPM vs. McKay's ZedPM. I still love this exchange:

McKAY: We need the ZedPM to power the Gate.
O'NEILL: What?
JACKSON: ZeePM. He's, uh, he's Canadian.
O'NEILL (sympathetically to McKay): I'm sorry.

Still LOL'ing here 8D

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Day 22: Worst quote

"I... I... I love you. I've loved you for some time now." ~Rodney McKay to Jennifer Keller, The Shrine

That doesn't need any commentary, I think :|

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Day 20: Unpopular opinion time!

I really loved Larrin of the Travelers. She was smart but not at the expense of Sheppard's cleverness. I loved the way they outsmarted each other in Travelers. Besides, she was really hot and the way she LOOKED at Sheppard, especially in Be All My Sins Remember'd... *fans herself* If Sheppard HAD to get a love interest, I would want it to be her.

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