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So basically the word from MGM is that they're being held to ransom for the license fee of Stargate which isn't surprising The main hitch of long-running shows is that the key actors can hold out for more the deeper into the show they get. Not that they don't deserve it but it would explain why most of the cast was replaced with season 9 starting and introduction of new faces (Bridges, Doig, Browder, Black). Either the budget makes a cut (which might affect the production ala Enterprise) or they find someone who'll pick up the tab. Nice Romulan pic - took me a moment to realise where it was from.

It would've been insulting. The depressing farewell, the tearful soulless, DEAD eyes, the 'oh my life's not worth living now the Doctor's gone forever'... Glad it won't be made. Would've probably sucked without Daleks and Cybermen. Methinks the BBC controller is trying to sell more Who. How about using that money to get McGann back to do a few specials on the Time War or another Dalek-based episode. Show how the Daleks went all bling with Gold and such. That'd be worth seeing.

As long as it happens quickly. I'm guessing episode 10 will be yet another mid-season cliffhnager. The biggest letdown for season 9 was the severe lack of any genuine conflict. It was weak, not bad; weak. The Ori are basically as all-knowing as the Ancients Almost all of their subversive plans have failed - priors, bugs, supergate number 1 Now their ships are here kicking our butts. The biggest threat came at the end of the series in the last thirty minutes when a supergate was found and our forces got their mivonks handed to them on a silver platter. We need that sense of impending, unstoppable doom almost always or in episodes that aren't designed to be cliffhangers (10 and 20). I'd like to see the Ori plot expediate through all the crap, the incidental episodes, the filler 'it's our fault' eps and have a certaion degree of top-heavy continuity. Most of the episodes are self-contained and interchangeable with the exception of the season opener and 200. If you're gonna go out, go out with a story that takes place across five to ten episodes instead of maybe a two/three-parter. Like the Ori troops invade Earth and while Daniel goes off in search of the Ascendent-killer weapon Mitchell and co tackle the forces taking over like blowing up the invading ship in a way that will require more than just the Cheyenne Mountain teams. Maybe even have an Asgard helping them directly instead of being stuck in the engine room of the Deadeleus/Odyssey. Something that says we're going out by blowing the entire budget on our five-part finale!

To me it hadn't been the same from season 6 but that was when they said 'we're bringing in one last bad guy and we might not even give him a face' (I think it was Brad Wright, not sure). When the Execs start walking on edge then it generally goes downhill anyway because it's their last season. Anubis was the ultimate end of the Goa'uld enemy. half-goauld, helf ascended, all evil Then came season 7 and Daniel's return - Yippee! Season 8 and freeing the jaffa - great Season 9 - introducing a new, deadlier enemy - okay season 10 - eh~ It should've ended when the finished season 8. Jaffa were free, team was safe, O'Neill had fish in his pond and they helped out Atlantis by getting another ZPM. What would've made it better was if the existence of the Stargate had been made public. It's tiring to see them acting like assholes because someone else wants to reveal the existence of the gate to the world and yet they still manage to cover it up again. In the beginning it was about worshipping false gods and the beings imitating them, now it's about worshipping real gods that lie about ascension just doesn't stick as a good vs evil. We knew the Goa'uld were evil, they were parasites that used humans to build an empire and fight wars against each other and any who oppose them. The Ori are gods who don't seem to do anything themselves and just get people to worship them so they can get stronger but still don't actually do anything themselves but are supposed to supplant their will onto others. It doesn't work because they're too powerful. If they are truly that strong/advanced/powerful then they should be bombarding this galaxy with soldiers, piors and other ascendent plans of domination but we had three during season 9 (the supergates, the insects and the prior virus). Apart from the virus only one of these plans has directly affected Earth and why haven't they gone for Earth anyway? Too many questions about a similar but more powerful enemy to the Goa'uld. Good vs Evil implies, no, demands that one side is more wrong than the other but the line is too thinly to see which side is the right one. I said about either SG-1 or Atlantis that if things didn't pick up it would be my last season. Looks like I might not have a choice anymore

I got the Firefly reference but Who? When? I have to watch out for that. It wasn't the foreign investor went bankrupt and then renwing the series at the end was it? I did say I found the teen thing hilarious but I wasn't clear in finding the Farscape and the "Team Stargate : Galaxy Police" puppet segment was funny. If I hadn't watched Team America so soon before this ep I might have had more fun at it's expense. Farscape was inevitable. They had a small nod at the beginning of season 9 and the full blown They were walking a very fine line between lampooning and mocking. SG-1 is the first Sci-fi show I know of besides Doctor Who to reach 200 episodes in one series and from one side we see a witty piss-take laughing at themselves and ripping themselves and any companion shows they belong to BUT from the other it is just belittling other shows and their audience by regurgitating past complaints as joke fodder and mocking other shows which didn't make it to 200 (like Star Trek, Farscape, Firefly etc.). There is such a thing as one joke too many. Overall I did like most of it, in particular the alternate realities (Furlings, puppets, teen drama, Cheynne blown up) but it's like I had a white chocolate cake with white chocolate sauce. Delicious though it may be, too much makes you feel ill. Anyway postive to leave out on: Puppets were funny especially Daniel 'writing'. Edgy teen drama was a perfect parody of most teen dramas. Farscape riff (although short and expected) was classic. I wonder if Ben conatcted Paul about playing his character. The real characters were expressing our viewpoints perfectly like the openeing sequence, convenient plot devices (hang a lantern was funny because Teal'c had just done it), skipping over escape scenes, etc.

Combine it with Conversion and you have another 'character recovery from previous attack ep. Rather formulaic but explains why the Ancient Replicant attacked her with his hands in the last ep. The big glaring omission is that if the replicators are replicating using Elizabeth's tissue then how is she still alive? Surely they would've consumed enough to interrupt vital fuctions or leave her paralysed. Essentially it seems that she's fine despite being eaten alive from the inside out. And it's good to know that Earth tech costs so much that you aren't willing to burn out a few monitors to ensure you actually get all of the replicators in your colleague (which went beyond the leg wound anyway so why weren't they all destroyed?).

Well most of us had already called the Farscape reference although it seemed odd that Michael played John Crichton and Ben did a stint as Stark (although he never got to do that in Farscape's altered realities). There were a couple of non sequitors where the distinction between reality and fantasy got blurred like Jack coming in and the references to 'it'll be in the trailers/spoilr' and Walter changing clothes fast at the end. It was a little too absurd for Stargate. Having said that the puppets thing I wasn't expecting or a full-blown Farscape take-off. The younger-edgier version was just hilarious because that's what most teen dramas actually play as. Reminds me of Nigella lawson and her spoofers. I think if they'd cut out the supposed reality pieces and just had the shattered universes it might have been funnier/better but the near-constant references to actual reality or previous episode complaints (short opening sequence, recasting main lead, convenient plot devices) just kinda spoilt it. If they know it enough to parody it then why don't they change it when they do a proper episode? It just seems like they are more like Martin, not actually listening to their audience and thinking they know better.

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That is just untrue. Outnumbered, fully-powered, an entire city to transport across the galaxy and they get blown up by McKay's little overload trick. And why didn't whats'his'name at the end just push his hand into Elizabeth? Strangling her is like beating someone to death with a magazine catridge when it's smarter to load into the gun and pull the trigger. The Genai at least got inside the base before they were forced out. They were worthy opponents

Wow, they made a mistake? That's unpossible. Seriously they've fiddled with how much tech and it's gone bad? Almost as bad as their security. It was okay. A Trust operative using the armband caused it on Earth - another security issue. How about they lock these things up so that at least five people have to be there to open them? Methinks they used the budget on the CG-mutant-dog-bear-pig thing rather than a decent plot. For someone who wants his people to relax Landry seems to enjoy making jokes but takes offense everytime Micthell tried to make one. Very professional about how he didn't appreciate the fat kid comment. You're still fat, deal with it. I have. Lay off the cream cakes, chubby! Seriously I'm overwieght and it's my fault so any fat comments I take in good humour because I agree with them. Vala was right but in their arrogance they didn't listen because she's the new girl to the team and whoops, there's another creature. And for god's sake IRONY :mad: The only ironic thing about the statement is that Teal'c doesn't undertsand its true meaning. It would've been ironic if one of the people there was a Goa'uld. An donsidering what happened last week it's still a major concern - how ironic :p

Same world, different planet. The excitement would be like hearing someone won the lotto and expecting them to have won the jackpot only they tell you they won the lowest prize and you're like 'oh, right'. Ancient Replicators - I wasn't expecting that. Not predictable but undeniably cliche. This is supposed to be a spin-off of SG-1 not a carbon copy. Wier wasn't very diplomatic when dealing with Oberon 1-to-1. If they were both guys I could imgine it being a 'my gun's bigger than your gun' contest. And yet another emotional one amongst the 'savages' - why can't theyhave a happy ending for once? It's always the nice guys that kick the bucket first. I imagined that they were intending to wipe out the galaxy of ALL life to completely destroy the wraith, something extremist which is why they 'separated'. I'm beginning to see a parallel with Voyager - the episodes seem to be getting into a chop and change method; the last three are interchangable with each other. Doesn't bode well.

It tried to mix in a little sci-fi with a Cyborg in the first season of Buffy, Adam (human/demon/cyborg melding) as the big bad of season 4 and those Cyborg Ninjas of the last seasonof Angel. I think Angel (the series) kinda got screwed over. They lost Doyle too early, probably as an intention to bring him back as a higher power in the next season but the actor died which was a crying shame. I thought season 5 while cool and a great big finish to the show was like a 50ft lemon - impressive to look at but still tastes sour. They also made it too much like Buffy "with wings" - by the end of it there was the same feel as if it were Buffy rather than Angel. It was nice but I was more impressed with season 1's gritty, dark look as opposed to the clean-cut season 5. EDIT - Found this about Glenn Quinn. He lost his job on Angel because of a drink and drugs problem which he later died from

Wrong brand name....it's the energizer bunny. Not in this country! :cyclops: See - DURACELL Bunny Me-ow!

Actually they didn't. I found the mis-directed Season-2-but-not-season-2-at-all page before I did a little digging and found this new one. They have changed the first link to reflect the proper cast list of 1978 BSG AND the updated link has gone down a little more to £34.99

I thought it took more from Firefly than Battlestar with the McKay and Beckett interaction and the final group conversation about Shepard wanting to kill the bad guy but didn't (that might've been Angel I'm thinking of). A good break from the usual everything's kosha and we learnt a little more than 'he's tough' about Ronin. A step in the right direction, I hope it doesn't take two steps back though for the next one.

Q. Why is SG-1 like the Duracell bunny? A. Becasue it just keeps going and going and going and going...

A convenient plot device, SGC security is. They missed one for lack of a Britch representative - (after the Baals teleport) "Oh Baal-ocks". They must've used every Baal/ball joke in the book. This episode is like roadkill - disgusting and sad yet you can't help poking it with a stick a dozen times over. I liked the humour break from the serious-ness of the other episodes but Baal has become the Apophis of the later seasons of SG-1. And they just stood there like lemons as he ported away. Here's a thought - you see that semi-automatic you have in your hand? Why not see how many bullets you can fire in the fifteen seconds Baal took to disappear? I still liked it better than the viral outbreak episode.

Picard because he can't afford to fall in love. He had that symbiotic woman bond with him but his duty prevented him from pursuing her and he let her marry a man to ensure peace. His best friend's widow is part of his crew and he's reluctant to pursue out of respect for his friend. He has Troi sit right next to him showing off her cleavage for four, five years maybe and he can't go 'nice tits, luv' The only woman I remember him pursuing leaves him because she doens't want to be treated special or different to the other crew members. Either that or Trip who gets pregnant, shafts a princess, falls for a trisexual hermale who dies because she wants to be more and then gets stuck loving a drug-addicted Vulcan woman who only likes him when she's 'high' :p

I think what made it great was that is wasn't another starship based Trek. It was a space station and it wasn't Federation. They appeared throughout all the shows; space stations, starbases, facilties but they were never in more than one episode. It was a nice change of pace. I don't think the Prophets got featured enough and we never got to see all the other Orbs which were pretty cool. What I didn't like a little was bringing Worf into DS9. I'm not saying I hated it but it was a real 'he's the most popular character they could bring from TNG?' and then he just acted like the same man-whore he had been during TNG. Put me off a little. They had a few clever episodes like the game episode where Qaurk plays an alien game only it uses real people in a pocket dimension. It was tense for me as I actually got swallowed into the story. Mirror Universe was clever for one revisit but they just turned it into Star Trek Mirrorverse by taking the Defiant across and then lightened the tone

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000GLKNRI/026-3944974-8989265?v=glance&n=283926 882 minutes long, August 28th release date, seems to be the second season of the new series currently £36.97