Robert Carlyle on Stargate Universe, Take Two

[wraithfodder]

Hmm, yanked this off Mallozzi's blog tonight (12/15/2008) ... "As some of you may have heard, the wonderfully talented Robert Carlyle has signed on to join the crew of the Destiny in the upcoming Stargate: Universe series. The award-winning actor - Begbie from Trainspotting to some, Hamish Macbeth to others - will be playing the role of Dr. David Rush, the ship’s brilliant Machiavellian scientist. I see a lot of myself in Rush and, next to yours truly of course, I can’t imagine anyone better for the part. Contrary to initial reports, the Rush character is not the leader of the unplanned expedition. That honor falls to Colonel Everett Young. For now. But things could have a way of changing on board a ship manned by a disparate group with very different agendas…

hmm, hmmm, uh....

Somehow a character which is a lot of Joe Mallozzi DOES NOT inspire me to watch..

Comments

Re: I'm off

[nialla]

People complain because they hate seeing something they enjoyed become something they don't enjoy anymore. This is doubly true if they didn't like the way SG-1 went out and feel like they're seeing it all over again.

If that doesn't apply to you, wonderful. If you like Mallozzi's blog where he's constantly trying to insult fans and pass it off as "humor" that's also wonderful. Some of his comments over the years have been amusing, but he's added too much "bite" to them in recent years for me to be comfortable reading them. He seems to enjoy baiting fans more than writing for the show. He certainly seems to spend more energy on baiting.

Everyone needs a place to vent. It often lets them voice their opinions in a place where they can see other POVs and maybe even change their mind or at least see the other side, even if they don't agree with it.

Nothing about SGU sounds at all interesting so far. I like the concept of Stargate travel, and that sounds very minimal to the plotline with the setting being a spaceship like so many other sci fi shows. If that's not the case and it's not all about the "hot young thangs" as the press has indicated and fandom word from those I trust is good, I can always catch up with it later. It's just not a show that I'm interested in watching live.

And BTW, I'm not watching. I did not like how SG-1 ended, and quit watching SGA around mid-season three because I could see signs of a similar path being taken. I do like keeping up with the basic concepts of episodes via fandom chatter, as some episodes often factor into fanfic. I've always had more fun with SGA fanfic than with the show itself.

There's always DVDs if I want to watch "The Good Parts Edition" later on, and it's perfectly fine with me if other fans consider completely different episodes part of that than I do. They have as much right to think and express that as I do to say differently.

Re: I'm off

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

It's not uncommon to see people stop watching the show but stay with the fandom for the creative aspect (aka fanfic). Most people I know who criticize the show do so because they see flaws in the writing (big blunders), etc. Sure, some fans will spend the next decade nagging about Sam and Jack (which I don't think will ever happen). And some people just live to complain as well ;)

But at least on LJ, we're free to say what we want. One GW forum has a new policy of deleting negative posts (and it's up to the mods to determine what they think is negative). NOt very conducive to conversation :(

Re: I'm off

[nialla]

In most past fandoms, most people complained for a while, then drifted away to something else, so this is rather unusual for me. I'm also usually mono or bi-fannish, and I'm an utter fandom whore at the moment, so... *g*

I think maybe in this case it's because right from the start I had more fun in SGA fandom than actually watching the show. And not just because the fic included slash either.

Other fans saw what I felt the show wasn't following up on -- exploring the city, being completely cut off from earth and how that would affect the expedition, the ethics of things they've done in Pegasus -- and wrote the fic dealing with those issues.

The writers would maybe bring them up, but either abandoned them in favor of very important task of blowing stuff up, or just wrapped it up with a clumsy blow because they didn't know how to go in-depth.

In our own LJs, we can say what we want and ignore anything we want. I think it's because it's more like being in someone else's house and trying to be polite.

In most forums, it's often like everyone's trying to outdo each other in the Rudeness Anonymous category and while I respect mods for the thankless job they have (I've been one, I know), sometimes it's like the inmates are in charge of the asylum.

Re: I'm off

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Oh, agree on the inmates comment. sometimes it feels that way on certain boards ;)

Re: I'm off

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, I've been following this as well and IMO it's quite ridiculous and reeks of censorship. The attempt to "accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative" seems like an uphill battle to me. I enjoy reading all opinions, both positive and negative although I usually stick to my happy place Flan/Shep thread and venture out once in a while to offer a small critique on things I completely dislike in an episode(McKeller). I realize it's a privately owned site but I think this decision is going to create more problems than it solves.

Re: I'm off

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I've been following it to (found the thread on it) and I think it will alienate a lot of people. Well, if people leave, there's always the LJ community! :)