Originally posted by astrogeologist
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Just read this a Yahoo forum/list and thought I'd post it here for folks to view ('cuz it's right on topic)
Spoiler:
(RE RCC's latest interview
But I have to say that
listening to that interview gave me bad vibes about this guy and his
attitude toward the audience.
With regard to the Asgard turning over all their knowledge to humans, he
said the only thing the fans really care about is that now the Odyssey now
has "laser beams," that is, energy weapons.
Regarding the episode "Unending," he said that the fans have always made a
big deal about the importance of the team, and have emphasized how they want
to see the team together, so he decided to give them the team being together
for 50 years!
Now, maybe he meant these comments as jokes, but to me he sounded
patronizing and ungracious. I got the feeling his attitude is to try to
manipulate the audience rather than win them -- that is, us -- by respecting
the creative and emotional integrity of the show. This gives further
support for the things that have been said on this list before, about
Michell and Vala being brought in to draw Farscape viewers rather than for
any reason internal to the creative energy of the show. This is the kind of
"smart business decision" that can end up being extremely stupid, like the
Hollywood moguls who try to put a movie together based on their disdainful
opinion of what the audience wants and end up creating a hugely expensive
box office bomb.
<snip>
The reason I find all this so ironic is that Mr. Cooper also went in to a
long dissertation about why they chose to end the series with "Unending,"
which in effect ended the series without ending it. He used the analogy of
what would have happened if Star Trek had ended by crashing the Starship
Enterprise and killing everyone, and said (I'm paraphrasing) how killing the
characters in the minds of the fans would have killed their interest in
episode repeats and the franchise in general.
Apparently, Mr. Cooper doesn't realize that what he did to SG-1 in Season 9
was like crashing the Starship Enterprise. Though he didn't kill off the
individual characters, he killed the TEAM, which was the heart and soul of
Stargate SG-1. Yes, Richard Dean Anderson left, and there was nothing that
could be done about that, but the spirit of the team, and the relationships
that existed between them, could have been respected so much better than it
was. The two new characters, the failure to put Sam in charge of SG-1, the
failure to respect the "ship" between Sam and Jack that had been established
in earlier seasons, the way that Jack was treated as not just promoted to
Washington but totally gone from everyone's emotional radar -- all that was
just so untrue to the spirit of characters and the relationships between
them. Even if RDA couldn't be on, couldn't they have mentioned Jack from
time to time? Oh, I saw Jack when I was in Washington and he said
such-and-such. And did we have to have the in-your-face insults to Sam/Jack
ship, like the almost-kiss with Martouf in that many-copies episode, or the
failure to so much as mention Jack even once in Unending? - post by LuzL
But I have to say thatlistening to that interview gave me bad vibes about this guy and his
attitude toward the audience.
With regard to the Asgard turning over all their knowledge to humans, he
said the only thing the fans really care about is that now the Odyssey now
has "laser beams," that is, energy weapons.
Regarding the episode "Unending," he said that the fans have always made a
big deal about the importance of the team, and have emphasized how they want
to see the team together, so he decided to give them the team being together
for 50 years!
Now, maybe he meant these comments as jokes, but to me he sounded
patronizing and ungracious. I got the feeling his attitude is to try to
manipulate the audience rather than win them -- that is, us -- by respecting
the creative and emotional integrity of the show. This gives further
support for the things that have been said on this list before, about
Michell and Vala being brought in to draw Farscape viewers rather than for
any reason internal to the creative energy of the show. This is the kind of
"smart business decision" that can end up being extremely stupid, like the
Hollywood moguls who try to put a movie together based on their disdainful
opinion of what the audience wants and end up creating a hugely expensive
box office bomb.
<snip>
The reason I find all this so ironic is that Mr. Cooper also went in to a
long dissertation about why they chose to end the series with "Unending,"
which in effect ended the series without ending it. He used the analogy of
what would have happened if Star Trek had ended by crashing the Starship
Enterprise and killing everyone, and said (I'm paraphrasing) how killing the
characters in the minds of the fans would have killed their interest in
episode repeats and the franchise in general.
Apparently, Mr. Cooper doesn't realize that what he did to SG-1 in Season 9
was like crashing the Starship Enterprise. Though he didn't kill off the
individual characters, he killed the TEAM, which was the heart and soul of
Stargate SG-1. Yes, Richard Dean Anderson left, and there was nothing that
could be done about that, but the spirit of the team, and the relationships
that existed between them, could have been respected so much better than it
was. The two new characters, the failure to put Sam in charge of SG-1, the
failure to respect the "ship" between Sam and Jack that had been established
in earlier seasons, the way that Jack was treated as not just promoted to
Washington but totally gone from everyone's emotional radar -- all that was
just so untrue to the spirit of characters and the relationships between
them. Even if RDA couldn't be on, couldn't they have mentioned Jack from
time to time? Oh, I saw Jack when I was in Washington and he said
such-and-such. And did we have to have the in-your-face insults to Sam/Jack
ship, like the almost-kiss with Martouf in that many-copies episode, or the
failure to so much as mention Jack even once in Unending? - post by LuzL
Thor, ya got Aspirin?
I think he has no place making this show/movies. I like cool tech and lot's of action, but what is it worth when the characters are flat and boring, just like the new "big bad" enemy? They forget that there was once a Sam and Teal'c on the team and Jack and Hammond still around somewhere, and Daniel has been replaced by his evil twin or something. Seriously, I loved Daniel in the early years, but the character has changed so much that I can't recognize him anymore. One thing that I really liked, and got me more intrested in, was the whole mythology, the Ancient Egypt. I am really interested these days to learn more about it than I was before I saw SG1.
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