Little did anyone know that SGU stood for Shirtless Guys Undressed. S P O I L E R S
Praise all that is holy, they finally have a working ship! Now, in the name of all that is holy, can they begin to actually tell a story? Any story? About anyone? First drafts of post-Roddenberry Trek scripts contained the following: [TECH]. It was a reference to the technobabble one of the characters would say to explain the half-assed solution to a deadly problem. Example: Riker: Captain, the Borg are closing in fast, we have no weapons, and our engines aren't powerful enough to outrun them. Data: It may be possible to outrun them, but only if we [TECH] the [TECH]. Picard: Make it so. Later drafts filled in the technobabble, in a lame attempt to convince viewers that the script hadn't been a steaming dog turd. In the end, Data would be the hero of the episode, and the Enterprise would live to... well, not fight another day, since they only fought in season finales. In yesterday's episode, the writers didn't even bother with the technobabble. There was no hero. The ship just fixed itself, which lends additional evidence to my prior claim that the Destiny is the only well-defined character on the show. The ship took one look at the empty heads populating the hallways and said, "Well, these mouth-breathers aren't going to do anything, so I guess it is all up to me." They ratcheted up the intensity by creating a situation wherein nearly everyone would die, in a desperate and pathetic attempt to make viewers care about the characters. Guess what? It worked. Seriously. I did wonder who would live and who would die. But when it all turned out to be nothing, I, as a viewer, felt like I'd been cheated -- like I'd been forced to care about characters who, it turned out, were perfectly safe all along. I'm not saying somebody should have died. What I'm saying is that it is disingenuous to fake out the viewers in a cheap attempt to garner sympathy for the characters. In last night's installment, Eli actually said, "Why am I watching this on television?" My feelings exactly. I think I've been more than generous waiting for characters and the story arc to develop. I'll even go further, given the 10 seasons of SG1 and five of SGA I've watched, and give them two more episodes to hit their stride. But, so far the franchise is, if I may, going down with the ship. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
