New Mozzie Interview
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Gatefan1976
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This is my favorite bit:
“Even in the midst of the darkest moment, there was that lightness, I guess you could say – which some Sci-Fi fans didn’t like, and I understand that - but there’s really no room for humor on SGU. I mean, yes, there are limited opportunities with Eli and occasionally Sergeant Greer [Jamil Walker Smith], but not the sort of humor we had in SG-1 or Atlantis. Unlike the final season of SG-1, you’re not going to have an SGU episode where someone like Rush mistakenly ends up at a reading of The Vagina Monologues,” says Mallozzi with a chuckle. “I could get away with that on SG-1, but not with SGU.
“Even in the midst of the darkest moment, there was that lightness, I guess you could say – which some Sci-Fi fans didn’t like, and I understand that - but there’s really no room for humor on SGU. I mean, yes, there are limited opportunities with Eli and occasionally Sergeant Greer [Jamil Walker Smith], but not the sort of humor we had in SG-1 or Atlantis. Unlike the final season of SG-1, you’re not going to have an SGU episode where someone like Rush mistakenly ends up at a reading of The Vagina Monologues,” says Mallozzi with a chuckle. “I could get away with that on SG-1, but not with SGU.
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Cause Young calling for the "bat signal" or Eli saying "it's the simulation, or the pie is done" (which the Squee's find utterly Hillarious) in Resurgence is such High Brow Humor?? 
At least the Vagina Monologues joke was funny in the context of it being Teal'c on the recieving end.
At least the Vagina Monologues joke was funny in the context of it being Teal'c on the recieving end.
YoshiKart64
Well Known GateFan
This is my favorite bit:
“Even in the midst of the darkest moment, there was that lightness, I guess you could say – which some Sci-Fi fans didn’t like, and I understand that - but there’s really no room for humor on SGU. I mean, yes, there are limited opportunities with Eli and occasionally Sergeant Greer [Jamil Walker Smith], but not the sort of humor we had in SG-1 or Atlantis. Unlike the final season of SG-1, you’re not going to have an SGU episode where someone like Rush mistakenly ends up at a reading of The Vagina Monologues,” says Mallozzi with a chuckle. “I could get away with that on SG-1, but not with SGU.
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Cause Young calling for the "bat signal" or Eli saying "it's the simulation, or the pie is done" (which the Squee's find utterly Hillarious) in Resurgence is such High Brow Humor??
At least the Vagina Monologues joke was funny in the context of it being Teal'c on the recieving end.
I thought the humour in SGU works quite well. The ironic thing is that its exactly the kind of humour we had in the old Stargates, it might not be quite so prevalent but essentially its the same. Characters finding humour in the darkest of situations - honestly it wouldn't hurt to see more of this now they've been on the ship for nearly a year.
johnsheppard
GateFans Noob
I noticed the interview was made early July so by now they know how viewers were appealed by the first ten eps.
My fav quote.
Even if I don't like his sense of humor over his blog and rants I love humor in SGA delivered by JoeF DavidH and all SGA cast.
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
See YoshiKart, I don't find that "ironic" at all, I just find it poor because it doesn't fit SGU at all, esp Young's crack about the "bat-signal" Now, Greer's one liners I can buy because they seem to fit in with his developing persona, but "serious Young" making a pop culture joke??
What I do find ironic however is that the episodes that get the most "thumbs up" from either people here or GW are the ones that are more "SG1/SGA" in style rather than the "traditional" SGU style, yet we are constantly hearing shit like "SGU is so different from SG1/SGA", "SG1/SGA are so childish in comparison to SGU"
stclare
Moderator & Mckay Super Fan
So Mozza finds it more challenging to write for SGPOOP than SG1 or SGA. I always thought that was down to the writter themselves. He could have challenged himself writting on SGA if he had wanted to. He was the show runner for the last two seasons with his best buddy.
So lack of challenge is entirley down to his own self imposed limitations IMO. The characters had plenty of scope to do any number of challenging, dark & gritty things, he was just to chicken shit to do it.
So lack of challenge is entirley down to his own self imposed limitations IMO. The characters had plenty of scope to do any number of challenging, dark & gritty things, he was just to chicken shit to do it.
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GateFans Noob
I remember Mozz commenting on his blog a while ago how he worked so hard on an sgu script and how if it had been a sga script he would have 'just stopped there' or something. I bet he was trying to show how awesome sgu is, but it really pointed out how incredibly lazy he was with his previous show.
Mr. A
Super Moderator +
True! It's like when the writers of SGU were complaining at the beginning of Season 1 that they couldn't do a lot of planet exploration because the 12hr clock kept running out on them too fast. Or that they wanted to explore more of the ship but had to deal with necessities such as air & water first because they landed on a non-functional ship... Duh!
That's right, stclare: he's whining about self imposed limitations on SGA. Or is it just another excuse for incompetence?
PegDIG2004
GateFans Noob
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
That's exactly why I find it so amusing PegDIG2004! :beckettu:
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
He's not really dude
30 eps and we know how much more about the Ancients??
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
Perhaps the interviewer spent too much time doing this :puke: after the interview they had to be hospitalised for a severe case of "bullshit-itus"?
PegDIG2004
GateFans Noob
I think SGU is causing an epidemic.
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
He's not really dude
30 eps and we know how much more about the Ancients??
If he wasn't making a joke with that statement then he really is an idiot beyond compare. Since "Destiny" is an Ancient design that the crew is struggling, daily, to understand then it's only sensible that as a writer he'd have to write about Ancient stuff for every episode.
It is telling that that ass clown hasn't written anything about the Ancients at all in SGU. All we've gotten is some talk about the ship being an Ancient design, that's it. Stones, stones and more stones and not even one episode where an expert on the Ancients is brought in to study and/or explain the workings of the ship. Lame, just lame. What's worse is that this twat waffle actually talks about his inability to write.
What amazes me most of all is that this guy actually gets paid to write (but at the same time not-write) this crap on a stick. Simply, truly shocking if you take the time to think about it -- which I usually don't except at moments like these when I read or watch an interview with the butt muncher. How the people who sign his paycheck can't see this is beyond me. Fuck them all with a red hot fire place poker.
Gatefan1976
Well Known GateFan
That last line combined with your sig is just disturbing dude
*Serious mode engaged*
To be fair to JM, he has had a hand in some of the better eps in SG1/SGA and can write decent "action/adventure" eps. The problem is however, unlike someone like Stephen king who describes his OWN writing as the "Mcdonalds of fiction" he seems to not recognise when his reach has surpassed his grasp. To me that is the greatest tragedy of SGU. The premise is all there, the story could have been brilliant, but as JF put it so well, "ego and vanity" got in the way. SGU is like reading a 12 year olds re-write of James Clavell, JRR Tolkien or William Gibson, and just as painful.
shavedape
Well Known GateFan
That last line combined with your sig is just disturbing dude
*Serious mode engaged*
To be fair to JM, he has had a hand in some of the better eps in SG1/SGA and can write decent "action/adventure" eps. The problem is however, unlike someone like Stephen king who describes his OWN writing as the "Mcdonalds of fiction" he seems to not recognise when his reach has surpassed his grasp. To me that is the greatest tragedy of SGU. The premise is all there, the story could have been brilliant, but as JF put it so well, "ego and vanity" got in the way. SGU is like reading a 12 year olds re-write of James Clavell, JRR Tolkien or William Gibson, and just as painful.
My sig line is from a Justin Bieber song, yo! Pure words of wisdom. I suggest you live by them.
RE: the 12yo doing a rewrite of something classic, at least the 12yo has an excuse for being unable to complete the task, JM not so much. Perhaps JM is too close to the flame that he can't get perspective and see anything else (you said he was capable of better) but that's where others like Brad Wright come in. They are supposed to be the outside perspective that sees things that are right or wrong and then takes action to correct them. How can SGU go two full seasons without someone high up on the production staff not saying anything about the obvious train wreck that it is? How is it no one else associated with the show has pulled JM off to the side for a little meeting to straighten things out?
This show is truly composed of a confederacy of dunces, Mallozzi just being one of them.