Comments on: SCIFI Make it Official: Carson is back!

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:55:44 +0000

I agree. I hope that Paul’s coming back for a couple of episodes will somehow lead to his return as the fine doctor on a permanent basis. He should not have been killed off. It seems that since SciFi took over the Stargate franchise, they have had the tendency to kill off or “transfer or promote” other characters too easily. As was mentioned previously by another blogger, this is escapism. SG-1 started a slow decline when they sucker puched us with—you guessed it—killing off the docter (the Daniel ascending then coming back affair wasn’t the best either). Then General Hammond gets removed (didn’t help us like Dr Weir, either-Torri helped us get over that). And the extremely pained punch was the loss of Jack. I know RDA wanted some down time to be with his family, but without the Gekko (Anderson/Greenburg) humor, it started to get stale. We all hoped that Cam would be a bit more like John (Farscape…Don’t get me started on how they messed that one up-cancelling and then trying to cover a whole season in a 4 hour movie-and D’Argo dead? No way!), but I guess they were trying not to make him too much like John. Lastly, Adding a new villian (The Ori) too soon when they could have been more into new/old team and the Jafar working their new freedom out before new enemies added. Why not check up on some of the peoples met in earlier episodes. Then SG-1 gets cancelled before any real conclusion to the storyline. I hoped since RDA/Jack was making more appearances, that he was going to be a bit more involved with the story and bring some of his kind of humor back to the show.
As far as SGA goes…bring back Carson…and Dr Weir! They kill off Carson and just a few espisodes later, Weir is fatally injured, revived by Replicator techology (could have done better without Replicator help if Carson was there…he’s pulled out some “can’t be healed” cures before) and now possibly dead by the hands of the replicators.
And Sam being the new boss with new uniforms (does show her shape better). How can that be? Since our last site of her, she was fighting the Ori with SG-1. Haven’t seen the movie(s) that shows SG-1 and SGC winning that battle yet. Or did the Pegasus galaxy get suspended in time while the Ori were getting blasted By SGC?
Last thing—what’s with the shorter seasons and why is Sci Fi getting to less “Sci Fi” and more wrestling, mind games, seaching for ghosts, and creature of the week(Saturday) and less Sci Fi? Is it slowing being changed to “The Creature Feature Channel”? Gee, I’m already getting Dr Who withdrawal systems.
Okay, really, this is the last item. Oddessy 5 looks to be interesting, so keep it coming, but it looks like a show oginally designed for, say, Showtime, with the gaps in the dialog for words that can’t be said on an “extended basic cable” program. You would have thought that by now we have the tecnology to “fill in” those gaps with cleaner words that could result in tha same, general meaning intended.
Sorry if this was long winded, but I had a lot on my mind. (Bionic Woman-possible good show, but get out of the screwed up production habits that has left he wishing for the 1970′s version of Battle Star Galactica, as campy as it was.)
Save Carson, Dr Weir and hope O Neill is more involved in the SG-1 movie(s)!!!!!!

By: Ahso

Ahso — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:31:35 +0000

I stated on the SGA forum the night I saw it air and realized Carson wouldn’t be back, I would no longer be watching the show. Carson was, IMO, like Mr. Scott on the original Star Trek. A supporting character that became a star role through the length of the series. He just grew on you. His character was the type whose kindness and warmth tempered the harsh reality & violence that surrounded the team. Not just a Doctor, but a friend whose shoulder all could lean on. Yes, this was a definate mess up by the writers. I might return as a viewer if they quit messing with the cast and get on with the story line. They should know by now, most viewers watch to escape this kind of day to day emotional trauma. There is enough in real life. We all look for a feel good story with characters we can get to know and depend on to take us away from our life for that magic hour each week. Change it too often or too drasticaly and you will loose us as viewers. Give us back our Feel Good Carson and keep us. Don’t and loose us. It’s that simple.
Gary Kersey – CEO/President Forest Pro Services

By: TJ

TJ — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 06:11:50 +0000

It’s encouraging that the two episodes occur immediately prior to the finale. If they came earlier in the season with no other appearances scheduled that would make it seem like they aren’t going to bring him back full time. However, the two episodes taking place just before the finale make it very possible for him to return full time in S5, since there could be reasonable circumstances under which he wouldn’t appear in the finale after those two episodes (not every character is in every episode etc).

By: tom white

tom white — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:13:38 +0000

How good is that what great news fair cheered us up here in sqf my son and i cant wait to see the new season and wait to hear BECKETTS BACK FUR GUID !

By: soosha_q

soosha_q — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:18:47 +0000

Awesome! I can’t wait to read the article stating Paul & Carson are back full time! Hopefully it wont be too long now!

By: langenscheidt

langenscheidt — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:41:00 +0000

Oh, joy. Too little too late. Shouldn’t have offed him in the first place.

By: laila

laila — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:17:19 +0000

THANKS FOR THIS CAMPAIGN

By: laila

laila — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:13:57 +0000

i really want becket back

By: April

April — Sat, 18 Aug 2007 00:22:54 +0000

I read that post at his site and I was McHappy! My birthday is this Tuesday the 21st by the way, to the person who said they were posting on their birthday! Fellow Leos love Carson!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:35:45 +0000

For those of you who donâ€™t know, David Hewlett goes out of his way to make himself open to the fans. One way he dose this is thru the Web site Twitter.com. (http://twitter.com/dhewlett) His most recent entry read very simply

â€œWe’ve got an old friend on set this week! Won’t you be Mchappy â€

Thank you David for the heads up!!!!!

I know we are all hoping he means McGillion McHappy!!!