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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.

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[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::whispers:: waaaaatch baaaaatttlestaaaaaar gaaaalaaaaatiiiiiccaaaaaaaaa

Seriously it's waaaaay better, quality-wise than either Stargate show, though I can't fault you on Atlantis because, yeah, Sheppard's hot, yo. Not enough for me to watch more of that than it takes to bore me (read three episodes in total at this point), but yeah, hot all the same.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I love Sheppard! Probably for different reasons and in a different way than you do, though. He is so delightfully sarcastic. Actually, I guess everyone is. I liked the show well-enough for that, and it was kind of enjoyable, but it was very light. I still have the rest of season 1 recorded on DVDs to watch too, now that I think about it. The last one I saw was the one with Colm Meaney in it, I think. Screw that--I need to actually watch my SG-1 DVDs first.

[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.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Sheppard? Pffffft. Dr. McKay. heeee.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

But he's so cute. You can ignore me, though, it's just that he hits allllll of my hot-ness buttons. It's ridiculous. He's trim, nicely built but not too over-muscled, has short dark hair and light-ish eyes, and he snarks a lot. Bucks authority, too. Sigh. I love fictional bad boys (real ones are just assholes).

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

And I like fictional assholes. The real ones are - well - assholes.

But Sheppard has pointy ears! He's like an elf! Except for the strange math thing, he's a totally generic grunt. He's a caricature. I see nothing original or particularly interesting in his character at all. He exists solely to be the hero type.

McKay on the other hand - well, it's not often that you get a character that was deliberately created to be annoying as hell (because he was originally an antagonist to SG1) as a cast member. He just amuses me. Greatly. He apparently also amuses the writers, because they pick on him all the time. They'll put him in a rubber suit for an episode then hang him upside down for no reason other than they like torturing David Hewlett.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

McKay's awesome too. My favorite exchange (from what I've seen so far):

McKay: You don't think there's lemon in this, do you?
Ford: I'm sure it's delicious.
McKay: Have you seen someone in anaphylactic shock?

Funny man.

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Just because he's a hypochondriac doesn't actually mean that he's not sick or injured.

I love McKay. The complete opposite of manly stoicism. What makes him all the more amusing is that when he's bitching about impending doom, he's usually right.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

::shakes head:: You don't have to tell me it's wrong for me to know it. I just can't help what hormones decide for me. Plus, like I said, I haven't seen enough of either Stargate series to make character judgment the forefront of my reasons for liking someone.

But while we're on the subject--when does Johnny Farscape (aka Ben Browder) come into SG-1 and can I just skip however many seasons between the start and that point?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

Ben Browder shows up season 9 (to replace Richard Dean Anderson). I would say - no, you can't jump in there for two reasons. One: though they introduce a new villain to replace the Goa'uld, there is still a ton of backstory that will make things difficult to understand. Two: this is not the show at its best.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Merde.

I'd say more, but have been attacked by cramps and am awful uncommunicative. Fortunately, this is not an uncommon thing at work (the not-talking, not the cramps). But the 'merde' pretty much covers it, no?

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

I also have to point out that the first four or so episodes with Ben Browder also have a very sexy Claudia Black - who is going after Daniel Jackson whole hog. It's a little weird to have the two of them on screen together and not paying any real attention to each other.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yeah, tell me about it. When we watched the last episode of Battlestar Galactica that was new (BEFORE TODAY THAT IS!!!), I happened to see that one of the marines (not previously shown before--no spoilers! no spoilers!!!) is Cade Foster from the Sci-Fi 'classic' First Wave. I needs must tell Michelle about that, but it is really odd when they pop up on different shows like that in general...If Crichton and Aeryn are ignoring each other, my heart might break.