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[ivyfic]

Waaa! I don't want to be at work! I have too much good TV to watch.

Thanks to scifi's marathons, I now have the first half of season 9 of SG1 and season 2 of Stargate Atlantis on tape, both of which are starting new episodes this evening. And I have the fourth/third season of due South on DVD. And if that weren't enough, trinityvixen just lent me season 1 of Battlestar Galactica. All of this is a conspiracy designed to prevent my ass from ever leaving the couch.

But instead of being at home enjoying this fannish bounty, I have to be here earning a living. Life is truly unfair.

Comments

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I need to actually watch my SG-1 DVDs first

That would probably help. Though by the time you get to season 8 of SG1, Atlantis is so new and refreshing. Seriously - I love Stargate, but the premise of the original series wore out a couple of seasons ago. As did the characters. You know how you sometimes wish that your favorite show could just go on and on forever and never end? Turns out that's not a great a thing as you'd think.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's what happened to a lot of episodic shows. Sliders is pretty much the same thing as SG-1, and that got boring really fast. I mean, how many variations on oppressed people as a result of X being different can you watch and still find interesting? How many times can one person meet their exact double and still be surprised about it?

I guess the Stargate shows have somethinig extra going for them in the sense that there's a bad guy who can chase them around and stuff.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

The only advantage Stargate has I think is that even in the late seasons they manage to deliver solid episodes from time to time. It's just that in order to keep the big stories going, the universe of the show has changed so much over eight seasons that it's almost unrecognizable.

There was something appealing in the first few seasons where it was people from contemporary Earth going out into the complete unknown and having no idea what they'd encounter or how to deal with it. By the time you get to season 9, they've seen it all and done it all and lost that innocence that made them like the audience. They're not normal people in extraordinary circumstances anymore, they're extraordinary people.