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Dec. 13th, 2004 01:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
butterflyI was ill over the weekend. This would have sucked, but I got to spend the time lounging around watching Stargate with friends, so all is good.
Random fannish thoughts:
The first season of Andromeda still ranks among some of the best sci-fi that I've seen. It was so kick-ass. And the acting... Lexa Doig played three versions of the same character every episode, and each version was unique yet clearly part of the same core. In the first season finale, she plays five versions of that character, all in the same episode.
Stargate's science works better when you go on the assumption that our science is flawed (as Narim says in Enigma) and thus you end up not stressing over some of their more interesting 'scientific' ideas. And because I love driving ideas, I'd like to mention that I love that the driving idea behind Stargate SG-1 is the temptation of power and inevitable arrogance that comes along with it, particularly power that isn't earned. Which is why our guys still lack killer tech after eight years in the game. With great power comes a great big swelled head (which is why Teal'c should be wary about saying what he's saying to Ishta -- someone should point out to him that he pulled his own Jaffa Revenge Stupidity back in the day). As for Daniel... it's been a while since Absolute Power.
Firefly is not science-fiction at all -- it's a character-driven show that happens to take place in outer space.
I can't believe in the 'things change' version of time travel (aka the 'Marty McFly slowly disappears from his own family picture' version). It strikes me as fundamentally unworkable and inherently destructive to the fabric of space-time, which strikes me as unlikely. I prefer the 'things happened as they happened, already including the presence of time travelers' (see: The City on the Edge of Forever (Star Trek: the Original Series), Angel Dark, Demon Bright (Andromeda), 1969 (Stargate SG-1), and the Time Turner in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) version.
Also, I want someone to write Jack/Freya/Anise/Daniel fic.
Random fannish thoughts:
The first season of Andromeda still ranks among some of the best sci-fi that I've seen. It was so kick-ass. And the acting... Lexa Doig played three versions of the same character every episode, and each version was unique yet clearly part of the same core. In the first season finale, she plays five versions of that character, all in the same episode.
Stargate's science works better when you go on the assumption that our science is flawed (as Narim says in Enigma) and thus you end up not stressing over some of their more interesting 'scientific' ideas. And because I love driving ideas, I'd like to mention that I love that the driving idea behind Stargate SG-1 is the temptation of power and inevitable arrogance that comes along with it, particularly power that isn't earned. Which is why our guys still lack killer tech after eight years in the game. With great power comes a great big swelled head (which is why Teal'c should be wary about saying what he's saying to Ishta -- someone should point out to him that he pulled his own Jaffa Revenge Stupidity back in the day). As for Daniel... it's been a while since Absolute Power.
Firefly is not science-fiction at all -- it's a character-driven show that happens to take place in outer space.
I can't believe in the 'things change' version of time travel (aka the 'Marty McFly slowly disappears from his own family picture' version). It strikes me as fundamentally unworkable and inherently destructive to the fabric of space-time, which strikes me as unlikely. I prefer the 'things happened as they happened, already including the presence of time travelers' (see: The City on the Edge of Forever (Star Trek: the Original Series), Angel Dark, Demon Bright (Andromeda), 1969 (Stargate SG-1), and the Time Turner in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) version.
Also, I want someone to write Jack/Freya/Anise/Daniel fic.