Random stuff

[apocalypsos]

-- Yesterday at work they sorta sprung going on the phones early to those of us still in training and then sprng, "Oh, do you want overtime, too?" which I leapt at like a hungry panther. They offered to let us stay anytime from 4:30 when we normally leave to ten at night. I offered to stay the whole damn night.

First off, I only got two phone calls the entire night, screwed both of them up in different ways, had another woman accidentally hang up on me halfway through saying her name, and then sat there for five hours waiting for another phone call. At which point one of the managers was like, "Oh, you're still here? I thought all of the new people had left already. You can go home now, sweetie." That was at ten after nine. I wonder when I would have been told to go if I hadn't been in a cubicle in the Arctic Circle of the calling floor's geography.

-- I don't even know how the east coast can possibly be getting this HUGE snowstorm and we're only getting, like, two inches. We always get hit with snow during these stupid storms. I think my new snow tires are creating a karmic buffer area around the Northeastern Pennsylvania area.

-- Dude, that show runner is ... kind of a dick, really. Do they talk about all of their dissenters like that? It makes me want to hug John Rogers and Javi and Bryan Fuller and, fuck, even Kripke to my chest and never let them go.

-- So, yeah. Because I worked overtime last night, I didn't get a chance to finish editing Heroine Addiction like I expected, and it's certainly not going to get done today because today is "Get Wasted And Write A Yuletide Story" Day. (Trust me, I'll need the booze for this.)

Comments

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

Brad Wright and Joe Mallozzi have destroyed all credibility with alot of the Stargate fanbase because of their comments. Mallozzi thinks he's the best writer on the planet and often times his episodes are the worst of the series. Wright has publicly said that he was responsible for getting Stargate:Atlantis killed because he wanted to write for his new show (the darling Stargate:Universe).

They have both publicly criticized and offended all the dissenters of the show by saying they're not educated enough to get it, aren't their "target audience" (because, as they have said, 30 or above is too old for them now), or are just plain wrong in their expressions of disagreement. They don't acknowledge that the show is badly written, that it's overly sexist, that it's just not the quality we've come to expet from Stargate. They'd rather put their heads in the sand and pretend nobody else exists.

[myniamh.livejournal.com]

Every time I see something new about SGU I get flashbacks to the SG:1 episode 200 flying through my head.

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

I should preface this by saying that I genuinely adore the SG universe.

That said:

it's just not the quality we've come to expet from Stargate.

is (1) true and (2) kind of INCREDIBLY SAD.

[crediniaeth.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've found that the SG showrunners are jerks, but SGU is the first time I've found myself wanting to be involved in a SG franchise instead of watching from the sidelines like I did with SGA. It's hard, though, when you're researching for fic and you come across so many negative comments. Makes you wonder if you're just not getting something that everyone else is.

Or maybe I'm used to dickish showrunners, RTD in particular. ;)

SGU

[madripoor-rose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, these are the same guys who said, basically, that fans would come crawling back because we're sheep when a lot of us said we probably wouldn't watch Universe because of the drastic change in tone from SG-1 and SGA.

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

Cripes. I'm pretty sure David Shore enjoys laughing at the fans by totally not giving them what they want, but to my knowledge he's never said anything about people who disagree with the writing being too stupid to get it. I mean, really?