SGA news/rumor... buh?
Sep. 27th, 2006 12:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eregyrnI haven't seen this break on my flist yet, so a heads-up for folks (though I imagine it will be all over the place very soon):
Solutions Blog (http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/) has finally broken a story about a rumor that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
telepresence reported to me last week, about a Big Thing coming up in the second half of SGA S3. The Solutions announcement itself is just an unspecific blurb, but it contains a link to another site with very specific information.
Killing off Carson Beckett????? Oh you have GOT to be KIDDING ME...
When Telepresence called me about this last week -- he saw someone in a TWOP forum mention the con-report quote from Jewel Staite that is reported on a new site, http://www.savecarsonbeckett.com/ -- we both spent about 5 minutes on the phone just saying, "Oh, MAN. Ohhhhhh, maaaaaaaan...."
Actually, I first heard about this a month or two ago, and I can't recall where now -- but it was the same rumor the website is reporting, about how someone was reporting knowing someone who had been on the Atlantis set, who had seen the shooting of a scene that involved a coffin draped with a St. Andrews Flag, and you know, three guesses as to who THAT could be. (But even at that time, a responder to the person posting that pointed out: it could be a fake-out; it could be his grandmother; you just don't know.)
But the new website collects a bunch of suggestive quotes that I had not seen yet, and in one way, I think the site is correct: taken *all together*, it starts to get even more suspicious and alarming.
Now, look... I'm not invested in SGA fandom or in the characters except inasmuch as they're part of the SG-1 world. So I can only imagine the ways in which this will impact the fandom -- yikes. But speaking from that perspective?
What the fuck, Bridge? What. The. FUCK????
For one thing, apart from ANYthing else -- I really thought the guys at Bridge had gotten the memo from everyone and their brother about how much killing off Janet Fraiser SUCKED, and they should not have done it, and maybe we could forgive it because at the time they say they thought they weren't getting renewed, but... look. Our forgiveness in that situation is itself tempered by a lot of irritation (such as, about how they didn't figure out how to fix it later). And it has a very short shelf-life. They just are NOT going to get a pass on something like that again. They're not.
Plus, could you be any MORE obvious about the parallels, by killing off another well-liked doctor character who's an integral part of the ensemble? Seriously?
I'm just at a loss. Why? Why do this?
*deep breath*
As the website points out, too many indications have built up, to really be optimistic about it. It seems more and more unlikely that it's a fake-out of some kind (that the coffin/funeral means something else, for example, or that it's AU), though I suppose that is still possible at the outside. I'm not even sure whether I want to hope that something drastic happens to Carson but the character stays around in some different capacity... because I've been through shows doing that before and I've found the results dissatisfying (Fred/Illyria on "Angel"; and don't get me started about Ford on SGA).
And if *I* am feeling this distressed about this, I can only imagine the furor this will create in SGA fandom, and MAN do I feel bad for you guys. UGH!
Solutions Blog (http://stargate-sg1-solutions.com/blog/) has finally broken a story about a rumor that
telepresence reported to me last week, about a Big Thing coming up in the second half of SGA S3. The Solutions announcement itself is just an unspecific blurb, but it contains a link to another site with very specific information.Killing off Carson Beckett????? Oh you have GOT to be KIDDING ME...
When Telepresence called me about this last week -- he saw someone in a TWOP forum mention the con-report quote from Jewel Staite that is reported on a new site, http://www.savecarsonbeckett.com/ -- we both spent about 5 minutes on the phone just saying, "Oh, MAN. Ohhhhhh, maaaaaaaan...."
Actually, I first heard about this a month or two ago, and I can't recall where now -- but it was the same rumor the website is reporting, about how someone was reporting knowing someone who had been on the Atlantis set, who had seen the shooting of a scene that involved a coffin draped with a St. Andrews Flag, and you know, three guesses as to who THAT could be. (But even at that time, a responder to the person posting that pointed out: it could be a fake-out; it could be his grandmother; you just don't know.)
But the new website collects a bunch of suggestive quotes that I had not seen yet, and in one way, I think the site is correct: taken *all together*, it starts to get even more suspicious and alarming.
Now, look... I'm not invested in SGA fandom or in the characters except inasmuch as they're part of the SG-1 world. So I can only imagine the ways in which this will impact the fandom -- yikes. But speaking from that perspective?
What the fuck, Bridge? What. The. FUCK????
For one thing, apart from ANYthing else -- I really thought the guys at Bridge had gotten the memo from everyone and their brother about how much killing off Janet Fraiser SUCKED, and they should not have done it, and maybe we could forgive it because at the time they say they thought they weren't getting renewed, but... look. Our forgiveness in that situation is itself tempered by a lot of irritation (such as, about how they didn't figure out how to fix it later). And it has a very short shelf-life. They just are NOT going to get a pass on something like that again. They're not.
Plus, could you be any MORE obvious about the parallels, by killing off another well-liked doctor character who's an integral part of the ensemble? Seriously?
I'm just at a loss. Why? Why do this?
*deep breath*
As the website points out, too many indications have built up, to really be optimistic about it. It seems more and more unlikely that it's a fake-out of some kind (that the coffin/funeral means something else, for example, or that it's AU), though I suppose that is still possible at the outside. I'm not even sure whether I want to hope that something drastic happens to Carson but the character stays around in some different capacity... because I've been through shows doing that before and I've found the results dissatisfying (Fred/Illyria on "Angel"; and don't get me started about Ford on SGA).
And if *I* am feeling this distressed about this, I can only imagine the furor this will create in SGA fandom, and MAN do I feel bad for you guys. UGH!
