while my comments are eating me
I'm going back to talking about Ronon all the time, y'all, because the 30 comments I get per cranky, Ronon-centric SGA comment are about what I can handle.
But Seriously, Folks. I'm working my way through the traffic generated by the Big Gay Meta the other day. Slowly but surely! Thinking is hard and stuff, but I haven't surrendered yet, so if you were one of the later responders, thanks for your patience!
In the meantime, can I just say? Let me tell you who I love. I LOVE JARED PADALECKI. Sometimes this bleeds over into loving Sam Winchester and sometimes it doesn't, but this week it does. I LOVE SAM. (ALSO, JARED PADALECKI).
Seriously, "Mystery Spot"? Stone fucking awesome. *That* is how it's done. (Overheard in NC: Mary: "I always said Sam was the one who was really John's boy." Hth: "I feel like I'm learning a lot about what it was like to grow up in Sam and Dean's family right now.") I would tell you all the things I loved about this episode, but it would take you longer to read than it would to download and watch the episode. So...do that instead. *g*
Yesterday -- actually before "Mystery Spot" aired -- I was talking with Mary about SPN, and I had a revelation: SGA writers and SPN writers are kind of sucky in exactly the opposite ways -- or, if you want to be Little Miss Sunshine about it, good in exactly the opposite ways. *g*
SPN has massive pacing issues within the episodes, and sort of clunky dialogue in many cases, and tends to have to pack their eps with filler (usually stuff we've gone over multiple times before) because they're not good at building plots that take all 48 minutes to get through. However, what they ARE good at is building arcs: things that show up early on become significant down the road, things we think we know about the characters become increasingly complicated and problematized as time goes on, they make good use of the worldbuilding and mythology to create suspense and generate questions.
SGA is often quite good on the level of individual episodes: the dialogue can be crackerjack, full of one-liners and great timing, they make great use of the ticking clock and the base under seige and plots complex enough to require seveal characters to move quickly to stay ahead of the next disaster. However, what they are *for shit* at is building arcs: making anything that happened in one episode relate in any half-reasonable way to what happens down the road, creating recurring villains that have any reason to recur, being able to follow the cause-and-effect chain of logic from major things they put into play in the universe, letting the characters evolve in response to the things the past few seasons have put them through.
What we need is clearly a writer exchange program of some kind. Rock-paper-scissors for who ends up with the good show, SPN fandom?
But Seriously, Folks. I'm working my way through the traffic generated by the Big Gay Meta the other day. Slowly but surely! Thinking is hard and stuff, but I haven't surrendered yet, so if you were one of the later responders, thanks for your patience!
In the meantime, can I just say? Let me tell you who I love. I LOVE JARED PADALECKI. Sometimes this bleeds over into loving Sam Winchester and sometimes it doesn't, but this week it does. I LOVE SAM. (ALSO, JARED PADALECKI).
Seriously, "Mystery Spot"? Stone fucking awesome. *That* is how it's done. (Overheard in NC: Mary: "I always said Sam was the one who was really John's boy." Hth: "I feel like I'm learning a lot about what it was like to grow up in Sam and Dean's family right now.") I would tell you all the things I loved about this episode, but it would take you longer to read than it would to download and watch the episode. So...do that instead. *g*
Yesterday -- actually before "Mystery Spot" aired -- I was talking with Mary about SPN, and I had a revelation: SGA writers and SPN writers are kind of sucky in exactly the opposite ways -- or, if you want to be Little Miss Sunshine about it, good in exactly the opposite ways. *g*
SPN has massive pacing issues within the episodes, and sort of clunky dialogue in many cases, and tends to have to pack their eps with filler (usually stuff we've gone over multiple times before) because they're not good at building plots that take all 48 minutes to get through. However, what they ARE good at is building arcs: things that show up early on become significant down the road, things we think we know about the characters become increasingly complicated and problematized as time goes on, they make good use of the worldbuilding and mythology to create suspense and generate questions.
SGA is often quite good on the level of individual episodes: the dialogue can be crackerjack, full of one-liners and great timing, they make great use of the ticking clock and the base under seige and plots complex enough to require seveal characters to move quickly to stay ahead of the next disaster. However, what they are *for shit* at is building arcs: making anything that happened in one episode relate in any half-reasonable way to what happens down the road, creating recurring villains that have any reason to recur, being able to follow the cause-and-effect chain of logic from major things they put into play in the universe, letting the characters evolve in response to the things the past few seasons have put them through.
What we need is clearly a writer exchange program of some kind. Rock-paper-scissors for who ends up with the good show, SPN fandom?