OK - if you had to go back to school, would YOU want to use paper and pencil to write rough drafts? Would you want to go back to writing your final papers in ink? Would you want to use the Reader's Guide to go find MAGAZINE articles relevant to a topic you are studying? OR better yet - go to the photocopier to make copies of a map you will redraw for a geography report on Iceland (and you found a whole ONE BOOK on that country in your library)? Why should we force kids to use outdated technology at school when they have the latest in their homes? Distraction? BAH! This is a typical knee-jerk reaction to a story that approaches the point of ridiculous.
I have to agree. I think SG-1 is missing something now that I have seen the first ep of the 9th season (missing a lot, actually). One glaring omission is the theme music! I am all for change, but using that "theme" after having the beautiful theme it had for eight years is just lame.
Since Richard Dean Anderson is pretty much leaving SG-1, Amanda Tapping off for a while having a baby, they had to bring in people to fill the gap. Beau Bridges doesn't do it for me. His brother Jeff would have been a better choice. However, I recognize that he may not want to do television. If Michael Shanks was not on board anymore, I would've probably skipped watching it until I knew at least Amanda was back. Chris Judge is spectacular, but if he were the only original character left, I can't justify watching it.
If they wanted to pull the Farscape people to the SG-1 fold, they didn't do a great job with the first ep of SG-1 this season. Part of the appeal of Crichton's character was his cocky attitude. His character in SG-1 was just trying too damn hard to be liked. If the Farscape fans haven't already latched onto SG-1, they probably won't now with the characterization they have made for Ben Browder and Claudia Black. Claudia's (hopefully just recurring) character on SG-1 is just plain annoying - almost as bad as Jar Jar in ST:Ep I. Will ya stop it talking about making babies and having disappointing sex with Jackson? Is that a ploy to draw in the more raunchy crowd? We didn't need any of that to have a great show before, we don't need it now, thank you. BTW, I am not a prude - love the sexual power that Number Six holds over Baltar in BG.
I think the job that Richard Dean Anderson did with the O'Neill character is a big reason that this show took off the way it did. I am aware that RDA wants to spend more time with his family and that is his decision, not the network's. However, without him, I am unsure how it will continue. I hope it doesn't turn out to be like the last season of the X-Files...almost a complete waste of time.
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OK - if you had to go back to school, would YOU want to use paper and pencil to write rough drafts? Would you want to go back to writing your final papers in ink? Would you want to use the Reader's Guide to go find MAGAZINE articles relevant to a topic you are studying? OR better yet - go to the photocopier to make copies of a map you will redraw for a geography report on Iceland (and you found a whole ONE BOOK on that country in your library)? Why should we force kids to use outdated technology at school when they have the latest in their homes? Distraction? BAH! This is a typical knee-jerk reaction to a story that approaches the point of ridiculous.
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Since Richard Dean Anderson is pretty much leaving SG-1, Amanda Tapping off for a while having a baby, they had to bring in people to fill the gap. Beau Bridges doesn't do it for me. His brother Jeff would have been a better choice. However, I recognize that he may not want to do television. If Michael Shanks was not on board anymore, I would've probably skipped watching it until I knew at least Amanda was back. Chris Judge is spectacular, but if he were the only original character left, I can't justify watching it.
If they wanted to pull the Farscape people to the SG-1 fold, they didn't do a great job with the first ep of SG-1 this season. Part of the appeal of Crichton's character was his cocky attitude. His character in SG-1 was just trying too damn hard to be liked. If the Farscape fans haven't already latched onto SG-1, they probably won't now with the characterization they have made for Ben Browder and Claudia Black. Claudia's (hopefully just recurring) character on SG-1 is just plain annoying - almost as bad as Jar Jar in ST:Ep I. Will ya stop it talking about making babies and having disappointing sex with Jackson? Is that a ploy to draw in the more raunchy crowd? We didn't need any of that to have a great show before, we don't need it now, thank you. BTW, I am not a prude - love the sexual power that Number Six holds over Baltar in BG.
I think the job that Richard Dean Anderson did with the O'Neill character is a big reason that this show took off the way it did. I am aware that RDA wants to spend more time with his family and that is his decision, not the network's. However, without him, I am unsure how it will continue. I hope it doesn't turn out to be like the last season of the X-Files...almost a complete waste of time.