My First SGA.

[icarus]

wildernessguru and I are watching our first Stargate: Atlantis episode.

So, yes, I can see the slash. There are two likeable characters: McKay and Shep.

As for the rest of the show...

1) dry and obvious dialogue
2) plots that are sci-fi retreads except with dull pacing
3) crappy costumes and props (particularly the arm-patches... my girl scout uniform had better quality)
4) cheap and silly-looking special effects (this one is just a bubble machine where they've applied a blue filter -- I could do that in my living room)
5) clueless and slightly phony acting (the actors stop acting once they've delivered their line while still on camera)
6) cardboard sets, with no detail or effort (look at that background, there's no electrical wiring, no switches, no boards, no dials -- it's just a LiteBrite set)
7) terrible staging (people are upstaging each other, the camera angles are awkward and amateurish ... MutantX has better staging than this)
8) mediocre soap opera quality cinematography (and the only cool shot is shown with the opening credits)

... what's not to love?

It's like Stargate only with no budget to spend on costumes, props, writers, directors, cinematographers, sets, or actors.

Comments

[sffan.livejournal.com]

Hee.

I'm kinda there mostly for the pretty (John and Ronon - he shows up S2) and the snark (John and Rodney).

S2 is slightly better, but S1 only has about 3 decent eps where you can't predict everything that happens because you've seen that exact ep before on another sci fi show.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Predict it and seen it done ten times better. After SG-1 this is depressing, and SG-1 has really gone downhill writing-wise since season six (yes, six didn't have Daniel, but the writing was good). I just saw an ep from season 8... sigh. Completely unwatchable.

I think I'm going back to watching my DVDs of season 4.

Icarus