More Fandom Bits
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newnumber6Oh, and if Fandom Bits, the cereal, becomes a reality, it (the regular cereal part, that is, not the slashmallows) needs to be made out of the same stuff as Cap'n Crunch cereal. Because just like fandom, it's like crack and wrecks your insides!
First, news of a MAX Pete Wisdom Marvel series. I might actually pick it up and I've never had any particular attachment to Pete Wisdom.
Speaking of comics, at the SDCC Mondo Marvel panel they released some preliminary sketches off Ellis' newuniversal.
Sadly none of my favorite characters of the original NU are there, at least not yet.
Thoughts on Stargate Sg1 and Atlantis, Episode 2 of the newest season (and some icons made or inspired off them)...
SG1 was another of their solid but not terribly memorable episodes, so I don't really know what to say. I saw the Woosley thing being a 'test' a mile away - I was kinda hoping for a little reversal, with Vala passing the test, acting surprised and offended that they'd try that, and then later off-handedly saying to Daniel, "Oh, I knew it was a test all along. They were _so_ transparent." (in counterpoint to her obviousness in trying to give the 'right' answers to the psyche test).
Atlantis... kind of annoys me. Particularly the whole 'Wraith becoming human' subplot has annoyed me since they started it, because it tends to require the characters to be Morally Iffy (to put it generously) AND remarkably stupid. One or the other, I can handle. Both at once bugs the hell out of me. I mean, really, they _know_ that Wraith can communicate telepathically. So naturally, they put all the humanized wraith on an isolated planet with only a handful of guards to check to see if any of them are reverting to normal. Why not ship them to Earth? I know the politics of the whole thing is iffy, and if they ever get out of control it's dangerous, but you could at least contain them easily and have a medical staff monitoring their condition, and hopefully their telepathic link wouldn't reach as far as across the galaxy. They could be watched full time (unobtrusively), taught new skills, etc.
And morally, I can see the weapon being used in war, but when Michael refused to take the treatment, that should have been the end of it. They could kill him if they thought that was better, but you don't force him into it when he's already a prisoner, especially when he's said he'd prefer death to the treatment. Not to mention the moral issues and stupidity involved in performing the experiment in the first place (the stupidity lies in performing it on Atlantis, rather than starting and stopping the experiment on an isolated beta site so even if Michael remembered or got away, he couldn't compromise the city. The morality lies in kidnapping someone, making him into a guinea pig, and then trying to build a new identity around him. Even if he is the enemy).
So I have to call this week's SG1 'solid but not memorable, and this week's Atlantis 'weak'.
Anyway, icons:
And, even though jokes like this have been run into the ground, I work at a donut store, and today I had a thought. Make a new donut - plane, with gummy worms on top. And you call it...
wait for it...
SNAKES ON A PLAIN DONUT!
Yeah, I know, awful, but so awful I had to share.
Edit: Oh, and apparently something I said that started a sub thread in a scans_daily thread has been metaquoted. I think that's my first time showing up on a place like that.
First, news of a MAX Pete Wisdom Marvel series. I might actually pick it up and I've never had any particular attachment to Pete Wisdom.
Speaking of comics, at the SDCC Mondo Marvel panel they released some preliminary sketches off Ellis' newuniversal.
Sadly none of my favorite characters of the original NU are there, at least not yet.
Thoughts on Stargate Sg1 and Atlantis, Episode 2 of the newest season (and some icons made or inspired off them)...
SG1 was another of their solid but not terribly memorable episodes, so I don't really know what to say. I saw the Woosley thing being a 'test' a mile away - I was kinda hoping for a little reversal, with Vala passing the test, acting surprised and offended that they'd try that, and then later off-handedly saying to Daniel, "Oh, I knew it was a test all along. They were _so_ transparent." (in counterpoint to her obviousness in trying to give the 'right' answers to the psyche test).
Atlantis... kind of annoys me. Particularly the whole 'Wraith becoming human' subplot has annoyed me since they started it, because it tends to require the characters to be Morally Iffy (to put it generously) AND remarkably stupid. One or the other, I can handle. Both at once bugs the hell out of me. I mean, really, they _know_ that Wraith can communicate telepathically. So naturally, they put all the humanized wraith on an isolated planet with only a handful of guards to check to see if any of them are reverting to normal. Why not ship them to Earth? I know the politics of the whole thing is iffy, and if they ever get out of control it's dangerous, but you could at least contain them easily and have a medical staff monitoring their condition, and hopefully their telepathic link wouldn't reach as far as across the galaxy. They could be watched full time (unobtrusively), taught new skills, etc.
And morally, I can see the weapon being used in war, but when Michael refused to take the treatment, that should have been the end of it. They could kill him if they thought that was better, but you don't force him into it when he's already a prisoner, especially when he's said he'd prefer death to the treatment. Not to mention the moral issues and stupidity involved in performing the experiment in the first place (the stupidity lies in performing it on Atlantis, rather than starting and stopping the experiment on an isolated beta site so even if Michael remembered or got away, he couldn't compromise the city. The morality lies in kidnapping someone, making him into a guinea pig, and then trying to build a new identity around him. Even if he is the enemy).
So I have to call this week's SG1 'solid but not memorable, and this week's Atlantis 'weak'.
Anyway, icons:
And, even though jokes like this have been run into the ground, I work at a donut store, and today I had a thought. Make a new donut - plane, with gummy worms on top. And you call it...
wait for it...
SNAKES ON A PLAIN DONUT!
Yeah, I know, awful, but so awful I had to share.
Edit: Oh, and apparently something I said that started a sub thread in a scans_daily thread has been metaquoted. I think that's my first time showing up on a place like that.
