Tiens voila deux articles geniaux, l'un du très célèbre TV Guide US et l'autre du Boston Herald, concernants le Season Premiere de la saison 7 de Stargate (vous comprendrez
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STAR BORES
Stargate SG-1
(9 pm/ET, SCIFI)
How do you fill the moon boots of a classic space opera?
Not very well, judging by Stargate SG-1, the former Showtime staple-turned-syndicated actioner-cum-Sci Fi Channel series. Based on the 1994 Kurt Russell film Stargate, it deals with the adventures of a crack military team who travels to various planets with the help of a mystic interstellar portal. It's entertaining enough, but compared to the supernova creativity that defined Sci Fi's lamentably cancelled Farscape,Stargate SG-1 is but a roadside flare. No amount of Stargate-gazing is going to turn this so-so show into anything distinctive. It doesn't help that Stargate SG-1 also has to carry a thin-as-paper Friday night lineup that starts with the shaky Tremors and closes with the scarily awful Scare Tactics.
To marshal the loyalists and initiate the novices, Sci Fi opens the evening with cast members Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks hosting an hour-long preview of Stargate's upcoming season. After being killed off towards the end of season five, Shanks's archeologist Daniel Jackson appeared occasionally last season in ghostly form to help out SG-1. In tonight's back-to-back episodes that launch the seventh season, Jackson returns to the team full time.
The SG-1 folks know something is up with Jackson in the first tale, "Fallen," when their friend is suddenly discovered naked on a distant planet. He's lost more than his clothes; his memory is gone, and to regain it, he returns to Earth and formally reunites with SG-1, now comprised of his replacement Jonas Quinn (Corin Nemec), pert astrophysicist Samantha Carter (Tapping), stoic Jaffa warrior Teal'c (Christopher Judge) and, of course, crabby SG-1 chief Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson). Together, the gang plans a trap for their chief enemies, the evil, body-snatching Goa'uld and their Darth Vader-like overlord Anubis (David Palffy), whom O'Neill describes as a "black cloak, over-the-top cliché bad guy."
In the second episode, "Homecoming," Jackson and Quinn are stowaways aboard Anubis's spaceship, which is headed for Quinn's war-torn home world to confiscate its supply of naquadria, a substance that both fuels the Stargate portal and provides SG-1 with its principal weapon in subduing the Goa'uld.
Shanks is the focus here, picking up where he left off — as an impulsive, if now somewhat more absent-minded, academic-type. The others are similarly predictable. The personality inertia of Judge's inscrutable Teal'c provides a weird contrast to his bizarre makeup — he still looks like RuPaul without the wig. Tapping's sexy Carter can hold her own with the boys without overdoing the bravado. Anderson's vinegary O'Neill is, as always, the core of the series, spouting off zingers between confrontations with the bad guys. Nemec's Quinn also takes a high-profile role here, with sizeable consequences for the season ahead.
Stargate SG-1's biggest asset is its accessibility. Since its 1997 inception, the series has provided meat-and-potatoes escapism with a dash of intelligence and plenty of action. But despite occasional flickers of inspiration, it's merely a mediocre adventure with better-than-average production values. When scheduled alongside a classy anchor like Farscape, Stargate SG-1 was an agreeable companion. Stranded in the lame company of Tremors and Scare Tactics, however, it's just lost in space. — G.J. Donnelly
Donc je traduis les lignes surlignées pour les non-anglophones :
- C'est assez divertissant, mais comparé à la créativité supernovienne (?) qui definissait Farscape, lamentablement annulé par SciFi, Stargate SG-1 ne tient pas la comparaison.
- Lorsqu'elle était programmée aux cotés d'une ancre de qualité comme Farscape, SG1 était un companion agréable. Désormais accompagné des deux navets que sont Tremors et Scare Tactics, en revanche, la série est simplement perdue dans l'espace.
hop le second :
Gate crashing: Sci Fi's `Stargate SG-1' locks out originality
by John Ruch
Friday, June 13, 2003
``Stargate SG-1.'' Season premiere tonight at 9 on the Sci Fi Channel.
As it enters its seventh season, the most exciting thing ``Stargate SG-1'' has to offer is the return of a cast member who was so bored with his character that he left the show.
That tells you all you need to know about this aging sci-fi series, which at this point looks pretty boring itself. (The season premiere tonight at 9 on the Sci Fi Channel is preceded by a one-hour behind-the-scenes documentary.)
This vaguely fascist version of ``Star Trek'' continues with its basic plot line: the U.S. military exploring the universe via ancient portals known as stargates. While the SG-1 team must save the world - a couple of worlds, actually - in tonight's premiere, the antics remain basically unchanged from the 1994 ``Stargate'' movie that started it all.
The show continues to employ actors who are predominately devoid of talent, apparently so as not to embarrass series star Richard Dean Anderson and his extremely modest abilities. Anderson has never been able to channel the tongue-in-cheek macho arrogance that Kurt Russell brought to the role in the original movie. He just comes off as a snide jerk. Now he's looking tired and gaunt as well.
So what's new? Well, Michael Shanks is back as nerdy hunk Daniel Jackson. Before last season, Shanks left the show, complaining his character was going nowhere. His part was turned into a fancy ghost.
Sci Fi would have us believe he's back because of a fan campaign. But it probably had more to do with Shanks realizing that a passing resemblance to James Spader (co-star of the original movie) doesn't make for much of a career outside ``SG-1.''
And so, before you can say ``search for Spock,'' there he is, lying nude on the ground in a lost city. It amounts to very little beyond a brief case of amnesia and a blink-and-you'll-miss-it flirtation with Samantha Carter (Amanda Tapping).
But there's no point in shooting fish in a barrel - or blue whales in a Dixie cup. Even the series' biggest defenders usually will admit it's just watered-down methadone for folks seeking a real sci-fi fix (like, say, the upcoming return of ``V''). In the sci-fi tension between mind-bending creativity and restrictive genre conventions, we've always known which way ``SG-1'' leans.
That doesn't help ``Farscape'' fans forget how that ambitious show was quickly killed after Sci Fi acquired ``SG-1.'' Sci Fi still claims it gave the two shows equal advertising, oblivious to the difference between flogging a brand-name hit and nurturing a quality program seeking an audience.
But, look, ``SG-1'' isn't as awful as UPN's ``Enterprise.'' The special effects are decent. The action pacing is OK. Feeling slightly bored is part of the genre-fiction deal.
What's weird is that the series team is starting to look bored, too. Bored enough that the actors forget to look surprised when they find Jackson alive.
Jackson's amnesia-inspired bout of self-doubt plays much like Shanks' self-doubt about leaving the show.
There's a comedy-relief character who tells boring, formulaic stories with cliched morals at the end. And the episode's entire story is a rip-off of the first ``Star Wars'' movie, so blatant it's less an homage than a cry for help. If they can't even entertain themselves, how are they going to entertain us?
It looks as though at least one cast member isn't sticking around this black hole of boredom long enough to find out. Shanks' return means elbowing out his replacement, Corin Nemec, who played Jonas Quinn.
Maybe a Save Jonas campaign is in order. It just might be the only way to maintain interest in this show - if not for yourself, then for the producers.
Traduc :
- Ca n'aide pas les fans de "Farscape" a oublier comment cette série ambitieuse fut rapidement annulée après que Sci Fi a acquis "SG-1" [NdT: heureusement que Jéjé est là sinon j'aurais fait la même fofote qu'Episode
... mais putain que ça sonne mal ! ].
Sci Fi prétend toujours avoir donné aux deux séries des budget publicitaires équivalent, inconscient de la différence entre flageller un porte-étendard à succès et consolider un programme de qualitér à la recherche de son audience.
Combien j'ai dit ? Plus de trois mois deja que la série n'est plus a l'antenne (enfin seulement en rediffs), et bientot 8 mois qu'elle a été officiellement annulée, et pourtant la presse est encore dans les pattes de Sci Fi, si ça c'est pas un bon signe ...
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