Wow, I'm impressed that you've never heard of Robert Carlyle. There was a time in the late '90s when he was in pretty much every single British movie made. [You've never seen Trainspotting?]
I haven't liked Sheppard since mid-S3, but I don't think there's any possible way they can come up with a character I'll love more than Jack. EVER.
I saw part of Trainspotting, but hated it and thus stopped watching (and banished it from my brain).
To be honest, I don't watch a lot of movies. While my ambitious goal for TV was 1000 episodes, for movies it was 26 (which I bet is twice what I managed in 2007). I'm fairly certain the last movie I saw in a theatre was in February 2007.
My Sheppard love waxes and wanes, and is in part due to jflan, but Jack is wonderful and I enjoy him more the more I watch of SG-1.
Hee. While I don't expect people to watch as many movies as I do [what with it actually being part of my job], I always forget that there are people who aren't really into movies. I just love everything about them. :)
I actually really love Flanigan, and I'm really hoping he gets himself another show so I can watch his hair every week. *g*
Perhaps it's my current inability to give a crap about Atlantis, but I'm not excited AT ALL about Universe. I mean, I doubt we'll get special appearances from the SG-1 crew (wasn't it supposed to be set like, thousands of years before the other Stargates? What changed?), and HI ANCIENTS YOU'RE FULL OF CRAP, so yeah.
But that casting might just make me watch. You know I love me some Scottish accent - though I doubt said accent will be onscreen, but alas.
Another important thingy to be discussed, though? Jack's the important PoV in SG-1, and despite Mallozzi's fetich with McKay, Sheppard's the relevant PoV in Atlantis (or, at least, it was so). Now it seems that Universe will go science instead of military, yes?
So, like, this "change of heart" just reaffirm my hatred for the sacking of Weir, the civilian/DOCTOR leader os Atlantis. I *know* it's unrelated, but still. Ugh.
No no no, SGU is happening in present time. Where the hell did you get the idea about it being about ancients? What they have is an ancient *SHIP* in which the crew is trapped inside. But from all I've read, it's SGC [or some Alpha Site-like place?] people who accidentally gate to the ship.
At first I thought Carlyle had been cast for the Col Young part, but apparently yeah, the first lead is the scientist dude this time around. Still, this Dr Rush dude reads as a COMPLETE SOCIOPATH in every description I've read. Which, hi, perfect for Robert Carlyle to play. *g*
I SWEAR I read it was about Ancients! Ancients coming to Earth in a ship. I SWEAR! I'm not inventing this - especially because I would have come up with something better. Perhaps I read it in the very early stages of what they were thinking to do with it. I don't know. I DON'T KNOW!
And I'm all for a flawed lead, even if it's a scientist flawed lead - as long as it's as far away from McKay as we can go, because talk about flawed scientist there.
There are no Ancients on the ship anymore, the Destiny is on a pre-programmed course to connect the whole Stargate network to the far reaches of the galaxy [or something like that]. The Ancients were supposed to use the ninth chevron to reach it, but they ascended instead and the ship kept going. This is from the official announcement for the show:
After unlocking the mystery of the Stargate's ninth chevron, a team of explorers travels to an unmanned starship called the Destiny, launched by the Ancients at the height of their civilization as a grand experiment set in motion, but never completed
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Thumbs up for the casting. Who knows how the show will be . . . coming from Trek fandom tv franchises can be dead horses which you can beat and beat and beat until there's little entertainment value left in them, and this premise sounds a wee bit Voyager-ish to me . . . but who knows. I always try to reserve judgement until I've seen it.
Well, it sounds like Voyager, Farscape, Firefly and Battlestar Galactica got together and went through an Stargate. *g*
Also, if there's one thing I *don't* expect the Stargate writers, it's originality. I just enjoy Brad Wright's sense of humor a lot more than I probably should and I'm happy he's gonna keep making shows that will cater to my exact comedic needs -- and without them actually being comedies, which is also very important to me. :)
That's a good point. I don't really expect originality from any Stargate series either. I expect to be entertained in a rather mindless fashion, get my sci-fi fix and you're correct about the humour.
I'm actually about to start renting SG-1! I've only ever seen SGA, and without school I'm going to have a lot of free time on my hands so I figured that'll occupy my tv-time for awhile.
Oh, I hope you like SG-1 -- I found it far superior than SGA, actually -- there's actual character development and they do seem to have a plan re: story-arcs. You just gotta stick around the first few seasons to get to the really good stuff [that being, in my opinion, seasons 4 and 6 and 8.]
Though I bet you're gonna end up being a Daniel girl and not a Jack girl like myself. Daniel's the archaeologist after all. :)
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I think I'll stick with Jack and John.
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I haven't liked Sheppard since mid-S3, but I don't think there's any possible way they can come up with a character I'll love more than Jack. EVER.
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To be honest, I don't watch a lot of movies. While my ambitious goal for TV was 1000 episodes, for movies it was 26 (which I bet is twice what I managed in 2007). I'm fairly certain the last movie I saw in a theatre was in February 2007.
My Sheppard love waxes and wanes, and is in part due to jflan, but Jack is wonderful and I enjoy him more the more I watch of SG-1.
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I actually really love Flanigan, and I'm really hoping he gets himself another show so I can watch his hair every week. *g*
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Perhaps it's my current inability to give a crap about Atlantis, but I'm not excited AT ALL about Universe. I mean, I doubt we'll get special appearances from the SG-1 crew (wasn't it supposed to be set like, thousands of years before the other Stargates? What changed?), and HI ANCIENTS YOU'RE FULL OF CRAP, so yeah.
But that casting might just make me watch. You know I love me some Scottish accent - though I doubt said accent will be onscreen, but alas.
Another important thingy to be discussed, though? Jack's the important PoV in SG-1, and despite Mallozzi's fetich with McKay, Sheppard's the relevant PoV in Atlantis (or, at least, it was so). Now it seems that Universe will go science instead of military, yes?
So, like, this "change of heart" just reaffirm my hatred for the sacking of Weir, the civilian/DOCTOR leader os Atlantis. I *know* it's unrelated, but still. Ugh.
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At first I thought Carlyle had been cast for the Col Young part, but apparently yeah, the first lead is the scientist dude this time around. Still, this Dr Rush dude reads as a COMPLETE SOCIOPATH in every description I've read. Which, hi, perfect for Robert Carlyle to play. *g*
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And I'm all for a flawed lead, even if it's a scientist flawed lead - as long as it's as far away from McKay as we can go, because talk about flawed scientist there.
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After unlocking the mystery of the Stargate's ninth chevron, a team of explorers travels to an unmanned starship called the Destiny, launched by the Ancients at the height of their civilization as a grand experiment set in motion, but never completed ( ... )
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Also, if there's one thing I *don't* expect the Stargate writers, it's originality. I just enjoy Brad Wright's sense of humor a lot more than I probably should and I'm happy he's gonna keep making shows that will cater to my exact comedic needs -- and without them actually being comedies, which is also very important to me. :)
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I'm actually about to start renting SG-1! I've only ever seen SGA, and without school I'm going to have a lot of free time on my hands so I figured that'll occupy my tv-time for awhile.
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Though I bet you're gonna end up being a Daniel girl and not a Jack girl like myself. Daniel's the archaeologist after all. :)
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