{"id":763,"date":"2013-10-09T21:29:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-10T01:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog-test\/?p=763"},"modified":"2024-01-21T11:34:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-21T16:34:03","slug":"wells_sga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/10\/wells_sga\/","title":{"rendered":"Wells, Martha: <cite>Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary; Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement<\/cite>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finally for tonight, an entry written many moons ago and just unearthed; it appears to be complete, and I have no idea why I haven&#8217;t posted it before. <\/p>\n<p>A while ago I watched <cite>Stargate Atlantis<\/cite>. In many ways it was not a very good show, but I watched 99% of it [*] because it was very undemanding material to stitch to, that is, I could listen and only need to look up occasionally. <\/p>\n<p>[*] I skipped the season five clip show because, first, clip show, and second, its frame story sounded guaranteed to drive me up a wall. <\/p>\n<p>I got into watching the show to provide context for fanfic that I more-or-less-randomly started reading, which also led me to <strong>Martha Wells&#8217; two tie-in novels, <cite>Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary<\/cite> and <cite>Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement<\/cite><\/strong>. These were terrific: the kind of exciting SFnal explorations that the show mostly did not manage on its own. Partly this is of course the greater scope a book allows, with no special effects budget or time limit, but also it&#8217;s a willingness to be more complicated and thorough that the show didn&#8217;t achieve even in multi-episode arcs. If you liked the idea of the show and the characters when they weren&#8217;t suffering from plot-induced stupidity, then it&#8217;s worth checking these out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally for tonight, an entry written many moons ago and just unearthed; it appears to be complete, and I have no idea why I haven&#8217;t posted it before. A while ago I watched Stargate Atlantis. In many ways it was not a very good show, but I watched 99% of it [*] because it was &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/2013\/10\/wells_sga\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wells, Martha: <cite>Stargate Atlantis: Reliquary; Stargate Atlantis: Entanglement<\/cite>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,15],"tags":[432],"class_list":["post-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-sf-and-fantasy","tag-wells-martha"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelypips.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}