SGA peeps: WTF is happening??

[blade_girl]

My available time for the internet and keeping up with fannish stuff is both limited and highly sporadic right now. I have just gotten wind of an apparent announcement that SGA is being cancelled and that there's a new show on the horizon called Stargate: Universe. I would like a clearer and more complete picture of this steaming crock of shit

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[moony_blues]

Season 5 of SGA will be the last one. It'll wrap with a 2-hour movie in February (I think...). Honestly, I'm kind of glad that they're cutting it loose before it heads into corny writing.

[erinm_4600]

Friday night was the best episode in TWO seasons...

Granted, I could just still be bitter of the cancellation of SG-1

[blade_girl]

Well, I loved SG-1, but I felt its cancellation was probably long overdue. Several sharks had been jumped by then, and RDA's glaringly obvious lack of desire to be there had weakened the show for years. At that that show got ten whole years.

[erinm_4600]

True... but I still prefer the original :p

The Ori was just grasping... though Teal'c's neverending obsession with Star Wars was great...

and Cam/Lam!!

[moony_blues]

I didn't have access to cable on Friday. =P I will this week, though.

*three cheers for digital cable install on Thursday!!!*

[blade_girl]

Yay!
Yay!
Yay!

[moony_blues]

Tell me about it! And I get the first month free! =D

Turns out digital, with 25 extra digital channels, was only $10 more per month than regular cable. =D

[blade_girl]

Thanks!

Actually, I'm puzzled by the decision, since - in my opinion - the writing this season and much of the last has been more consistent in terms of characterization than in any other point in the show's history. The writing team finally seemed to get this idea about how to convey a good "team" tone, week after week, rather than certain writers presenting certain characters in radically different ways from other writers.

I think this is, from a fan's perspective, a lousy way to reward those of us who stuck with the show through the writers' ludicrous ups and downs of seasons two and three, and doing it just as they are finally giving us many of the things we've wanted for a long time.

[erinm_4600]

The fans don't matter. Didn't you see 200?

Only Cam was on our side...

[blade_girl]

While 200 was hilarious and I admit I did a fair hyena impression while watching it, I also found it tremendously disturbing, precisely because they were not at all shy about stating rather baldly that they don't take the show seriously. There was a palpable sense of them sneering at their fans who expect a show's runners to take it seriously.

[erinm_4600]

and then they proceeded to cancel it, that night.

*thumbs up*

Talk about a kick in the teeth...

[moony_blues]

I think this is, from a fan's perspective, a lousy way to reward those of us who stuck with the show through the writers' ludicrous ups and downs of seasons two and three.

Oh, no doubt. I've really not seen a whole lot of SGA because I went for a very long time without cable. I was more of an SG-1 girl myself. But I'd rather see SGA canceled before it can end up like the last two seasons of SG-1. The plots got to be more and more improbable as time went on, especially when they started in on the Ori crap. (Can you tell I'm still not happy with that?)

[blade_girl]

Yeah, I hear ya. I wish they'd cut RDA loose when he first wanted out and brought in Ben Browder or someone else who was suitable and available, instead of forcing RDA to stick around and weaken most of the scenes he was in with his disinterested performances and seeming determination to take Jack from really smart guy who pretended to be dumber than he was to really dumb smartass who was confused by words of more than two syllables.

And the Ori storyline was undoubtedly the biggest mistake of the whole series.

[moony_blues]

I literally *facepalm*ed my way through the first few eps of Season 10. My mother laughed at me. She thinks Sci-Fi can do no wrong. I just don't want that kind of thing to happen to SGA.