Conscious Television. Or Something.

[thefourthvine]

A couple of times a month, Best Beloved, the earthling, and I will go out to breakfast at a locally renowned diner-ish place. It has a shelf by one of its windows where people can set out free literature: brochures, yes, and also the Skeeviest Postcards You Ever Did See, but mostly magazines and catalogs. These catalogs and magazines are divided

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[anonymous]

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I have so much love for this entry, I can't tell you! Well, I love all your hilarious entries (when are we getting more Star Trek TOS commentary?), but this one really hits a nerve, because all of my favorite cafes have such an area with this type of literature (nothing to do with literary value, it's just an expression, OK!)

I am mostly agog with admiration at your perusal of said priceless opuses -what is the plural of opus, opii?- enough for compiling a LOLastic and very instructional list: the truth behind the Stargate PTB's weird "imagination" while simultaneously possessing zero ability to grasp the concept of plot or character-driven stories (or continuity, sob!) is finally revealed.

But my real point is, maybe we should be grateful SG1 and SGA were canceled when they were, because I think the showrunners had run out of useful workshop titles, and for future seasons they'd have had to mine, like, the Tantric Love Energy workshops. [...] I - I am glad I didn't have to witness that, even secondhand.

I thought that SG 90210 covered these topics in their first ten episodes several times at length and repeatedly? Which accounts for how unpopular the show seems to be... I could be totally off-base on this, it's not as if I was going to watch SGU to check the validity of this hypothesis - life is too short...

[thefourthvine]

Thank you!

I am mostly agog with admiration at your perusal of said priceless opuses -what is the plural of opus, opii?- enough for compiling a LOLastic and very instructional list: the truth behind the Stargate PTB's weird "imagination" while simultaneously possessing zero ability to grasp the concept of plot or character-driven stories (or continuity, sob!) is finally revealed.

These works are truly rewarding reading on their own, but I had no idea I would discover how SG1 plotting worked all those years. Now, of course, I am regretting I didn't find out sooner; it can't be that hard to write for these publications, since they probably don't pay anything, so fandom could easily have infiltrated them and started angling for the stories we wanted to watch.

I thought that SG 90210 covered these topics in their first ten episodes several times at length and repeatedly? Which accounts for how unpopular the show seems to be... I could be totally off-base on this, it's not as if I was going to watch SGU to check the validity of this hypothesis - life is too short...

They might have! I only know about shows that have a big fannish following, because, you know, I don't actually watch TV, so I was only vaguely aware SGU ever even aired. But, wow, if they used all that material in just the first ten eps, they will be HURTING by season three. Pace yourselves, people!