Yay for watching in English! Once I started with my English DVDs, I never bothered with the German TV versions again. Also, in one weird case, we actually got the DVDs before it first aired. And were accused of cheating (downloading) by Peter DeLuise at a convention when he claimed we could have not seen this on TV yet (where he was right).
I don’t know, something changed in Atlantis, and I did not like it. Towards the end it was only replicators and Wraith and Wraith and replicators… and they were running around on dark space ships never finding the light switch… I missed them going to actual missions to actual planets and meeting new people. In daylight. And once fan favorite Paul McGillian was killed off and they found a way to include the female doctor into episodes she did not belong to just because the writers loved her so much (but were the only ones)… and I actually had liked Weir a lot as well and was sorry when she was forced to go. She’s the reason for my love for red shirts, like she wore. It’s my favorite color now, my glasses, my watch, my sandals, my umbrella, my rucksack… LOL
Obviously, something changed in the last SG-1 seasons as well and I did not like it either. It’s definitely not Mitchell’s or Ben Browder’s fault – I saw him at a convention and he seems to be a great likeable guy – again I blame it on the writers. Nobody was checking their stories anymore, and they became more ridiculous. What was a good drama show with some humor liked by real Air Force people became a comedy and over the top. And I could not get accustomed to that. So yeah, I probably should watch them again as well, as I only saw them once and had no desire to watch again and have forgotten most.
We used to have long discussions at Gateworld about all the things that were just wrong, but the biggest gripe of course is that the Air Force never would have given a newbie who never had been through the gate before the leader of the flagship SG-1 team when there were so many other qualified people doing this for years. No way. It used to be that Jack was the one telling Daniel that he shall not touch anything – now it was Daniel telling Mitchell not to touch anything. Isn’t that just wrong on so many levels? He could have joined the team as a newbie, and over the years we could have more new people and new teams and it could have gone on forever. It’s certainly not that I was saying that I would not watch because of no RDA. You could clearly see that he had lost his joy at the end, and I didn’t like his performance either. Just dumb jokes nobody laughed about, but no important bits in the stories. It’s understandable with family trouble at home and then again he had wanted to quit after season 5 already.
But it must have hurt him when after he was gone they basically said “Yay, now that Dad’s out of the house, we finally can do whatever we want with nobody telling us off”, and so they did, and we saw where that led to.
It led to me not taking out my DVDs or action figures for YEARS. It’s only recently that they get to play again. That’s how sad the whole thing had made me, and I fled into Doctor Who and Torchwood, not looking back for a long time. But one day I am going to do that scene from the crossover, was it Sheppard giving Mitchell the lemon or something? The McKay figure comes with a small lemon, and a little scene like that was the first action figure theatre I ever saw in the internet. This is the thing that did start it all for me.
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I don’t know, something changed in Atlantis, and I did not like it. Towards the end it was only replicators and Wraith and Wraith and replicators… and they were running around on dark space ships never finding the light switch… I missed them going to actual missions to actual planets and meeting new people. In daylight.
And once fan favorite Paul McGillian was killed off and they found a way to include the female doctor into episodes she did not belong to just because the writers loved her so much (but were the only ones)… and I actually had liked Weir a lot as well and was sorry when she was forced to go. She’s the reason for my love for red shirts, like she wore. It’s my favorite color now, my glasses, my watch, my sandals, my umbrella, my rucksack… LOL
Obviously, something changed in the last SG-1 seasons as well and I did not like it either. It’s definitely not Mitchell’s or Ben Browder’s fault – I saw him at a convention and he seems to be a great likeable guy – again I blame it on the writers. Nobody was checking their stories anymore, and they became more ridiculous. What was a good drama show with some humor liked by real Air Force people became a comedy and over the top. And I could not get accustomed to that. So yeah, I probably should watch them again as well, as I only saw them once and had no desire to watch again and have forgotten most.
We used to have long discussions at Gateworld about all the things that were just wrong, but the biggest gripe of course is that the Air Force never would have given a newbie who never had been through the gate before the leader of the flagship SG-1 team when there were so many other qualified people doing this for years. No way. It used to be that Jack was the one telling Daniel that he shall not touch anything – now it was Daniel telling Mitchell not to touch anything. Isn’t that just wrong on so many levels? He could have joined the team as a newbie, and over the years we could have more new people and new teams and it could have gone on forever. It’s certainly not that I was saying that I would not watch because of no RDA. You could clearly see that he had lost his joy at the end, and I didn’t like his performance either. Just dumb jokes nobody laughed about, but no important bits in the stories. It’s understandable with family trouble at home and then again he had wanted to quit after season 5 already.
But it must have hurt him when after he was gone they basically said “Yay, now that Dad’s out of the house, we finally can do whatever we want with nobody telling us off”, and so they did, and we saw where that led to.
It led to me not taking out my DVDs or action figures for YEARS. It’s only recently that they get to play again. That’s how sad the whole thing had made me, and I fled into Doctor Who and Torchwood, not looking back for a long time. But one day I am going to do that scene from the crossover, was it Sheppard giving Mitchell the lemon or something? The McKay figure comes with a small lemon, and a little scene like that was the first action figure theatre I ever saw in the internet. This is the thing that did start it all for me.