One of my pet peeves with the show is the way the dialogue is written. I'm not talking about the villagers and aliens because they usually have a certain style and syntax that make them unique from us. And that's fine if they don't use contractions or speak more formally than we ever would.
What I'm talking about is the regular SG-1 characters. To me, much of the dialogue clunky and unnatural. I end up wincing a lot. The words are too formal. The sentence structure isn't natural. It's too perfect. They all use the word "device" way, way, way too often. LOL In fact, if I were working on that show, I'd ban the word "device" and make the writers come up with more creative choices. Have you ever used the word "device" in your own life? I bet you haven't. You say "thing" or "machine" or something else that's unique to you.
O'Neill sounds okay, but I've heard RDA did a lot of ad libbing, which could explain it. But man, when Carter starts explaining something scientific, she sounds like a science article. And I don't care how smart you are, people just don't talk that way in real like. The go in fits and starts and finish each other's sentences and interupt each other and stuff like that.
Does this bug anyone else?
What I'm talking about is the regular SG-1 characters. To me, much of the dialogue clunky and unnatural. I end up wincing a lot. The words are too formal. The sentence structure isn't natural. It's too perfect. They all use the word "device" way, way, way too often. LOL In fact, if I were working on that show, I'd ban the word "device" and make the writers come up with more creative choices. Have you ever used the word "device" in your own life? I bet you haven't. You say "thing" or "machine" or something else that's unique to you.
O'Neill sounds okay, but I've heard RDA did a lot of ad libbing, which could explain it. But man, when Carter starts explaining something scientific, she sounds like a science article. And I don't care how smart you are, people just don't talk that way in real like. The go in fits and starts and finish each other's sentences and interupt each other and stuff like that.
Does this bug anyone else?
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