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**Skydiver** · 31 May 2006, 07:05 AM

Originally posted by Sg Gato

Has anyone seen any spoilers centering on Sam or Teal'c other than being saved by Cam or Vala? Daniel, I read, gets to travel to Atlantis, hopefully not as Vala's sidekick.

what, the chick and teh black guy????

we're in some freakish AU and they were all fired and replaced by pod people.

what happened to 'with ben we can tell more team stories'???

i aint' seeing anything approaching 'team', what i'm seeing is teh super duper marty mitchell hour spiced up with Vala the Vixen

eitehr that or they're snagging fanfic and making the scripts from that

high school reunion???? good lord, there's not enough crackers in the world for all this cheese

**LaCroix** · 31 May 2006, 07:28 AM

Originally posted by FoolishPleasure

Peeking in. . .I'm usually pro-season 10, and willing to see how things work out, but the info coming out on this episode is "disturbing".

Vala goes to Mitchell's high school reunion? Ah yes, maybe she wants to become more knowledgable of Earth's culture! No, no, she's just Mitchell's, uh, friend. Yeah, right.

Amy "whatever", beauty (emphasis on "BEAUTY" I noticed) from Mitchell's past. *RED FLAG ALERT* - smells "kirking" already. If TPTB want to turn Mitchell into another John Sheppard, I'll reach for my TV remote! *reminder to buy more barf bags*

Bounty hunter crashes the party. My first thought? Writers having brain crashes and reaching for the very worst fan fic.

Someone tell me this story is in draft form and will never be filmed!! PLEASE!

I wish. I don't know if your familiar with the Sony Forums (official), but phrases like Hellmouth High (Buffy) and BH 90210 are being used over there.

Gah.

**Strix varia** · 31 May 2006, 07:40 AM

Originally posted by Skydiver

eitehr that or they're snagging fanfic and making the scripts from that

Well, let's see... amnesia is another fanfic cliche.

Teal'c getting tortured is a fanfic cliche based on a canon cliche.

Mitchell saves everyone is rapidly becoming a canon cliche.

Spoiler:

I don't want to get started on Sam's love-life, which will no doubt be spoofed to the limit in episode 200.

You know, I keep coming back to the fact that I loved Xena as a show. It was fun and campy. They played on every cliche they could come up with. And that's what they're turning Stargate into... fun and campy. Buffy (the movie) fighting vampires in high school was fun and campy, too. I'm sure Bounty will be played for laughs at every opportunity as well. It'll be a romp. Isn't it everybody's secret wish to go back home as a hero? That's why this is a fanfic cliche. A laugh every line.

And there's nothing wrong with that, I suppose, except that it's not what I started watching Stargate for. There's always been an element of humor in Stargate, and I've always appreciated that. But there was also a nice feel of meaningful drama. There were entire episodes that weren't played for laughs every minute and weren't so far over the top that you didn't have to consciously suspend your disbelief. It was tasteful; it was creative; it was original. I'm not entirely sure I can use any of those three adjectives to describe the spoilers coming out of season 10. I would instead use campy, fun, and cliche. Again, nothing wrong with that, except it's not the show that I used to enjoy watching.

**FoolishPleasure** · 31 May 2006, 07:40 AM

Originally posted by AGateFan

This show can now officially be called "A Sci Fi Original" as that which was Stargate SG-1 has been stripped away and replaced with the kind of useless tripe the Sci Fi channel looovvveesss.

It does sound like Skiffy's horrid movies on Sat. - High school reunion invaded by aliens. They could do a double-bill with "Mansquito"!

**smurf** · 31 May 2006, 07:55 AM

Originally posted by MediaSavant

An aside:

Given that the real-life Ben Browder played football in high school AND college, participated in theater, and was into D&D and SciFi, I don't understand why Mitchell's youthful multi-tasking is treated as something extra-ordinary.

Er, because it is? How many BBs are there in the world?

Or perhaps because the writers are trying to run the everyman vibe whilst making him a complete wunderkind that Sam, Daniel, or Jonas are not allowed to be without being shouted at as being unrealistic?

Or, perhaps because we highly doubt the writers ability to write a sympathetic and coherent lead character rather than a lousy collection of clichés?

I'll be taking door 3 please, Bob.

**Strix varia** · 31 May 2006, 08:06 AM

Hmmmm, is it Xena or is it Stargate?

Spoiler:

Gosh, you know, those lines are just blurring a little bit.

**smurf** · 31 May 2006, 08:09 AM

Originally posted by ReganX

Not a US poster, but assuming he didn't skip or repeat any grades, he would have been born in 1969, 1970 at the earliest, so he's about a year or two younger than Sam.

He looks older than 36 to me, though.

That's what I thought. And there I've told that Sam is waaay to young to have made Lt. Col.
At least they're adding to his age with every mention. Another few more and it might actually start to feel right.

That would make him the oldest cast member, aside from Beau Bridges, right? Why make the character the youngest?

Because the "kids" who watch won't be able to associate themselves with some uncool oldie. Although, how many will actually think "Yeah, '87 that's still cool" is beyond me. When you're late teens/early twenties everything over the big 3-0 is old.
**wonders how many of you fiends will now go and check my age

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**smurf** · 31 May 2006, 08:14 AM

Originally posted by FoolishPleasure

It does sound like Skiffy's horrid movies on Sat. - High school reunion invaded by aliens. They could do a double-bill with "Mansquito"!

Hey, I like Mansquito!

Okay, so it's for entirely the wrong reasons, but meh.

**Simhavaktra** · 31 May 2006, 08:34 AM

Originally posted by Strix varia

Actually, if this isn't a joke, it's an entirely separate episode.

I'm still hoping somebody is yanking our chains.

Spoiler:

**Amanda Eros** · 31 May 2006, 09:07 AM

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**Skydiver** · 31 May 2006, 09:22 AM

Originally posted by Strix varia

Mitchell saves everyone is rapidly becoming a canon cliche.

Spoiler:

anyone wanna take bets on there being a twister????

they can homage the silliest disaster movie out there - with ok sfx, a rocking soundtrack...and the suckiest, most hole ridden plot known to man -

after all , it is in kansas, where we have tornadoes every day and the indians will still hunt you down out on the prairie

**Skydiver** · 31 May 2006, 09:23 AM

Originally posted by Amanda Eros

Spoiler:

they're probably hoping to distract us from the lack of plot and real stories by overwhelming us iwth the Cameron Mitchell 'ain't he grand' hard sell, spiced up with 'Vala's Proposition of the Week' contest

**Amanda Eros** · 31 May 2006, 09:44 AM

Originally posted by Skydiver

anyone wanna take bets on there being a twister????

they can homage the silliest disaster movie out there - with ok sfx, a rocking soundtrack...and the suckiest, most hole ridden plot known to man -

after all , it is in kansas, where we have tornadoes every day and the indians will still hunt you down out on the prairie

OMG, that would be such a disaster. Why does 'icing on the cake' mean, throwing the first eight years into the toilet?

**Sg Gato** · 31 May 2006, 09:56 AM

Spoiler:

It would be interesting to see how he explains his date, Vala, the total opposite of "wholesome".

**Skydiver** · 31 May 2006, 10:05 AM

Originally posted by Sg Gato

Spoiler:

It would be interesting to see how he explains his date, Vala, the total opposite of "wholesome".

well, i know how amy would describe vala

Spoiler:

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