Just re-watched original SGA episode "Rising"
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Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
I glanced at this and thought it was an interesting continuation of the series:
http://www.sgarising.com/
Episode 1 of virtual season 6:
http://www.sgarising.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=8
http://www.sgarising.com/
Episode 1 of virtual season 6:
http://www.sgarising.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&Itemid=8
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
OMG!
Talk about some amateurish writing. The style is laughable in spots. The over-writing reminds me of a high school paper for a creative writing class. Every single facial expression is put down in word, including raised eye brows. The first couple paragraphs are chock full of over wrought descriptions for trivial autonomic functions. For instance, she "breathes" and "frowns" and "raises an eye brow" and "follows his gaze" and "twists out of his grasp, angrily" and on and on and on. Whatever happened to a simple "she said"/"he said" to denote who is speaking?
Edited to add this little gem which the authors saw fit to single out as a stand alone, declarative sentence: "Rodney's nostrils flared."
SerenityS
GateFans Member
SGA Rising comes from the Sparky (Sheppard/Weir) shippers.
I think SGA had another couple of seasons in it if they had gotten some fresh creative people on board. I definitely didn't like the direction it was going (eps like Identity and Brainstorm) and really disliked the focus on Keller and McKay but on the other hand, Season 5 gave me two of my favorite episodes of the entire franchise - The Shrine and Vegas. I am sure I'd have liked more SGA rather than SGU!
I think SGA had another couple of seasons in it if they had gotten some fresh creative people on board. I definitely didn't like the direction it was going (eps like Identity and Brainstorm) and really disliked the focus on Keller and McKay but on the other hand, Season 5 gave me two of my favorite episodes of the entire franchise - The Shrine and Vegas. I am sure I'd have liked more SGA rather than SGU!
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Stonelesscutter
Guest
OMG!
The first couple paragraphs are chock full of over wrought descriptions for trivial autonomic functions. For instance, she "breathes" and "frowns" and "raises an eye brow" and "follows his gaze" and "twists out of his grasp, angrily" and on and on and on. Whatever happened to a simple "she said"/"he said" to denote who is speaking?
Edited to add this little gem which the authors saw fit to single out as a stand alone, declarative sentence: "Rodney's nostrils flared."
What does that even mean?
Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
OMG!
The first couple paragraphs are chock full of over wrought descriptions for trivial autonomic functions. For instance, she "breathes" and "frowns" and "raises an eye brow" and "follows his gaze" and "twists out of his grasp, angrily" and on and on and on. Whatever happened to a simple "she said"/"he said" to denote who is speaking?
Edited to add this little gem which the authors saw fit to single out as a stand alone, declarative sentence: "Rodney's nostrils flared."
Yeah, I figured you'd jump on that one.
Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
He was preparing for his nose-pick close up scene and the birth of a new nemesis for a future episode, "the green entity".
EvilSpaceAlien
Sinister Swede
If things have gone my way, SGA would've kept going alongside SGU. Wright & Cooper still leaves the show to run SGU, but somehow Joe Mallozzi goes off to ruin other shows. Preferably without his writing partner tagging along, since Mullie has written some really good episodes like The Last Man and Remnants. He could stay on as showrunner with a little help from Alan McCullough on the side, since he's also given us some of the better episodes of the last two seasons (Spoils of War & The Daedalus Variations for example). Now that is a scenario which I would like.
EvilSpaceAlien
Sinister Swede
It means that he jammed a signal flare up his nostril and then lit it.
Bluce Ree
Tech Admin / Council Member
Wouldn't that mark the end of the Rodney Mckay character?
EvilSpaceAlien
Sinister Swede
Come to think of it, it probably would. So who's up for a party, then?
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
I thought the Vegas episode was a work of genius. In fact, I remember seeing a brief mention of SGU, in name only, no other details, right at the end of the Vegas episode (I don't think I'm remembering this wrong but there is a slight chance). I was pretty excited because I assumed they were taking the Vegas premise and making it into an entirely new show. I thought it was such a cool idea to take this cast and put them into a completely new universe. I loved that Sheppard drove such a cool car too. Plus Rodney seemed more mature and less cartoonish. That whole idea had so much promise. Sucks that they didn't run with it for a bit.
Anyone know who wrote the episode "Vegas"? Was it actually written by our favorite wordsmith Joe M???
EvilSpaceAlien
Sinister Swede
Yeah Vegas is probably one of my favorite episodes from the entire run of SGA. I would've liked to see them return to the universe if the show hadn't ended.
And Vegas was written by the one and only Robert C. Cooper. Say what you want about what he and Brad did with SGU, but those guys wrote some of the best episodes in the entire SG universe.
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Stonelesscutter
Guest
Briangate78
GateFans Noob
Did you know that "Rising" Still holds the record for Syfy in series premieres, with 4.2 Million viewers! Anyway, the pilot was simply one of the best, but not surprised from the producers, who made a similar show "SG-1" with over Seven years of experience. The experience and motivation alone made SGA such a huge success out of the box. Pity SGU had to ruin SGA.
SciphonicStranger
Objects may be closer than they appear
EvilSpaceAlien
Sinister Swede
You should use the term SG-verse instead otherwise it causes confusion.
Yeah but I honestly can't be bothered.
Besides, if I had meant SGU I would've just written that, or at least I'd capitalized the U...
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
Well Cooper certainly deserves props for writing that episode. :beckettu:
It's a shame they didn't decide to focus on that new universe a bit more. I really like the Sheppard character in that one.
Rac80
The Belle of the Ball
me! me! My disdain for mckay is legendary (and only slightly outstrips my disdain for Rush of sgu.) and I would have welcomed the character's demise!
sgppoo did not ruin SGA for me...just MURDURED it!
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
me! me! My disdain for mckay is legendary (and only slightly outstrips my disdain for Rush of sgu.) and I would have welcomed the character's demise!
sgppoo did not ruin SGA for me...just MURDURED it!
So you disliked McKay more than Rush, am I reading that correctly? Hmm, I'm not sure why. Rodney could be annoying, yes, and initially he wasn't that well developed when he appeared in SG-1, but in SGA he was a lot more likable. He wasn't sociopathic, plus it was obvious that he bathed on a regular basis.
Where is your nemesis at moments like this?!