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[wiseheart]

I've watched "Lie to Me" tonight... and actually liked it, even though Kelly Williams was the only actress I knew of the whole crew. I don't buy the ground idea of the series, actually, but they play it nicely enough. At least the cases aren't as bloody, sick and sadistic as in "Criminal Minds", where I do love the crew to pieces but can't stomach the brutality any more.

Today's SGU episode was abysmal, though. There were nice shots about the sun and stuff, but the plot was incredibly lame, Lt. Scott is the new Kirk, all women are either incompetent or whores (with the exception of the Blonde Bimbo, who's clearly a robot), and I just can't be bothered to care for them.

IOA representative is, of course, incompetent, selfish and manipulative, little Chloe throws herself at two different men within ten minutes, cuz' she needs to be coddled, the poor dear, the male lead is stoic and manly (and boring), so... no, unless there will be drastic changes, I'm not gonna like SGU.

Well, at least it's something new.

Comments

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

True enough. I don't get Col. Young's reaction to Rush, either. When every other person on the ship wants to throttle their head geak, he lets him get away with things he shouldn't. When Rush finally shows some human characteristics (like being surprised that their survived), he becomes all suspicious.

I think they should have killed Young on right at the beginning. He looks dead all the time anyway, so what would be the big difference? Of course, in that case Lt. Scott would become the chief military honcho (with a harem), and that particular idea makes me shiver.

Speaking of which, how in hell does a grean Lt. just out of military training, get sent to a super sekrit base as his first assingment? Shouldn't they, you know, prove their abilities at first? Serve on less important posts? At least on Atlantis, everybody but Sheppard had some off-world experience under his belt, and Shep at least used to be Black Ops before.

Oh, and the other cheep eye candy effect: that Sgt Grier, or what the heck his name is. They have ten minutes to a fiery and horrible dead, and what does he do? Sits in his quarters shirtless, so that everyone can admire his oh-so-many body. Are they allowed to do steroids in the military?

BTW, in the entire SG-universe (in the broader sense of the world) it always annoyed me that the soliders were allowed to talk to scientists twice their age and ten times their brain capacity as if said scientists were idiots. Remember how Ford treated Zelenka in Hot Zone or Carson in The Storm? I couldn't resist the temptation and wrote a short Hot Zone coda once, in which Dr. Hays, who used to be a middle-weight boxing champion, promise Ford to break his nose if he speaks to Zelenka in that tone ever again. *g*

[artemis10002000]

Yeah, the soldiers lording over the scientists has always annoyed me in SG as well. It's a recurring theme in all the shows, unfortunately, even with the good writers, which just makes it all the more annoying to me. Scientists are always patronized and the soldiers get taken down a peg for it far too rarely. And even if the scientists turn out to be right, the soldiers don't learn their lesson.

I find Scott extremely annoying. I was actually relieved that Young recovered because I'd have hated to have Scott as leader of the expedition.

And am I the only one thinking they're overdoing it with the floating eyeball diary entries? It's nice in the pilot, but by now it's beginning to get old. Especially since they don't really do anything important with it. I think they want to use them for characterisation, but they don't, really. The "message in a bottle" episode in SGA was very powerful emotionally, but the vid cam diaries aren't.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

I thing the flying eyeballs are supposed to replace the MALP... and sensitive characterization. They just show every idiot on the ship a few times, they repeat their names, and the writers hope we'll eventually learn who's who. Cuz they have no personality whatsoever, and otherwise we'd barely be able to tell the boys from the girls... save from the fact that the boys are the ones who shoot and the girls the ones who whine.

I hate Scott. He's the worst jarhead cliché I've seen for a very long time (even if he happens to be a pilot). And I hate how soldiers treat scientists, especially Sheppard. What I liked in the original SG was that Carter was a soldier, too, and could stand up to O'Neill if she needed to.

[artemis10002000]

They just show every idiot on the ship a few times, they repeat their names, and the writers hope we'll eventually learn who's who. Cuz they have no personality whatsoever, and otherwise we'd barely be able to tell the boys from the girls...

*sad sigh* So true!

Yeah, I also liked about Carter that she's both a soldier and a scientist.