quote:As to the ASCII tax thing, no, but I don't see why you do it. It's not that I hate you and want you to die, but...why? We know it's you posting. Do you announce your name constantly when talking to people in real life?
And I'm still confused about being called "kid".
You know, until you pointed it out, I never even noticed that no one else did it. I never consciously made a decision to sign posts; it seemed natural, and not doing it seems unnatural, like leaving a letter unsigned.
I know, blah blah upper corner blah blah. No one ever said custom was practical.
Must be a relic of learning to read and write back in the days of books and typewriters. Like taking the extra half-second to spell a word correctly, or using punctuation. I actively participate in one other forum besides this one, in which the average age of the participants is much higher--most of them are in their 30s or 40s--and signing posts is pretty common there.
And I said 'kid" because judging by your picture I've got at least a decade on you. And because it was a pretty damn silly thing to complain about.
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Spelling? Punctuation? On the internet? No way...
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: Originally posted by PsyLiam:
quote:And I'm still confused about being called "kid".
And I said 'kid" because judging by your picture I've got at least a decade on you. And because it was a pretty damn silly thing to complain about.
Marian
From now on refer to Liam as "you wee tot."
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I know that Richard Dean Anderson has an EP position on SG-1, he might also have one on Atlantis. I don't know if it's a creative role or not though [if I remember lowdown though he does have some creative input]--- Just a personal observation, I think the reason that SG-1 is so popular isn't because it's written like a sci-fi show. I think it's popular because it's writers look at it like a military show, then place them in this strange sci-fi setting. That type of thought has really come to life because they've included politics in the show for the past two or three seasons [Senator McKinsley, now VP]. It makes the show more real to bring the realworld into the show. That's more difficult with a purely scifi show like Star Trek or Andromeda. Farscape took the same concept of taking your normal average joe and putting him into the sci-fi strange, but instead of drama there is a lot more comedy... but at the same time it just isn't as believable as SG-1 for some reason.
I realize I'm rambling so I'm going to quit. But if they make Atlantis with a similar formula to SG-1 [minus the fact that they'll be stuck in another galaxy], then I think Atlantis will be just as popular as SG-1, especially if they stay concurrent.
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According to the IMDB Richard Dean Anderson doesn't have any producer credits on Stargate Atlantis.
Produced by Robert C. Cooper .... executive producer Peter DeLuise .... co-producer Ron French .... co-producer Jonathan Glassner .... co-executive producer Michael Greenburg .... co-executive producer Damian Kindler .... supervising producer John G. Lenic .... assistant producer Joseph Malozzi .... co-executive producer Joseph Malozzi .... consulting producer Paul Mullie .... co-executive producer N. John Smith .... co-executive producer Brad Wright .... executive producer
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You might be looking at the wrong page. 'url=http://imdb.com/title/tt0118480/fullcredits]THIS ONE[/url] lists him.
As EP, Rick has quite a lot of input on the show, though he tends to confine it to his character. On multiple occasions he has gotten dialogue changes to his character, especially when O'Neill does things that can be "too MacGyverish", for example. He wants nothing to do with Atlantis - as it stands he's been working only three or four days a week since season six, and his character changes in the eighth season have been to better accomodate this. Since S6, they've been shooting multiple episodes over several weeks (instead of in single-epsiode chunks) so they can maximize their Rick time.
But this is really for the Stargate forum, which I still hope we'll someday have here.
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The last episode I saw, the last in S7 ?, has me slightly worried about O'neil. I really have liked his character. I hope he is able to return to active duty within a few episodes because he's really made the team complete. Without him there is no average guy being tugged on by the polar personalities around him [the history buff, the science geek, and the alien]. The show's dynamic isn't the same without O'neil.
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I'll say one thing for SG1: they have the BEST time-loop episode in all of sci-fi.
T'Alc in a golfer's outfit using the stargate to hit the ball lightyears away is priceless.
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: He didn't say he was the saviour of Star Trek. Just that could be a saviour of Star Trek. Bit of a difference, there.
Marian
Either way - it smacks of arrogance and delusions of self-grandeur. I mean just to spout off that he has an idea that WILL WORK, that can SAVE TREK... I mean - Major Barclow could say that.
Anyway I can't see JMS working under Berman or the Paramount suits that denied him way back in the early nineties. And as bad as it sounds - Trek is in the hands of the suits - and if JMS had problems with TNT I'm sure he can expect them with Viacom!
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quote:Originally posted by MarianLH: Must be a relic of learning to read and write back in the days of books and typewriters. Like taking the extra half-second to spell a word correctly, or using punctuation.
Well, aren't you the almight king of writing land?
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quote: There's some misinterpretations of what I said going around...so let's address them.
>Well - the now verified (from the horse's mouth, so to speak) fact >that JMS WAS approached on the possibility of taking the reins of Star >Trek: Enterprise (and wisely turned that down - gag, hack, hack)
Nope. I said that Paramount approached me about coming on board as an EP, not show-runner position. Berman and Braga would still have run the thing. I didn't feel that I could function best in that arrangement.
As for the treatment Bryce and I wrote for another Trek series, as I said, we wrote it on our own, NOT as an assignment from Paramount.
quote:Originally posted by Jason Abbadon: I'll say one thing for SG1: they have the BEST time-loop episode in all of sci-fi.
T'Alc in a golfer's outfit using the stargate to hit the ball lightyears away is priceless.
Oh no, the best part was T'ealc getting hit by that door everytime and then finally hitting back.
Or where Jack quits and then goes to kiss Sam.
Or everytime they astonish Daniel with their knowledge of the ancient language and then at the same time perfect their juggling abilities.
It doesn't matter what it was, that was one great episode!
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quote: Either way - it smacks of arrogance and delusions of self-grandeur.
No, it sounds like a guy who thinks he can do a good job. Having a little self-confidence in his abilities hardly qualifies as "arrogance and delusions of self-grandeur."
quote:Anyway I can't see JMS working under Berman or the Paramount suits that denied him way back in the early nineties. And as bad as it sounds - Trek is in the hands of the suits - and if JMS had problems with TNT I'm sure he can expect them with Viacom!
Which is probably why he turned it down.
Although I tend to agree with those who argue for Trek taking a long vacation to recover, I am a bit curious about his independant story treatment.
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