Ben Browder on Stargate
POSTED BY: montanagirl
UPDATED: Monday, December 20, 2004 13:10
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Quote:I'm a Vikings fan, so I'm used to disappointment. You learn to roll with the punches after awhile and find a shinier side to the 'verse. It's like being a Red Sox fan, only without actually ever winning anything past the playoffs part.
Originally posted by UnchartedOutlaw:
Frankly, I'm very unhappy about this news. To have Ben go to the show that SFC kept over Farscape (not to mention its lameness factor) is unbelievable. It's like playing your whole life for the Niners and then going over to the Raiders. And that's really not cool...because I'm not a big football fan and for me to make a football analogy means it's a big deal!
-Taylor
Shiny side: Ben Browder is working.
Shiner side: Having an actor like him on board is going to make the writers strive to give him stories that he's going to like to do. If Ben likes it, we'll like it.
More of the shiner side: Fans of the man who don't know about Stargate's current lameness factor may watch the new and improved and say, "Hey, this isn't too bad." Ratings go through the roof, we get more improved Stargate with Ben Browder.
Shinest side: Ben Browder is NOT working on "Andromeda." Thanks to the great Holy Whoever for that little benevolence.
Black side: He may come in during Stargate's swan song season, and it may be too late to save anything.
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I don't know about you guys, but this has not been the best season of Stargate ever. It is better than most shows out there, but it just seems weaker somehow. I always liked O'Neil because he was a wise cracking soldier and could be relied on to make jokes even at the most unappropriate times. It was part of his charm. Now he is not around and SG1 is a 3 person team that doesn't do very much.
I wholly concur. Not having RDA as a part of the team really takes the dynamic away from it. It just doesn't work for me to have him back at the SGC. I have high hopes that adding Ben into the mix will bring back that smart ass, get it done attitude, and singular lack of tact that O'Neill contributed to SG-1.
And for all you hopeless romantics out there, Jack and Sam were NEVER going to get together unless one of them quit the military, because the Air Force won't allow a romance on the show between two officers. Sorry!
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All others tolerated.
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I also concur this season of SG1 is not as good as it could have be, Atlantis is outdoing it (but thats just my opinion, of course). Some times I get the feeling that SG1 just ran out of stories to tell whilst Atlantis being new and all gets the better stories.Also, RDA is only doing four epsiodes next season so they do need another member for SG1 and Ben Browder is a great actor - look at some of his performances on Farscape - the man is brilliant. My only real worry is that TPTB will do a Jonas Quinn on him - no real character development etc. I really hope that this will not be the case. And so I wait with baited breath to see what they come up with next season.
"This movie may be a beautiful butterfly, but I loved that damn caterpillar." Joss Whedon.
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Quote:That's why the term is "Hopeless" romantic and not "hopeful." I think anyone who's watched this show for any length of time is well aware of SG's adherence to the USAF guidelines. Rick Anderson just got an award for it, even.
Originally posted by montanagirl:
And for all you hopeless romantics out there, Jack and Sam were NEVER going to get together unless one of them quit the military, because the Air Force won't allow a romance on the show between two officers. Sorry!
Packer fans welcome.
All others tolerated.
Okay, any sensible person who's watched the show... etc.
And yet the writers teased us - how many times? - with the romantic notions they had saved in their scrap pile. Writers can be very mean!
Besides, if Ben comes on board, chances are it will be as USAF, and that puts the kabosh on the whole shipper theory anyway... why am I still talking about this?
Raise your hand if you actually want to see Sam married to a Deluise... anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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re: Hopeless romantic vs Hopeful romantic
Have you been watching 'Romancing the Stone' again?
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Originally posted by Channain:
Shiny side: Ben Browder is working.
Shinest side: Ben Browder is NOT working on "Andromeda." Thanks to the great Holy Whoever for that little benevolence.
Black side: He may come in during Stargate's swan song season, and it may be too late to save anything.
Thank the maker for small favors.
I am happy if Ben Browder is happy, however, as many times as I have tried to watch SG-1, I've seen probabaly more than half of the epis, I just cannot get into the show. I've left it on thinking, well at some point it's gotta speak to me, right? I think I just don't care for he characters.
Ben Browder would be a definite improvement, but I just can't see how many more times they can do what to me almost seems the same epi every week.
I'm not even sure if Ben is on that I would watch it "just because", althought it's likely... and I might need a drool bucket.
But hey, I would prefer Henson productions come up with something else for him to do, like a theatrical release, not TV, for him to flaunt his fabulous self.
Scifi chan. must have thrown buckets of cash at him to get him on the show they ditched Farscape for.
Oh, and I find it disturbing that he and the guy that plays Daniel bear some resemblance. I hope they don't do any long lost brother type of story line, that's soooo bad.
Now someone put Lani Tupu in another show I'll watch it too.
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Quote:I don't know what you mean
Originally posted by Montanagirl:
re: Hopeless romantic vs Hopeful romantic
Have you been watching 'Romancing the Stone' again?
Quote:In a perfect 'verse, that would be the case. However...
Originally posted by needleseye:
But hey, I would prefer Henson productions come up with something else for him to do, like a theatrical release, not TV, for him to flaunt his fabulous self.
Quote:NO! not the long lost brother!!! Anything but that! *chanting to myself* find a happy place... find a happy place... FIND A HAPPY PLACE!
Originally posted by needleseye:
Oh, and I find it disturbing that he and the guy that plays Daniel bear some resemblance. I hope they don't do any long lost brother type of story line, that's soooo bad.
*sigh* well, there's always the option that Ben could be the new big and bad Goa'uld too. Haven't seen anyone even try to consider that yet. Or a member/new leader of the Tok'ra, the resistance group. Now that would be a nice complex character worthy of Ben's acting chops.
I was also under the impression that Jack was going to keep SG-1 a three-person team. Jack has total faith in Sam's ability to lead the team and wants to give her a chance to show her stuff. Going back on that would invalidate Sam's ability and I don't see the writers doing that.
Yes, SG-1 has its own "canned" eps and a lot of them do play out the same. Which is to say SG-1 has saved the universe - oh, a LOT. But there's been others that have tweaked their 'verse a bit. Christopher Judge has written a couple that shook things around some.
But you don't watch the show, so you don't have any clue what I'm going on about, do you? Let's just say this - it's no Joss Whedon/Mutant Enemy production and for me that's okay. It got to the point where I could only handle so many shows where I was screaming at the TV because a character I loved just got killed off. A girl can only take so much. I'm a Gemini - we need variety. If it's unstable in one place, it has to be stable somewhere else. Balance - it's all about balance.
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Scifi chan. must have thrown buckets of cash at him to get him on the show they ditched Farscape for.
Here's this idea cropping up again.
Why is it that everyone seems convinced Scifi dropped Farscape for SG1? They coexisted for a year before everything went down.....
The most credible story I heard was that Scifi threatened to cancel Farscape as a bargaining move to get a lower licensing fee, and it backfired----their parent company essentially said, "Fine, we don't care."
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So this is official then? Nice, I'd love to see Ben as the fourth member of SG-1. As for Rick not being around that much... I don't know, I love his character and I love him as an actor but if he wants to cut back r quit entirely then I'll respect that. He went for eight seasons without needing to at all and I can understand a need to move to new things, like the revival of MacGyver 
.
"Dont ask me silly questions.
I wont play silly games."
-Blaine
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