This week's SG-1...wish I knew what the hell to think. Let me start with the obvious...costumes. Whoever that guest costumer was? The one who made leather outfits that looked good on every single member? Keep that person, ok? I have accepted that I watch mostly for the shallow values, even though hope for something more sneaks through.
The other really good thing? Team! Four people, known affectionately as "Team," go offworld through the Stargate on a mission. Spiffy concept, that. I like it. Keep that concept, ok?
Ummmmm...not much else that I particularly liked. Can't get very interested in policing the galaxy's corn supply. Nope. Then again, neither could the story because that seemed to get dropped pretty quickly. I'm assuming the addictive corn and our chase after it is supposed to be allegorical to drugs and the drug war. Fine and good...but shall we make a point about it please rather than forget it was the point of their trip? Wait, I take that back. I don't want to spend a lot of time on addictive corn. Plot device to get team into yummy leather outfits? Check. And damn, did they look good or what? I was glad to see Amanda looking excellent (babies are hard on a girl's figure!), Christopher was born to wear that, Ben was to die for, and Michael? Oh geez - I won't even start. Bulges, bumps, and "oh my"s are about as far as I get before losing coherency.
I'd like to point the writers to the evening's Battlestar Galactica for the power that death can have when used judiciously. Watching Ba'al numbers 4-7 die tonight really doesn't have any impact when I know they've abandoned all pretense and will just have Ba'al show up whenever they need him next. Same with ships. Blowing up a ship loses its drama value when it's replaced with one we've never heard of before its sudden new appearance. The shallow enjoyment scale, though, thought that Ba'al in all his glory rivaled Michael in leather for "hottest" in the episode. Damn, he does smoldering, powerful, and evil so very well. Yum!
(I can't help but think that had this been an episode in those golden seasons of 1-3, that the team would have talked themselves out of their predicament and turned the local drug dealer *insert eye roll* around to their cause. Or, they'd at least have found common ground to work from...something.)
This is the second time I've not been impressed Cameron's, "it's all me me me me me" show. Team-work, dude. I never thought the little quip about, "SG-Me" early on would have such a life. Really, writers, it's okay to have the team work with the "new lead" rather than have him try everything solo to shove 8 years of heroics into the first season. Honest - I'm not keeping a tally sheet.
Maybe I'm unduly harsh with SG-1 these days, but when BSG repeated footage and went back in time last week to tell a story, it seemed like a storytelling device meant to heighten the pathos (whether it suceeded or not). SG-1's use of a similar technique just seemed like a cheap reuse of footage and a way to get out of figuring out how the team rescues Cameron and filming it.
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SGA. Usual crap show. The adverts made it seem like a rip off of Mr. & Mrs. Smith but maybe that would have been better than the idiocy on display. Then again, I'm not a fan so I'm not likely to cut it any slack. If Caldwell doesn't step up and say, "y'all are too stupid to run a toaster so as a matter of keeping innocent bystanders alive I'm taking over until you can be replaced," well, I'll assume it's more bad writing from these folks rather than what should happen. ;-)
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Battlestar Galactica. Oh man, they killed Billy. Billy! I weep for him. I loved that character. Our only hope now is to learn eventually that Billy is a Cylon. And wouldn't that mess things up nicely? I thought at first that the whole storyline of Billy and Dualla getting married was a nice little plot device nod to V-Day but would also be a pretty cool, not-so-dark sideline to the unrelenting darkness of the series. A ray of hope for the future kind-of-thing. Wow - I no more saw Billy's death coming than I saw Sharon shooting Adama.
I don't know anything about the military but I've heard any number of times not to threaten what you aren't prepared to do. Why in the hell would Apollo threaten one of the terrorists with his gun if he wasn't prepared to follow through? Their having hostages and the identities of those hostages wasn't a surprise, after all. That seemed like an odd action for a battlehardened pilot. I noticed Starbuck had no problem opening up fire. Yeah, she paid a heavy emotional price when she thought she might have killed Apollo, but she went in with guns she intended to use. Apollo is starting to lose emotional focus for me; I'm having trouble "getting" him. Can't decide if Tighe's wife is congenitally stupid or the stereotypical female who must do the absolute stupidest thing possible in any life-or-death situation. I hope they give her something redeeming, even if it's brilliant evil, before I completely hate her lack of development. Poor actress must be damned bored...
I'm not certain where the romances/relationships are headed, if anywhere, but they've sure muddied everything up and I'm ready to go back to struggling to survive, fleeing Cylons, learning more about what makes the Cylons tick...while human on human violence is more realistic it's kind of like the will-they/won't-they of UST -- a tiny little bit goes a long, long way with me.
The other really good thing? Team! Four people, known affectionately as "Team," go offworld through the Stargate on a mission. Spiffy concept, that. I like it. Keep that concept, ok?
Ummmmm...not much else that I particularly liked. Can't get very interested in policing the galaxy's corn supply. Nope. Then again, neither could the story because that seemed to get dropped pretty quickly. I'm assuming the addictive corn and our chase after it is supposed to be allegorical to drugs and the drug war. Fine and good...but shall we make a point about it please rather than forget it was the point of their trip? Wait, I take that back. I don't want to spend a lot of time on addictive corn. Plot device to get team into yummy leather outfits? Check. And damn, did they look good or what? I was glad to see Amanda looking excellent (babies are hard on a girl's figure!), Christopher was born to wear that, Ben was to die for, and Michael? Oh geez - I won't even start. Bulges, bumps, and "oh my"s are about as far as I get before losing coherency.
I'd like to point the writers to the evening's Battlestar Galactica for the power that death can have when used judiciously. Watching Ba'al numbers 4-7 die tonight really doesn't have any impact when I know they've abandoned all pretense and will just have Ba'al show up whenever they need him next. Same with ships. Blowing up a ship loses its drama value when it's replaced with one we've never heard of before its sudden new appearance. The shallow enjoyment scale, though, thought that Ba'al in all his glory rivaled Michael in leather for "hottest" in the episode. Damn, he does smoldering, powerful, and evil so very well. Yum!
(I can't help but think that had this been an episode in those golden seasons of 1-3, that the team would have talked themselves out of their predicament and turned the local drug dealer *insert eye roll* around to their cause. Or, they'd at least have found common ground to work from...something.)
This is the second time I've not been impressed Cameron's, "it's all me me me me me" show. Team-work, dude. I never thought the little quip about, "SG-Me" early on would have such a life. Really, writers, it's okay to have the team work with the "new lead" rather than have him try everything solo to shove 8 years of heroics into the first season. Honest - I'm not keeping a tally sheet.
Maybe I'm unduly harsh with SG-1 these days, but when BSG repeated footage and went back in time last week to tell a story, it seemed like a storytelling device meant to heighten the pathos (whether it suceeded or not). SG-1's use of a similar technique just seemed like a cheap reuse of footage and a way to get out of figuring out how the team rescues Cameron and filming it.
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SGA. Usual crap show. The adverts made it seem like a rip off of Mr. & Mrs. Smith but maybe that would have been better than the idiocy on display. Then again, I'm not a fan so I'm not likely to cut it any slack. If Caldwell doesn't step up and say, "y'all are too stupid to run a toaster so as a matter of keeping innocent bystanders alive I'm taking over until you can be replaced," well, I'll assume it's more bad writing from these folks rather than what should happen. ;-)
~~**~~
Battlestar Galactica. Oh man, they killed Billy. Billy! I weep for him. I loved that character. Our only hope now is to learn eventually that Billy is a Cylon. And wouldn't that mess things up nicely? I thought at first that the whole storyline of Billy and Dualla getting married was a nice little plot device nod to V-Day but would also be a pretty cool, not-so-dark sideline to the unrelenting darkness of the series. A ray of hope for the future kind-of-thing. Wow - I no more saw Billy's death coming than I saw Sharon shooting Adama.
I don't know anything about the military but I've heard any number of times not to threaten what you aren't prepared to do. Why in the hell would Apollo threaten one of the terrorists with his gun if he wasn't prepared to follow through? Their having hostages and the identities of those hostages wasn't a surprise, after all. That seemed like an odd action for a battlehardened pilot. I noticed Starbuck had no problem opening up fire. Yeah, she paid a heavy emotional price when she thought she might have killed Apollo, but she went in with guns she intended to use. Apollo is starting to lose emotional focus for me; I'm having trouble "getting" him. Can't decide if Tighe's wife is congenitally stupid or the stereotypical female who must do the absolute stupidest thing possible in any life-or-death situation. I hope they give her something redeeming, even if it's brilliant evil, before I completely hate her lack of development. Poor actress must be damned bored...
I'm not certain where the romances/relationships are headed, if anywhere, but they've sure muddied everything up and I'm ready to go back to struggling to survive, fleeing Cylons, learning more about what makes the Cylons tick...while human on human violence is more realistic it's kind of like the will-they/won't-they of UST -- a tiny little bit goes a long, long way with me.
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