I had an epiphany!
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stargate_schadenfreudeI think I figured out what they are doing with the characters in SG:WTF.
In SG-1, we loved our characters. We loved them so much that the writers couldn't really do what they wanted with them/kill them off indiscriminately/or change actors. When they tried, we the fans actually succeeded in making them take a character back (wish it worked for Janet too!). Until, that is, they figured out that they could abuse them as much as they wanted as long as we got to watch them week after week.
In Atlantis, it was mostly the same. But by this time they figured as long as we had a few favorite characters, they could switch out/kill off most of the others. We would still watch.
Because we loved the characters and the whole premise of the shows.
Now, I just figure they WANT us to hate all of these losers so they can have free rein to anything they want to them and we won't even care. They think we will still watch.
I think I would be a little more accepting of their evil plans if they hadn't cancelled both the shows I loved so much first. If Atlantis was still on it might be just a little bit better (but I wouldn't count on it).
I will watch for now - 'cause I am addicted to Stargate in almost any form- but I am just not emotionally invested in this series like I was with it's predecessors and I probably never will be.
In SG-1, we loved our characters. We loved them so much that the writers couldn't really do what they wanted with them/kill them off indiscriminately/or change actors. When they tried, we the fans actually succeeded in making them take a character back (wish it worked for Janet too!). Until, that is, they figured out that they could abuse them as much as they wanted as long as we got to watch them week after week.
In Atlantis, it was mostly the same. But by this time they figured as long as we had a few favorite characters, they could switch out/kill off most of the others. We would still watch.
Because we loved the characters and the whole premise of the shows.
Now, I just figure they WANT us to hate all of these losers so they can have free rein to anything they want to them and we won't even care. They think we will still watch.
I think I would be a little more accepting of their evil plans if they hadn't cancelled both the shows I loved so much first. If Atlantis was still on it might be just a little bit better (but I wouldn't count on it).
I will watch for now - 'cause I am addicted to Stargate in almost any form- but I am just not emotionally invested in this series like I was with it's predecessors and I probably never will be.
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on 2009-11-04 02:25 am (UTC)In the vain hope that there might actually be some improvement.
Oy.
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on 2009-11-04 06:27 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-11-04 05:05 am (UTC)no subject
on 2009-11-04 06:26 am (UTC)Good idea!
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on 2009-11-04 05:17 pm (UTC)I still have a signed photo of Teryl Rothery. God, and I had such a thing for her, too =p
Interesting theory. If Atlantis were still on, there'd be little crossover, too (thankfully). The same, sadly, cannot be said for SG1. I'm pretty sure if they'd had known that the consequences of defeating the Ori meant that they would now have absolutely nothing else to do but sit around and wait for a bunch unlovable pricks to phone home, they probably wouldn't have fought so hard.
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on 2009-11-04 08:20 pm (UTC)Good one, I like that.