{"id":3122,"date":"2008-08-21T22:01:26","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T02:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2008-08-21T22:01:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T02:01:26","slug":"closing-the-gate-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Closing the gate again"},"content":{"rendered":"

So they’ve cancelled Stargate Atlantis<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I still very much enjoy the show, but on the other hand, I don’t think it’s done anything too novel or different in quite some time. Then again<\/i> — have I run out of other hands already? — you could maybe argue that the show has never<\/i> done anything terribly novel — and that neither did its parent show, Stargate SG-1<\/i>, when it was on the air. Stargate<\/i> is sometimes criticized for just recycling familiar science fiction tropes, and I do think there’s plenty of validity to those criticisms. But I also think the fun of the show is in the intelligence, humor and overall polish they bring to those tropes. Maybe it’s not the single most innovative<\/i> franchise, but it’s exciting and fun and full of nice character moments.<\/p>\n

Although, seriously, they should have made better use of Amanda Tapping the one season she was on the show. I never really thought the character was a good fit for the position they put her in, but once they had, they really didn’t try. Why no Carter-centric episode, for instance? And the way they wrote out Torri Higginson was, at best, unfortunate.<\/p>\n

And I’m also not so sure how I feel about wrapping up the series with a DVD movie. That’s had mixed results for SG-1<\/i>. (I enjoyed both Ark of Truth<\/i> and Continuum<\/i>, but they were both just decent episodes wrapped up in movie-length clothing.)<\/p>\n

So basically what I’m saying is: I’m surprised and disappointed by the news, but not too<\/i> surprised and not exactly heartbroken.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So they’ve cancelled Stargate Atlantis. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about this. On the one hand, I still very much enjoy the show, but on the other hand, I don’t think it’s done anything too novel or different in quite some time. Then again — have I run out of other hands already? … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}