Sci-Fi, meet Drama

[iainjclark]

Sky Continuity Announcer after SG-1 this week: "Coming up next, sci-fi meets drama in Battlestar Galactica". Because, as we know, sci-fi and drama are normally mutually exclusive. Last week the same announcer's line was: "Forget Sci-Fi, this is real drama." Bad enough he says these things over the end credits of Stargate SG-1, but what is this fascination with trying to promote Battlestar Galactica by simultaneously distancing it from and belittling other Sci-Fi shows?

Meanwhile this week's episode of SG-1 included a not so subtle dig at the programme's cancellation:

Guest Character: I'm a bit disapointed at this facility, I was expecting more.
Carter: Well at times so do we, the truth is the Stargate program doesn't get the support it used to from the people in charge.
Guest Character: That's too bad 'cause after all your Stargate program has accomplished for this network - of planets, I would think the decision makers would show it the respect it deserves.

There were a couple of other sly digs in there too. Luckily, although the news of cancellation came too late to wrap up the show's plot threads, there are a couple of TV movies in the pipeline, one of which will apparently deal with the Ori storyline.

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I really don't know how many times Langford is going to be able to run marginally different iterations of the same sentence. Maybe television should be disqualified from How Others See Us. Or maybe the whole thing should be dropped as the persecution complex moaning that it is.

[coalescent.livejournal.com]

I think these days it's not so much about a persecution complex as it is about pointing and laughing at idiots.