Comments on: Chicago Tribune Digs Deeper

By: Anhara

Anhara — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 17:44:45 +0000

I do a fair amount of moaning about this guy over at my blog and I have to admit that I had to restrain myself from verbally buring him in my Fandom Dissertation project but he just doesn’t know when to stop does he?

It’s not the fact that he’s said ‘fans don’t factor in the decision making process’ that bugs me, Russell T. Davies said the exact same thing and I agree to a certain extent. What bothers me is how much he courts the opinions of CERTAIN fans who suck up to him to push their own agenda, the Sam/Jack fans who (good on them – even if it did ruin the show) managed to finesse a lot of shippy screen time by stroking his already inflated ago.

When says ‘fans don’t have an impact’ what he really means is ‘fans who have anything other than sickening devotion towards me don’t have an impact’.

By: scruffy

scruffy — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:26:44 +0000

Oh The Irony….
” Never underestimate your audience. They’re generally sensitive, intelligent people who respond positively to quality entertainment”

But, hey, not caring about the consumer has worked fine for Bill Gates!

While the SG series might have a “cult” following, it is stil light entertainment, and dare I say it, disposable. These are not great works of literature that can afford to wait decades to be recognised.

If SGA stops entertaining the fans, or pushes their tollerance, they’ll drop it, as witnessed by the legioins of Babylon 5 Fans who smugly recite `MY B5 only ran for four seasons.”

If Mallozzi felt that he would breach his artistic integrity if he kept Beckett, then that’s just fine, he can take his artistic integrity, his interpretation of a concept that has taken on a life of it’s own and is in a very real sense owned by the fans, and stick it where the sun don’t shine.

If we are to conisder SGA to be an art, then it’s first remit is to stimulate the audiance, certainly Beckett’s death, and the handelling did this admirably but it was an expensive stunt. In particular Beckett was the everyman, Informing or challengeing the audiance, particularly in episodes such as “poisoning the well” was SGA’s sweet spot.

By: Jana from Germany

Jana from Germany — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:30:02 +0000

I’m still upset. after a month of watching “sunday”, I am still very angry. I mean how could they kill Carson? Why?
Couldn’t they kill someone stupid and unimportant like Teyla od something?

And now, after reading this article I’m beyond angry. I’m soooooo fed up with the stargate producers.

I was already a part of save daniel jackeson. and the campaign worked! Daniel Jackson is back… So I do not believe the producers words..

M. may like to think that we have no power over this but how will atlantis will go on if people start watching?

I’m not watching Atlantis until Carson is back!
Enough is enough.
As German it is hard enough to see the original intelligence of the movie going over the edge thanks to the producers, but this is way too much.

Roland Emmerich would not have done something so cruel… And STAR TREK was always nice to its doctors.

By: Timespirt

Timespirt — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:19:26 +0000

Well, afetr reading around this website, I find that there are a lot more changes that I had not heard about. Weir is to be demoted in favor of Carted to take command. Like I said before, I don’t care to see her or any of the SG-1 cast in Atlantis on a permenant basis. They had their hayday and should go do their movies and leave Atlantis to it’s own cast. Don’t get me wrong, I liked SG-1, but I don’t want them on the newer Stargate show.

By: Timespirt

Timespirt — Sat, 03 Mar 2007 04:06:09 +0000

Gee, three years ago I heard TPTB say that SG-1 would not be a factor in Stargate Atlantis. They said they wanted the show to stand on it’s own, to be different and not be SG-1 in another galaxy. So why are they taking the character of Sam Carter to Atlantis? I really don’t want to see her on there. We already have McKay doing that part. So what happens now with Sheppards character? Will she be leading the team or joining them on their missions (too many people is over kill). Was the part of Weir cut down and Beckett killed off to make room for her expensive character? Think about it people, why would you kill off a favored character and cut the part down of another one unless you needed to offer the money to an incoming character from the parent show that you decided to bring in? That’s my 2 cents worth, or rather my dollars worth, because of inflation.

By: KittyB

KittyB — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:07:27 +0000

As a Scot I really appreciated having a decent Scots character on TV. Carson was the heart of the Atlantis Expedition. I feel like I’ve lost a friend. I think its shocking the way Paul has been treated

By: Nicole T

Nicole T — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 04:00:32 +0000

Fans don’t have impact?

This statement makes absolutely no sense. We received a free Sci-fi Magazine back in October and I read an article about fans saving (or trying to) shows and characters, and fan outrage over Daniel’s disappearance was a big reason on why he was brought back. It went on to say that if you wanted the show or character to stick around you should let the creators know before something drastic happens. The problem is, many of us don’t know this and that’s why we freak out and start writing when something *does* go wrong.

This makes no sense. Why would their own magazine write something about this sort of thing and then he denies it’s true? *sigh* Idiots…

By: Reaper

Reaper — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 21:48:17 +0000

Down with that idiot Mallozzi ! Bring back back the boy from Paisley, Scotland(Beckett). I thought this show was about an international expedition. God is anyone without an american accent safe, who’s next the russian(Dr. Zelenka)? Why not , seeing as he’s the only other non american. If anyone were to be killed off then it should be Teyla. You suck Mallozzi!
I’m a big fan of both SGA and SG1, but to bring in Amanda Tapping is going to do my nut in, no matter how good she is, she just won’t fit the show. It’s no wonder that SG1 has found it hard going if people like Mallozzi have anything to do with it.
Sorry for the rant but I just needed to vent!

By: Vladimir Krasnoshekov

Vladimir Krasnoshekov — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:45:18 +0000

No Ripley. They thinks that you will “eat what they will give you”. And you will pay for that, of course.

Sorry, if I’ve “hurt” you. But I think it is true. Last “messages” from MollyBolly-Guy (Mallozzi) tells me this.

By: howard michaels

howard michaels — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:00:09 +0000

As a british fan,I was totally shocked when I saw Dr. Beckett killed off.What a waste of a great character. Would Bones have been killed off in star trek? Of course not! They made the same mistake with Daniel in stargate, but to do it again beggars belief. Don`t they care about the fans?