Pre-Sci-Fi Friday thoughts

[butterfly]

My only must-see TV at the moment is Sci-Fi Friday (there are other shows that I watch as time and interest allow).

My most intense fannish love at the moment is Stargate (as evidenced by my last couple of vids). I'm very much in love with the original show, and I'm vastly fond of its spinoff. It's funny, that I only fell in love with the show not quite two years ago (in the break between seasons 7 and 8), but I've already cycled back to intense glee with it (odd experience -- rewatching the VividCon dvds and remembering that when I first bought the 2003 ones, Banging on the Door was one of the vids that I skipped because I had no clue about the fandom and believed myself to have no interest in it).

I'm really glad that I fell in love with the show after Daniel had already left and come back. Because he's definitely the focal point of my love (though I adore Jack and Teal'c and now Cameron, and Sam a lot of the time, and several of the non-main characters as well) and I'm pretty sure that I would have gone crazy with missing him if I'd tried watching S6 in real time (in fact, judging by my behavior in Angel after Doyle's death, I might have boycotted six altogether).

I would, in fact, totally watch The Daniel Jackson Show (I would also watch The Michael Shanks Variety Hour, but that's between me and my shallow, shallow heart) if it were available. I would watch the 'Daniel Spends An Hour Each Week Learning An Alien Language' show. Watching Daniel makes me happy. Just... happy in this simple, easy way. I like watching him, like watching Michael Shanks be him (my all-time favorite episode is Meridian because Michael is just so very good there).

So, I don't really have any kind of solid review type stuff with SG-1 at the moment, simply because I'm too busy being in love with Daniel.

Right now, Atlantis is all about the Rodney/John for me. They work better as a pair (though I have a not-so-secret fondness for Rodney/Sam, as I rewatched Redemption recently and she gets so cute and snarky with him -- "Before I take the credit for this, shouldn't it be pointing at the Stargate?" or something adorable like that. And Rodney's adorable response -- "You're very good." all sarcastic and yet completely sweet at the same time. Aw.).

On Battlestar, I'm enjoying just letting it wash over me. I want to have more of a chance to absorb the show before I start deciding what I think about it.

Comments

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

I sometimes forget that you haven't been watching the show that long, because your love is so deep.

I sort of did boycott the show during S6. Daniel is very much a focal point for me. (I think I would identify more with Sam if the writer's were a little more consistent).

And I'm having thoughts about a silly SG-1 vid, so I may start picking your brain for suggestions. :)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty in love with the show, this is very true.

I sort of did boycott the show during S6. Daniel is very much a focal point for me. (I think I would identify more with Sam if the writer's were a little more consistent).

There are times when I love Sam quite a bit (I'm enjoying her a lot this season) and times when... not so much.

And I'm having thoughts about a silly SG-1 vid, so I may start picking your brain for suggestions. :)

I'd love to hear more.

Oh! I'm trying to figure out how encoding works (because I'd like to submit a vid to VividCon in a couple of months). Did you know if the video part is supposed to end up, like, thirty seconds shorter/faster? Or if I did something wrong in the set-up? If not, do you know a good person to ask?

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

VVC prefers split m2v and .wav (or aiff?) files, where the audio and video are separate, although they accept other formats. I don't know anything about Premiere, and that problem doesn't sound familiar to me. Is it an NTSC / PAL problem?

Many/most of the vidders we know are PC vidders who use premiere: Lum, sisabet, f1renze, here's luck, dualbunny, Eunice, permetaform, lierdumoa, lithium_doll, etc.

(Exception - Destina doesn't use Premiere IIRC), (Mac vidders using Final Cut - tzikeh, laura, killa, morgandawn, gwyn, barkley, sdwolfpup, jackiekjono)

Honestly I may drop the planned SG vid. It was supposed to be for Club Vivid. I never did figure out what caused the serious problems I had last year. Then file looked *fine* in iMovie and it was so *not* fine on the DVD. Apparently there are huge problems with the way iMovie handles interlaced frames, particulary with transitions and slow-mo, ff, reverse movement. I don't know that I have the energy to deal with this right now.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I have the energy to deal with this right now.

Wow, that does sound all kinds of frustrating. Vidding really does come with massive headaches sometimes.

[nic]

I too, was lucky, watching S6 of Stargate with the knowledge that he was coming back. I couldn't bring myself to watch "Meridian" at all until I heard this news, so it's an episode I can truly love rather than hate.

(I'm full of love for Daniel at the moment, having FINALLY met MS last weekend after 5 years of trying! In a non-stalker-ish way.)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Meeting MS would be pretty cool. I've heard that he's still all kinds of pretty in person. Candids of him always look pretty adorable.

I too, was lucky, watching S6 of Stargate with the knowledge that he was coming back. I couldn't bring myself to watch "Meridian" at all until I heard this news, so it's an episode I can truly love rather than hate.

Exactly -- watching it knowing that he'd be back meant that I truly could see it as part of his journey.

[sperrywink]

I love Daniel too. When I started watching the SG-1 reruns on Monday nights 3 or 4 years ago, my posts would just be "Sigh, I Love Daniel. And his hair!"

It's hard to be deep when Daniel is being cute and sarcastic and earnest and endearing.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Daniel!

Yes, he does thwart my attempts at depth sometimes (generally by, you know, breathing, but sometimes he doesn't even need to be doing that).

[jic]

Ohhhhh, yes. Love the Rodney/Sam snark. And, also, yes to everything else.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

The snark is so cute. And they were all sparky.

[fraulein.livejournal.com]

Ok - you and I seem to have decided to follow the same fandom curve. What you just wrote about Daniel, your entrance into the fandom, season 6, the whole love of Michael Shanks, and the whole John\Rodney thing and love of Rodney/Sam. (their snark is my favorite - two brains battling it out with words.) I'm soooo there with you on each point! If they ever, ever, god forbid cancel Stargate SG-1, they better have a Daniel Jackson show in the works! And I'd watch a Rodney/Sam show, just for the snark.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Yes, completely. Those would both be fun shows to watch.

[bunni2001.livejournal.com]

I was just thinking this morning how much I luff Daniel too. :)

Can you remind me what the plot of Meridian is? I've seen all the episodes like 4 times but I don't know most of them by title.

I think my favorite episode (at this moment in time) is Proving Ground. I like how Daniel gets the cushy part of being the bad guy. :)

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Daniel is wonderful.

Meridian is the very potentially tramautizing 'Daniel dies of radiation' episode. Michael Shanks is really, really good in it (as are RDA, AT, and CJ in their stifled mourning).

Daniel is so adorable in Proving Ground. And hot, like when he takes out the entire training team at the beginning. I could completely identify with Satterfield's crush on him.

[bunni2001.livejournal.com]

Yup. I love when Daniel gets macho with a weapon. I like the more recent Stargates for that reason. He's like a real soldier now even though he doesn't get to have the rank and stuff. :)

[paian]

I love your Daniel love. :-) Right there with you.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Daniel! He is wonderful and knowledge and worthy of being adored. Just not blindly, as he then might blow up Moscow.

[moojja.livejournal.com]

Right there with you on the Daniel love. I started watching during season 7 on Sci-fi. I tried to catch up on the reruns, and being confused as to why Daniel isn't there.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

Hee, you should have heard me when I was informed that Daniel left the show at the end of season five. "But why?" I asked. "Why?"

I was immediately reassured that he would come back, but it was not a fun few seconds there.

[iamrosalita.livejournal.com]

Sharing in the Daniel love.

[butterfly.livejournal.com]

To Daniel! And his increasingly buff arms!