When the Asshats from Bridge started up SGA, they did it with the assumption that SG-1 was going to be canceled at the end of S8 [which was the point at which RDA and Gekko's contracts ran out]. So they wrote "Threads", and settled down to work on SGA.
Only SG-1 got reupped. And instead of doing anything SENSIBLE, like hiring moar staff, the Asshats tried to run two shows with the staff they'd used to run one. Since the producers of the show also write 90% of the scripts, this meant ... they'd be writing twice as many scripts while producing two effects-heavy complicated shows.
Since, if SGA took off, it would run for five seasons [which is the minimum for a decent syndication package, and syndication is where the money is], they devoted the majority of their attention to SGA, making S9/S10 SG-1 into the red-headed stepchild. Without RDA around to be the 500-pound gorilla, the show suffered badly [not even the divine Ben Browder can make a character out of nothing, though god knows he tried...]
"There's also no Pentagon advisor (though given the obvious contempt for the military, I'm guessing they instead have an Al-Qaeda advisor) and nobody is willing to stand up to the writers and say for God's sake, cut it the fuck out!"
Ha. Yes. Although if they had any "military" advisor on this program, it's likely to be a liberal college student of the bleeding-heart variety, since the military on SGUgh is being uniformly portrayed as (a) psychotic mass-murdering sociopaths or (b) ineffectual weeping wussies.
And since the writers on the show are probably the producers [I haven't watched the eps to check out the writer credits], there isn't going to be a lot of standing up done. I'm freakishly annoyed that after turning SG-1 into a comedy, Cooper/Mallozzi/Mullie say they really wanted to do a dark dramatic show. WHAT ABOUT DOING THAT WITH THE SHOW YOU RUINED, FUCKFACES???
I did get a good laugh out of Chloe saying "we have rights" to one of the interchangeable grunts, though. Honey, it's time you got the memo that the Density is just a very elaborate lifeboat, and last time I checked, lifeboats are not democracies...
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on 2009-11-02 06:08 am (UTC)Only SG-1 got reupped. And instead of doing anything SENSIBLE, like hiring moar staff, the Asshats tried to run two shows with the staff they'd used to run one. Since the producers of the show also write 90% of the scripts, this meant ... they'd be writing twice as many scripts while producing two effects-heavy complicated shows.
Since, if SGA took off, it would run for five seasons [which is the minimum for a decent syndication package, and syndication is where the money is], they devoted the majority of their attention to SGA, making S9/S10 SG-1 into the red-headed stepchild. Without RDA around to be the 500-pound gorilla, the show suffered badly [not even the divine Ben Browder can make a character out of nothing, though god knows he tried...]
"There's also no Pentagon advisor (though given the obvious contempt for the military, I'm guessing they instead have an Al-Qaeda advisor) and nobody is willing to stand up to the writers and say for God's sake, cut it the fuck out!"
Ha. Yes. Although if they had any "military" advisor on this program, it's likely to be a liberal college student of the bleeding-heart variety, since the military on SGUgh is being uniformly portrayed as (a) psychotic mass-murdering sociopaths or (b) ineffectual weeping wussies.
And since the writers on the show are probably the producers [I haven't watched the eps to check out the writer credits], there isn't going to be a lot of standing up done. I'm freakishly annoyed that after turning SG-1 into a comedy, Cooper/Mallozzi/Mullie say they really wanted to do a dark dramatic show. WHAT ABOUT DOING THAT WITH THE SHOW YOU RUINED, FUCKFACES???
I did get a good laugh out of Chloe saying "we have rights" to one of the interchangeable grunts, though. Honey, it's time you got the memo that the Density is just a very elaborate lifeboat, and last time I checked, lifeboats are not democracies...