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eregyrnNone of these are scoops or anything, but you know, if you haven't seen them... I'm a few days behind, but I haven't seen mention or discussion of these things on my flist thus far...
AT and RDA comments vaguely re. S10 and ship... Nothing specific or that alarming, just fodder for hmms...
The SG Solutions Blog reported that Entertainment Weekly did a small feature on SG-1's upcoming S10, and that the article included the following quote:
One hotly debated topic: whether Carter and Maj. Gen. “Jack” O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson, known to most of the world as MacGyver, is back this season for a few episodes) should meld minds. “It’s a huge issue,” says Tapping. “I don’t want to be just pining away for the lead guy.” Anderson agrees: “I think there’s something sort of rewarding about them maintaining the friendship and comradeship.”
So... discuss.
What makes me crazy about this? What, do they give everybody connected with the show lessons in how to make comments or give answers that can be read two ways depending on the listener's desired outcome?
Because really -- *I* look at that, and I think, okay, the two actors at least are not talking like there's going to be actualization/RST of the ship. AT's comment is one she's made before, although you could pretty much take it either way (if she *GOT* the lead guy, she wouldn't be *pining for* him any longer, would she?). But RDA's comment is also similar to ones he's made in the past, and I at least sort of read it is "it's nice they've maintained this friendship and comradeship instead of having a romance".
But... that's a reading from my own viewpoint, obviously -- because yeah, especially in terms of TV shows, I find it *more refreshing* if you have a strong female lead who doesn't have to be defined by a romantic relationship with any of the male leads, and I find it more refreshing for a show to suggest that it's *possible* for her to have a friendship/comradely relationship with her male colleagues without there having to be a romance behind it. That of course is just me, although things that both actors have said in the past have seemed to support the idea that they're aware of those issues as well, and in some cases that they're more in sympathy with those viewpoints than with the, "oh what the heck, let's have a romance" viewpoint.
Another thing that occurs to me? I would have to see the entire article and see that quote in context, but -- how recent are those quotes from them, I wonder? Hmm.
Hey! Fandemonium's SG-1 novels will now be sold in the US!
Man, now I REALLY wish I had scooped this... because honestly, I found out about this about 2 weeks ago... I had gone to Amazon.com to look up something else, and I did a book search on SG-1, and suddenly all the Fandy novels popped up. "WOO!" I thought. "Must post to LJ about that!" Then I promptly forgot about it, because I have a brain like a SIEVE...
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/06/fandemoniumnovelscomingtou.shtml
None are actually for sale yet -- they are all listed on Amazon.com for preorder, though, and they're forthcoming. It appears they'll be rolled out at a rate of one every couple of weeks or so. So if you've been interested in the novels but the cost of getting them from Amazon in the UK was too steep what with the shipping and the exchange rate, good news! The GateWorld article also mentions that Borders and B&N may be carrying them at some point -- even better news.
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/06/stargateactionfigureqapart.shtml
Another Q&A about the action figures that answers some questions definitively about the large number of variations we saw in some pics, and what's actually going to be for sale (any minute now). The upshot seems to be that some of the wackier variations (the desert cammo, the forest cammo BDUs, etc.) were special paint-jobs for display purposes only at various venues like Toy Fair, and the company didn't really mean for those images to be released officially or anything. Or something like that. This page has a list of what *will* actually be released. The only new info is that there's a special-edition t-shirt Daniel out there somewhere (to go along with the special-edition t-shirt Jack from FCBD).
I did, in fact, get t-shirt Jack, so my report on having a real-live figure is -- yeah, pretty much what I thought; not bad, but not sublime. The very weird neck and head-joint thing seems to be something that all the figures will have... I've never seen an action-figure with this type of head/neck joint before, and it just... looks really weird. Most action figures, I think, would have a fairly solidly-sculpted head/neck, and then a joint put in somewhere that would allow you to turn the figure's head. But these figures? Have this odd sort-of ball-joint thing that... well, as far as I can tell, kind of allows you to both turn the head and tilt it in various ways. Which... okay, fine, I can see how that's a bit of a technological improvement. Yet it sacrifices something of the aesthetics of the figure. Had I been the lead designer of the figures, I would not have chosen to go with that type of joint. Ah well.
Also? At least on t-shirt Jack, the head is a *bit* too small for the body. I'm not sure if that is a problem that will be confined to the t-shirt figures, or what. I hadn't noticed it much in any of the pics I've seen, but with the figure in person, I definitely noticed it -- which is sort of an interesting comment on the way the monkey-brain evaluates the accuracy of human-figure recognition, when you think about it. I'll be interested to see if the normal run of figures (wearing the BDU jackets rather than the t-shirt) have this problem or not. Another aesthetic problem with the t-shirt figure is that the arm joints look clunky; will be interested to see how the joints look on the jacketed figures.
Accessories? The zat is pretty good, although it is oddly more snake-like and not as phallic as the show's zats. The P90 isn't bad, but oddly... it's too *thin*, so it seems flimsy; and t-shirt Jack seemed to be having trouble holding it properly. (I have him holding the zat in one hand and the radio in another.)
The Stargate (pieces of which you'll get with each figure in the first and second "waves") will not, apparently, be completely accurately in scale with the figures -- but it'll definitely be bigger than them. Probably big enough for them to "walk" through, I'm guessing. You won't have to buy all the variants to get pieces of the Gate -- all the variant Jacks will come with the same piece, etc.
Finally... one of the radio stations that I listen to in the car in the morning does this thing called "BackSpin", which is, they pick a year, and do a block of songs from that year. It can be kind of fun, and they seem to enjoy finding some popular songs from that year that you haven't heard in a while (rather than the ones that are still getting airplay).
This morning, the year was 1982, and as this song came on, I knew it INSTANTLY even though I knew I had not heard it in YEARS, from the instrumental opening alone, but I couldn't think what the song was. And then the singing started and I was singing along, and I still could not remember the song's *name* until we got to the chorus.
It was "Don't Pay the Ferryman" by Chris De Burgh. Wow. What a delightfully cheesy song that was!
Now what I want to know is -- has anyone done a H:TLJ vid to that song? Because, *seriously*... wow, how much fun would that be?
AT and RDA comments vaguely re. S10 and ship... Nothing specific or that alarming, just fodder for hmms...
The SG Solutions Blog reported that Entertainment Weekly did a small feature on SG-1's upcoming S10, and that the article included the following quote:
One hotly debated topic: whether Carter and Maj. Gen. “Jack” O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson, known to most of the world as MacGyver, is back this season for a few episodes) should meld minds. “It’s a huge issue,” says Tapping. “I don’t want to be just pining away for the lead guy.” Anderson agrees: “I think there’s something sort of rewarding about them maintaining the friendship and comradeship.”
So... discuss.
What makes me crazy about this? What, do they give everybody connected with the show lessons in how to make comments or give answers that can be read two ways depending on the listener's desired outcome?
Because really -- *I* look at that, and I think, okay, the two actors at least are not talking like there's going to be actualization/RST of the ship. AT's comment is one she's made before, although you could pretty much take it either way (if she *GOT* the lead guy, she wouldn't be *pining for* him any longer, would she?). But RDA's comment is also similar to ones he's made in the past, and I at least sort of read it is "it's nice they've maintained this friendship and comradeship instead of having a romance".
But... that's a reading from my own viewpoint, obviously -- because yeah, especially in terms of TV shows, I find it *more refreshing* if you have a strong female lead who doesn't have to be defined by a romantic relationship with any of the male leads, and I find it more refreshing for a show to suggest that it's *possible* for her to have a friendship/comradely relationship with her male colleagues without there having to be a romance behind it. That of course is just me, although things that both actors have said in the past have seemed to support the idea that they're aware of those issues as well, and in some cases that they're more in sympathy with those viewpoints than with the, "oh what the heck, let's have a romance" viewpoint.
Another thing that occurs to me? I would have to see the entire article and see that quote in context, but -- how recent are those quotes from them, I wonder? Hmm.
Hey! Fandemonium's SG-1 novels will now be sold in the US!
Man, now I REALLY wish I had scooped this... because honestly, I found out about this about 2 weeks ago... I had gone to Amazon.com to look up something else, and I did a book search on SG-1, and suddenly all the Fandy novels popped up. "WOO!" I thought. "Must post to LJ about that!" Then I promptly forgot about it, because I have a brain like a SIEVE...
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/06/fandemoniumnovelscomingtou.shtml
None are actually for sale yet -- they are all listed on Amazon.com for preorder, though, and they're forthcoming. It appears they'll be rolled out at a rate of one every couple of weeks or so. So if you've been interested in the novels but the cost of getting them from Amazon in the UK was too steep what with the shipping and the exchange rate, good news! The GateWorld article also mentions that Borders and B&N may be carrying them at some point -- even better news.
http://www.gateworld.net/news/2006/06/stargateactionfigureqapart.shtml
Another Q&A about the action figures that answers some questions definitively about the large number of variations we saw in some pics, and what's actually going to be for sale (any minute now). The upshot seems to be that some of the wackier variations (the desert cammo, the forest cammo BDUs, etc.) were special paint-jobs for display purposes only at various venues like Toy Fair, and the company didn't really mean for those images to be released officially or anything. Or something like that. This page has a list of what *will* actually be released. The only new info is that there's a special-edition t-shirt Daniel out there somewhere (to go along with the special-edition t-shirt Jack from FCBD).
I did, in fact, get t-shirt Jack, so my report on having a real-live figure is -- yeah, pretty much what I thought; not bad, but not sublime. The very weird neck and head-joint thing seems to be something that all the figures will have... I've never seen an action-figure with this type of head/neck joint before, and it just... looks really weird. Most action figures, I think, would have a fairly solidly-sculpted head/neck, and then a joint put in somewhere that would allow you to turn the figure's head. But these figures? Have this odd sort-of ball-joint thing that... well, as far as I can tell, kind of allows you to both turn the head and tilt it in various ways. Which... okay, fine, I can see how that's a bit of a technological improvement. Yet it sacrifices something of the aesthetics of the figure. Had I been the lead designer of the figures, I would not have chosen to go with that type of joint. Ah well.
Also? At least on t-shirt Jack, the head is a *bit* too small for the body. I'm not sure if that is a problem that will be confined to the t-shirt figures, or what. I hadn't noticed it much in any of the pics I've seen, but with the figure in person, I definitely noticed it -- which is sort of an interesting comment on the way the monkey-brain evaluates the accuracy of human-figure recognition, when you think about it. I'll be interested to see if the normal run of figures (wearing the BDU jackets rather than the t-shirt) have this problem or not. Another aesthetic problem with the t-shirt figure is that the arm joints look clunky; will be interested to see how the joints look on the jacketed figures.
Accessories? The zat is pretty good, although it is oddly more snake-like and not as phallic as the show's zats. The P90 isn't bad, but oddly... it's too *thin*, so it seems flimsy; and t-shirt Jack seemed to be having trouble holding it properly. (I have him holding the zat in one hand and the radio in another.)
The Stargate (pieces of which you'll get with each figure in the first and second "waves") will not, apparently, be completely accurately in scale with the figures -- but it'll definitely be bigger than them. Probably big enough for them to "walk" through, I'm guessing. You won't have to buy all the variants to get pieces of the Gate -- all the variant Jacks will come with the same piece, etc.
Finally... one of the radio stations that I listen to in the car in the morning does this thing called "BackSpin", which is, they pick a year, and do a block of songs from that year. It can be kind of fun, and they seem to enjoy finding some popular songs from that year that you haven't heard in a while (rather than the ones that are still getting airplay).
This morning, the year was 1982, and as this song came on, I knew it INSTANTLY even though I knew I had not heard it in YEARS, from the instrumental opening alone, but I couldn't think what the song was. And then the singing started and I was singing along, and I still could not remember the song's *name* until we got to the chorus.
It was "Don't Pay the Ferryman" by Chris De Burgh. Wow. What a delightfully cheesy song that was!
Now what I want to know is -- has anyone done a H:TLJ vid to that song? Because, *seriously*... wow, how much fun would that be?
