08-19-2006, 05:10 AM
> It was a parody, can't you geeks laugh?
It wasn't a parody. Portions were satirical. Mostly, it was a poorly written and poorly imagined tribute to itself.
As I found my mind wandering (repeatedly) throughout the episode, I kept coming back to the conclusion that had they chosen one theme and ran with it, that would have made a decent 200th episode. For example, a joke-filled fantasy episode with Ewoks/Furlings and lots of inadvertent explosions. Or an episode entirely done with puppets. Or an episode where they each played their corresponding roles as the characters on the Wormhole-X tv show.
But simply spewing one idea after another with a loose frameworks supplied by revisiting an already-exhausted plot-device, featuring deliberately poor dialogue, costumes and effects in *every* segment (excepting the bit with the puppets, which was the only thing done professionally)... that's not parody. That's torture.
It wasn't a parody. Portions were satirical. Mostly, it was a poorly written and poorly imagined tribute to itself.
As I found my mind wandering (repeatedly) throughout the episode, I kept coming back to the conclusion that had they chosen one theme and ran with it, that would have made a decent 200th episode. For example, a joke-filled fantasy episode with Ewoks/Furlings and lots of inadvertent explosions. Or an episode entirely done with puppets. Or an episode where they each played their corresponding roles as the characters on the Wormhole-X tv show.
But simply spewing one idea after another with a loose frameworks supplied by revisiting an already-exhausted plot-device, featuring deliberately poor dialogue, costumes and effects in *every* segment (excepting the bit with the puppets, which was the only thing done professionally)... that's not parody. That's torture.