I've always heard rumors that the reason Mallozzi's blog stopped at one point is there were complaints about how much baiting he was doing, but I don't know if there's any truth to that at all.
I really wish they'd get some fresh blood into the writer's room. I know using the same people is probably a mix of money saving (they already know the job so they don't have to get up to speed) and job protectionism. But as you say, they're copying old scripts again and again. They're burned out, and I don't think a new setting will help all that much.
They were recycling SG-1 plots into SGA pretty quickly, when moving to Pegasus was supposed to make things all fresh and new because they were cut off from the familiar. So we've had some Goa'uld, Replicators, Asgard and so on that have been done before. Often many times before.
The more I hear about the new show, the more it feels like they're trying to mimic nuBSG (which I don't watch), what with it being mostly ship-based with lots of personal conflicts from within. Younger cast with a few adults in charge. Perhaps that's at least partly an edict from Sci Fi, since BSG is going off the air.
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Re: I'm off
Date: 2008-12-16 04:57 pm (UTC)I really wish they'd get some fresh blood into the writer's room. I know using the same people is probably a mix of money saving (they already know the job so they don't have to get up to speed) and job protectionism. But as you say, they're copying old scripts again and again. They're burned out, and I don't think a new setting will help all that much.
They were recycling SG-1 plots into SGA pretty quickly, when moving to Pegasus was supposed to make things all fresh and new because they were cut off from the familiar. So we've had some Goa'uld, Replicators, Asgard and so on that have been done before. Often many times before.
The more I hear about the new show, the more it feels like they're trying to mimic nuBSG (which I don't watch), what with it being mostly ship-based with lots of personal conflicts from within. Younger cast with a few adults in charge. Perhaps that's at least partly an edict from Sci Fi, since BSG is going off the air.