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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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This is the mild version of my posts on the season. I swear, everyone but Ford and Teyla screwed up 50 times in that season. (That said, at least half of Weir's problems were caused by Sheppard's stupidity forcing her into difficult situations.)

The race and gender(ESPECIALLY gender) issues there were so screwed up that I think only my deep love for Teyla got me through it.

I feel your pain, mi amigo. My burden is called Battlestar Galactica. I wanna slap most of the humans on that show and cheer for the robots instead of the other way around! I like that the female characters are intelligent and strong-willed, but one of them (Starbuck) makes me see red with her cavalier bullshit that I know I'm supposed to find so empowering and awesome. She just irritates me to no end except when she's being tender with someone or in a dangerous situation, wherein I actually sympathize with her.

IIIIIII knoooooooow! (I said that the way Craig Ferguson would.) I watch this show most days at 5:00 PM on Sci Fi, and my mind boggles that I know intelligent people who actually like it. It's just...awful. And McKay! My frelling word, I'd kill him in 30 seconds

Race and gender issues aside, I just don't understand how Fandom finds McKay hot! Augh.

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.

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?

I am going to be contrary again but I say "no" to both. :D I am kind of selfish so definition of good for me is "makes alexandra amused" .. But I am never capable to watch something that doesn't amuse me. But the characters in it I can hate or like however.

I tried few times but none of Startrek, Sratgate or similar amuse me.

I think they put crack in it. That's the only logical explanation for my inability to stop watching.

AHAHAHA. I love watching people write stuff like this. 'Cause when I was watching, it was mostly all not noticing the issues iirc. It's only now, looking back, that. Yeah. Sigh.

I've never watched this show, but I'm highly amused by the fact that there are EVIL SPACE VAMPIRES.

I can't help it. I love this show. BSG pissed me of beyond belief and I can no longer watch this, but I do enjoy SGA because so many of the charactres are lovable (despite being terribly flawed). I really like Sheppard, Weir, Ronon, Teyla, McKay, Zelenka, Lorne, even smaller characters like Novak and Chuck the Canadian technician. It's rare that there's a show where I find so many people quite lovable.

As to ethnics, as an Asian, I fear that Pegasus Galaxy appears to have no Asian-looking Aliens. So sad :D

I'm not really involved in it anymore, but if you want a few fic recs let me know. I also have captions and manips. *eg*