Good list! I agree with just about all of it. I was so thinking Jedi training orb - which brings me to one of two things that didn't let me truly engage in the show. OMG how many shows/movies can we rip off: BSG, Voyager, Last Starfighter, Lost in Space (Rush and the premise), Star Wars...I know there were more as a I was watching. Secondly, I also didn't really like any of the characters - they just didn't grab me and I felt myself starting to clock watch. Way too many commercials didn't help either.
Oh and I'm not that much of a prude, but the sex scene - little jarring. Came at a completely inappropriate time and was gratuitous. Why go through the whole changing of Children of the Gods (SG1 revised pilot) and take out the nude scene and then have that in your new Stargate show's pilot? I'm missing something.
Most new shows have to have time to get the kinks out and the characters fleshed out. I'll give it a few more shows - definitely be watching a couple more due to a certain someone's role in them, but we'll see about the rest.
True on the rip-offs, but I guess you could consider it homage...
I didn't notice the commercials, as I was slightly behind live TV and fast forwarded most of them.
And totally on the sex scene. I didn't list it here specifically because I didn't want to look like a prude (which I'm totally not), but it was just stupid. It did nothing to advance anything. I suppose you could say it's to make the characters feel more "real," but I think it just made those two characters look like idiots.
I'll likely watch simply because it'll be on next to Sanctuary, but...yeah...not exactly exciting. But I knew that.
So, re: the sex scene. Cleo made a valid point elsewhere that is was intended to show the immaturity of Scott. Ok, I can see that. He's a guy thrown in way over his head and all that. Got it. But...still didn't need it and too sudden and didn't do anything for me.
I could see that but jeesh only an hour or so into the situation, at least that's what it seemed like. I would hope that military officers in the Stargate program (and in reality) would be slightly more disciplined especially at his supposed higher rank (?). I could think of other ways of showing immaturity without a gratuitous sex scene. Plus I think the writers/producers just wanted to do this to make the show more "edgy" or......they are just boys ;)
Oh, I totally agree. It's the stupid "edgy" word again, and it' lame.
(See Wil Wheaton's Just A Geek for the best explanation of that word ever.)
And while this guy is only a lieutenant (I think?), and thus a baby, I do think that SG officers would be the best of the best so to speak and not be like this. Granted, having known a few of those, they do tend to be the wild children off-duty, but on duty they shine, so...
I haven't seen your list much since I haven't posted mine yet but I glanced through and saw this (the sex scene with Scott and the chickie). Apparently, in the UK they edited this bit out of the pilot when it was shown and Brian Jacob Smith who plays Scott is a twitterer I follow and he said it was "important later on" so he was irritated it was cut.
hmm...I hope to hell that doesn't mean they get her preggers on a later storyline or I will be very, very annoyed.
Well, they appear to be trying to ship Scott with the Senator's daughter, so maybe it's an issue with some tension there. Or perhaps she is pregnant. I think that would actually be cool. I mean, so often in shows there are no consequences for sex, so...why not? Of course, it wouldn't have happened in that specific interlude, but...why not? And it might be interesting to see how Scott reacted to that, with his misplaced sense of honor, esp if he does develop feelings for the other girl. Does that sound a bit soapy? Yes. But that's not all bad.
Huh.
Oh, not to mention, having children on the ship does have to happen eventually in order to sustain the population. Just ask Naomi Wildman (first child born on Voyager).
I wouldn't care one way or the other. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
Oh and I'm not that much of a prude, but the sex scene - little jarring. Came at a completely inappropriate time and was gratuitous. Why go through the whole changing of Children of the Gods (SG1 revised pilot) and take out the nude scene and then have that in your new Stargate show's pilot? I'm missing something.
Most new shows have to have time to get the kinks out and the characters fleshed out. I'll give it a few more shows - definitely be watching a couple more due to a certain someone's role in them, but we'll see about the rest.
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I didn't notice the commercials, as I was slightly behind live TV and fast forwarded most of them.
And totally on the sex scene. I didn't list it here specifically because I didn't want to look like a prude (which I'm totally not), but it was just stupid. It did nothing to advance anything. I suppose you could say it's to make the characters feel more "real," but I think it just made those two characters look like idiots.
I'll likely watch simply because it'll be on next to Sanctuary, but...yeah...not exactly exciting. But I knew that.
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(See Wil Wheaton's Just A Geek for the best explanation of that word ever.)
And while this guy is only a lieutenant (I think?), and thus a baby, I do think that SG officers would be the best of the best so to speak and not be like this. Granted, having known a few of those, they do tend to be the wild children off-duty, but on duty they shine, so...
Yeah...not so much.
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hmm...I hope to hell that doesn't mean they get her preggers on a later storyline or I will be very, very annoyed.
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Huh.
Oh, not to mention, having children on the ship does have to happen eventually in order to sustain the population. Just ask Naomi Wildman (first child born on Voyager).
I wouldn't care one way or the other. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
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