Intersection Logs

Thanks to the nice people at the Phoenix Amazon depot, my copy of Stargate: The Ark of Truth arrived this morning.

My question is, how much of SG:Atlantis should I have seen before watching it? According to Wikipedia it takes place "before season 4". I'm current up to the end of S2 at present; I have the S3 DVDs but haven't watched them yet. (In the absence of much in the way of new TV drama, I've mostly been watching old Dickens and Austen adaptations, and rewatching early SG1.)

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! ( gratuitous snark )

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.)

It's Friday night, and I'm giddy with the relief of the rain and the almost-coolness, and watching Doctor Who.

And I have a sudden hankering to write crossover Voyage/Stargate fic. Or possibly Voyage/SGA, which would slightly easier logistically, Atlantis being in the ocean and all (even if the ocean is in another galaxy), but I'm not so familiar with that show. I can just see Samantha Carter and Admiral Nelson settling down to wire up some unlikely gizmo, and Lee Crane swapping yarns or showing off the Flying Sub to Jack, or Teal'c reducing Sharkey to incoherence with a well placed 'Indeed.' Getting the Seaview anywhere near SG-1 would be tricky, though; they're obviously a lot of timelines over, not to mention twenty or thirty years in the past.

I have now seen the first three episodes of S9 of Stargate:SG1.

Who are these people, and what have they done with my show? Can I have it back now, please?

Well, that was fun, in a slightly cringe-making way. (I'm mildly allergic to comedy of embarrassment, and this was on the edge of what I can take.) Not many shows manage to poke meta-fun at themselves like that, and Stargate has done it at least four times now. Looking it at another way, if they had to do a clip show, that was a more amusing than usual way to do it.