Fan rumblings

[ivyfic]

My Adobe Photoshop has stopped working, so it looks like I won't be able to make myself a spiffy Stargate icon. Grrr. So imagine that I have an icon of Daniel Jackson.

Now that I'm in season 2 of Stargate, I've seen a couple of the episodes involving the NID and Maybourne. I have a kneejerk hate for these episodes. I think I've figured out why: X-Files.

Shadow government agencies? Mysterious politicians pulling the strings? Hidden agendas? Trust no one? Yeah. I've been done that road before. It sucked. I don't want to see another show sucked into the conspiracy black hole. Please, Stargate, just keep giving me the scifi storylines I know and love. Leave the bad writing to that other show.

Comments

[chuckro.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're not going to be happy with Thursday's game...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

It's alright, chuckro. I trust that you actually have a plan.

[edgehopper.livejournal.com]

It's significantly more interesting to find government conspiracies than to watch other people find them. Then again, the rule "It is usually more interesting to do X than to watch X" is often correct...

[ivy03.livejournal.com]

That's not the issue. The issue is that the X-Files writers never had any more idea what was going on than Mulder did. Every time they pulled back a curtain, there was another curtain. I'm OK with mystery, I just have to trust that the writer has a solution to the mystery.

*jaded X-Files fan*

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

Because Chris Carter wilfully decided that there was nothing there -- a basic tenet of the show bible was that nothing regarding the mythos should ever be fully revealed.

[dotsomething.livejournal.com]

Eh, Stargate never really gets swallowed by the conspiracy storylines. I mean, they're there...but mostly it's about the evil aliens that want to kill us all openly.

SG-1 is way more consistent and comprehensible than the X-Files (and I say this loving the X-Files lots and merely liking SG-1).