Let the time of mourning begin
It's funny that when a show goes out in its prime, how much it hurts. And by its prime, I mean when it still has characters I love and stories I enjoy. Angel was certainly such a show, and I really mourned its cancellation hard. Buffy, IMO, hung on two years too long, destroying the characters I loved. The last two years of SG-1 didn't destroy the characters I loved, they just told a story that I didn't really care for.
SGA's cancellation hurts, though I guess the depression I experienced after Angel has hardened my heart quite a bit, because while I'm feeling depressed knowing that the show is coming to its close, I'm not manic about it.
There's going to be a movie - unfortunately written by Mallozzi & Mullie, the two worst writers in the entire franchise, IMO. I don't expect McKay to be very well served.
Ah, Rodney, I'm going to miss you most of all. I'd always said that should the show continue, but DH leave, I'd probably watch, but I wouldn't love. DH is the be all and end all of the show for me. Maybe if SciFi picks up Stargate: Universe Rodney will show up occasionally. I guess it'd be too much to hope he'd be part of the regular cast, or if David would even want to join the cast.
I don't know what I'll do after the show's final episode. If Buffy is any indication, I'll hang around the fandom for a while, but within a year or two, I'll fade into the background. As much as I loved the Buffy fandom, my participation now consists of the occasional drabble and meta discussions. I fear the same will happen with Atlantis - minus the meta. Atlantis was never a big draw to me for deep thinky thoughts.
I wonder what, if anything, will be my next fandom love. I'm really not one to have multiple fannish loves. There are shows I really enjoy, any number of them, but only Buffy and Stargate Atlantis (really McShep) made me want to write about them and read fanfic. There has to be a certain magic in the show and the cast to get me really involved. As much as I enjoyed SG-1, I was never really interested in the fanfic - I'm still not other than an occasional gen story.
The good thing about this? Because I was so wrapped up in the fandom and reading fanfic, I haven't really had much time to read real books. That'll probably change, and I'll be back to reading published fiction as prolifically as I once did.
Still, right now, I'm very sad.
SGA's cancellation hurts, though I guess the depression I experienced after Angel has hardened my heart quite a bit, because while I'm feeling depressed knowing that the show is coming to its close, I'm not manic about it.
There's going to be a movie - unfortunately written by Mallozzi & Mullie, the two worst writers in the entire franchise, IMO. I don't expect McKay to be very well served.
Ah, Rodney, I'm going to miss you most of all. I'd always said that should the show continue, but DH leave, I'd probably watch, but I wouldn't love. DH is the be all and end all of the show for me. Maybe if SciFi picks up Stargate: Universe Rodney will show up occasionally. I guess it'd be too much to hope he'd be part of the regular cast, or if David would even want to join the cast.
I don't know what I'll do after the show's final episode. If Buffy is any indication, I'll hang around the fandom for a while, but within a year or two, I'll fade into the background. As much as I loved the Buffy fandom, my participation now consists of the occasional drabble and meta discussions. I fear the same will happen with Atlantis - minus the meta. Atlantis was never a big draw to me for deep thinky thoughts.
I wonder what, if anything, will be my next fandom love. I'm really not one to have multiple fannish loves. There are shows I really enjoy, any number of them, but only Buffy and Stargate Atlantis (really McShep) made me want to write about them and read fanfic. There has to be a certain magic in the show and the cast to get me really involved. As much as I enjoyed SG-1, I was never really interested in the fanfic - I'm still not other than an occasional gen story.
The good thing about this? Because I was so wrapped up in the fandom and reading fanfic, I haven't really had much time to read real books. That'll probably change, and I'll be back to reading published fiction as prolifically as I once did.
Still, right now, I'm very sad.