"What?" "What?" "What?" "Indeed."

[scarfman]

Admittedly filtered through the eyes of another whose experiences have fostered a certain cynicism, my impression of SG1 fandom's reaction to the 200th episode is the embodiment of Websnark's essay on fannish entitlement.

For myself, viewing it a second time as we speak, my favorite part is how the invisibility sequence is presented as a flashback to when O'Neill was still commanding the team but Carter, Daniel and Teal'c make no effort in terms of costume, makeup or hairstyle to differentiate their look from present-day.

I'm disappointed too that they chose to do a "joke" episode - at 150 they made what I still think is their best ever - but anyone who took anything that comes after the shower scene seriously is making their own troubles.

Also, I hate it when I hit post instead of preview and people can see the entry in progress while I continue editing it. Including trying to think of a title that's not lame. That gag was from the making of special, not from the episode itself.

But despite the word "closure" occuring in Mitchell's dialog with O'Neill, I like to think that the quote I've read from Richard Dean Anderson to the effect of, "If I knew it'd be so much fun I'da come back sooner," means that now he'll come back more often, for non-"joke" episodes.

Comments

[ianmcin.livejournal.com]

What was episode 150 again?

[scarfman]

Episode 150 was the one about the documentary.

[redneckgaijin.livejournal.com]

Alas, I didn't watch and don't intend to. After seeing just how bad Season 9 was, and trying and failing three times to watch Season 10's premiere- which was just plain AWFUL- I have declared, for my own fandom purposes, that the existence of SG-1 episodes after Season 8 is nothing but a mass delusion.

[theta-g.livejournal.com]

Websnark is a bit wordy but I do appreciate someone writing a proper article about that.

When a series (tv show, webcomic, discography, trading card series) alienates a fan, they must say goodbye to the relationship or change their internal value set. Entitlement happens when a fan's mind denies the personal crisis entirely and lays the blame outside.

We know that "jumping the shark" is when the majority of a series' fans get alienated, but even that doesn't revoke the artist's license. If fans get a Superman Returns to wipe away the bad dreams, it's still just luck, not payback.