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Oct. 20th, 2009 07:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nnyI've got back onto my Atlantis watching schedule now I'm passed the Trinity hump, and it's interesting watching the whole thing in order, knowing how it turns out. There was actually a lot of potential for an intriguing moral decline sort of storyline, (Lord of the Flies in space?) but they pretty much muffed that one; the writers of Atlantis frankly didn't have the courage to do anything so interesting and grey-shaded. Although every now and again very dubious choices were made, they tended to be proved Right in the end. It's why as much as I love the show, the fanfic is far more interesting. It's also why I don't really have all that much interest in following Stargate: Universe. I don't imagine, when it comes right down to it, that there will be anything that will surprise me, and without that I'm not willing to forgive their disregard of my favourite characters.
What's become even more clear with regular watching is the way they'd occasionally rewrite history to suit themselves, pushing the characters where they wanted them to go rather than watching the evolution and working from there. Watching episodes like Duet, The Hive, Epiphany shows that when you look at the relationship between 'best friends' Rodney and Carson; all they do is complain about one another, cast suspicious looks, outright state the lack of trust (Rodney) and roll their eyes and cast apologetic looks at others nearby (Carson). Faking a close relationship between them for the sake of a moment's additional pathos in Sunday just undermines my faith in their story-writing abilities even further.
(And yeah, I do realise that I'm not saying anything new here, I'm just feeling annoyed. I blame the episode I just watched.)
Don't get me wrong, of course I'm loving the rewatching process, I'm just far more able to spot the flaws when I know what's gonna happen next.
Critical Mass, by the way, which I've just finished watching, has to be the most pointless episode in the entire canon. Too much exposition, pretty darn pointless SG:1 cameos, stupid plot devices. Mostly I continued watching it for the pretty ladies. Not sure if it's the worst of all episodes, but it comes pretty close. Which is the worst in your opinion?
By the way, I'm going home for the weekend tomorrow, straight after work. Plans include going to see Mr Scruff and starting to rebuild a friendship that's wasted away through absence, visiting the grandparents and the sea, celebrating my munchkin sister's 18th. I'm also taking Love, Ire and Song by Frank Turner, which has very quickly become necessary listening, and Arthur and George by Julian Barnes, so I don't expect to have much time for the internet. Take care of yourselves, aye?
(ETA: everything is made better by the fact that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost spent the weekend writing Hot Fuzz slash on twitter.)
What's become even more clear with regular watching is the way they'd occasionally rewrite history to suit themselves, pushing the characters where they wanted them to go rather than watching the evolution and working from there. Watching episodes like Duet, The Hive, Epiphany shows that when you look at the relationship between 'best friends' Rodney and Carson; all they do is complain about one another, cast suspicious looks, outright state the lack of trust (Rodney) and roll their eyes and cast apologetic looks at others nearby (Carson). Faking a close relationship between them for the sake of a moment's additional pathos in Sunday just undermines my faith in their story-writing abilities even further.
(And yeah, I do realise that I'm not saying anything new here, I'm just feeling annoyed. I blame the episode I just watched.)
Don't get me wrong, of course I'm loving the rewatching process, I'm just far more able to spot the flaws when I know what's gonna happen next.
Critical Mass, by the way, which I've just finished watching, has to be the most pointless episode in the entire canon. Too much exposition, pretty darn pointless SG:1 cameos, stupid plot devices. Mostly I continued watching it for the pretty ladies. Not sure if it's the worst of all episodes, but it comes pretty close. Which is the worst in your opinion?
By the way, I'm going home for the weekend tomorrow, straight after work. Plans include going to see Mr Scruff and starting to rebuild a friendship that's wasted away through absence, visiting the grandparents and the sea, celebrating my munchkin sister's 18th. I'm also taking Love, Ire and Song by Frank Turner, which has very quickly become necessary listening, and Arthur and George by Julian Barnes, so I don't expect to have much time for the internet. Take care of yourselves, aye?
(ETA: everything is made better by the fact that Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost spent the weekend writing Hot Fuzz slash on twitter.)
