Stargate SG1, 200th epsiode

Cheeky.

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.

Spoilers... the eternal question

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Edit: I should probably clarify that the fact that it might have an affect on my ship really doesn't matter to me, as my ship would take a good 5 seasons to realistically be canon, and this show is only ever going to have 3. And all that really really doesn't factor into my actual fandom activities with regards to ship. I could read good news or bad news and it's all moot.

I'm thinking I should just read it because I've been spoiled for a few basic things already. But... I'm concerned about detailed plot events. I don't want the whole episode to be ruined for me. But at the same time, I doubt it's THAT detailed, being that it's only an article.

::sigh:: It's hard to be spoiler-free when you want to read fanfic. Stupid negligent fanficcers with their stupid unlabelled spoilery fic summaries. And the REALLY bastardly ones who put spoilers in their fics and then don't tell you, but after five or ten fics you start to clue in to the reality of the spoilage you've been given against your will.

At this point, I fear most of the dammage is done.

On the other hand... I hate being spoiled! I want surprises!

But I also want to get the problem over with so that I don't have to get annoyed about it anymore.

I've already totally given up almost all Fruits Basket fanfic on ff.net for TWO YEARS because I didn't want to be spoiled for that series. I haven't even BROWSED the Furuba section of ff.net in all that time. How loyal do I need to be to EVERY show I watch, when it comes to avoiding spoilers?

... but I *like* surprises, you know?

Okay, lets look at the facts about me spoiling myself for A:TLA.

Reasons Against
-I'm a long time anti-spoiler campaigner
-I like to go into something with as little foreknowledge of major plot/character events as possible
-Being spoiled for the "big surprise" sucks all my enjoyment out of it.

Reasons For
-I'm already half-spoiled, including a major suprise casting spoiler that I would rather not have known
-It really won't affect my fanfic much, especially considering that I'm writing all AUs at this point
-It's clearly impossible to be spoiler-free in this fandom because they're all a bunch of babies who can't help gushing out the newest spoilers in their friggin' fic summaries and all over the major LJ comm
-They *never* cut for mood spoilers, and often that's enough to infer something and get spoiled for big stuff
-I'm grumpy and impatient