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I started reading Ouroboros back in June, however life took over and I didn’t pick it up again until a few days ago. I remember wanting a story where the conflicts between characters – especially Jack and Daniel, so prevalent in the last few novels I have read, was something not as overt in Ouroboros. And I got my wish. This novel was team fiction, after Jack had left SG-1 to run the SGC. My second wish was a reduction of canon errors that again have plagued these books, and I only came across one!

Reality Or Bust! )
 
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magnavox_23: A close up of Rick wearing glasses. he has a finger resting against his lips, and a curious expession on his face. (Daniel_naptime)
I am mid way through season four of Atlantis on my rewatch of the entire Stargate franchise (what? Infinity? Um...), and what is really striking me by this point is the lack of moral input when it comes to the plans they devise. Where is their Daniel? Elizabeth played this role somewhat, but she let things get out of hand as far back as Michael. Now (Be All My Sins Remember'd) Rodney creates F.R.A.N. and argues to Sam that she is not even alive. This is completely at odds with Sam's beliefs expressed in Unnatural Selection, as well as her experiences with Reese and Fifth. (I am not even going to go into the subtext of having a programmable woman with these writers). There was such an opportunity for Sam to bring her close personal experience with Replicators to the fore, and nothing. Here she is free to express her opinion and ideas, she is not Jack's underling merely following orders, and she's letting MacKay convince her otherwise? This also speaks to the many wasted opportunites that having Sam in a command position could have entailed.

I feel Atlantis, especially in the later years, has a lack of idea exchange (mirrors the behind the scenes stuff, huh). Teyla objects some, but she exerts no great influence over those making the decisions. It's such a shame because that ever present arguement was one of the core driving forces in the original series, and it adds a much needed layer to the process of making those all important decisions before and during the battle.

Atlantis needed a Daniel.

That just happens to be the way I feel about it. What do you think?
magnavox_23: A close up of Rick wearing glasses. he has a finger resting against his lips, and a curious expession on his face. (Jack_little_grey_butts)
Behind the scenes at Bridge - how the boys club affected the Stargate franchise and alienated its viewers. This one links to [personal profile] campylobacter 's tumblr, and I hope she doesn't mind, because hers had a great continuation of the thread of conversation. It's a fair read, but there is a lot of insight into the workings behind the Stargate franchise and the individual plays of both cast and crew.There are a lot of valid ideas here.

"Richard Dean Anderson is...?" This one questions and rallies against the culture of body shaming actors just because they are in the public eye. It focuses primarily on the media and fan attacks upon RDA's weight gain, and questions the reasons behind why people feel such comments need to be made.
magnavox_23: A close up of Rick wearing glasses. he has a finger resting against his lips, and a curious expession on his face. (KeepCalmAndStargate)
I was ordering Ouroboros from stargatenovels.com earlier, and noticed the covers for the Stargate: Atlantis Legacy series which from what I understand are supposed to tie up the loose ends and bring SGA to a close? Why then is Sam on some of the covers? I have only seen the last 2 seasons of SGA once, but as far as I was aware, she left at the end of season 4 and commanded The Hammond after Continuum? Is Sam in the books, and if so, in what capacity?

Am I getting my information crossed? It's been years since I watched SGA. I've been meaning to rewatch, especially the last two seasons as I was so damn shitty over what they did to Torri at the time. I want to give the story another go when I can.

I also bought the first book in the Legacy series back when Borders was still a thing, has anyone read the series? Is it good? I would have to order the rest online - bah stupid Aussie dollar is below parity now. *pouts*

*looks at how many novels I have yet to read of the SG-1 series*

*sighs*

Icon Redux

Aug. 14th, 2010 06:54 pm
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Just archiving all the icons made for icontests etc when I got off my lazy behind and submitted something. I've taken a break from all LIMS this round as frankly trying to do them all was buggering me out. I think I got most of them in here, I may have lost some in the PC move. Eh, I can always make more. :P

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Ghost In The Machine - *Bawls* Having now seen the episode, I understand even moreso why Torri chose not to do it. Especially those lines at the end where Shep accused Weir of not behaving the way she would have in the past (how could she possibly, after what she's been through?) and Woolsey's not even believing she was innately 'good' until after she had stepped through to the space gate. A thinly veiled slap in the face to her character and I certainly saw parallels with ye olde witch trials "if she steps through, we'll know she's not evil only after she's stepped through'. The actress 'replacing' her did quite well under the circumstances, but I am so saddened that this is how they chose to end Weir's story. (Is there fic around where Shep possibly plucks her from space to help with some future mission in need of her expertise or something? :P That would be nice).

The Shrine - This had Brad Wright written all over it, hehehe. Beautiful story, love the swapping of events between the present and Rodney slowly losing his mind. I think this is possibly my favourite David Hewlett episode now. Kate was amazing also.

Whispers - Shep being ever so slightly weirded out by an all female team annoyed me. I know realistically it would be quite uncommon to have an all female team, but science fiction has always been one of the forerunners of breaking with perceived social norms and going boldly where no man...er, woman has gone before. It wasn't that much of an issue, but making it one, however minutely, lost some brownie points with me. Sometimes I do wonder if Mallozzi really wanted to write horror. He has a knack for it sure, but perhaps Atlantis has had enough zombies and tentacles for a while.

The Queen - Ok... so that happened. Actually I missed the part that explained how they turned Teyla into a wraith queen, because certain peoples were squabbling in front of the tv. *glares*
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Snerched from multiple sources...

Ship meme...ahoy mateys! )

That took 2 hours, but in my defence, I was watching NCIS and Bondi Rescue... :P
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Stoled from [livejournal.com profile] cleothemuse

Post a single sentence from each WIP you have (or as many as you want to pick). No context, no explanations. No more than one sentence!

* Having had little to no rest since before this last mission his head was seriously considering giving into gravity's adamant approval of just resting his head on the workbench for a few moments.

* Before them were the usual rowdy bunch of whacked out natives, hell bent on mis-interpreting anything said or done by our Earthling/Athosian heroes consequently landing them in deep doo doo... oh the wonders of gate travel.

* Daniel's been too absorbed in the culture to notice, if he was an accomplished Egyptologist before he's a certifiable walking historic relic now too...

* Time was not present in this version of reality.

* She turns then, her back against the glass window as Jack attacks her throat with sharp kisses, nipping along her windpipe in mock threat.

* "Not if you're alternate self had an evil twin", John replied, unable to keep the grin from his face.

Those are just the ones that have actual content, not including word documents that just have a hastily typed prompt I thought of at one time or another, and never got around to writing. :P
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These are all made from some fabulous caps by [livejournal.com profile] quarryquest of Daniel's recent jaunt to Atlantis. How many faces did he pull, seriously? :P

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magnavox_23: A close up of Rick wearing glasses. he has a finger resting against his lips, and a curious expession on his face. (Default)
So I listened to the podcast of Torri's con appearance in Germany (*) Great stuff. I loved her story about working on The English Patient (I should really watch that movie), and wow, the bugger story! That was gold. 'Bugger' is used as slang here too, I didn't know about the American meaning of the word - so American flisters, if I have used bugger before it has meant 'oh shit', 'oh damn' - something to that effect, hehe.

And Torri's going to be back on NCIS *SQUEE!!!!!!!!!*

Bugger me running...
*snerk*

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Oh Stargate, you're ignoring your most prevalent demographic under the outmoded assumption that the franchise is only watched by fapping little fanboys (apologies if you are, please go about your business), and your reliance on stereotypes and 'the Jack O'Neill mold' does not appeal to me (who is on the fringe of your target audience).

These are your characters? Seriously? )

I honestly don't know if I should give this show the time of day. If it were anything other than Stargate, I wouldn't blink an eye.
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The Pegasus Galaxy got boned.

Hmm, in a way I'm relieved. Mind you we're 2 years behind here in Aussieland, but honestly? From what I have seen, Mallozzi and his cohorts fucked the show up royally. You can't go messing with the characters in that way on a sci fi show. We fans ADORE our characters, why else would we spent so much time and energy devoted to the fandom? The days of teenage fanboys wacking off to flux capacitors and big boobed aliens are gone. 

At least in my little corner of fandom (aka, you guys), there is a prevalence of meta, artwork, wonderfully insightful fiction, concentrating moreso on the *people* - be they from Earth or not. Of course plot and explosions have their place too. :P

But hey, the cast changes, over abundance of OOCness and a whole bunch of other reasons could be contributed to the show's demise without any clear cut division of factors, so my bet is the slip in ratings combined with high production costs.

Oh well, there's also a 2 hour tv movie to come afterwards...thrills! :P
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I don't know how this situation would come about, but man, I don't mind thinking about it...


I also bought a keyboard today. Anywho, after a whole day's practice (ok, not a whole day, I have other things to do) and not having touched a keyboard in a good 10 years, here's my attempt at playin' a song. Kudos to anyone who can actually tell what it is. :P
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This is me laughing at you:
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
*Applauds Torri*

It's All ABout Me!

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'Adíshní Mags

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