See what I mean?

[graculus]

I was talking about my lousy attention span on Sunday and then, just now, I got bored in the middle of Stargate SG-1 and wandered off... this may have something to do with the dreadfully slow pacing of the episode and that frankly it's so reminiscent of the plagiarised surely coincidentally similar Voyager episode where Tom Paris gets tormented by false memories he's been given of committing murder that I really don't care. Angst doesn't work so well recycled, I find.

Meanwhile, back in the real world, I've discovered that the job I was all but offered with a big payrise included has suddenly transmuted into a 3-month secondment which would (based on the stated payscale and my employer's policy of employing people on the bottom point if at all possible) leave me a hefty £500 after tax better off if I took it up. Woo and indeed yay. That is nothing like what I'd want to make up for the stresses of dealing with that bunch of problem children writ large. The other managers there are persistent, though - alas, they have not known me long enough to know that when I make my mind up about something, it stays made. ;)

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[lachli.livejournal.com]

Never thought I'd see the day when Celebrity Fit Club was more entertaining than an episode of SG1. Oh well, I can try again on Saturday I suppose and see if it keeps my attention.

I can't work out whether I've really just fallen out of love with the show or whether the writing is just so flat and dull, but I have no enthusiasm for it whatsoever. It just doesn't excite me anymore.

Now BSG and ATL are still doing it, BSG I never liked, in fact I actively disliked it, but since I'm stuck at home with this shoulder for so much time I borrowed the box set and watched the whole season in just over a day. Wow, I was blown away, totally and utterly. However, I don't think it's comparable to SG1, BSG I wouldn't consider a family show, but SG1 I'd let my kids watch, as I would ATL.

So yeah neither the show or the fandom are ejoyable anymore :-(.

Wow! Big guy who I've never heard of just lost 23 pounds in one week! Over to BSG now.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Last week's was much better, though I think that was aided by the fact that I'd taped it and could thus fast forward past the bits with Sam in, which luxury I didn't have this week...

And I like BSG, which is just in a different category. Not necessarily always better but certainly thought-provoking, though iirc I like the characters you can't stand. ;)

[lachli.livejournal.com]

It's only Starbuck that I still don't really like. She just feels like they've tried too hard with her, writing and acting. I absolutely hated the cigar smoking, the gambling, it just all felt too contrived.

I didn't dislike her as much by the end of the season, mainly I think because she started acting like a person and not a stereotype. I did love that she went back to Caprica, that surprised me.

That's one thing I do love about BSG, it's ability to surprise me with the characters and the story, but at no point do I feel that the writers are just trying to come up with something shocking or radical, it just all flows together.

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Umm, yay on job? I'm not sure what it all means, so ... :D

[graculus.livejournal.com]

Heh. It means, I really like my current job which is not quite so much money (but only a little less, really) but nearly zero stress, rather than the one the various managers here would like me to take which is a small amount more money, much more stress and involves dealing with people who've not been too used to being told what to do, even though it would do them good to be told...

So, for £500 more (that's over the secondment as a whole), it's just not worth the aggravation.

[graculus.livejournal.com]

She's been my favourite from the start, though I freely admit to having my reservations about the idea. She's not the other Starbuck made female, she's her own being and we see the path she takes as the series goes on.

Not sure how this is all going to end this season, because the mid-season cliffhanger is still being worked out in the US (woe, for I cannot find a torrent that works!) and it's all good...

[lovellama.livejournal.com]

Ah! ok. :D

[sg1scribe.livejournal.com]

Five minutes into Stargate I was mocking the Voyager rip-off. Thirty minutes into Stargate I was bemoaning the fact they'd ripped off Voyager, removed all the good bits and replaced them with Scenes of Much Blandness. I did enjoy the Mitchell flashbacks though, although they felt rather Farscapey.

[thenightsfall]

frankly it's so reminiscent of the plagiarised surely coincidentally similar Voyager episode where Tom Paris gets tormented by false memories he's been given of committing murder that I really don't care

And it was hardly original when Voyager did it.

I found the ep dull, too, but, frankly, any ep where Daniel is not front and center for most of the screen time is dull to me.