Stargate: Continuum
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meganbmoore Well, that was pretty good. I liked Ark of Truth, but it felt a little rushed and condensed, but this one didn't.
Don S. Davis was in it. I did not know in advance, so that made me sniffly.
All in all, it's kind of like the 2 parter ending of the one season (8?) with time travel where in the end, no one knows it ever even happened. You know, the one where Sam and Daniel were supergeeks and Sam and Jack made out. (Simple SG-1 mind is simple.)
I like the way they handled the alternate reality, making it a perfectly fine place in it's own right (better, in some ways...Jack's son is alive, Landry is still married-remarried?-and happily retired, etc. Except for SG-1, of course. It sucks to be them in that reality.) I notice, though that we aren't ever meant to like alternate Landrys. I feel this is because alternate Landrys are not under Carolyn's supervision. He needs his daughter working under his nose so she can keep him in line and suppress his most ornery urges.
All the hero worship directed towards Sam was fun, mostly because she's never comfortable with it. And Jack's "ma'am" was such a shout out to the fans. Hammond's reaction to her saying she was happy to see him was odd, though. I wish they'd said whether it was because she was supposed to be a dead hero or they knew each other and she was dead or they'd just never met.
Was anyone surprised Ba'al's queen was Katesh/Vala? I figured it was as soon as we saw he had a woman with him. Ba'al has A Thing for her. Granted, it's clearly a S&M heavy Thing, but it's A Thing.
And Teal'c Super Scowl was back. I kinda missed that. I guess he was stuck with it what with not having a decade of Jack, Vala, Daniel and Cam snarkand wondering why Sam and Jack aren't having sex.
Also, Ba'al's time machine made me think of Serenity.
Uhm...yes. Since when do I ever have anything coherent to say about SG-1?
All in all, it's kind of like the 2 parter ending of the one season (8?) with time travel where in the end, no one knows it ever even happened. You know, the one where Sam and Daniel were supergeeks and Sam and Jack made out. (Simple SG-1 mind is simple.)
I like the way they handled the alternate reality, making it a perfectly fine place in it's own right (better, in some ways...Jack's son is alive, Landry is still married-remarried?-and happily retired, etc. Except for SG-1, of course. It sucks to be them in that reality.) I notice, though that we aren't ever meant to like alternate Landrys. I feel this is because alternate Landrys are not under Carolyn's supervision. He needs his daughter working under his nose so she can keep him in line and suppress his most ornery urges.
All the hero worship directed towards Sam was fun, mostly because she's never comfortable with it. And Jack's "ma'am" was such a shout out to the fans. Hammond's reaction to her saying she was happy to see him was odd, though. I wish they'd said whether it was because she was supposed to be a dead hero or they knew each other and she was dead or they'd just never met.
Was anyone surprised Ba'al's queen was Katesh/Vala? I figured it was as soon as we saw he had a woman with him. Ba'al has A Thing for her. Granted, it's clearly a S&M heavy Thing, but it's A Thing.
And Teal'c Super Scowl was back. I kinda missed that. I guess he was stuck with it what with not having a decade of Jack, Vala, Daniel and Cam snark
Also, Ba'al's time machine made me think of Serenity.
Uhm...yes. Since when do I ever have anything coherent to say about SG-1?
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Date: 2008-07-31 11:09 am (UTC)I've seen some pretty harsh thoughts on Continuum, and Ark. I quite enjoyed both, as you know. SG1 has never been that supergreat scifi epic stuff with Something to Say. It's good, classic, action fare, with tongue planted very firmly in cheek. This is no Battlestar, and that's fine by me. There's room for both on tv.
Or, since they canned SG1, maybe not... ;)
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Date: 2008-07-31 03:50 pm (UTC)And I'll take SG-1 over BSG any day. BSG was so busy saying what it had to say that I decided it could say it to someone else.