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

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'm hearing different takes from different people about season one and two in SGA.

It's hard to imagine the production values getting any worse without a mike dangling into the shot or a guy in a cardboard box stumbling across the stage.

What I'm hearing is that the acting improves, which is good, but that in terms of plots it's not the writing but the deliberate cultivation of slashiness that makes the show "better." *wince*

Even if I somehow start to enjoy it, I don't know if I want to support a show in principle that's this bad. Doesn't that say we didn't value the time and effort put into the production of SG-1?

Icarus