On TV, writing and other stuff

[wiseheart]

German TV has started to show the new Stargate: Universe episodes. I'm not even sure which season it is, as I've given up on the series after the first one. Last week I decided to take a look to see if things have evolved a little. Well... they have not. If that is possible at all, the series has become even more boring and clichéd as before. My only hope is that Chloe will fully turn into an alien and they'll have to shoot her, but since she's the brat!Sue of the series, complete with lobotomy, we know it will never happen.

I made some success with "Eye Witness" in the last couple of days (that's the Tosh/Singh romance, by the way). I've finished Chapter 3 in the middle of the Battle of Canary Wharf, killed off poor Singh almost-canonically (just a teeny bit more heroically) and wrote 11 pages of Chapter 4. That is 11 hand-written pages - they'll be probably 8 or 9 pages when I've typed them up. But the chapter is still far from being finished, so it won't stop there.

One more part, and that story will be finished, too. I'm tentatively content with it. Not having a beta sucks, of course, but I'm used to it. Every single TW beta has left ship sooner or later. Apparently, my English grammar is intimidating.

Work is as demanding as ever - perhaps even a little more so, since our annual cultural event is going to take place over this weekend. I'm not so closely involved as in the recent years (not my decision), but it still means that Friday afternoon and Sunday morning will be sacrificed for the good purpose. Gah, I'm just tired.

Comments

[artemis10002000]

Looks like I've missed absolutely nothing with SGU. Kinda sad, actually.

I'll keep my fingers crossed that you really manage to finish Eye Witness in another chapter and it won't keep monstering on you *laughs* That three-parter baby sure did grow up fast!

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

It did, didn't it? But a five-parter is still waaay shorter than most of the stuff I write. Aside from a handful of one-shots, that's the shortest thing I've managed to write in the last decade or so.

And no, you haven't missed a thing with SGU. Usually, I manage to grow fond of most sci-fi shows, even if they're rubbish, especially if they belong to a fandom I basically love. "Enterprise" and "SGU" are the marked differences.

[artemis10002000]

*nods* Yeah, I'm usually good at ignoring the bad, too. I mean, if I like at least the characters or the plot or the premise or one random thing really, I'll put up with a lot of bad writing, acting and so on, but SGU was just plain dull.

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

The only character I liked was Eli - the chubby computer geek bloke. But when he started mooning abour stupid Chloe!Sue, I turned away from him, too.

Everyone else was either an idiot, am aggressive military jarhead or a spineless snail (most scientists). I liked Dale Volker, but he didn't have a spine, either.

One day, I'll write an AU vignette, in which the scientists just go on strike and leave the jarheads to see what they can do on their own...

[artemis10002000]

sounds fun! It's a shame they cotld havd
do ne
a lot with the concept of the show