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unusual source notes SG-1 cancellation...
Sep. 20th, 2006 04:44 pmThanks to the Solutions Blog website for this heads-up...
ESPN Page 2 writer Gregg Easterbrook, in an extremely long article that's mostly about the new football season, wanders discursively through a number of tangential topics, including the cancellation of SG-1:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/060919
There's so much on the page that you might be better off doing a find for keywords, but on your way to the Stargate portion, don't miss "Future Historians Blame 21st Century Bolt for Decision to Evacuate Earth", which is about six items above "This Week's "Stargate" Complaint". (Both are about halfway down the long page, if you are dragging the scrollbar.)
This is a rant the quality of which could only have been written by someone who actually watches the show, indeed, who has done for years. He goes off onto a tangent about the recent seasons' premise of the U.S. building multiple Prometheus/Daedalus-class warships and why he thinks this is unrealistic in the extreme from a practical viewpoint (plus, he "liked the original Stargate premise better. The original premise was that archeologists in Egypt discover an entry point for an ancient network of gates that allow instantaneous travel across the cosmos; a handful of Earth's best step through the gate, having no idea what's on the other side and able to take along only that which they can carry. That premise forced plots to focus on contact with strange distant societies and to emphasize the small, halting nature of the human presence.") It is a rant worthy of the obsessed kind of meta that a lot of us tend to get into, and it makes me squint at Gregg Easterbrook in a knowing way.
Note: fair warning, he does *not* like Atlantis. (He considers it plodding and un-funny compared to SG-1, but I can't quite tell whether it's because he gave up on the show early on and doesn't watch it, or if he does watch it regularly too, or what.) He doesn't really spare SG-1 from criticism, either, though. I found it all pretty darned funny, and you know, didn't disagree with some of his points (save his characterization of SGA).
I'm just left wondering what most of his sports/football-interested readers make of this digression... presuming they read that far.
At the very bottom of the page he closes with:
"Next Week: The Stargate commandos use the wormhole to travel to a mirror universe where "Star Trek" has not been canceled and the other three promised "Star Wars" movies are actually being made."
Boy, you find fannishness in the oddest places, don't you?
ESPN Page 2 writer Gregg Easterbrook, in an extremely long article that's mostly about the new football season, wanders discursively through a number of tangential topics, including the cancellation of SG-1:
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=easterbrook/060919
There's so much on the page that you might be better off doing a find for keywords, but on your way to the Stargate portion, don't miss "Future Historians Blame 21st Century Bolt for Decision to Evacuate Earth", which is about six items above "This Week's "Stargate" Complaint". (Both are about halfway down the long page, if you are dragging the scrollbar.)
This is a rant the quality of which could only have been written by someone who actually watches the show, indeed, who has done for years. He goes off onto a tangent about the recent seasons' premise of the U.S. building multiple Prometheus/Daedalus-class warships and why he thinks this is unrealistic in the extreme from a practical viewpoint (plus, he "liked the original Stargate premise better. The original premise was that archeologists in Egypt discover an entry point for an ancient network of gates that allow instantaneous travel across the cosmos; a handful of Earth's best step through the gate, having no idea what's on the other side and able to take along only that which they can carry. That premise forced plots to focus on contact with strange distant societies and to emphasize the small, halting nature of the human presence.") It is a rant worthy of the obsessed kind of meta that a lot of us tend to get into, and it makes me squint at Gregg Easterbrook in a knowing way.
Note: fair warning, he does *not* like Atlantis. (He considers it plodding and un-funny compared to SG-1, but I can't quite tell whether it's because he gave up on the show early on and doesn't watch it, or if he does watch it regularly too, or what.) He doesn't really spare SG-1 from criticism, either, though. I found it all pretty darned funny, and you know, didn't disagree with some of his points (save his characterization of SGA).
I'm just left wondering what most of his sports/football-interested readers make of this digression... presuming they read that far.
At the very bottom of the page he closes with:
"Next Week: The Stargate commandos use the wormhole to travel to a mirror universe where "Star Trek" has not been canceled and the other three promised "Star Wars" movies are actually being made."
Boy, you find fannishness in the oddest places, don't you?
