Inventive intervention

[caddyman]

I am rather tired now and intend to go to bed shortly, suffice it to say that the English weather found another way to muck up our holiday today - or at least a way to throw a spoke in the works.

ellefurtle wandered out just before noon to purchase some odds and ends and then meet her mother and sister before going off to see the Hadrian Exhibition at the British Museum. I was pencilled in to pop along at about 6pm when her Dad would be turning up too and we would have a drink and then something to eat. So far, so good.

I sat and watched Stargate Continuum, made a sandwich and a coffee and then set out to do a bit of shopping of my own before meeting everyone in the pub.

Now the weather has been a cross between April showers and Autumnal gales recently, with a little of the summer sunshine poking out between times to say "Hi folks!" Today was no different and I mooched down to the station prepared for various combinations of wind, rain and sunshine. I wasn't prepared to find the station closed with merely a note telling me to get the bus to North Finchley and then get another bus from there. After trekking back to the flat, I checked the TFL website to find that the wind had brought a tree down over the tracks at High Barnet and that all services were suspended between there and Finchley Central. I ummed and ahhed and then caught the bus to East Finchley, arriving hot and rather too damp. Certainly uncomfortable. Either way, I took a great deal longer to get into the West End than it was supposed to.

Bloody weather.

Comments

[ysharros.livejournal.com]

Weather aside (I don't want to get started - maybe when it cools down here), how was Stargate Continuum? Been wanting a reliable review before I add it to my blockbuster online list...

Edit - and aren't you up late on a school night? :-D

[phil99.livejournal.com]

I believe that the Furtle and Man of Cad are on their summer hols. Lucky blighters.

[sack-boy.livejournal.com]

SG-C is not bad.

Some TV movies feel like a standard 45 minute padded out with wiffle to make a 90min to 2 hour episode. Others feel like a double episode story edited together. The better ones are whole stories that progress at their own pace.

In terms of structure I'd consider it to be somewhere between the 2nd and 3rd types as described above. The pacing is good but it seemed to finish suddenly - I was enjoying watching it but was surprised that there was less than 10 minutes action time left (actually about 15 minutes but the closing credits eat up a fair wodge of that.)

In terms of story it felt more like proper closure of the entire series than the Ark of Truth, which only dealt with the Big Bad™ of the last couple of series. Continuum takes us back to the real Big Bads of the entire series, the System Lords.

Nice to see MacGyver back but he's really only present as O'Neil in "book-end" scenes, with the SG-1 team from the latter series being the main protagonists.

Certainly a rental or borrower. Depending on your fanboyness it might even be a buyer ;-)

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Up late yes, but we is on holidaze this week!

I don't think I can say anything more on Continuum than sack_boy. It's not perfect and the action takes place very much at the end after a long - though not boring - build up. It does end the series more satisfyingly than Ark of Infinity did, but then I always preferred the Goa'uld storyline to the other one anyway.