Stargate SG1, 200th epsiode
Aug. 18th, 2006 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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It was stretching it to make the whole joke last 40 minutes. Nevertheless, I got a kick out of the FS parody and the puppets (spinning!). And the fatherhood joke, which was so very fanfic.
I appreciate what they tried here, and some parts of it were very funny. But like many things on Stargate SG1, it never hits quite the way I want it to all of the time. It hits it about half the time, and the rest of the time I can predict what's going to happen next with almost offensive banality, or (as was the case in this episode), they beat a really good zombie horse to death and then tried to shoot it too, but missed even that and shot their overhead lighting system instead.
...Okay, that sounds rather meanspirited. I'm not really that meanspirited toward this show. I genuinely like aspects of SG1, and I did find bits of this episode as very funny. But... the meta in this episode was rather like all the gay jokes in season 5 of Angel. After a while it stopped being funny, and I just wanted him to make out with a man or for them to stop talking about it.
Also, for all the amusement I got out of this, I'd much rather have had a well-written humor episode that takes place within actual canon. I mean, you take this amusing fan-inspired episode of SG1, and then you take an episode like "Crackers Don't Matter" on Farscape, or that episode of The X Files about the old dying psychic who knows how people die. Which would I rather watch over again? Not SG1's 200th episode.
God I miss Farscape so much. Even in its weaker moments, I loved it so. And Firefly. I miss that too.
It was stretching it to make the whole joke last 40 minutes. Nevertheless, I got a kick out of the FS parody and the puppets (spinning!). And the fatherhood joke, which was so very fanfic.
I appreciate what they tried here, and some parts of it were very funny. But like many things on Stargate SG1, it never hits quite the way I want it to all of the time. It hits it about half the time, and the rest of the time I can predict what's going to happen next with almost offensive banality, or (as was the case in this episode), they beat a really good zombie horse to death and then tried to shoot it too, but missed even that and shot their overhead lighting system instead.
...Okay, that sounds rather meanspirited. I'm not really that meanspirited toward this show. I genuinely like aspects of SG1, and I did find bits of this episode as very funny. But... the meta in this episode was rather like all the gay jokes in season 5 of Angel. After a while it stopped being funny, and I just wanted him to make out with a man or for them to stop talking about it.
Also, for all the amusement I got out of this, I'd much rather have had a well-written humor episode that takes place within actual canon. I mean, you take this amusing fan-inspired episode of SG1, and then you take an episode like "Crackers Don't Matter" on Farscape, or that episode of The X Files about the old dying psychic who knows how people die. Which would I rather watch over again? Not SG1's 200th episode.
God I miss Farscape so much. Even in its weaker moments, I loved it so. And Firefly. I miss that too.
