Monday 19 September, 2005

Pet hate

Oh, one thing I forgot to complain about.

Over the weekend I caught up with numerous Stargate episodes of both series I had fell behind with. SG-1 is going along the usual rut, addition of Ben Browder has been good - he's not shining and is maybe a bit too John-Crichtony, but he blends in well enough and has a good enough chemistry with the usual suspects. I especially liked Babylon where he gets to do his own stuff, and I hope he gets more of that soon.

And I think Atlantis is doing fine too - I like the addition of Ronon to the crew, as long as he doesn't become too domesticated he's going to bring in a bit of rough edge this series needs.

But BLOODY HELL if I have to watch another episode with a RETROVIRUS I'm going to explode. Pardon the use of capitals, but THIS FRACKING THING got old like in the 80's... You know the usual plot where someone very important person in the crew gets this MYSTERIOUS VIRUS that mutates them INTO ANOTHER FRELLING SPECIES until some genius of a doctor develops some GORRAM RETROVIRUS that in the last minutes of the episode transforms our hero back to normal.

Another one of these, and I will raise some hell.

Posted by kolibri at 19 September 16:55, 2005
Comments
# 1 - Marnie (on September 19, 2005 07:45 PM):

LMAO... That was awesome.


# 2 - Rel Fexive (on September 21, 2005 02:04 AM):

I've been watching SG Atlantis on Five here in the UK. They've been trotting out the same old SF tropes again, very dull. Worse than Enterprise. Although there's a two-part story they're doing now that's actually quite good; the Jenai trying to take over Atlantis. Ejits.

And series... 8? of SG-1 is on C4 now too. Not long till That Vala Episode!!


# 3 - kolibri [TypeKey Profile Page] (on September 21, 2005 08:23 AM):

Come on Rel, worst than Enterprise? It's not that bad - it's mostly entirely watchable, I think this retrovirus episode is the first one that I really had difficulties with.

(But then again I'm the only person who I know who watched every single episode of Enterprise too, so what do I know.)


# 4 - RelFexive (on September 21, 2005 11:06 AM):

I watched an episode of Enterprise the other day. First S4 episode. Time travel and nazis. The ultimate bad combo.

The biggest problem I had with the eps of Enterprise I'd seen before that (S1 and 2 eps of S2 before the yelling-at-the-screen episode) was they while the characters were new to anomolies, body-swapping and weird stuff, the viewers had seen it all a million times, so there was nothing new about it at all.

Atlantis has been looking the same way for a while now.


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