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Dec. 10th, 2020 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
babydracoNetflix has Stargate SG-1 now.
I usually consider this show to be like MASH, or BtVS, a tv adaptation that's a lot better than the movie it's based on. The episode "Hathor" is considered such a great example of how to use female characters that it actually had a website devoted to examining and cataloging female characters in media named after it.
But I was watching the pilot and suddenly out of nowwhere, there's full frontal nudity and a metaphorical woman on woman rape scene...
What channel did their pilot originally air on? Or did they film an uncensored pilot which was then cut for airing and restored later for Netflix? I always remembered the show as a relatively wholesome thing I watched as a kid.
And since I've seen plenty of later episodes, I figured out early on that the team member I didn't recognize and had never heard of was going to be dead by episode 2.
The show does trigger one of my pet peeves every once in awhile. It's the one where a character pitched to the audience as brilliant (often in multiple fields) makes really rookie mistakes.
Daniel Jackson describes Abraham as "a Biblical figure, sometimes thought of as the father of man".
Uh, no. Adam was the father of man. Abraham is the father of the tribes of Israel/the Jewish people and Abrahamic monotheism and there's no Biblical or scientific dispute that the world was already full of people when Abraham was around.
Or when Sam Carter claims that there is no zoo near Cheyenne Mountain.
Um. Um. it's practically right on top of you.
I usually consider this show to be like MASH, or BtVS, a tv adaptation that's a lot better than the movie it's based on. The episode "Hathor" is considered such a great example of how to use female characters that it actually had a website devoted to examining and cataloging female characters in media named after it.
But I was watching the pilot and suddenly out of nowwhere, there's full frontal nudity and a metaphorical woman on woman rape scene...
What channel did their pilot originally air on? Or did they film an uncensored pilot which was then cut for airing and restored later for Netflix? I always remembered the show as a relatively wholesome thing I watched as a kid.
And since I've seen plenty of later episodes, I figured out early on that the team member I didn't recognize and had never heard of was going to be dead by episode 2.
The show does trigger one of my pet peeves every once in awhile. It's the one where a character pitched to the audience as brilliant (often in multiple fields) makes really rookie mistakes.
Daniel Jackson describes Abraham as "a Biblical figure, sometimes thought of as the father of man".
Uh, no. Adam was the father of man. Abraham is the father of the tribes of Israel/the Jewish people and Abrahamic monotheism and there's no Biblical or scientific dispute that the world was already full of people when Abraham was around.
Or when Sam Carter claims that there is no zoo near Cheyenne Mountain.
Um. Um. it's practically right on top of you.
