Yeah, it was. I spent a whole season being livid and upset. Sure, I appreciated the guys' forays into sexiness but I hated what it did to the characterization and plot lines. Finally I had to choose to stop watching or find a zen place where I could watch for what it was they were willing to give me: sexed up team.
I would *prefer* to have a more cerebral, Gate-based sci fi show about a first contact team exploring the galaxy. No matter how much I love to stare at Michael Shanks, I would choose the old show with someone else as Daniel over the newer seasons with Michael Shanks had I been given a choice.
I could eventually accept the leftovers because the eye candy is of particularly good quality. However, there are lots of cerebral, interesting, strong men on television while there aren't a lot of cerebral, interesting, strong women on television. The undermining of Sam - who was touted in interview after interview for YEARS as a strong woman who broke the mold of what women on tv were allowed to do - so that she could be mostly exposition-spouting, angst-generating eye candy rankled more and took me longer to become zen over because it was a keener loss.
(Also? I kind of felt like Michael Shanks and RDA stopped caring and were almost phoning in their performances a lot of times whereas Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge seemed to continue giving it their all. I hate to see the waste of both a great character and a great actor who is giving it everything she has so that rankled a bit more, too.)
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I would *prefer* to have a more cerebral, Gate-based sci fi show about a first contact team exploring the galaxy. No matter how much I love to stare at Michael Shanks, I would choose the old show with someone else as Daniel over the newer seasons with Michael Shanks had I been given a choice.
I could eventually accept the leftovers because the eye candy is of particularly good quality. However, there are lots of cerebral, interesting, strong men on television while there aren't a lot of cerebral, interesting, strong women on television. The undermining of Sam - who was touted in interview after interview for YEARS as a strong woman who broke the mold of what women on tv were allowed to do - so that she could be mostly exposition-spouting, angst-generating eye candy rankled more and took me longer to become zen over because it was a keener loss.
(Also? I kind of felt like Michael Shanks and RDA stopped caring and were almost phoning in their performances a lot of times whereas Amanda Tapping and Christopher Judge seemed to continue giving it their all. I hate to see the waste of both a great character and a great actor who is giving it everything she has so that rankled a bit more, too.)