Star Gate Universe - ep 8
Nov. 15th, 2009 02:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
agoodwinsmithLather rinse repeat. There's way too much high octane emotional scenery chewing for way too little payoff.
I realized last week that at the end of the episode, after I've spent 8 hours (ish, never forget the commercials) with these people, that when someone was injured to the point we don't know whether they are going to live or die - I didn't know who they were. They could have been male or female, but I just didn't know based on the name alone.
C'mon people who are writing/filming/etc-ing the show - if you want me to invest in the show, you need to spend enough time on a character that may be sacrificed that I will care whether they live or die - or at least notice they are missing. I'm sure something very erudite is going on with examining narrative assumptions and questioning storytelling tropes, but - c'mon.
And why, for frickin' sake can't they just dial the ship from Earth? They got there by dialing the ship from a stationary base on a planet. They now know the address for dialing. Earth has ooooooodles of power for this. Deal with this or accept that your airship disbelief has not achieved hover.
I realized last week that at the end of the episode, after I've spent 8 hours (ish, never forget the commercials) with these people, that when someone was injured to the point we don't know whether they are going to live or die - I didn't know who they were. They could have been male or female, but I just didn't know based on the name alone.
C'mon people who are writing/filming/etc-ing the show - if you want me to invest in the show, you need to spend enough time on a character that may be sacrificed that I will care whether they live or die - or at least notice they are missing. I'm sure something very erudite is going on with examining narrative assumptions and questioning storytelling tropes, but - c'mon.
And why, for frickin' sake can't they just dial the ship from Earth? They got there by dialing the ship from a stationary base on a planet. They now know the address for dialing. Earth has ooooooodles of power for this. Deal with this or accept that your airship disbelief has not achieved hover.
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Date: 2009-11-15 11:44 pm (UTC)Didn't they say the only place they had access to enough power was on that planet, which blew up?
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Date: 2009-11-16 02:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-16 08:36 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-16 09:11 pm (UTC)How are you enjoying the show? I'm quite cranky (bet you couldn't tell), because I want to like it more than I do.
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Date: 2009-11-17 09:52 am (UTC)