I'm back.

[tielan]

Well, I'm in Hong Kong, anyway, which does allow LJ and so I'm essentially back and have fic bits to post all over the place. :)

Since I'm not game to check out the last, oh, two weeks of LJ, anyone want to update me on the spoilers, goss, explosions, wank, rants, freaks, and good news on the fandom front?

Comments

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

Yeah, no Torri in S5. I understand why she told them to fuck off, but I'm still 11 kinds of sad.

[tielan]

Okay, maybe this is me not reading enough into the interview, but all I heard said was that, after some consideration, Torri decided not to reprise her role of Elizabeth in S5.

I can think of a lot of reasons as to why she wouldn't reprise it. Not all of them have to do with TPTB and any dissatisfaction with them.

But then, maybe I just want to believe that Torri isn't going the way Michael Shanks did in S6 of SG1. Shanks said some...rather unclassy things about his treatment by TPTB. Whether or not they were true, he whipped his fans into a froth and frenzy of How Nasty Those PTB Are To Write Michael Out!

Disappointed, I get; Giving them the finger and telling the world she did so, I don't.

Torri seemed like a classy lady the one time I met her. I'd hate to have to revise that opinion.

[raksha38.livejournal.com]

Oh no, Torri is a class act all the way! That was my phrasing, not a reflection of anything she's done or said. I just meant that, whatever her reasons (and I'm sure there are several) for not doing S5, I can totally understand why she might not hesitate to leave TPTB in a bit of a lurch (they'd already been talking about their plans for her in S5 before she bailed). She was Done Wrong by them (although I've never heard her talk about that herself, just from other sources).