If you can find a different picture of Sam, Tom, you can put it up. Gateworld has different criteria to us for choosing its photos.
This makes 5 reviews in 5 days, a new record for Grapefruits.
Tom 16 February 2006, 07:54 PM
2
That sounds a plausible statistic. Have you checked?
Gateworld often have an odd selection of photos. I can’t really blame them for not having a suitably glamorous shot of Sam. I don’t think Stargate fans care about such things as much as, say, Charmed fans. This was the cutest pic I could find. She keeps scowling all the time. Which is acceptable during the torture I suppose.
I didn’t like Mitchell’s Shaft joke. It wasn’t funny the first time, by the fourth time I could hear creaking noises coming from the telly. The related ‘Mr’ joke was similarly lame. However the discussion of drug-dealer-ness you allude to was awesome. Overall I liked this episode, but then, I’m a sucker for Baal. I like over-the-top, charming, gloating villains. They’re a stereotype perhaps, but a tremendously fun one, and pretty rare these days. I’d like to get the Master back in Doctor Who as well.
Tom 17 February 2006, 04:57 AM
3
However, I’m pretty sure that she was in civvies only two episodes ago. You probably meant: haven’t seen her in a slinky leather fantasy-style costume for ages.
Tom 17 February 2006, 05:54 AM
4
One other thing. It’s a bit rich to bag both the recurrent character arcs and lame plotting of late Buffy and Angel if you’re only really comparing the latter. After all, most people on Stargate are lucky to get a character arc at all, let alone a recurrent one. However I completely agree that the implant thing is a good idea. It just seems like you’re drawing a long bow if you’re trying to compare it to Gunn still not knowing where he fits in the group.
And I think it’s rough to put Angel 5 and Buffy 7 on the same quality threshold. That means Angel 4 was worse than Buffy 7 and I don’t think that’s true. Ahem.
Andy 17 February 2006, 08:59 AM
5
A bit rich yes and I apologise for the implication that Angel 4 is below Buffy 7. I should have used a paragraph by itself to compare aspects of Stargate to later seasons of other shows. I couldn’t remember Buffy 7 repeating plotlines so I mentioned Angel 5 to refer to the possession of female characters by demons. Gunn’s repeated issues crossed my mind at that point but I was mostly talking about the plotlines for Angel 5 and character development for Buffy 7. Perhaps a well-placed ‘respectively’ would have cleared things up slightly.
Buffy 5-7 displayed a marked decline towards the end of the show’s lifetime that Stargate so far hasn’t, which was my point. Angel didn’t live long enough to display a long slow decline. A better example would be the Simpson’s lack of change, reuse of plots and character developments in seasons 15+.
A slinky leather fantasy-style costume is civvies as far I’m concerned. I won’t stop people wearing them in a casual setting. Sam wore civvies in Deus Ex Machina but they were in cold Seattle so she was rugged up.
Mitchell’s Shaft joke weighed down what could have been a funny middle section of the episode. Not having seen any form of Shaft, I can only conjecture that the mister thing is something Shaft says.
I can’t complain about photos I’ve borrowed but Gateworld doesn’t have pictures involving special effects. I can’t find anywhere that as high definition screencaps (Regular screencaps I can do myself) so I use Gateworld’s photos as I prefer a clear photo of an actor than blurry special effect.
Andy 17 February 2006, 09:30 AM
6
2 bad points I didn’t mention. There was a cut from Mitchell being held hostage to when they had escaped. It’s not worth complaining about - maybe they wanted to save money for the final fight scene or it was cut for time reasons - it was odd given the slow speed of the episde up to that point.
Th other was the final fight. I like SG-1’s sensible approach to a fire fight. Hide behind rocks provide cover for other team mates. Looks realistic and exciting. SG-1’s entrance into Baal’s ship looked cool as they covered multiple directions and made their way quickly to the cargo hold. Once the firefight started, Teal’c and Mitchell decided they were in the Matrix. There were never more than two Jaffa soldiers in the corrider at a time, so Mitchell and Teal’c’s gun blazing looked wasteful. A simple sniping the Jaffa as they rounded the corner would have sufficed.
Shannon 2 July 2006, 05:49 AM
7
Only 2 weeks to go until season 10. Gee, I wonder if SG-1 really are all dead? That seems likely.
Can’t wait! :)
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Andy
16 February 2006, 06:46 PM
If you can find a different picture of Sam, Tom, you can put it up. Gateworld has different criteria to us for choosing its photos.
This makes 5 reviews in 5 days, a new record for Grapefruits.
Tom
16 February 2006, 07:54 PM
That sounds a plausible statistic. Have you checked?
Gateworld often have an odd selection of photos. I can’t really blame them for not having a suitably glamorous shot of Sam. I don’t think Stargate fans care about such things as much as, say, Charmed fans. This was the cutest pic I could find. She keeps scowling all the time. Which is acceptable during the torture I suppose.
I didn’t like Mitchell’s Shaft joke. It wasn’t funny the first time, by the fourth time I could hear creaking noises coming from the telly. The related ‘Mr’ joke was similarly lame. However the discussion of drug-dealer-ness you allude to was awesome. Overall I liked this episode, but then, I’m a sucker for Baal. I like over-the-top, charming, gloating villains. They’re a stereotype perhaps, but a tremendously fun one, and pretty rare these days. I’d like to get the Master back in Doctor Who as well.
Tom
17 February 2006, 04:57 AM
However, I’m pretty sure that she was in civvies only two episodes ago. You probably meant: haven’t seen her in a slinky leather fantasy-style costume for ages.
Tom
17 February 2006, 05:54 AM
One other thing. It’s a bit rich to bag both the recurrent character arcs and lame plotting of late Buffy and Angel if you’re only really comparing the latter. After all, most people on Stargate are lucky to get a character arc at all, let alone a recurrent one. However I completely agree that the implant thing is a good idea. It just seems like you’re drawing a long bow if you’re trying to compare it to Gunn still not knowing where he fits in the group.
And I think it’s rough to put Angel 5 and Buffy 7 on the same quality threshold. That means Angel 4 was worse than Buffy 7 and I don’t think that’s true. Ahem.
Andy
17 February 2006, 08:59 AM
A bit rich yes and I apologise for the implication that Angel 4 is below Buffy 7. I should have used a paragraph by itself to compare aspects of Stargate to later seasons of other shows. I couldn’t remember Buffy 7 repeating plotlines so I mentioned Angel 5 to refer to the possession of female characters by demons. Gunn’s repeated issues crossed my mind at that point but I was mostly talking about the plotlines for Angel 5 and character development for Buffy 7. Perhaps a well-placed ‘respectively’ would have cleared things up slightly.
Buffy 5-7 displayed a marked decline towards the end of the show’s lifetime that Stargate so far hasn’t, which was my point. Angel didn’t live long enough to display a long slow decline. A better example would be the Simpson’s lack of change, reuse of plots and character developments in seasons 15+.
A slinky leather fantasy-style costume is civvies as far I’m concerned. I won’t stop people wearing them in a casual setting. Sam wore civvies in Deus Ex Machina but they were in cold Seattle so she was rugged up.
Mitchell’s Shaft joke weighed down what could have been a funny middle section of the episode. Not having seen any form of Shaft, I can only conjecture that the mister thing is something Shaft says.
I can’t complain about photos I’ve borrowed but Gateworld doesn’t have pictures involving special effects. I can’t find anywhere that as high definition screencaps (Regular screencaps I can do myself) so I use Gateworld’s photos as I prefer a clear photo of an actor than blurry special effect.
Andy
17 February 2006, 09:30 AM
2 bad points I didn’t mention. There was a cut from Mitchell being held hostage to when they had escaped. It’s not worth complaining about - maybe they wanted to save money for the final fight scene or it was cut for time reasons - it was odd given the slow speed of the episde up to that point.
Th other was the final fight. I like SG-1’s sensible approach to a fire fight. Hide behind rocks provide cover for other team mates. Looks realistic and exciting. SG-1’s entrance into Baal’s ship looked cool as they covered multiple directions and made their way quickly to the cargo hold. Once the firefight started, Teal’c and Mitchell decided they were in the Matrix. There were never more than two Jaffa soldiers in the corrider at a time, so Mitchell and Teal’c’s gun blazing looked wasteful. A simple sniping the Jaffa as they rounded the corner would have sufficed.
Shannon
2 July 2006, 05:49 AM
Only 2 weeks to go until season 10. Gee, I wonder if SG-1 really are all dead? That seems likely.
Can’t wait! :)
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