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MGM giveth and MGM taketh away!
And all the fans said: "A plague on both your franchises!"
Maybe not quite, but you must admit, the timing is...well...atrocious. Clearly TPTB didn't learn too well from Jonas and Season Six: don't introduce the new guy at the same time as you boot the old out the door. Big mistake. Big. Huge.
Anyway, the Stargate: Universe series sounds...um...like Stargate: Voyager. Except with a 'younger, hipper cast' (did anyone else think of Marty whathisname from the SG1 episode "200" or was it just me? That sequence cracked me up - and the team's responses on top of that - BWAH!) and I have a really bad feeling about this blurb.
*facepalm*
I'll give it a fair chance - as I've told various people today. Brad Wright has always been one of my favourite PTB, and not quite as...shall we say 'forthright' as JoeM? Plus, he once hugged![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
allisnow, and how could we possibly not like him for furnishing us with five years' worth of teasing opportunities? *starts putting on the flameproof suit* As long as they don't suddenly discover how they can get back to Earth at the end of Season One. *puts on the helmet and fastens it up tight* And it would help if the lead wasn't a white male but, you know, someone outside the traditional sci-fi tropes. *tugs on the gloves* But right now, a part of me is dancing a jig in the background and tunelessly singing, "Mock, mock, mockity-mock!"
And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go hide from Alli.
*waves the icon to distract Alli, then jogs off*
And all the fans said: "A plague on both your franchises!"
Maybe not quite, but you must admit, the timing is...well...atrocious. Clearly TPTB didn't learn too well from Jonas and Season Six: don't introduce the new guy at the same time as you boot the old out the door. Big mistake. Big. Huge.
Anyway, the Stargate: Universe series sounds...um...like Stargate: Voyager. Except with a 'younger, hipper cast' (did anyone else think of Marty whathisname from the SG1 episode "200" or was it just me? That sequence cracked me up - and the team's responses on top of that - BWAH!) and I have a really bad feeling about this blurb.
*facepalm*
I'll give it a fair chance - as I've told various people today. Brad Wright has always been one of my favourite PTB, and not quite as...shall we say 'forthright' as JoeM? Plus, he once hugged
allisnow, and how could we possibly not like him for furnishing us with five years' worth of teasing opportunities? *starts putting on the flameproof suit* As long as they don't suddenly discover how they can get back to Earth at the end of Season One. *puts on the helmet and fastens it up tight* And it would help if the lead wasn't a white male but, you know, someone outside the traditional sci-fi tropes. *tugs on the gloves* But right now, a part of me is dancing a jig in the background and tunelessly singing, "Mock, mock, mockity-mock!"And now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go hide from Alli.
*waves the icon to distract Alli, then jogs off*
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The captain is going to be Maddie Fitzpatrick. Right now, she's a sixteen-year-old candy counter girl at the Tipton Hotel in Boston, but, honestly, she could run anything.
A complication of Maddie's life is that her oops-how-did-this-happen best friend is London Tipton, heir to the Tipton fortune, who is useless, except when she isn't. Somehow, she'll be along for the ride, to learn the Lesson of the Week.
I'm wonder whether or not Kim Possible should be along. She'd make a great team leader, but she might be TOO good.
Then there's Raven Baxter, who I'm not such a fan of, but she can see the future (albeit unreliably) and this might come in handy if they ever have to do blind DHD dials. Her goal in life is to become a fashion designer, but I think she could learn to aim a blaster.
Oh, and I just thought of the science officer! I was going to go with Sadie Hawthorne (from Naturally, Sadie) but my kids don't watch that anymore so I've lost her voice. Instead, I think I'll import the entire main six characters, plus little brother, from Zoe 101 - maybe I'll even have the sixteen-year-old star bring along her real-life infant! (Did that make the news outside the US?)
Yeah, this could be fun.
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