lesbiassparrow | (no subject)

Have you ever watched something that you know is not good, that frequently makes you want to smack most of the main characters at least once per episode, but still you can't stop watching?

Such is my horrified and fascinated reaction to watching season one of Stargate:~~the white man's burden~~Atlantis. The main plot of this show is fighting EVIL SPACE VAMPIRES whom our intrepid heroes wake by accident while doing something they shouldn't! The male lead is a maverick who always know better than his female boss! His female boss decides that interviewing people (whose culture and lifestyle your crew accidentally have destroyed) in a friendly way means locking them in their quarters first then having two of you throw hostile questions at them! Because clearly that's going to get them to want to tell you things. For supposedly smart people they do an endless amount of stupid things most of which I am apparently supposed to applaud because a) they leave no one behind (thus waking the EVIL SPACE VAMPIRES) and b) they value human life.

It's like they sent all of the people most likely to cause harm in our galaxy to another one to ensure that they couldn't blow things up here.* At least now I know whom the ancestors of the people on Star Trek: Voyager are.

And still I find myself compulsively wondering what fresh havoc they will wreck in every new episode. And madly shipping everyone with everyone else on an episode by episode basis. Except for Sheppard/McKay. I think Sheppard would shoot him within 10 minutes.

SEND HELP. STOP. CANNOT STOP WATCHING. STOP. PLEASE. STOP.

* Honourable exception: Lt. Ford. I bet they kill him, the bastards.

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Star Trek: Enterprise was my "OMG! I want to slap the shit out of all of you, but I can't stop watching the train wreck long enough to do it!" shows. I'd literally be sitting there, screaming at them in all of their stupidity.

I hated nearly everybody and would usually wish a painful death on Archer at least three times an episode. I think the main reason I stuck it out was becasue I was sure it had to get better. IT HAD TO!

It didn't.

I watched season 1 of that show. By the end of it the only one I liked was the dog. Oh, and that linguist who never got any lines. Probably because she never had any lines.

Did they all die in the end? Because I'd watch that episode.

You know, I have no idea how it ended. And I watched every episode! LOL!

I'm sure we weren't lucky enough to get such a great ending though.