Wow, it's Friday ... and there's no Stargate Atlantis :(

[wraithfodder]

TV seems.... empty. I mean, for years, there it was - Stargate Atlantis - at 9:00 or 10:00 and then repeated so if the dumb Skiffy channel screwed up and digitized Shep's face into a bunch of little boxes, I could get a better copy two hours later.

Now. Zip. Well, on SciFi. I have no problem watching Flashpoint on CBS - I think the show is great - particularly Hugh Dillon. Yet, even as I'm watching it, I'm going, "wait, she was on Stargate!" Yes, it doesn't matter. I play 'spot the Stargate' actor on any Canadian production now. Anyway, next week's episode looks fantastic from the snippets they showed.

Meanwhile, Stargate Universe... Mallozzi said on his blog : "SGU will definitely be more of an arc-driven series. Although it will have its fair share of stand-alone and multi-parters, the show will have more season-long plot and character threads running through every episode." To me, this is all beginning to sound very "Battlestar Galactic-y". Right now, after the initial casting stuff is all out (still waiting for any female actors to be announced), I'm like... meh... When SGA came out with cast names, I went, "who the heck is Joe Flanigan? but omygawd, they got David Hewlett!" I just don't have the enthusiasm, even with Robert Carlyle, for this show. I think his acting talents will outweigh the writing talents (well, some of them, I should say *cough*).

Also, blast, darn, drat (instead of really swearing). SGU won't premiere till the Fall, which will probably push the SGA movie back till ... when? Definitely 2010, I'm sure but when? Gah... What kills me is that SGA is syndicating in my market - at two in the friggin' A.M.! Ack, I work for a living, I can't stay up that late watching it! If I pop in a DVD it's far to addictive to stop, so save those for weekends.

Comments

[stoicana.livejournal.com]

I think the writing and the general concept of SGU had better be top-notch because in all honesty, I'm not really all that interested in any of the characters as of yet.

Yes I know that all we have are short one or two sentence descriptions, but that's often enough to convey at least a general idea of a character, and the characters I'm seeing just aren't grabbing my attention.

The inexperienced but brave lieutenant thrust into a leadership role before he's ready, the stoic marine with a volatile temper and tragic past, the poor little rich Senator's daughter, the under appreciated tech geek... all these characters I've seen somewhere before. Why are they any more special than the one who came before?

That said, I may be intrigued by the "Machiavellian" Dr. Nicholas Rush. Granted, TPTB have decided to make his machiavellian-ness rather obvious from the outset (I'm still rolling my eyes at the fact that they changed his name to Nicholas), but he could still make for some interesting plot lines. Although, I'm starting to get the vibe that TPTB are modeling him after Gaius Baltar from BSG. Just a thought.

What does trouble me, is the lack of talk about the female characters. Aside from what little we've heard about Chloe, we know next to nothing about Tamara (that's her name right?) and TPTB don't really seem all that interested in getting people hyped up for that announcement.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

Heh, I also thought 'Baltar' as soon as I read their description. NOthing against the cast, but none of thus far scream 'watch me live!' and I don't have a lot of trust that the writers will suddenly go up ten notches in quality.

Yeah, it's sad that there's not a mention of the female characters :(