I got all flustered again trying to describe how I see the show. I hope you don't mind, because I'm an odd fish at the best of times. This is just what it seems like to me personally at this very moment. I accept the fact that I often have stupid ideas. : )
So they're fighting the Wraith, Genii, Replicators or whatever, and the writers have this great idea like hey- let's have a truce between Atlantis and a rogue hive ship (or Koyla or Michael etc). Then they throw it away in a single episode, or if we're "lucky" a two parter or separated episodes. An idea like that could have supported half a dozen episodes and been the link that I needed to string the episodes along like beads on a necklace. Maybe that's not it for everyone, but that's how I like my tv.
The best segue I can think of right now is after Pegasus Project when Rodney is talking about the McKay-Carter bridge of Stargates. I can't remember that this is often the case. In Travelers for instance, there's nothing that tells us that it comes after Doppleganger. I'm pretty sure that it could have happened in the second season without much suspension of disbelief on my part. The team is a little - teamier, but that's about it that I could see. Shep is still dorky yet snarky and weird around girls, he's smart and thinks on his feet, but lacks that push to develop him more.
Thinking about it, Rodney is the only character we've seen an actual change in. During SG-1 he was a total jerk. In Season one he was a jerk with redeemable qualities, and in season two, he became a guy that is sometimes a jerk who is still flawed but has learned the value of teamwork and to some extent friendship. Maybe I'm wanting more angst or reflection from a show that is essentially only supposed to be action-adventure movie popcorn for the brain. You enjoy it when it's there, but the second it's gone you can't even remember what it tastes like.
until the time is right both plot-wise and ratings-wise to bring them to a head.
Except that rating can't have much to do with it when they have the entire season shot and in the can before it starts to air. JoeM has basically said they write an episode at a time, and sure they leave loose ends so they can come back to it, but it never feels premeditated to me.
Their season-wide arcs are just too tenuous for me. If season two is about fighting the wraith then why have so many eps devoted to something else? (Intruder, Epiphany, Critical Mass, Grace Under Pressure, The Tower, The Long Goodby, Coup D'etat to name a few.)
In season two, the wraith are given the back seat and just about five episodes. The Asurans are set up as an enemy but are given only three episodes in the beginning of the season. Then, for the season ender we're supposed the think back and remember what a threat they are.
Personally, there's just not enough of a connection there.
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Date: 2007-10-28 03:30 am (UTC)So they're fighting the Wraith, Genii, Replicators or whatever, and the writers have this great idea like hey- let's have a truce between Atlantis and a rogue hive ship (or Koyla or Michael etc). Then they throw it away in a single episode, or if we're "lucky" a two parter or separated episodes. An idea like that could have supported half a dozen episodes and been the link that I needed to string the episodes along like beads on a necklace. Maybe that's not it for everyone, but that's how I like my tv.
The best segue I can think of right now is after Pegasus Project when Rodney is talking about the McKay-Carter bridge of Stargates. I can't remember that this is often the case. In Travelers for instance, there's nothing that tells us that it comes after Doppleganger. I'm pretty sure that it could have happened in the second season without much suspension of disbelief on my part. The team is a little - teamier, but that's about it that I could see. Shep is still dorky yet snarky and weird around girls, he's smart and thinks on his feet, but lacks that push to develop him more.
Thinking about it, Rodney is the only character we've seen an actual change in. During SG-1 he was a total jerk. In Season one he was a jerk with redeemable qualities, and in season two, he became a guy that is sometimes a jerk who is still flawed but has learned the value of teamwork and to some extent friendship. Maybe I'm wanting more angst or reflection from a show that is essentially only supposed to be action-adventure movie popcorn for the brain. You enjoy it when it's there, but the second it's gone you can't even remember what it tastes like.
until the time is right both plot-wise and ratings-wise to bring them to a head.
Except that rating can't have much to do with it when they have the entire season shot and in the can before it starts to air. JoeM has basically said they write an episode at a time, and sure they leave loose ends so they can come back to it, but it never feels premeditated to me.
Their season-wide arcs are just too tenuous for me. If season two is about fighting the wraith then why have so many eps devoted to something else? (Intruder, Epiphany, Critical Mass, Grace Under Pressure, The Tower, The Long Goodby, Coup D'etat to name a few.)
In season two, the wraith are given the back seat and just about five episodes. The Asurans are set up as an enemy but are given only three episodes in the beginning of the season. Then, for the season ender we're supposed the think back and remember what a threat they are.
Personally, there's just not enough of a connection there.