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Jul. 7th, 2004 09:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
graculusA quote from someone over on Our Stargate forum:
"A show that lasts 8 years at some point outlasts its source material."
Is it me, or is that an incredibly sad statement to be making about any show? Particularly one so rich in potential (most of it unrealised, particularly in recent years) as Stargate SG-1?
Maybe I'm just being maudlin, but that kind of statement doesn't take into account the deliberate dismantling and discarding of said source material, the shoehorning in of other elements that make it just like every other show in place of the things that made SG distinct and special. The things that got so many of us to make the jump from the movie to the tv show and keep on watching, cheesy as some of season 1 was.
But apparently the people who came into the fandom from the movie over-estimate the importance of Jack and Daniel, we neglect Sam and Teal'c because of it. The unspoken implication is this makes us selfish.That we should have embraced the (for many of us, much less interesting) new characters and consider them equal to the original.
Well, I'd say I like Teal'c way better than I like Jack nowadays (and lets not even get into the whole Carter thing), but I don't think that was what they meant...
"A show that lasts 8 years at some point outlasts its source material."
Is it me, or is that an incredibly sad statement to be making about any show? Particularly one so rich in potential (most of it unrealised, particularly in recent years) as Stargate SG-1?
Maybe I'm just being maudlin, but that kind of statement doesn't take into account the deliberate dismantling and discarding of said source material, the shoehorning in of other elements that make it just like every other show in place of the things that made SG distinct and special. The things that got so many of us to make the jump from the movie to the tv show and keep on watching, cheesy as some of season 1 was.
But apparently the people who came into the fandom from the movie over-estimate the importance of Jack and Daniel, we neglect Sam and Teal'c because of it. The unspoken implication is this makes us selfish.That we should have embraced the (for many of us, much less interesting) new characters and consider them equal to the original.
Well, I'd say I like Teal'c way better than I like Jack nowadays (and lets not even get into the whole Carter thing), but I don't think that was what they meant...
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Source Material being outlasted
Date: 2004-07-07 01:53 pm (UTC)I think the only thing that's outlasted its creativity on this production are the people who write it.
Re: Source Material being outlasted
Date: 2004-07-07 03:04 pm (UTC)The one thing the show has outlasted clearly is the writer's desire to use the source material by quite a way, though occasionally it gets tapped into (when they can't find a reason to have the characters running down corridors or to blow stuff up).