Heroes, Part 1 (717)

[Samuel J. Tilden]

"Heroes" shouldn't have been a two-parter. Part I was almost entirely uninteresting filler, focusing on drawn out interview jokes and an offworld mission by a totally unknown team (who nonetheless act suspiciously like SG-1). If Part II had snipped the lame NID plot and just stuck to the emotional stuff, this could have been an awesome 44 minutes. Instead, it turned into an hour and a half melange of plotlines that never really comes together in the end.

[Stricken]

i just hope part II lives up to the quality of this episode

[Stricken]

i just hope part II lives up to the quality of this episode

[Easter Lily]

I loved Adam Baldwin's part in this episode... his interaction with his team was priceless... Very unJaynelike... All that stuff about parenting was classic...

[QuiGonJohn]

This was good, a lot of funny moments in the various interviews.

I too thought of Empire, when I saw that drone.

[jazz!]

I think theres quite a funny Back to the future reference in this episode:

Jack and others mention the name Mary Steenburgen ( whom he'd like to have dinner with ) and she was Doc EMMETT Brown's wife in the, uberly cool, movie......
the name of the interviewer is EMMETT BREGMAN; lol

[artemis_chosen]

I thought this episode was a good one, but having been spoiled about who was going to die, I went in disliking it for that reason. Still do, it's a great tribute piece to service men and women around the globe. We don't know what they go through day in day out while on tour and hopefuly never will.

Aside from that I loved the scene in the mess with Bregman flirting with Janet, especially Janet's comeback about Cassie, 'No ... no ... she's adopted ... *waits till he drinks his coffee* she's from another planet. *Eats*'

[garhkal]

I liked the part with Daniel

Bregman: Why were you running?

Daniel: I just wanted to see if you would chase me.

Agreed, that was one of the funny parts..

And i loved how he tried to get sam and daniel to say whether they thought the gate should go public..

He was a bit charming with Doc Frasier, though. That I liked about him (at least he had good taste in some areas).

I was actually surprised that Frasier agreed to his 'lunch' date...

Is it just me or did that flying drone thingy remind anyone of the flying drone thingy from star wars?

That would be an "Arakyd Viper Probe droid.. and yes i did think it was a 'honorific' to starwars... Also, i am surprised it took the Gou'ald this long to start using them, since they have had 6+ years of us using them.

I think the attitude that the SGC has toward the press is pretty sad; it's somebody doing his job, and TRYING to do it well.. He was trying to make an interesting piece of journalistic expression, and all Hammond could do was obstruct him in every possible way.

Agreed. It did seem they were all (well most) a little to 'snarky' about it/.

[MechaThor]

The proble the Empire sent to Hoth in "Empire Strikes Back."

Yes on the audio commentary i belive that make a refrance to the Star Wars imprial Prode Droid from Empire as the inspiration for its design.

I love the first part of Heros as you get to see more of the SGC without SG-1 which is nice as well as another SG team making the discoverys.

Things i Like
-SG-13: they where all cool charcters especailly the laeder. Who played Jayne in Fire Fly. I also love the convo he was having about his kids.
-Goa'uld robot prode. Finally an actually Droid in stargate. Shame we never got to see it again.
-SG-13 talking about battleing some ugly alien monster on another planet showing that cool stuff dose happen offscreen and the Stargate universe is not all Humans living next to pine forests.
-Dr lee's new armour test which went wrong.
-Teal'cs interview

[ixaigus]

I loved this episode. The scenes with Bregman and each team member were great. I loved the conversation between Bregman and Daniel about his ascension. ROTFL!

Siler explaining his job was priceless.

While Bregman was annoying, I do see this point of view on the Stargate program and why it should go public.

It's nice to see Adam Baldwin working again. Dammit, I miss Firefly. Anywho, I loved SG-13's banter and Col. Dixon's thoughts on having his children. LOL! Also the comment he made to his team member (the red-haired doctor) about Daniel.

Yes, I thought of Star Wars when I saw the flying drone.

Haha. Yeah. Them placing bets on what they'd encounter on the planet. I thought that was really amusing. "I'm going to go with trees, sir." "Bosworth's disqualified for being a smartass."

[garhkal]

-Dr lee's new armour test which went wrong.

IIRC siler was unhurt in that test...

[morjana]

SG1 - Background on Col. Dixon (Heroes):


From the blog uninflected images juxtaposed (the author's name is Will Dixon):

http://uninflectedimages.blogspot.co...t-happens.html

Thursday, February 15, 2007

It's All Fine And Good Until It Happens To You...

As writers we're constantly begging, borrowing, stealing...from our lives. And especially in series television where you have to quickly come up with interesting and unique characters (usually secondary or guest roles). And it's a challenge to make these characters feel and sound unique each and every time. So you borrow from the lives and traits and quirks of your family and your friends and colleagues...the people you know. It's your 'go to' bag of tricks.

Over the years, I know I've named a lot of characters after friends of mine. And I'm sure I've borrowed a trait or two from someone I know and plugged it into 'the ornery detective' so as to flesh out his character a bit. It's okay, it's what we do...

So yesterday I was sick as a dog, and was watching with one eye 'Stargate SG:1' on the Space channel. And there was an episode on called 'Heroes' from Season 7 I believe. It was an unusual episode that ran outside the box a bit (which is prone to occur with most long running series - 'X Files' and 'Buffy' and 'Angel' all started turning themselves upside down after a while). It was framed around a reporter doing a documentary behind the scenes of SG:1 and thus mixed video/interview footage with dramatic footage. And this storyline was intercut with a SG:13 expedition mission over on a planet somewhere.

Anyway, the leader of this expedition was played by Adam Baldwin and his first scene began with his team arriving via a stargate and heading out to do some exploring.

And something in what the Baldwin character said or how he said it rang a faint bell for me.

Then he was referred to as Colonel Dixon. I sat up a bit. And then the following scene played out (lifted from the Gateworld: Stargate Transcripts website)...

Still offworld, SG-13 walk through some trees.

DIXON: Yeah, all night screaming, projectile vomiting, nuclear diapers. You have no idea. The reason they make them so damn cute is so you won't smother them in their sleep.

WELLS: Sir, you have four kids.

DIXON: Yeah, why do you think I love my job so much? Don't get me wrong I love the little buggers to death but trust me, having four kids makes going through the Stargate and facing off alien bad guys look like nothing. This is relaxing.

WELLS: Then why'd you have four?

DIXON: Well, one's pretty bad but you figure you got to have two so the little guy can have a brother or sister right? Then you have two boys and the wife says she wants a girl, so you figure, hell, three can't be much worse than two right? But you don't relise your brain is fried because you haven't slept and after three, four is no big deal. So then you're so deep in that nothing seems to matter anymore. It's chaos. You just try to make it through each day alive. In the end you spend all the energy you have left trying to get them into bed, only to lay awake praying they don't get hooked on drugs, hurt, or worse, wind up dead in an alley somewhere.

WELLS: Can't wait, sir.

DIXON: Ah miracle of birth my ass. I'll tell you what a miracle is...birth control that works.

SG-13 walk into a clearing. Before them is an ancient city.

DIXON: Well, I'll be damned.

BALINSKY: I win.

And it seems pretty clear that Colonel Dixon is me. Or more or less based on me. I looked it up online and the episode was written by Rob C. Cooper...and years ago, Rob and I'd had a version of that very conversation when we worked together on 'Psi Factor' - a 'life with kids and when to have kids' discussion. He was yet to be a parent, I had just had numbers 3 & 4 (twins).

"Hey, that's my life you're talking about here, pal?"

Oh right, Beg, borrow, and steal...it's what what we do.

Anyway, it was kinda cool...a compliment of sorts - but the episode was a two parter...a 'To Be Continued'. I presume Rob was paying his respects by naming the character after me, but until I watch Part 2, I don't know if Colonel Dixon gets to be 'a hero' and is reunited with his kids? Or is he the goat or bum or even worse, gets his ass shot off by the Goa'ulds.

We shall see.

[Two_L's]

Haha. Yeah. Them placing bets on what they'd encounter on the planet. I thought that was really amusing. "I'm going to go with trees, sir." "Bosworth's disqualified for being a smartass."

Hehehe, same here. I loved when they see the city ruins and the red-haired guy (I forget his name) is completely shocked and goes, "I won".

I really enjoyed this episode, I thought it was really funny. The interviews with Sam, Daniel (running away), Teal'c and the others were fun to watch and the Chevron guy was hilarious. Also liked Jack's "interview" and near the end when he says, "I hope shots of my ass serve you well."

It was also good seeing another team interacting off-world other than SG1.

[Dark Soul]

I liked the part with Daniel

Bregman: Why were you running?

Daniel: I just wanted to see if you would chase me.

Yes I loved that part. Daniel is my favorite character, he reminds me of my old chemistry teacher.

[Theimmortaljedi]

funny the palnet is px 666