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chickwriterSG1's 200th ep was probably one of the best hours I've spent watching TV in a long time.
The glee! The self-referential jokes and fun-poking at the genre!
ISAAC FREAKIN' HAYES!
All the fabulous references from Oz, to Farscape, to Thunderbirds, and much much more. I'm sure I missed some. Oh darn, guess I have to go and watch it again. ::g::
It was just a total paean to geekdom and I am a happy happy geek.
Not so enamored of SGA's offering - although not a bad premise. (yes, Normal Again was way better, if not exactly unique. Joss just did it better...that said, that was not my most favorite episode of that season.) Huh, now that I've said all that, maybe I just really don't like the whole "Cuckoo's Nest"/asylum type storyliines.
I do think the timing kind of sucked - insofar as airing something slightly creepy, and most definitely more serious after the crackfest that was SG1 was rather jarring. Like the juxtaposition of BSG following the *much* less brutal SG1/SGA, which is why I often waited to watch BSG until a day or two later.
My brain was in a whee!happy place and I found it hard to make the mental transition. Context is everything. I think perhaps watching The Real World on its own might give me a different take on the episode.
On a totally different note, I just finished reading No Good Deed, Laura Lippman's latest. WOWZA.
The glee! The self-referential jokes and fun-poking at the genre!
ISAAC FREAKIN' HAYES!
All the fabulous references from Oz, to Farscape, to Thunderbirds, and much much more. I'm sure I missed some. Oh darn, guess I have to go and watch it again. ::g::
It was just a total paean to geekdom and I am a happy happy geek.
Not so enamored of SGA's offering - although not a bad premise. (yes, Normal Again was way better, if not exactly unique. Joss just did it better...that said, that was not my most favorite episode of that season.) Huh, now that I've said all that, maybe I just really don't like the whole "Cuckoo's Nest"/asylum type storyliines.
I do think the timing kind of sucked - insofar as airing something slightly creepy, and most definitely more serious after the crackfest that was SG1 was rather jarring. Like the juxtaposition of BSG following the *much* less brutal SG1/SGA, which is why I often waited to watch BSG until a day or two later.
My brain was in a whee!happy place and I found it hard to make the mental transition. Context is everything. I think perhaps watching The Real World on its own might give me a different take on the episode.
On a totally different note, I just finished reading No Good Deed, Laura Lippman's latest. WOWZA.
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Date: 2006-08-19 04:03 pm (UTC)The thing with Atlantis is - what the heck could they possibly, possibly run against SG1 200? Nothing they could do would hold up, no matter how brilliant, so I think they did this one as something fast, cheap, and easy.