Stargate's been cancelled and to me that's good riddance to bad rubbish. Stargate has jumped the shark so many times it's hard to distinguish between shark and show. Major characters have come and gone, and come again. Actors have phoned it in for entire seasons. It's just a joke at this point. I mean, come on, season 8 ended with O'Neill fishing for God's sake. What the hell was that?
It's interesting that the injection of Claudia Black and Ben Bowder couldn't rescue the show. These are great actors and good creative folks. I think the problem is with the production of the show. It's designed to create formulaic packages at regular intervals with a known set of characters, costumes, sets, etc. In short, it's the franchise problem. The same reason that Pierce Brosnan, who should have been the ultimate Bond, sucked as Bond. Because he couldn't break free of the shackles of the franchise.
Frankly, why Stargate Atlantis was not cut is beyond me. I haven't been able to sit through an entire Atlantis show in two years, and from what little I watch of them they are only getting worse. All of the characters, save Ronin and Tala, are annoying. Tala is not much better since her writing is just like dry white toast. And Ronin isn't given enough to do to be interesting. The only thing that could save that show is if Ronin killed all of the other characters, then set up shop on Atlantis as "Ronin's House of Metal, Dreadlocks and Badassary".
Expect an announcement from Sci-Fi Channel next week; "Whoops, Stargate Atlantis is cancelled too. We either forgot about it, or thought it was part of the original, or something. Anyway, 'Startgate *', or anything with Stargate in the title, or around in the title, is cancelled. Forever. Ben Bowder and Claudia Black, please report to BSG central casting."
Posted by jherr at August 22, 2006 05:43 AMI like atlantis, hell I like stargate. You've forgotten what it was like to live in a sci-fi void. You've forgotten the golden rule
"even bad sci-fi is better than no sci-fi"
Posted by: Lori Herrington at August 22, 2006 08:19 AMI know where you are coming from, but there is a reason that neither of watch the 'Original Sci-Fi Movies', they all suck.
Posted by: jherr at August 22, 2006 01:56 PMI have to disagree on why Pierce Bronson did not make as good of a Bond as all had hoped.
My theory is that he was about 15 years too late. He should have been Bond during his Remington Steele days, but the network had him tied up and would not make an exception for him to play Bond, so they could not use him when he was young and beautiful.
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