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elgrey

Thank goodness for the Stargate universe….

Aug 07, 2008 11:27

It was discovered that I had an ovarian cyst this year, unfortunately a big one that had twisted and done nasty things to my internal workings, so I had to spend time I would have usually have spent doing something a bit more active, either lying on my right side on a sofa drugged up to the eyeballs on painkillers or in and out of hospital having ( Read more... )

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kbtgirl August 13 2008, 16:20:53 UTC

Sorry to hear you've had such a rough year but I'm relieved to hear you're picking up now ( ... )

elgrey August 13 2008, 17:09:22 UTC

Anyway, this was me, slinking out of anonymity for a brief while to say 'good to hear you're getting better and take care'.

It was very sweet of you to do that. Thank you for commenting.

I was really worried I was going to lose my love of SG-1. I stayed away for quite a long time for fear of sitting through an episode and thinking 'meh', but I was really relieved to find I was as fangirly as ever about it when I started watching it again. I'm never going to love S7 and S8 in the way I love S1-S3, but I am really fond of them, just because they're Stargate, and I love some individual later episodes as much as I love the early ones like 'The Torment of Tantalus' or 'Solitudes'. (I'm the same with Buffy. I love S1-S3 more than I love the later seasons, but I still love the characters enough to enjoy the later seasons just because it's in that world and with those people.)

I wasn't that interested in Atlantis at first either. I only started watching it because of the (utterly brilliant) Escapade 2006 DVD. I watched lierdumoa's SGA vid If I ( ... )

kbtgirl August 13 2008, 19:49:57 UTC

Twice in one day - this'll be my quota for the year ( ... )

elgrey August 13 2008, 23:02:07 UTC

Oh dear, I've enjoyed your comments so much and rambled on so much that I'm going to need two posts to answer you. Sorry ( ... )

elgrey August 13 2008, 23:10:30 UTC

I must admit I'm not too happy about Keller being so unconvincing (to me anyway) as a doctor and I don't know why they made her a doctor when they don't want her to act like one. The place is crawling with scientists, some of whom must have been selected for their specific areas of research rather than for their ability to cope in a crisis. Keller could easily have been a young and brilliant scientist who was there because of a vital paper she'd written or something and had exactly the personality she had now without it creating a credibility problem (for me anyway). But doctors spend their entire professional lives dealing with crises, whereas Keller doesn't seem anything like any doctor I have ever met, and that includes the ones too young to know what a temperature should be in Fahrenheit. Keller currently reminds me of characters from bad 80s B-movies, where we’re supposed to accept Patsy Kensit as an eminent psychiatrist because she puts on a pair of spectacles. It’s a shame because they’ve always managed to cast pretty people to ( ... )

kbtgirl August 14 2008, 11:53:54 UTC

Yes, it told me last night that I'd wittered on at too great a length but I was ready for bed then so I cut the last paragraph and posted ( ... )

kbtgirl August 14 2008, 12:09:32 UTC

Oops, that was me. Thought I'd better check for length and post but completely forgot I hadn't signed in. And yes, it was Abyss - thanks ( ... )

kbtgirl August 14 2008, 12:24:55 UTC

So, deaths in drama. I'm okay with them most of the time. I thought Buffy excelled - who'd ever forget Buffy's mother's death? Or Buffy's? And they fitted so well in the plotlines, a reminder that sometimes people die for reasons beyond the supernatural or simply outwith Buffy's control. But Beckett's death? And yes, they did it to make the point that jeopardy does sometimes result in tragedy and because they'd pulled off too many miraculous rescues, but I really really really wish they'd stand by their decisions instead of bowing to public pressure, or wanting to bring the actor back because they like him. I thought if they'd had real guts (and I would've hated it) they would've let Rodney ascend in 'Tao of Rodney' (and I always wished they'd killed off O'Neill instead of leaving him somewhere in limbo in DC just in case they ever needed him again). How can you buy into any kind of jeopardy for these characters when you know that, more than likely, they'll find a way to bring them back next year? Ugh. I think I'd just like to see ( ... )

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