Look, it's not a post about work
THANK YOU, Stargate Atlantis fandom, for failing at LJ-cuts to hide massive spoilers.
I barely even follow this fandom anymore and was browsing through some communities from a different fandom entirely when I got hit with spoilers I would really rather not know, right out there in the open.
Anyway, I have some book reviews to type up but don't feel like doing that right now. So I will talk briefly about TV instead.
Last Monday's Stargate Atlantis was kind of crap. There wasn't really anything about it that specifically bugged me, but I couldn't much get into the story. It seemed like a repeat of "Lifeboat" from season seven of Stargate SG-1, except without the entertainment value of Michael Shanks putting on funny accents. So mostly a mediocre episode that I'm having trouble even remembering the details of. I think Sheppard was in danger at some point. Watch me not care. Too bad those casting spoilers weren't about Sheppard's death or at least removal from the Stargate universe. And was this episode darker than usual? Darker as in lighting? Because it seemed a lot of it was dark to the point where I couldn't tell what was going on onscreen. I guess they were in a dark location, but...it's hard for me to engage when pretty much all I can see is dark shadows moving around against a dark background.
Stargate SG-1: The Quest Part II - Now this is more of a success story. A better conclusion to the midseason cliffhanger than Atlantis, if only because it didn't seem to utterly waste story potential. I've also more successfully avoided spoilers for this show, so I honestly don't know what's going to happen. Some interesting developments with Daniel, and I really do think the "new" team gels pretty well. And Sam and Ba'al together is never not funny. What happened to Ba'al at the end, anyway? He got shot and was never seen again. He'll turn up later, I'm sure. And hey! I'm still loving the Merlin/King Arthur storyline, as Yet Another Version of the King Arthur mythos, and I'm sort of obsessed with collecting and comparing all the various permutations of that story. Yes, even the Stargate version. I think all my fandoms need to have a King Arthur storyline at some point.
Any significance to Merlin mistaking Daniel for Galahad and Cam for Percival? I'm sure someone on LJ has written some sort of essay about this by now. I will have to find it. Another time.
I also watched the first three episodes of Jake 2.0 on SciFi a couple Fridays ago. Or at least, I tried. What a crap series. I can see why it only lasted a season (or even less than that? I don't know). The first episode was fine, a decent introduction to the characters and concept, I thought. Halfway through the second episode I got bored and started reading a magazine, only paying half-attention to the TV in the event something interesting happened. I switched off the TV ten minutes into the third, because even the magazine wasn't saving me from the tiresome dross coming out of the television set. Nothing about that show set it apart from anything else. Lackluster acting. Bland or just plain badly-written dialogue. Tired plots. Mediocre special effects. Just blah all around. I don't know if SciFi showed more last Friday. I wasn't watching.
I think that's it for now.
I barely even follow this fandom anymore and was browsing through some communities from a different fandom entirely when I got hit with spoilers I would really rather not know, right out there in the open.
Anyway, I have some book reviews to type up but don't feel like doing that right now. So I will talk briefly about TV instead.
Last Monday's Stargate Atlantis was kind of crap. There wasn't really anything about it that specifically bugged me, but I couldn't much get into the story. It seemed like a repeat of "Lifeboat" from season seven of Stargate SG-1, except without the entertainment value of Michael Shanks putting on funny accents. So mostly a mediocre episode that I'm having trouble even remembering the details of. I think Sheppard was in danger at some point. Watch me not care. Too bad those casting spoilers weren't about Sheppard's death or at least removal from the Stargate universe. And was this episode darker than usual? Darker as in lighting? Because it seemed a lot of it was dark to the point where I couldn't tell what was going on onscreen. I guess they were in a dark location, but...it's hard for me to engage when pretty much all I can see is dark shadows moving around against a dark background.
Stargate SG-1: The Quest Part II - Now this is more of a success story. A better conclusion to the midseason cliffhanger than Atlantis, if only because it didn't seem to utterly waste story potential. I've also more successfully avoided spoilers for this show, so I honestly don't know what's going to happen. Some interesting developments with Daniel, and I really do think the "new" team gels pretty well. And Sam and Ba'al together is never not funny. What happened to Ba'al at the end, anyway? He got shot and was never seen again. He'll turn up later, I'm sure. And hey! I'm still loving the Merlin/King Arthur storyline, as Yet Another Version of the King Arthur mythos, and I'm sort of obsessed with collecting and comparing all the various permutations of that story. Yes, even the Stargate version. I think all my fandoms need to have a King Arthur storyline at some point.
Any significance to Merlin mistaking Daniel for Galahad and Cam for Percival? I'm sure someone on LJ has written some sort of essay about this by now. I will have to find it. Another time.
I also watched the first three episodes of Jake 2.0 on SciFi a couple Fridays ago. Or at least, I tried. What a crap series. I can see why it only lasted a season (or even less than that? I don't know). The first episode was fine, a decent introduction to the characters and concept, I thought. Halfway through the second episode I got bored and started reading a magazine, only paying half-attention to the TV in the event something interesting happened. I switched off the TV ten minutes into the third, because even the magazine wasn't saving me from the tiresome dross coming out of the television set. Nothing about that show set it apart from anything else. Lackluster acting. Bland or just plain badly-written dialogue. Tired plots. Mediocre special effects. Just blah all around. I don't know if SciFi showed more last Friday. I wasn't watching.
I think that's it for now.