Season 6 of stargate feels weird. I'm on episode 21. I've really enjoyed the plotlines, they're some of the most interesting and creative so far, but it's the small stuff that's starting to bother me.
It was first in the intro when Richard Dean Anderson gets twice as much time as anyone else (~11s vs 5-6s for Tapping, Judge, and Nemec, plus a single shot for Davis), and so many of these plots center around him in almost an unnatural way. He feels like the main character much more than previously, but without Daniel to keep him grounded his arrogance is starting to get annoying. I enjoyed his writing in season 5, they wrote him a lot of jokes and I laughed at a lot of them, but here he just comes off as brash.
Now I actually enjoy Daniel's "death" and how he'll come back now and again and comfort his friends (E6, "Abyss" & E19, "The Changeling"). I like Jonas too! I wholeheartedly enjoy what they're doing with this. But Daniel was always the one to keep Jack in check. (Thinking specifically about Reese in S05E19 "Menace.") Now without Daniel's strong opposing voice, it feels like no one stands up to Jack when he says something wildly undiplomatic, and I don't like his dumb ass being left out alone like that. They kept each other in check and I believe their banter was a large part of what made the show so good.
Then there's these romance subplots. It seems like every other episode Jonas and Carter are falling in love with some random alien, but its been multiple times this season! Not to mention that oh-so-forced creepy scientist guy in this season's premiere episodes. Previously it was just that Tok'ra dude and a bit of O'Neill, now it's everyone? Why is this happening? It feels so out of place.
Even if the directorial staff hasn't seemed to have changed, and RDA has been an executive producer for several seasons now, (so his larger part likely isn't directly because of him) things are clearly changing, and I'm unsure if I like them all the way.
I'm really enjoying these plotlines, but theres a lot now that's feeling just... too convienent. I can't really give a good example but a lot of things don't feel as natural anymore. My suspension of disbelief isn't being sufficiently upheld like it has been in past seasons. For example, I just watched a scene where O'Neill, Carter, and Teal'c all stand in a perfect line in front of Jonas (whose much more animated and natural, might I add) and talk at him. Nothing about this line feels natural and their dialog feels... weird.
But such is television - sometimes real world bureaucracy and internal politics have more of an effect on a show's content than the actual crew.
Anyways. Let Dom DeLuise back on the show and have him meet John de Lancie, either as Q or Col. Simmons idc either way thanks bye
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i watched arrival again. and the day the earth stood still because i couldn't easily watch contact. let's see if it filled enough cracks caused by s5e22 to get through this.
supernatural s6e1 exile on main st. (w. sera gamble)
"you okay?" "yeah, i'm good :)" then immediately🙁also, hello licensed music, old friend. beautiful loser, ouch. you realize you just can't have it all, indeed. montage of all the pale replacements for life with sam. heavy sigh.
now i feel bad for always ragging on the score, i feel like i need to pay more attention. is this interesting? is it creative?
is someone sending him on wild goose chase slash scavenger hunt
this jacket, his hair being a little swooped to the side different. who are you? so my question will be, once he's back in business, does the hair revert as well as the clothes? sammy gets to change his hair up, let dean live a little.
this is a lot of dean. lying to lisa now too. oh how i wonder how her character is handled when he leaves. i'm guessing not well!
SAM
You finally had what you wanted, Dean.
DEAN
I wanted my brother, alive!
gather this is the dreaded (by me, specifically) robosam. this is awful! he's also occasionally sounding like a frat boy/stoner/skater i dunno what the white boy youth sounds like anymore.
parker lewis can't lose (1990-93) corin nemec as parker lewis
🎶 i do not want this 🎶 (two feet below the surface I can still make out your wavy face and if I could just reach you maybe I could leave this place)
well i went ahead and read the wiki to see when the soullessness gets discovered and fixed and ugh this is a lot of episodes with him like that. were the red flags not flying with i dunno, the year he refused to contact dean, his very chill reunion with dean, literally everything about the way he's acting. dean's a smart cookie, he knows that man inside and out, like he's not going to be majorly concerned day 1 (after a minute to get over the shock of it all).
i feel the base level suspiciousness and paranoia to live in their universe with his life experience is gonna outweigh his blind desperation slash theoretical happiness that getting sam back may cause. i call shenanigans! though we'll see what sera is up to, she catches me out sometimes.
what did i say about this show (and by extension us, the audience) being merely a vessel for dean's pain? oh yeah, bobby knew too, for a year.
fuck that noise.
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