SGA - Cinescape - Reviews "The Siege - Part One"

[not so ancient]

Against my better judgment, I went to Cinescape to read their review of Atlantis' season finale, The Siege Part 1. They totally panned the episode, and one can expect that they will do the same for tonight's episode. They get grudges against certain series. Atlantis looks like their newest victim.

I admit, I had no great opinion of Cinescape going into this. I had some experience with a sometime hack writer for Cinescape back in The X-Files fandom. I can't find words bad enough for that guy. He deliberately went about poisoning TXF's fandom with his hate. You really can't imagine unless you were there. But surely the whole magazine/website couldn't be that bad? It couldn't actually be worse, could it?

Wrong. Cinescape has reached a new low. The thing that's so disgusting about this review is that it's so unintelligent. Two examples of this stupidity:

(1) The writer complains that the writing is incomprehensible technobabble. Was anyone confused about

Spoiler:

the work that Rodney and Grodin were doing on the satellite?

It mentioned 'circuits' and 'buffers' - if the writer cannot understand that, he must be using candles and a manual typewriter. Duh!

(2) The writer complains that the episode has 'cliches', is 'ponderous', and 'predictable'. First, I think it's unfair to judge only 1 half of a 2 part episode. You have to view it as a whole. Second, this episode ties to many other themes - the Teyla arc growing from stranger to team member, the responsibility Weir feels to the legacy of the Ancients' wisdom, the leadership of Sheppard. Each of these situations builds Atlantis' problems in its way. This is how stories are built, over a season, and in a 2 part season finale. It's be inappropriate if wildly new elements were introduced at this point. The audience looks to the elements of the past episodes to play a part in what we know is coming. If the reviewer can't understand that, he needs to be reviewing Desperate Housewives or something.

I have long suspected that Cinescape writers take money to pan things. I've seen unjustified flaming of shows happen way too much, both to shows I like and shows I have no vested interest in whatsoever. Their journalistic integrity is right up there with The National Enquirer and "Jeff Gannon."

Cinescape gets a 5 Douchebag rating from me. Hint to Cinescape: more is not better in this case.

[Matthew D]

Good call on the review... I had been thinking the same thing as I was reading it. Also, I got the feeling from the review that something happened during the show that made the reviewer upset, like maybe someone lost his favorite character or something along those lines.. that is just an inference on my part though

[Darkdreams]

OMFG that was funny if that guy needs some candles we should start a collection for him, what a dumb ass. SG1, and SGA episodes build upon past episodes you cant review part of a two parter and not take into account past episodes, what a dumb ass...

[Darkdreams]

Good call on the review... I had been thinking the same thing as I was reading it. Also, I got the feeling from the review that something happened during the show that made the reviewer upset, like maybe someone lost his favorite character or something along those lines.. that is just an inference on my part though

Maybe he was trying to get taylas' # and she told him to piss off?

[Wass]

There is already a thread on this subject here SGA - Cinescape - Reviews "The Siege - Part One" where a lot of people discussion about it I was surprised by how negative it was.

[UnderT]

They don't have a bias. They were praising the episode "Letters from Pragesus" so I don't see how you could say they vate everything Atlantis.
I think He's just stating his opinion on the episode. You can disagree if you want but I don't see a bias.

[Qasim]

I agree it was a very negative review and was unjustified IMHO

[not so ancient]

There is already a thread on this subject here SGA - Cinescape - Reviews "The Siege - Part One" where a lot of people discussion about it I was surprised by how negative it was.

I'm sorry I missed the existence of the other thread. Things being spread out as they are, it's not so easy to search.

[not so ancient]

They don't have a bias. They were praising the episode "Letters from Pragesus" so I don't see how you could say they vate everything Atlantis.
I think He's just stating his opinion on the episode. You can disagree if you want but I don't see a bias.

Cinescape is not so blatantly obvious as that. They'll like one thing, (like "Letters from Pegasus" that I liked but didn't think was that strong an ep,) but the average and the trend will be negative. They've done this many times.

As I stated as a disclaimer, I'm very skeptical about Cinescape. And as I stated, this review was not so much irritating because of its negativity, but rather because of its stupidity. An orangutan drunk on Jose Cuervo could have understood the episode better than that guy did. I don't think it's too much to ask a sci-fi reviewer to have an IQ in the double digits.

[Qasim]

"Letters from Pegasus" - I liked but didn't think was that strong an ep

Me too

[DelTrax1]

Good review on the review. I didn't even really want to read but I was compelled. I have some candles for that fruit.

[SLASeth]

I saw this review and was surprised. I thought the episode was pretty good (actually better than pt II). I agree with Not So Ancient. 5 at least!

[joanne1138]

I think every reveiw by a critic that I have ever read, no matter what it has said has been followed in some way by "No one takes <<insert critic here>> seriously" I'm just gonna go ahead and say it now, no one takes critics seriously. They always have a complete disregard for the fans...

The thing that amused me most was that guy saying the technobabble incomprehensible. I've shown a couple of people this episode and not one person found it too difficult to understand. Even one of my friend's 12 year old cousins. Heh.