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[danceswithwords]

I have taken a day to absorb the bad news, and I think the timing of the SG-1 cancellation announcement on the heels of the wave of squee and love from "200" (and announcing to the cast and crew before their celebration) was crappy, but if this person knows what they're talking about at all, they're filming episode 17 right now and will have time

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[danceswithwords]

I can't remember George's mother's name either, though I remember quite well that she had problems with the word "moist," because that is an excellent telling detail that impressed me with the show's writing right off the bat.

Oddly, what I kind of like about the workplace scenes is that the writer is not completely disdainful of them.

I think the writers are disdainful of the situation, but not of the people caught up in it, which is maybe an odd distinction for me to draw. But, yes, it's drone work, and they're all getting through it the only way they know how--by scrapbooking even if it's really not something they'd otherwise do, by running a strange little webcam service, by sneezing on the phones. One thing I think is really fundamental to the show is that people need connections to other people more than they realize, and George's office is a great breedin ground of people who wouldn't ordinarily give each other the time of day forced to spend a bunch of time together and forging these odd connections. Dolores is impossible to hate, even though I would probably gouge her eyes out with a staple remover if I actually had to spend any time with her.