So I’m watching the only show I really ever watch the other night (Battlestar Galactica), and right after it ends, Stargate SG1 comes on.
Only…now it appears to be the mutant three-headed bastard love chile of SG1 and Farscape. With Beau Bridges. Baldie, MacGyver, and the hot girl-next-door-looking scientist woman are nowhere to be seen. Oh, and unless I’m high on crack, the doctor looks like she’s morphed into another sci-fi babe from some other show I can’t recall now.
Whah the fuh? Beau Bridges?? I was never a big fan of SG1, but it held my attention on occasion, and I thought what’s-her-name, the blonde, was a convincing-yet-cute brainiac. Now not only does it appear to suck extra hard, it’s become a waste bin for a bunch of other Sci-Fi series that I’m pretty sure got shitcanned. It’s apparently turned into a giant, Evel Knievel-sized jump-over-shark-canyon-spectacular like nothing I’ve ever seen. Did they really merge it with Farscape? I never got into that show (the villains all looked like Freddie Krueger, which compelled me to hit the remote), and don’t recall much about it, but I know who the leads were, and that’s them. I think Mr. Southern Studmuffin was an Air Force officer in Farscape, so maybe that’s how they shoehorned him and his UK alien mamma into new roles on a completely different show.
The actress who plays Maj Carter was very pregnant. She left temporarily but came back sometime into the current season (it’s in repeats now). I guess they didn’t feel like having her stand in front of things. Col O’neill got promoted and is in charge of Area 51. It really means that RD Anderson didn’t feel like playing any more. Of course the people from Farscape are playing different characters here. You expected them not to try and get jobs? I still like the show. They have new villians because they got about as much out of the old ones as they could.
I’m assuming Maj. Carter is the blonde woman I was referring to. So only MacGyver is history, now? And the Farscape people aren’t the Farscape people? Oh, and I swear I’ve seen that doctor chick before. Who is she?
I’ve been calling it Farscape: SG-1 for most of this season. The show started out with a team of regular humans with no more sophisticated technology than we have now, with the exception of the stargate, which of course was the required plot device.
But now, it’s kinda all over the place. They’ve got warp drive. Transporters. Shields. Hell, Earth now has its own fleet of flagship class starships, as well as dozens & dozens of little space attack fighters. Each week they visit yet another planet inhabited by humans stuck in some sort of anachronistic mix of medieval & blaster guns.
I’m not sure where they’re going with this show, but you know what? It’s still fun, and it’s still mostly about the characters, and the characters are still people I like.
Except the Jaffa. I hate the Jaffa. I almost can’t bear to hear Teal’c talk anymore.
The show I think, has just gotten really fanwanky, and the writers are just goofing around, at this point.
Oh, yeah, Teal’c! He’s the big mofo who, like Worf, should, in any sane universe, kick the crap out of anything in his path, yet somehow gets his ass handed to him every other episode, while his puny cohorts kick major alien butt all the time. At least, that’s how I remember him.
Actually, he wasn’t in the episode I saw…well, I didn’t watch it to the end, to be honest, so maybe he showed up later. The episode I saw did have the “in-con-THEEFable!” guy from “The Princess Bride” in it, though, which was kind of funny. He kept describing naked frolics with Farscape woman in excruciating detail, and the raction elicited from Capt. Studmuffin (I don’t know his name) got a snort.