Overwhelming viewer demand? Really? Were people beating down their doors, demanding that we get another season of weak plots and not-enough-Jack?
Huh.
Yes. Men like sports. Men watch the action movie, they eat of the beef, and enjoy to look at the bosoms. A thousand years of avenging our wrongs and that's all you've learned?
Xander ,'End of Days'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Consuela - Nov 15, 2004 11:10:09 am PST #8424 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Katie M - Nov 15, 2004 11:15:54 am PST #8425 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, the numbers have been pretty good. Taken from Gateworld:
For the first half of Season Eight, SG-1 averaged a 2.0 rating -- the series' best performance in its three-year history on SCI FI, and the highest average number of viewers in the show's history. At the mid-Season Seven break one year ago, the show was averaging less than a 1.7.
Matt the Bruins fan - Nov 15, 2004 12:17:45 pm PST #8426 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Sadly, those are better than the regular numbers Farscape was getting.
JenP - Nov 15, 2004 12:23:19 pm PST #8427 of 10000
The renewal makes me happy. Wonder if RDA will stay. Unsurprised that Atlantis is renewed. Kind of surprised about SG-1, just because I figured they'd all feel done by now.
Consuela - Nov 15, 2004 12:46:12 pm PST #8428 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Word, Jen. Especially since 3 of the 4 core cast members have or will have children under the age of 3 in the house when they start shooting again.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2004 5:10:42 pm PST #8429 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think they've done a much better job this season with the less Jack than before. Partly because of the promotion -- now it makes more sense.
I do sorely miss him on missions, but he's cute behind a desk too.
quester - Nov 15, 2004 5:35:12 pm PST #8430 of 10000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I actually saw an episode of SG-1 that I'd never seen before tonight. It was one that took place in Antarctica with a frozen girl who gave everyone a virus and then healed them. When they were first thawing her I thought she was Evangeline from Lost.
Vonnie K - Nov 15, 2004 5:50:53 pm PST #8431 of 10000
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
That episode is imaginatively called "Frozen", an episode that's pretty gosh-darn awful on its own, but has some redeeming value as it 1) sets up one of the better episodes of S6, "Abyss", and 2) later fanwanked to have a connection with SG: Atlantis.
When they were first thawing her I thought she was Evangeline from Lost.
That's because Evangeline Lilly looks like every single slim, brunette, long-haired actress aged 22-35. It's friggin' uncanny.
§ ita § - Nov 15, 2004 6:04:04 pm PST #8432 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
It sets up Abyss? What am I forgetting? (Apart from the whole episode, in self-defense)
Katie M - Nov 15, 2004 6:05:47 pm PST #8433 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Jack gets sick in Frozen. Aiyana dies before she can heal him. The Tok'ra offer to put a symbiote in Jack temporarily to save his life. Jack says no. Sam does doe eyes. Jack says yes. Kanan's put in Jack and drags him off to save Shallan from Ba'al, and ta-da, we get to put Jack and Daniel in a small room without props for 42 minutes. Well, okay, probably fifteen. Still, good times.