Idiotboy

Taylor Sheridan has jumped the shark: https://www.casino.org/vitalvegas/four-sixes-ranch-steakhouse-pop-up-is-coming-to-wynn/

IF Amazon gets off the dime and IF a Stargate continuation is green-lit and IF Brad Wright is tapped to run it, THEN Ms. Tapping would direct the pilot. They have both made it amply clear they want it to happen.

Amanda Tapping and Teryl Rothery just wound up three days at Shore Leave in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. (Photos available upon request.) There was the inevitable discussion of a revived Stargate. Ms. Tapping said that Brad Wright has asked her to direct the pilot and play Gen. Carter, now in charge of the SGC. She also said that, if it were up to her, Dr. Janet Fraiser would return in some way, shape or form. (The two ladies then high-fived.) Obviously, this all comes with a colossal "IF" attached, but it would be nice, wouldn't it? She was also asked why she and Ms. Rothery hadn't worked together since "Ripple Effect" and Tapping said that Rothery is very hard to book because she (Teryl) works so much. Rothery admitted she's "an acting whore" who takes every gig that comes along. On the flight down to Pennsylvania, the stewardess recognized Teryl from "Virgin River," then turned to Amanda and asked, "Are you an actress too?" Tapping told this story with great relish. P.S.: Number of fond mentions of Brad Wright: Too many to count. Fond mentions of Jonathan Glassner: Two. Fond mentions of Robert C. Cooper: Zero.

Has the forum been wiped (again)? I come here and all I see is a blank screen. A tabula rasa. A whole lot of nothing. Help!

Drug war in Mexico, you say? Could Sheridan be cannibalizing ideas from the unrealized third part of the Sicario trilogy? Not crazy about the return of Cruz, one of my least favorite characters since Moses was a lad, but anything that gets Zoe Saldaña on our TV is welcome.

Minus Jack, absolutely. My feelings on ST: Picard have waxed and waned but Jeri Ryan brings it, without fail. Glad to see the Shaw love in this thread. I feared I was alone. Thanks also for the fodder to ask Todd Stashwick and Ashlei Sharpe-Chestnut about at Shore Leave this July. Wor'd, as we say on the Stargate SG-1 forum. Plummer was one of the few ST villains I've ever found to be genuinely scary and I attribute that more to the performance than the writing. YMMV but Vadic had it all over Borg Queen 4.0.

I've been in self-imposed exile for the past several years and learned just today about the Section 31 movie, starring my TV girlfriend Michelle Yeoh. I only stuck with Discovery as long as I did (2.5 seasons) for Georgiou's sake and am of two minds about this film. On the one hand I'm right chuffed that Georgiou is getting her time in the spotlight and will gladly take the two-hour crumb I've been given. OTOH, Paramount could have had Ms. Yeoh for *an entire, frigging, multi-season series* if it had pulled the trigger five years ago. But no, it had to dither and temporize and generally spin its fracking wheels while the Mighty Michelle became a hot property (again). I'll take what I can get, like I told Mrs. Idiotboy, but it could have been so much more.

IMO, the best part of the episode was the montage showing the growing number of arrests under Skynet, er, The System. Otherwise? Not a very impressive finale. It tried to cover way too much ground in very little time and, yes, it was too easy to finish off The System. It was as though it was over before it began. A limp finale to an otherwise strong show ... especially as Hour just sort of slipped through the cracks at the end, which didn't serve the character well.

When in doubt, check out Sepideh Moafi's hair. Bun = past, long & flowing = present-ish, glamorously gray = future. Works for me. 🙂 I don't know whether it's the streaming factor or a reflection on Class of '09 itself that it's such a dud on this forum. Not having a live show seems to dissipate the audience but not this badly ... Too bad the Poet/Hour shippers are going to have to content themselves with that Ep 6 liplock. The show runners appear determined to ship Poet/Lennix, although those two have the combustion of wet matches. (Yes, I'm that shallow.) "Fuck it, let's get married" is not a line with which to sweep a lady off her feet. Try it sometime with your girlfriend and see how quickly she smacks you. More importantly, I don't see how TPTBB are going to get out of the corner they've painted themselves into with The System and its omniscience. Once you've created an invincible nemesis, how do you pull victory out of your ass, especially with one episode left to go? To end such a dark series with defeat for our heroes would be too much, however, unless they want to create the downer to end all downers.

In Janet's case, I wish they'd listened to Peter DeLuise and the faction that wanted her just to lose an arm or a leg but still survive. She'd still be heroic, just not gone. Or as the special effects guy said while he was setting up her "kill shot," "Geez, who did you piss off?" It wouldn't have made S8 seem quite so depopulated, what with no St. George and no Little Doc. And Dr. Fraiser could have been transitioned (no, not that way!) to Atlantis or the new-look SGC in S9. I have nothing against Lexa Doig, who seems a very nice person, but she came nowhere close to filling Teryl Rothery's pumps. This just in: Weasel Boy has given a characteristically self-serving apologia pro showrunner sua with regard to Heroes, full of pats on his own back: https://www.thecompanion.app/stargate-heroes-oral-history/

There's a lot of life in the old Stargate franchise yet. There's a game graphic that got posted today at The Companion. You will notice that the most predominant figure is—wait for it—Carter! This is incredibly gratifying for those of us who stuck up for Amanda Tapping way back on TWOP and when Weasel Boy tried to write her out of S10. The Grand High Empress of Sci-Fi rules with benevolence ... but boy does she rule.

A melancholy look at What Might Have Been if Amazon hadn't taken the franchise out of Brad Wright's hands: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/12/09/put-your-questions-to-stargate-sg-1-co-creator-brad-wright-companion-update/ BW mentions that Robert C. Cooper made different choices when he took over as SG-1 show runner. He sure did--all of them bad. If and (hopefully) when Christopher Judge reprises Teal'c you'll have to attach a subwoofer to your TV set:

Since Gatecon is on the horizon (and can be streamed this year), I thought I'd share these interviews with a couple of the main guests. Thank you for indulging me. https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/22/stargate-colin-cunningham-the-actor-who-fell-to-earth/ https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/07/21/stargate-janet-an-interview-with-teryl-rothery/

I've had the great good fortune to be picked by The Companion to be part of its stable of Stargate SG-1 scribes. Here are one or two bylines of which I'm particularly proud: https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/07/05/stargate-sg-1s-children-of-the-gods-the-original-vs-the-final-edit/ https://www.thecompanion.app/2022/06/16/stargate-rite-of-passage/

My Facebook photo for Pride Month. Very naughty of me.