cafepress; threadless; sg1 news; soap
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amezriMy Threadless and cafepress orders came in today! W00t! The Threadless shirts are awesome and I can't wait to wear one on Friday. Perhaps "Hooray for cholesterol!" I love the geekjumper items I got, though the clock is being a bit irritating. The minute hand is sticking, but I think I can fix it... aslo, I don't think it's keeping time properly. The Tomination buttons and stickers are absolutely lovely and everyone so go get some.
For anyone who cares that hasn't heard the news (and clearly lives in a dark cave), Stargate SG-1 was cancelled. Stargate Atlantis was renewed for season 4. I'm both happy and worried about this. Happy because, yay! my shiny show is still around. Worried, though, because now all the big boys who were happy muching around on SG-1 with their blah blah blah will now be thrown into SGA and I don't want it to slowly turn in to SG1. Yeah, I love Ben & Claudia, but I haven't cared about the show in at least 3 years, certainly not the last two. You know, they should bring Mitchell and Vala over to SGA. I would be totally okay with that.
Cooper wants us to watch the show live to keep the numbers strong. But, you know what, I don't have one of those little boxes that records what I watch, so it kind of doesn't matter, does it?!
Speaking of SGA, there is much wankery going on. Again. But this one is more of a kerfluffle. Anyway. Fanfic etiquette. Seriously, dude, you need to ask first.
Yesterday, I had a bit of a get together with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenmaab, mcmi11ions, and punslingerr before we went to see SOAP. Watch Napolean Dynamite, which I have to say was all right. I probably need to see it again to get a few more things? I dunno. Then we watched Boa vs. Python, which I totally love, but I'm pretty sure no one else cared.
After that, we headed to the mall where we grabbed dinner at the food court, met up withsweetwildandmad and went for a showing of Snakes on a Plane! So, you know, stupid bits about the movie behind the cut.
Oh, wait. Top movie of the weekend. The hell did that happen, people? Hollywood just has really crappy films out right now, I guess.
Uhm. Let me start off with, holy crap that was violent and bloody and gross. Which for this movie is totally fine. The whole entire I'm just sitting there going, "okay, snakes totally don't do that. Or that. Or... well... maybe that." The two bathroom scenes were sort of painful. I wish there were more scenes of people like.. you know.. killing snakes or Julianna hacking at them with that axe. And hey, why don't we like, close the door in the floor of the cockpit?
There was a plot in this movie. Okay, not a really in-depth plot, but we wasted like 30 minutes of screen time following some stupid bullshit that I really couldn't care less about. Just get your asses on the plane and bring on the snakes! Why was Samuel L. Jackson not killing more snakes? I felt a little cheated. Also kickboxing guy? You disappoint me too! I wanted to see kickboxer versus snakes, man.
This line totally made the movie: "I am sick of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"
And now I need to comment on the actors in this film who weren't Sam Jackson or Julianna Marguiles. And illustrate how obsessed I am with Canadians.
Nathan Phillips, the Aussie who played the kid going to testify. Yeah,I kinda didn't care about him at all. I think the set up was supposed to be that we didn't want him to die but at the end when he got bit, I was just all, "well... that's sort of a shame," in the same way I thought that about several other people on the plane.
Rachel Blanchard. I only ever remember her being in the Clueless tv series. And... you know.. she's done a lot since, but yeah. Cher was trapped on a plane with snakes! Oh, hey, she's Canadian.
Anyone else remember Kenan Thompson back in the days of All That? And the "Good Burger" movie, oy. Then he and Kel had their own show and now he's on SNL! I was pretty impressed with how his character was wacking the snakes with the seatback tray and then landed the plane with 20,000 hours of experience on the PS2 flight simulator. *facepalm*
Keith Dallas has a lame IMDB page, but judge from his current filmography? I bet he's Canadian. Or, you know, from LA.
I can't remember who Bruce James was on the plane, but he was in Tru Calling an Dead Like Me! Canadian. In fact, he's from Kelowna. (Okay, that's only funny to SG-1 fans...) [Edit: He was the swishy flight attendant.]
Uhm. One of the boys from the plane (probably the older one.....) was played by Casey Dubois, who played Wex in the pilot episode of Stargate: Atlantis. Surprise! He's from Vancouver.
Gerard Plunkett, the stuffy Brit who fed Rachel Blanchard's dog to a snake before getting munched on himself, is from Ireland, but has moved to Canada. He's been in two episodes of The X-Files, three episode of SG-1, Highlander, Sliders, Andromeda, Da Vinci's Inquest, and a load of other stuff.
Next up we have another Canadian, Terry Chen. The kickboxer who totally didn't kickbox any snake. WTF was that about? I remember as the monk in Stargate SG-1's "Maternal Instinct" ep where we first meet Oma. He was also in "Romeo Must Die," "3000 Miles to Graceland,"Jake 2.0, Smallville, "The Chrinocles of Riddick," Battlestar Galactica, and Da Vinci's Inquest.
I have no idea who Emily Holmes played in SOAP, but she was in Dead Like Me, Tru Calling, and Andromeda. Canadian, yes. [Edit: Other newlywed?]
I think Tygh Runyan, from Vancouver, was the guy who was nervous about flying. He was crazy Ronnie in Dead Like Me
Mark Houghton (the other FBI agent?) was in Battlestar Galactica, SG-1 (playing a Prior! ohnoes), Smallville, Just Cause, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Harsh Realm. I bet you he's Canadian.
David Koecher is not Canadian... but he's funny and he has been in so much stuff. I'm not going to attempt to name any. I liked him in the movie and... well... when he climbed out of that compartment after tripping and falling and being bitten by snakes? I was totally thinking of that scene in "Austin Powers" where Mustafa is in the pit and he's all "Can someone help me? I'm still alive down here!"
Tom Butler! He has no head shot at IMDB. So sad. He was the Captain in SOAP. This man has been in half the TV series made in Canada. Fo' serious. Highlander, The X-Files, Sliders, Two, Cold Squad, Poltergeist, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, The Outer Limits, Psych, and a crapload more! He was also in "Scanners II" with t3h Hewlett.
Kendall Cross, I have no idea who you are, but you were on SG-1, in X2, and Strange Luck, so yay!
Kevin McNulty played some dude named Emmett (these people had names?!) and was also in Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Two, The X-Files, and MANTIS.
Scott Nicholson was some guy named Daniel Hayes, but he was also the stunt coordinator for X3, The Chronicles of Riddick, Touching Evil, Tru Calling, Tarzan (the new one with Travis Fimmel), Jake 2.0, and did car stunts for Special Unit 2.
And wow, that it really, really sad. Oh well.
Now that I've wasted my entire evening, I'm going to find a snack and try to work on some graphics.
For anyone who cares that hasn't heard the news (and clearly lives in a dark cave), Stargate SG-1 was cancelled. Stargate Atlantis was renewed for season 4. I'm both happy and worried about this. Happy because, yay! my shiny show is still around. Worried, though, because now all the big boys who were happy muching around on SG-1 with their blah blah blah will now be thrown into SGA and I don't want it to slowly turn in to SG1. Yeah, I love Ben & Claudia, but I haven't cared about the show in at least 3 years, certainly not the last two. You know, they should bring Mitchell and Vala over to SGA. I would be totally okay with that.
Cooper wants us to watch the show live to keep the numbers strong. But, you know what, I don't have one of those little boxes that records what I watch, so it kind of doesn't matter, does it?!
Speaking of SGA, there is much wankery going on. Again. But this one is more of a kerfluffle. Anyway. Fanfic etiquette. Seriously, dude, you need to ask first.
Yesterday, I had a bit of a get together with
queenmaab, mcmi11ions, and punslingerr before we went to see SOAP. Watch Napolean Dynamite, which I have to say was all right. I probably need to see it again to get a few more things? I dunno. Then we watched Boa vs. Python, which I totally love, but I'm pretty sure no one else cared.After that, we headed to the mall where we grabbed dinner at the food court, met up with
sweetwildandmad and went for a showing of Snakes on a Plane! So, you know, stupid bits about the movie behind the cut.Oh, wait. Top movie of the weekend. The hell did that happen, people? Hollywood just has really crappy films out right now, I guess.
Uhm. Let me start off with, holy crap that was violent and bloody and gross. Which for this movie is totally fine. The whole entire I'm just sitting there going, "okay, snakes totally don't do that. Or that. Or... well... maybe that." The two bathroom scenes were sort of painful. I wish there were more scenes of people like.. you know.. killing snakes or Julianna hacking at them with that axe. And hey, why don't we like, close the door in the floor of the cockpit?
There was a plot in this movie. Okay, not a really in-depth plot, but we wasted like 30 minutes of screen time following some stupid bullshit that I really couldn't care less about. Just get your asses on the plane and bring on the snakes! Why was Samuel L. Jackson not killing more snakes? I felt a little cheated. Also kickboxing guy? You disappoint me too! I wanted to see kickboxer versus snakes, man.
This line totally made the movie: "I am sick of these motherfucking snakes on this motherfucking plane!"
And now I need to comment on the actors in this film who weren't Sam Jackson or Julianna Marguiles. And illustrate how obsessed I am with Canadians.
Nathan Phillips, the Aussie who played the kid going to testify. Yeah,I kinda didn't care about him at all. I think the set up was supposed to be that we didn't want him to die but at the end when he got bit, I was just all, "well... that's sort of a shame," in the same way I thought that about several other people on the plane.
Rachel Blanchard. I only ever remember her being in the Clueless tv series. And... you know.. she's done a lot since, but yeah. Cher was trapped on a plane with snakes! Oh, hey, she's Canadian.
Anyone else remember Kenan Thompson back in the days of All That? And the "Good Burger" movie, oy. Then he and Kel had their own show and now he's on SNL! I was pretty impressed with how his character was wacking the snakes with the seatback tray and then landed the plane with 20,000 hours of experience on the PS2 flight simulator. *facepalm*
Keith Dallas has a lame IMDB page, but judge from his current filmography? I bet he's Canadian. Or, you know, from LA.
I can't remember who Bruce James was on the plane, but he was in Tru Calling an Dead Like Me! Canadian. In fact, he's from Kelowna. (Okay, that's only funny to SG-1 fans...) [Edit: He was the swishy flight attendant.]
Uhm. One of the boys from the plane (probably the older one.....) was played by Casey Dubois, who played Wex in the pilot episode of Stargate: Atlantis. Surprise! He's from Vancouver.
Gerard Plunkett, the stuffy Brit who fed Rachel Blanchard's dog to a snake before getting munched on himself, is from Ireland, but has moved to Canada. He's been in two episodes of The X-Files, three episode of SG-1, Highlander, Sliders, Andromeda, Da Vinci's Inquest, and a load of other stuff.
Next up we have another Canadian, Terry Chen. The kickboxer who totally didn't kickbox any snake. WTF was that about? I remember as the monk in Stargate SG-1's "Maternal Instinct" ep where we first meet Oma. He was also in "Romeo Must Die," "3000 Miles to Graceland,"Jake 2.0, Smallville, "The Chrinocles of Riddick," Battlestar Galactica, and Da Vinci's Inquest.
I have no idea who Emily Holmes played in SOAP, but she was in Dead Like Me, Tru Calling, and Andromeda. Canadian, yes. [Edit: Other newlywed?]
I think Tygh Runyan, from Vancouver, was the guy who was nervous about flying. He was crazy Ronnie in Dead Like Me
Mark Houghton (the other FBI agent?) was in Battlestar Galactica, SG-1 (playing a Prior! ohnoes), Smallville, Just Cause, Da Vinci's Inquest, and Harsh Realm. I bet you he's Canadian.
David Koecher is not Canadian... but he's funny and he has been in so much stuff. I'm not going to attempt to name any. I liked him in the movie and... well... when he climbed out of that compartment after tripping and falling and being bitten by snakes? I was totally thinking of that scene in "Austin Powers" where Mustafa is in the pit and he's all "Can someone help me? I'm still alive down here!"
Tom Butler! He has no head shot at IMDB. So sad. He was the Captain in SOAP. This man has been in half the TV series made in Canada. Fo' serious. Highlander, The X-Files, Sliders, Two, Cold Squad, Poltergeist, Stargate SG-1, First Wave, The Outer Limits, Psych, and a crapload more! He was also in "Scanners II" with t3h Hewlett.
Kendall Cross, I have no idea who you are, but you were on SG-1, in X2, and Strange Luck, so yay!
Kevin McNulty played some dude named Emmett (these people had names?!) and was also in Stargate: Atlantis, Stargate SG-1, Two, The X-Files, and MANTIS.
Scott Nicholson was some guy named Daniel Hayes, but he was also the stunt coordinator for X3, The Chronicles of Riddick, Touching Evil, Tru Calling, Tarzan (the new one with Travis Fimmel), Jake 2.0, and did car stunts for Special Unit 2.
And wow, that it really, really sad. Oh well.
Now that I've wasted my entire evening, I'm going to find a snack and try to work on some graphics.
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Date: 2006-08-22 04:56 am (UTC)I heard the cancellation news, that's the first thing I thought of. A bunch of the writers and cast migrating over to SGA and the show turning into a literal SG1 clone. Some folks might argue it's that already, but... I just could never totally get into SG1. I always saw SGA as it's darker, more morally ambiguous (orgytastic) cousin and that appealed to me. I don't want to see it fall into easy, safe formulas (at least, not anymore than it has). What worked 10 years for one show may not necessarily work for another. [ Like, is there any hope at all the show stays away from the notion of total canon pairings? A propensity I felt was more an SG1 thing than SGA. I like the idea of the SGA characters being more romantically/platonically/filially/whatever ambiguous amongst each other in a galaxy far, far away. The idea anyone could be hooking-up with anyone behind closed doors. The prospect of Shep/Weir turning into some gratuitous Sam/Jack clone? Just... no. ]
Although with SG1 cancelled (and depending on how long Sci-Fi plans on keeping SGA around) ... is the Daedalus going to go 'splody now? How are they going to work around the SGC presence (or lack thereof) with SG1 gone (barring any migrations)? Musing, but being cut-off from Earth/Milky Way again may be an interesting story to go back to. It could bring back that desperation I liked in the first season. The Atlanteans would, once again, have to be more self-sufficient in the Pegasus Galaxy... added on to whatever new tentative alliances they make in the third season.
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Date: 2006-08-24 03:12 am (UTC)You know how the real-life Cheyenne Mountain Complex is being closed?
What if they somehow manage to work that in to the end of SG1?
I see no reason why the SGC wouldn't still be around, just because SG1 goes off the air. We just wouldn't have a weekly tv show to monitor what's going on there.
There's no reason we couldn't have guest spots and whatnot, when the Atlantis base needs to communicate with them. Although I imagine that would translate in to General Landry, Walter, etc, more than the SG1 team.
Although I'm not sure how easy it would be to get Beau Bridges to do little cameos and stuff.