Random chunterings

[ellarien]

I'm officially not-sick today, but still rather tired, so I'm not going to attempt a book roundup post.

The latest lj release actually has some nice things. LJ Mobile is nifty, and works on my Palm -- it doesn't actually require a phone. And comment editing! (When I noticed this was in the wind, a cynical part of me immediately realized that someone was going to demand a way to disable it, and sure enough, they did -- but the overwhelming response seems to be positive, for a change.)

I watched a lot of DVDs yesterday -- well, three episodes of SG-1 and one of Voyage, anyway. I think I still have whiplash from going from the goofy self-referential fun of "200" to the high drama of "Counterstrike." I do have to wonder, though, how all those planets with populations measured in the thousands -- all living in one village within walking distance of the Gate -- managed to stay that way for centuries. (No, this is not the first time I have wondered this.)

It also occurs to me that with two -- well, three, but one of them is not in the room with the TV -- DVD-capable computers and a DVD player, I could do 3-way frame-by-frame comparisons to try to unravel the layers of recycled footage in Voyage episodes like "No Escape from Death." (If they proclaimed that one as "All New" when it was first aired, they were skirting pretty close to false advertising.)

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[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

If they proclaimed that one as "All New" when it was first aired, they were skirting pretty close to false advertising

Nothing new, more like. I mean, they recycle footage all the time, but that episode is just bits of other episodes strung together with bits of plot script from other episodes. They really must have been up against a deadline with that one.

The village in SG1 is rather like the Trek desert and the X Files conifer forest and, of course, the quarry planets on Who - a moveable feast caused by lack of cash.

(During the days of Blake's Seven a member of the production staff was asked where they did their location filming. His reply was: "Any quarry within twenty-five miles of London that Dr Who isn't using this week.")

[ellarien]

The village in SG1 is rather like the Trek desert and the X Files conifer forest and, of course, the quarry planets on Who - a moveable feast caused by lack of cash.

This was the other village set, the stone pseudo-medieval one with an actual two-story building that they seem to have built for S9.

They really must have been up against a deadline with that one.

Or maybe a budget crunch? It was getting near the end of S3, after all. The more I think about that episode, though, the more it seems to crying out for a nice angsty fanwritten epilogue. I mean, at the end they're off the bottom, but it's not at all obvious how they're going to get home, what with a badly damaged hull and waterlogged engines and being in what don't seem to be friendly waters. And then there's the emotional complications: Harry had given Lee and the others up for dead and it was Sharkey who came up with the inspiration to save them; that has to have repercussions sooner or later.