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[starrylizard]

Just came back from lunch with Yokiem and another friend in the Student Room. Yokiem brought her lunch from home, so she beat us down there and got bored waiting, so she turned on the TV. We haven't actually used the TV since cricket season, but when I say TV, I mean there is a TV/VCR/DVD combo thing tied into a projector, so when you turn off the lights it's kinda like watching a movie screen. Plus there are nice comfy couches to lounge about on.

So yeah, we got bored with Oprah and ended up watching Days of Our Lives. Seriously, I've never really been into soapies and this was hilarious. The three of us were doing voice overs and preempting what the characters would do next, plus the story recapping on these shows is hilarious.

They had this whole scene where one guy's dialogue told us how this woman had not had one, but two bouts of amnesia, of which she hadn't recovered from either one yet. And her doctor (the guy doing the dialogue-ing) had just revealed that he was actually her husband. His reason for not telling her sooner -- "I was afraid that if I pushed her too early she might have a psychotic break" I kid you not.

OMG! Hilarious! Best lunchtime fun I've had in ages. Plus it reminded me again of my 'Days in Atlantis' crack that I was on for a while -- before I realised there were RPGs on LJ already doing a better job than me.

Yes I tried to rope some of you into writing this round robin-style with me, but had to give up. You're all just too intelligent to join in with my stupidity. *grins* Smart people!


Days of Atlantis; Like matter through a worm hole; so are the days of Atlantis

Intro: In this series, we are introduced to the characters of Atlantis; a group of intrepid explorers, both civilian and military, from several countries, who came to the Pegasus galaxy and the city of Atlantis via the Stargate. They regularly go out and fight a deadly enemy known as the Wraith and are generally fighting for their survival. However, this side of things takes a back seat in this particular series and is only outlined briefly when necessary in order to make way for the real fun.

Such an emotionally charged atmosphere is obviously the perfect setting for a soap opera of a high calibre, as the men and women of Atlantis fight, love, wheedle, snark and sleep their way into all kinds of interesting intrigue.


As for the most recent SG1 and SGA episodes (10.5 and 3.5), may I say "Wha?"
Yes, I enjoyed them and I'm not complaining, but I think SGA just completely stole from its older sibling (SG1) in the most spectacular style. I mean, come on, they just stole a whole plot line!! Still loved the episode, but yeah...weird.

SG1 just screamed B grade horror flick to me. Did you see the creatures they mutated into? And then when they killed them and they just sort of fell over. And the whole dissection scene and...

Was I the only one getting flashbacks to when the X files turned cracky? Tell me you weren't laughing at the whole thing. Yes, I know it was deliberate, or at least I hope it was, because it was pretty damn funny, but I've only read reviews so far in which people praised the brilliance of the episodes in such a way that I was wondering if I was the only one taking it as sooo much crack?!

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[lark_ascends]

I took SG-1 as the "Rinne giggles hysterically episode". I haven't laughed so much in ages. It was fun, and silly, and yes, scary B-grade which can be fun, and who's to say that there are not mutated things out there that look like things out of B-grade movies? Huh? It's a big galaxy!

Days cracks me up. My mum used to watch it, until channel 9 decided to catch us up several years, then she stopped. The best was Marlena possessed by the Devil, and Stefano using a satellite to activate chips in people's heads. It is crack...However, it's where a lot of actor's get their first big breaks, so it's all good. And you know what's funnier? When a character is like 5, the parent's go away, they come back and the kid is now 15, and the parent says something along the lines of: you've grown so much!

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

lol, I love Days. You can not watch for months, years even, yet still catch up. It's sooo slow. And yes, very cracky.

lavvyan and I were discussing doing Soap Atlantis at one point. There was a big discussion on plot lines over at her jounral and we also considered doing a comic series.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Woo! Not the only nut in the house. Spams you! See, I went a tad crazy with it a while back!

John and Rodney can have a secret affair, because Sheppard is really gay, but he can't bring himself to tell his 'on again – off again lover, Weir, but she is secretly bonking Radek anyway.

There is also a cute little romance going on between McKay and Miko at the same time as he's having hot Atlantis closet sex with Sheppard.

Every soap opera has to have a coma patient, so Bates! People can randomly come and sit by the bed and talk to him and stuff.

Everyone needs to be related, so I figure Teyla and Ronon are really half-siblings and Weir is actually Sheppard's grandmother.

It turns out that through a time travel thing, Weir is really Sheppard's grandmother...or at least it will look that way. Someone working late at night stumbles across some records that indicate that the 'Time travelling' Weir actually woke up one more time than she mentioned. Intrigued by this fact, said person does some more digging. He finds some old files that indicate that a puddle jumper actually left the city at about this time.

Weir had a brief affair with Janas while she was in the past and conceived a baby. During her long sleep the baby grew and, when she was finally due to give birth, she awoke and sent the baby to Earth. She tearfully sent the baby to a pre-determined time and place, where the baby was adopted by a family with the last name of Sheppard. Unknown to Weir, her baby eventually grew up, got married and fathered a baby of his own; a baby son…named John. (Shannon, this is where that picture you have of Janus and his ears and Sheppard and his ears comes in. Remember the one?) Of course, the information could all have been planted by someone, or it could be true.

Teyla will be sobbing over Bates comatose body and then he gets sent back to Earth...to return later of course.

But in the mean time, Ford returns. He's miraculously cured from his enzyme habit and he and Teyla become a couple and she falls pregnant. But, in a freakish twist, they find out that Ford isn't really Ford, but a Wraith imposter! They'll do this big reveal thingy with a mask and stuff.

But then Teyla's left pregnant with a half wraith child …and of course she can hear its thoughts and will walk around mumbling to her belly, looking rather crazy.

Then Bates will return and he'll get back together with Teyla and offer to look after the baby and be its dad, or Ronon could. (incest much.)

Oh and there's the inevitable Hermiod/Kavanagh/Novak love triangle! It just must happen!

Meanwhile Sheppard is still having an affair with McKay and his supposed girlfriend Weir is still having an affair with Zelenka. But Caldwell, unaware of all this, is trying desperately to woo Weir, because he's after Sheppard's job.

Beckett is being stalked by an obsessed Laura Cadman who can't believe that he dumped her and is no longer interested in her.

Beckett is really in love with McKay, but McKay is obsessed with Sheppard and doesn't realize Beckett's crush.

So Laura convinces Hermiod to change the transporters to work like a Wraith beam device and she uses it to switch bodies with McKay. Then, masquerading as McKay, she tells Beckett that he doesn't love him and it was all Cadman with the kissing.

In return for helping Cadman, Hermiod demands she repay in kind and must return a favor later, no questions asked.

Lorne is the sweet slightly naïve one in the series. He is smitten with Weir and when she learns about Sheppard's infidelity she uses Lorne to get back at Sheppard. Lorne is of course unaware of all the sleeping around Weir has also been doing, and he is really is in love and so it's sad and he'll become all bitter and vindictive.

...and that's just the stuff I had on paper.

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

So cool :)

Okay, here's what I have.

Unbeknownst to anyone, Peter Grodin was actually transported of the satellite before it exploded.

A couple of years later Lorne's team find a horribly scarred man in a castle on one of their missions. he has amnesia, so they bring him back to Atlantis.

Amnesia man fits in well with life on Atlantis, he seems to just intuiitively know how things work and the expeditions procedures. It's so weird. But no one realise this is because amnesia man is actually.. Peter Grodin.

Except, Rodney is a little suspicious. The k=guy kind of seems familiar to him, reminds him a bit of his good friend Peter, but that's ridiculous, cause he saw Peter get exploded. Hmmm.. Maybe I'll go and see Carson, get him to to a DNA test on amnesia man.

Rodney is about to head to the infirmary when suddenly, 'off world activation - we're reading the alpha site's IDC' and they drop the shields and who should walk through the gate but.. Peter Grodin. Wha?

Cause the spy in Atlantis realised that Rodney was onto him, so he sent through evil Peter clone to throw the sent off.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

ha! Kindrid spirits indeed! That's great with Grodin!

Now I'm all worked up about it again. *bounces* Silly me! If you ever want to combine forces, just say the word. :)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

My original idea was to just have a community with closed membership in which the few members could randomly add episodes as posts and continue each others plots. Each new entry ending with a bout of shocked staring, like just before an ad break. That way different people could keep different plots running concurrently. Just for fun. But I was deemed a little crazy a long time ago.

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

I think that's a great idea. People coule take turns writing the next episode so no one would have a clue what direction the story was going to take.

Or I'd be up for collaborating too. I'm really not much of a writer though. The crack ideas are in abundance, the writing not so much. If you wanna give it a try though I'd be happy to do something with you :)

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Awesome! I could set up the comm and we could just recruit a few more writers. (I've never talked to lavvyan though I've read some of her fic that was definitely fun.) I'm sure other writers on my flist would jump on board too ...I think anyway.

*rubs hands in glee* I'll set it up once I have a spare moment and we can see if it happens.

[smuffster.livejournal.com]

Digs through lj.

Here's lavvyan's post
http://lavvyan.livejournal.com/38819.html

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

daysofatlantis (I haven't made a banner yet, but I'll get to it shortly.)

[shoemoney2night.livejournal.com]

*iz ded* Wraithbaby! Hermiod/Kavs/Novak OT3! Have I ever told you you're a genius? Cuz you really are.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

*giggles* Have I ever told you that you have a really warped perception of what a genius is? Not that I'm complaining! *basks in her apparent genius-ness*

...and I love your icon! I still want the frood one and I can't find it on my hard drive. *pouts*

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

Since I'm such a genius, would you please make me a community banner? Please pretty please. I'll let you join and write episodes (read as: wanna join and write episodes with me?).

It needs to say: "Like matter through a wormhole; so are the days of Atlantis"

or just: "Days of Atlantis"

*puppy dog eyes*

You gonna be online tonight. Haven't talked to you in yages!