Ugh, SGA. Really?

[normative_jean]

For a show I don't watch anymore, you'd think I'd stop bitching about it. Click here for the new season 5 casting spoilers.

I mean, really, really? This was the best way you could think of to get out of your ratings slump? And every single cast member from Stargate SG-1 has now been included in the guest roster for SGA. It's five seasons in, the

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[empressearwig]

Seriously? Really? Ugh. That show freaking sucks.

If they wanted to keep SG1 on the air, why did they not keep SG1 on the air?

Did you see my post from the weekend about seeing shirtless Joe Flanagan? So pretty.

[normative_jean]

I think this is the production team's way of "rebelling" against Scifi's decision to pull SG1 off the air. Or they're just incompetent morons who don't know how to tell a good, sustainable story. Sadly, it's probably equal parts of both. Ugh.

Ooh, really? I was off lj most of the weekend and missed it. Sigh. There needs to be more shirtless Flanigan in the world. For serious.

[empressearwig]

Maybe. But I generally attribute crappy Stargate decisions to their general incompetence.

Granted, it was on Dawson's Creek. But he was pretty and scruffy and hot. So, yay for him.

So for our television show? Can we add Brad Whitord and Janel Moloney? I've been watching West Wing dvds. Man, their chemistry is insane.

[normative_jean]

True. SG1 got immensely crappier after Mullie/Mallozzii et al took over in season 4 (although the Showtime seasons were still better than almost everything Skiffy aired).

Scruffy and hot overpower Dawson's Creek any day.

Ooh! Absolutely. I can't believe we didn't add them until now. Speaking of which, do we need any plot beyond "hot people being flirty and kicking ass"?

[empressearwig]

Probably at some point, yes we do need a plot. Ideas?

[normative_jean]

Spies? Politics? Doctors and security agents who work for some sort of political/diplomatic post that's dangerous-yet-for-the-greater-good?

...Which makes this an earth-based Babylon 5 with better acting. I need this day to be over.

[empressearwig]

Well, seeing as I watched Babylon 5 (and played a drinking game once), I would probably watch that show. Just promise, no one will say "It is a custom among my people" ad nauseum?

I'll think on it.

[normative_jean]

Ouch. From what I've seen of B5, it would be very easy to get drunk playing any form of drinking game for that show. The stories themselves -- individual episodes as well as seasonal arcs -- were really interesting, but I could never get into the show because of the acting and the general production quality.

We can definitely exclude that phrase. I'm guessing there are bad memories associated with it, lol. Maybe they all work at a UN-esque entity? Intelligence/security, diplomats, and reps from a Doctors-Without-Borders-type NGO would all have reason to be there and work together.