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You ever think about how they made the minions immortal so that they wouldn’t have to explain how they reproduce

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?? they made the minions immortal???

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Yeah it’s like the same 200 minions forever

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They also trapped them in the Arctic for a long time so they wouldn’t have to show them working for hitler because canonically they’re evil and serve the most evil master around and they’re clearly ok with serving dictators because they were depicted helping Napoleon so the solution to keep hitler out of the story was just to trap the yellow blobs on an iceberg.

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So these things have been alive since the dinosaurs and are basically minor spirits or gods that exist to serve the side of evil and during that whole time they remained grossly incompetent.

Does the universe in despicable me want evil to fail or win? Or are these stupid yellow sexless idiots meant to keep a balance of some kind? Because they do not seem to have a niche in any ecosystem that I know of so their origin must be divine somehow.

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See, I don’t think that they’re a species. I think that they’re something else. Because everything else in that universe seems to follow ordinary rules of evolution but the same however many hundred minions keep changing their appearance and not dying. I think that the minions were intelligently designed.

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Roman, my guy, are you really saying that minions are evidence of a god in despicable me lore?

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Not god per se but… something.

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Evil vs good. Evil made minions, good made them stupid yellow blobs

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So are you positing that maybe they came to be because of some primordial yin/yang type battle between energies in the ocean or something?

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But they have to reproduce somehow, there are way more minions in the Despicable Me movies than the Minions movie

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there’s a blueprint hanging on a wall in the first movie that shows Gru developed a way to create minions out of corn kernels

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please i don’t want to learn these things

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No one wants to talk about the fact that they worked with Napoleon means the minions canonically participated in the trans Atlantic slave trade

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Finally a new observation that doesn’t have to do with corn

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I’ve been working on this for months and the truth is I could continue to add to it forever but I want you all to enjoy it with me

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transcript:

Griffin: [as Jenkins] A witch kissed me and cursed me so that anytime anybody yells a secret word, I have to attend to their every need, and that word is my fucking name, Jenkins.
Justin: [snickering]

G: Are you naming your goddamn wizard Taako?

G: Oh- shit. Oh, god, oh, god, where’d it go, oh no, no, no!

G: If possible, I would love to- to avoid a shitting-based solution? Uh, A, because I don’t want to know what exists beyond the explicit tag in iTunes? [Justin laughs] I don’t- like, is there a fucking NC-17 rating? I don’t wanna- I don’t think I wanna be a part of that. But also-
Justin: [crosstalk] Hey!
G: I would also not like this scene to drag on out as long as- as a human being’s digestive cycle.

G: [background laughter] Fun show, fun show games!

G: And I think I just described a plant orgasm. And this has been Fifty Shades of Green [Clint laughs], starring four idiots.

G: So the end of that sentence that you cut off was- and I- so I won’t be able to put up with any shit today, but the problem is I already have? Now people will stop tweeting about me that I said one of Barry’s favorite things is swimming in a cold lake on a hot day, and then in two episodes later say he didn’t know how to swim.

G: ‘Kay, you and the box both drink POISON! And you survive, but the box has died.
Clint: That means it’s open, right?
G: Yes, with that the box pops open and it has 900 gold pieces inside.
Everyone: Yeah! [cheering]

Travis: I get it.
Justin: Damn, that’s a good door!
G: No, it’s- [yelling] let me finish describing what happened to the door! I’ve been trying to tell you what happened to the door for like ten minutes!

Travis: I tap it with the Glutton’s Fork and I swallow it.
Justin: [muffled wheezing]
Griffin: What the fuck!

Griffin: [laugh-crying] You’re gonna turn him into a man tube? [wheezing] You- you’re gonna turn him into a bag or a shelf with the rock sitting on it-

Griffin, loudly: What the fuck?! [audience laughter]
Travis: Double damage is- 4 and 3 plus 4 and 1.
Griffin: I didn’t give Marvey HP!

Griffin: Is the stapler in here? Anyone want the fucking stapler?

Griffin: Oh, Jesus, you love this shit! [Travis, crosstalk: I’m sorry-] It’s your- You’re a fucking pervert! Fetish- you’re exposing everybody to your fetishes!
Travis: I’m so sorry!

Griffin: Uh- it is an uneventful climb to the twentieth floor. And, uh- as-
Travis: Floor twenty!
Griffin: as- as- What?
Justin and Travis: [snickering] Floor twenty!
Griffin: [pause] We’re not gonna say anything better than that-
Travis: Griffin, we have to fight some weeds at floor twenty.
Griffin: We have thirty minutes to go, and we’re not gonna say anything better than that. Did you even think about that?

Justin: I grow bored with this fight. [laughter]
Griffin: Okay. [crosstalk]
Justin: I’m- I’m casting polymorph on myself-
Griffin: Oh, fucking- wow.
Justin: Griffin, I’m texting you- [Griffin: oh]because you’re going to need this information.
Griffin: Oh my god, Justin.
Justin: Yes.
[Wonderland music starts]
Griffin: Taako’s arms sink into his chest, so that he’s just got, sort of, little arms, and his head gets really big, and really long, [Clint laughs] and his teeth get very sharp, and he grows a tail, and he turns into a tyrannosaurus rex.

Griffin: [yelling] Oh, NO! Are you keeping track of how many times you rolled as well?
Clint: [crosstalk] To be honest the educational system in Huntington, West Virginia sucks-
Travis: Twenty-five! Twenty-five! Four, four! Twenty-five! Twenty-seven! [overlapped with Justin]
Griffin: it’s dead- STOP! Stop! You’re killing him!
Travis and Justin: Thirty! Thirty-six!
Griffin: Stop! He’s already dead!
Travis: One more, one more, one more- [Clint: C'MON!]
Travis and Justin: Thirty-seven! [A pause as the audience laughs]
Travis: His parents feel it!
Griffin: You fucking- you fucking- this turtle’s- this turtle’s parents-
Travis: [crosstalk] Is that where the turtle’s brother dies?
Griffin: -forget about him. This turtle was a successful turtle author, and the words on his books fucking vanish. [audience laughter] You have erased this turtle from existence.

Travis: But my butt-
Griffin: [yelling] Come on, I’m in hell! [crosstalk] I’m dead and in hell now! You opened the door! You built the fucking door! Out of wood! Shitwood! Shame on you and shame on us!

Justin, as Taako: Garfield?
Griffin, as Garfield: Yes?
Justin: I have something I think is really going to interest you.
Griffin: [yelling out of character] OH MY GOD!
Justin: This is the Slicer of T'pire Weir Isles [background laughter] and I notice that you have a really cool sword. It’s a Flaming, Poisoning, Raging Sword of Doom, I believe it’s called.
Griffin: Oh my god…
Justin: And- I’m looking at your entire stock and it does seem to me that’s your most valuable posession, would you say that’s accurate?
Griffin: [laughter, as Garfield] Yes, it’s absolutely the most valuable thing in the store!

Griffin: [very tired] I didn’t expect it to go like that. [audience laughter] Um- and-
Travis: What did you expect to happen?
Griffin: [yelling] For you to catch a fucking fish in my fish mini game! [audiene cheers] Is that so- Am I out of my mind? Is that an unreasonable expectation? To give them a fucking fish mini game- Taako makes the lake float, Travis jumps in with a rapier, like, “let’s get it done!” and Dad makes, the- the fucking shit teleport away! [audience laughter]
Clint: Welcome- welcome to The Adventure Zone, Griffin.

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[Image Description: screenshots of griffin on the my brother my brother and me tv show where he’s talking to his brothers. he is saying, “teens are very much into the following: bullying me on Tumblr.” End Description]

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sri lankan protestors throwing a pool party at their president’s house? good for them love this energy

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They were cooking in the president’s kitchen and playing he’s piano while singing as well XD

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Okay so a lot of people were saying there are no women in sight but there were women of all ages. Look,

Middle age women using the president’s gym:

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A lot of of families and women were outside the president’s place 😅

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The entire freaking country united for this. Every sri lankan of all ages and all religions were there to sent Gota home XD

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#someone pull up the photo of the nuns at the barricade facing all the guns #reblogging again because there are bigoted little shits in the notes #stop fuckign white knighting #sri lanka #silence terves:) i know queer and trans women/enbys who have been volunteering at the GGG model village for months even through harassment: #y'all don't know the half of it
Tweet by Lew @lew1ya: My favourite photograph of the protests [Image of trans woman holding up a placard that says "I AM A TRANS WOMAN AND WILLING TO DONATE MY BALLS TO GOTA"] 09 Jul 22 from Sri Lanka.

Trans and enby people have been a fucking constant presence at the protest village and every protest for the last fifteen fucking fucking weeks!! Anyone trying to erase them is going to get personally curb-stomped by me!!!

Also:

Tweet by Roel Raymond @roelraymond: Priests and nuns have formed a human barricade between protestors and the police at the entrance to Lotus Road, Colombo 1. [Image of nuns in their long white habits and dark veils standing in a line in front of the barricades with their backs to the photographer/ID]  9:27 09 Jul 22 Twitter for iPhone

These nuns had their own encampment at both Gotagogama and Mainagogama, and I think in Kandy as well, bringing food to feed low income people and conduct interfaith events with Muslim imams and Buddhist priests. They were some of the first on the frontlines, even defying Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith back when he was supporting the Rajapaksas. They also formed a human barrier in front of the Inter-University Students Federation march back in May, when the cops hammered iron spikes and barbed wire into the barricades to impale the kids if they pushed forward.

Tweet by Yasuni Manikkage @ManikkageYasuni:  Incredibly grateful to the fearless reporters, Sarasi Pieris & Waruna Sampath of @NewsfirstSL for being the "Eyes & ears" of Sri Lanka. I'm in awe  [Side by side pictures of a pretty young woman in a baseball cap, and a man posing against a video camera]  13:32. 09 Jul 22 Twitter for Android

So many female journalists have been leading figures in the local news coverage on the ground at all hours of the protests (Roel Raymond from Roar, Namini Wijedasa, Uditha Jayasinghe, Meera Srinivasan) , but 23-year-old Sarasi Pieris was one of the youngest, with NewsFirst crew who were providing the best live TV coverage of the front lines yesterday. She became something of a protest icon over the course of the day until this happened:

Here's the video where NewsFirst journalists are being beaten up by the STF. On the audio, you can here Sarasi begging and pleading with the STF to not beat them by — "ගහන්න එපා සර්, අනේ ගහන්න එපා ". It is very chilling to hear. Journalists shouldn't have to beg for their lives. pic.twitter.com/IIiy2EhW8a  — Anjula Hettige (@AnjulaHettige) July 9, 2022

They stayed for hours in front of the PM’s house amid the Special Task Force tear gassing and firing at protestors until they started outright hunting the journalists and attacking them. Sarasi is screaming “PLEASE DONT HIT US SIR, SIR PLEASE DON’T HIT US!” in the video. She, her cameraman Waruna and others are still in hospital. Roel had to fucking hide until they could get her out of there. SO PUT SOME GODDAMN RESPECT IN THEIR NAMES.

And then visit this video:

What's happening In-side the Prime Minister's official house - Temple Trees! #lka #srilanka #colombo pic.twitter.com/Mk7boe8g4i  — RJ Saksi™ (Media Professional) (@saksivarnan) July 10, 2022

Those are both men and women making a communal kitchen out of the Prime Minister’s official residence!

Tweet by Ishara Danasekara (@IsharaDanasekar):  People's Struggle: A lady with a big smile sits in a chair after protesters occupied the presidential house at Fort. CBK 's picture is seen behind herself #LKA #SriLanka [Image of an old lady, very thin and weathered with her grey hair in a plait, dressed in simple skirt and blouse, sitting in an ornate chair and smiling shyly at the camera as young protestors mill around her]  15:19. 09 Jul 22 Twitter for iPhone
Tweet by Devjyot Ghoshal @DevjyotGhoshal:  B.M. Chandrawathi, 61-year-old handkerchief seller, sauntered into a first-floor bedroom, accompanied by her daughter and grandchildren. "We were hoodwinked," she told me, trying out a sofa. "I wanted my kids and grandkids to see the luxurious lifestyle they were enjoying."  [Image of a clearly poor family sitting side by side in a large plush sofa. The grandmother on the left is small and withered with scant hair, carrying a large cloth bag, her daughter is also very thin, but her hair in two neat plaits is still dark despite the weary set of her brows. Two little girls sit between them. The family is framed by the billowing curtains of the luxurious bay windows.] 12:49. 10 Jul 22. Twitter Web App

These are only two among the many families who were there, but these are also women and girls and they are the most overlooked and dismissed, even though they are the ones who suffer the most. Women are always wherever men are, whether cis or trans, along with every other gender. We are only invisible when no one cares to look.

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@aroacedavestrider my dude i cannot in good faith accept these useless geography facts on account of them being iconic, actually

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oh my god nothing in my imagination could’ve prepared me for market island.

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or for this review on google maps:

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im glad to know my horrible facts are making their rounds and im here with more horrible facts

- the most secluded inhabited island in the world is a place called tristan da cunha. its in the middle of the atlantic ocean at a whopping fucking 1500 miles away from the closest inhabited location (south africa). people just fucking live out there??

- the oldest lake in the world is (probably) lake zaysan in kazahstan. nobodys entirely certain yet but theres evidence that suggests that this is a 65 million year old body of water, meaning theres a lake that exists and can be looked at today that could have had dinosaurs drinking out of it at one point

-the lake immediately following that is confirmed to be at least 25 million years old and thats lake baikal in siberia russia. the bitch is on a continental fault that expands about 2cm per year and as of right now this lake is over a mile deep. the bottom however is FULL of sediment and the actual rift floor is NINE MILES DOWN. this monstrosity of a lake contains literally 20% of the earths nonfrozen fresh water, it has its own unique species of seal, and eventually in millions of years this thing is gonna be an ocean. lake baikal is a baby fucking ocean. its gonna split russias ass in two. i am 100% certain it is sentient

- there is not a single river in saudi arabia and that blows my mind for some reason

- theres whats now considered a lost “eighth continent” thats submerged in the south pacific ocean. the islands of new zealand are the highest peaks of the chunk of continental crust that we now call zealandia. its about half the size of australia and its also connected to other little archipelagos like new caledonia. we found it. old zealand

- the entrance to this fucking ancient bay lake in venezuela (lake maracaibo, over 20 million years old) is the most likely place to get struck by lightning in the world. it gets around 1.2 million lightning strikes per year 

- LAKE HILLIER AUSTRALIA FUCKIGN PINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- and finally. more enclave border bullshit. i told yall about baarle hertog. now look at india and pakistan. i present to you the one and only third order enclave

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this . this was a piece of india, surrounded by a piece of bangladesh, surrounded.. by a piece of india….. surrounded by bangladesh . it has since been ceded over to bangladesh but the fact that we allowed this to exist is incredible

anyway do with all that what you will. raise your hand if you can tell this is a fixation of mine

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sooo….. THIS is Baarle-Hertog:

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The wikipedia article names all the enclaves and tells you what the border runs through, including such gems as:

H7, De Loversche Akkers: Boundary runs through two dwellings, including the middle of one front door (giving it two house numbers: Loveren 2, Baarle-Hertog / Loveren 19, Baarle-Nassau).

– H13, Boschcoven:  Boundary runs through about 20 dwellings.

– H16, Keizershoek - Oordelsche Straat:  Boundary runs through a house and three sheds, with three turning points inside just one shed.

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Fun thing about these spots on the Dutch-Belgian border: it was ridiculous during lockdown because our countries had different rules about going into shops. So people would be going into a shop without a mask and someone at the till would have to be like “excuse me, isle seven is in Belgium please put on your mask or I have to kick you out” it was so funny and stupid

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tokraspice asked:

What is the sga debacle?? Did he do something specific?? I only know that he also made the shows Dark Matter and Utopia Falls which both have diversity and representation so that makes me hopeful for the same treatment in a new stargate series.

sassycordy answered:

hi! whew im so sorry im just getting to this lmfao. truthfully ive been rly busy and this is such a serious topic that i wanted to make sure i chose my words carefully and laid everything out in the best way possible. 


disclaimer section! im not the best person to speak on this topic ahha. I just got into the fandom last year and it was only a few months ago that i started to hear some of these issues that existed previously (so if any veteran stargate fans wanna hop in on this and explain things in greater detail, please do)! also this is not a call out post or canceling thing. this is simply a hey-these-things-happened-and-maybe-we-should-be-careful-with-who-we-interact-with-and-trust type thing. anyways without further ado, here’s some of the sketchy shit that went down behind the scenes of stargate atlantis! (all sources are posted in the comment/replies btw)


> let’s start with the decision to kill off carson beckett because thats where the first weird comment pops up. now a lot of people claim that this was a move made by writers & producers to shake up the show and “make the actors feel less secure.” i’ve never been able to find that direct quote although ive heard people say that someone openly admitted it on the audio commentary/bonus features on the atlantis dvds soo take that however you like aha.


> after the sudden exit of paul mcgillion, tori higginson left the show a few episodes later anddddd ok this is where things escalate. this is an interview she gave where she openly talks about everything that went on behind the scenes. but to summarize, the writers ignored all of her input and refused to grow the character further when she had clearly outgrown the “Hammond” role. joseph mallozzi states in his blog post that brad wright himself was very fond and loved the weir character and he claims that the decision to write her out was because of “just simple logic.”(1) however, torri tells a different story. (2) 


“Honestly? I found that quite shitty, to be honest (laughs).Oops. But I found out, because I kept going to them, I kept going up to them saying ‘I have a feeling my character, you’re not doing anything with me, and you guys have me for six years and I don’t want to, you know, be here not doing anything. Let me know what’s going on.’ And they kept saying “no, no, no, it’s great. We love you. We love you. Things can be great.’ And I said ‘well, if that’s the case, can we do something with her’ and they kept reassuring me that nothing - and the very last day of filming season three, as I finished filming the last scene on the last day I was called up to the office and was told that my character was going to become recurring if I chose to be. So, I thought that was not very, um, dignified, way to deal with it, and I was a bit surprised. So I was—so my reaction was one of yeah, I was a little bit surprised. I was a little bit upset by how it was dealt with. But I wasn’t upset at the decision because I understood it. I kept going to them saying ‘I get, I get what’s going to happen, just give me some notice so I can pack my apartment and move back to L.A. Really. So I wasn’t upset with the decision. I was upset with how it was handled.”


she was led on and told her role would be reduced after the filming of season three which is uh. absolutely insane to think about considering she’s the main female lead of the show. And this is just my personal opinion but i think its interesting timing that as soon as brad stepped down, joseph mallozzi and his writing partner, paul mullie got rid of her. It’s also pretty telling that there was some bad blood behind the scenes because she didn’t even reprise her character in season five for the ghost in the machine aka the episode where they “kill elizabeth” off. although i do wanna mention that since then, jm has posted that he believes elizabeth would actually still be alive today and is just in stasis somewhere waiting to be found …which is nice. i guess. maybe they shouldn’t have fired her in the first place but hey whatever. 


and to end the torri section, here’s another quote that i think is the real reason she was let go from atlantis.


Question: And now Amanda Tapping seems to be doing exactly the same… just filing an episode. Torri said “Well, no. I understand that it’s a club, and you know, some people.. .you know. I think they didn’t like me constantly rapping on the doors saying ‘excuse me, why aren’t there any women writers or any women producers on the show?’ I think it bothered them. And so, Amanda, bless her, just had a kid so… bless her, man, she needs that gig more than [me]… you know what I mean? So I have no issues with any of them. I understand how it works. It is a bit of a political game and… I’m not very good at politics (laughs). I’m like Weir. I just want to act.”


> now this is where the joe flanigan of it all starts to come in. he’s been vocal about defending torri higginson and openly saying how bad of a decision it was to kill her off. (3) and his interview with dial the gate was enlightening on a few topics. (4)

  1. his character didn’t get a backstory until season 3. tptb literally told him, “john likes ferris wheels” and called it a day. which is actually mind boggling. they gave him nothing to work with and somehow he turned it into gold. 
  2. he’s also said many times and in different interviews how terrible it was that the writers carried over from sg1. the cast would pitch ideas but would be shut down because they would sound “too much like an sg1 ep” which is ridiculous considering how many atlantis scripts are just a rip off of sg1 eps anyways.


> and finally the whole whispers debacle. now i don’t really know a lot about this, so I’ll just link the tumblr post that first brought this to my attention! (5) there’s also the whole “the writers stopped taking notes from the cast after season 3 and specifically started to shun joe out”  thing (which is very obvious in seasons 4 and 5) so i’ll also link another great tumblr post because they explain it so much better than i can. (6)


> there’s also the fact that once it became clear that universe was not doing well, both bw and jm turned and blamed it on atlantis and even sg1 fans.


I don’t think if we, for any reason, go away, it is an issue necessarily of the quality of the product that we’ve been making. I think getting moved on the schedule has hurt us. And the fact that some of the fans that liked SG-1 and Atlantis were so angry that they have deliberately hurt us, which is unfortunate.” (7) Brad Wright. 


Jaso967060 writes: “Heck I think alot of people from “that other site” could be won back if some changes are made. (Finding out the Destinys Mission and the crew working together more instead of tearing each other down…and having more action…changes like that.)” 

Answer: Disagree. Given that their deluded mission statement is to see SGU cancelled in order to pave the way for an SGA return, I doubt that very much. (8) Joseph Mallozzi


this post is getting too long so i won’t go into the whole “stargate atlantis viewers were not the right demographic the writers wanted” thing. because yes this may have been said by one of the writers (i don’t have a source but so many people bring it up and it makes sense considering the type of show universe is). also joe flanigan talked about how the writers and producers disrespected atlantis fans and he sorta mentions this quote too so im gonna link it. (9) also i would just like to say huge shoutout to joe for not caring to be diplomatic lol. 


but yea. please take this post however you would like. all of this happened years and years ago so one can only hope people have learned from their mistakes. and if a fourth stargate show is ever made, I just pray they’ll finally have women and poc writers/producers/directors as main contributors. also joseph mallozzi has done so many interviews with dial of the gate in recent years, so i would check those out if anyone would like to hear his current thoughts on stargate. (if you do, please message me because i would love to know if he acknowledges any of these topics ahah). 


and to end this lovely post, let’s reminisce on that one time joe flanigan called the writers of atlantis “rodney mckays” <3


“Because the writers are all McKays – they are the collective Rodney McKay. It’s a whole load of little McKays running round up there in the offices.” (10)


so sorry this took a million years to respond to ahha. and i may have gotten a bit sidetracked but i hope i answered your question !!

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and this isn’t even EVERYTHING tbh

just ask me what happened to the nice queer couple in stargate origins (don’t ask me, it was awful, trust me, you don’t want to know)

and I love sg1 and sga but I also am fully cognizant of their flaws

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So off the top of my head:

Mallozzi got kicked off the main fan website for his own show for being a huge asshole to fans. Gateworld was the primary fan site for Stargate (this was before social media) and they had to ban him for being a dick to people. That tells you all you need to know about this dude.

There was a serial rapist character they introduced in a “humorous” episode, and when the fanbase pointed out this guy was drugging and raping people and it was not funny, they deliberately brought the character back in another episode.

When Universe was being promoted the Bridge Boys club (the producers) bragged that it wasn’t for their existing fanbase, and they were pretty explicit that they meant the heavily female fanbase of SGA. They were making a show for dudes, instead. Honestly they wanted to have their own BSG and failed.

In response to this bragging, the female fanbase of Stargate didn’t watch SGU. Individually some did, but collectively SGU had the lowest ratings among SyFy’s shows for female viewers. They told us it wasn’t for us and then they got mad that we didn’t watch. And blamed us for the show getting cancelled.

The Boys were also pretty blunt that they brought Jewel Stait in because Rachel Luttrell wasn’t hot enough any more after she had the baby.

Last but not least, they forced Amanda Tapping to go work on SGA because she was under contract when SG1 ended. She wanted to go do her own show, “Sanctuary” but they insisted she had to keep working on Stargate, and they were angry that she wasn’t grateful for the work. I don’t recall if Shanks and the other SG1 actors were still in contract at that point, since they all got to leave, maybe they weren’t, but it would be notable if they let all the guys out when the show was cancelled but not Amanda.

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The “shutting Joe out” thing is actually WAY WORSE because it goes to how Mallozzi dealt with his employees.

TV networks/studios have photographers who take official photographs for publicity purposes. Those images will have a network/studio watermark on them. Most importantly, the actors in the pictures get paid if and when someone licenses the picture for, say, an article about the show.

Mallozzi had a blog where he would share behind-the-scenes stuff from productions, including pictures. Except they weren’t the official, licensed pictures that he would have had to pay to use. They were pictures he took. Without permission.

The license fees weren’t a big deal for the main cast, but for a day player with three lines? This was depriving them of a source of income. So they went to the president of the union on set. Which was Joe Flanigan.

Joe went to Mallozzi as union president to file an official complaint about it. Mallozzi didn’t have a leg to stand on. He was absolutely in the wrong, and thereafter he made a big fuss about how he’d definitely asked permission to take these pictures on his blog and it definitely wasn’t violating union rules.

And after that, the producers stopped talking to Joe.

freifraufischer

The stuff about Amanda Tapping was also worse.  Her contract was written so that she had to do X number of episodes in the Stargate franchise when SG1 was cancelled.  

She had already moved on, had filmed the pilot for Sanctuary which she was the executive producer on and her show had been picked up when they forced her back to do the year of Stargate Atlantis.  She had an entire production that was relying on her as the lead and producer on Sanctuary and so as not to put them all out of work she ended up having to film both shows that year (Sanctuary Season 1, SGA Season 4).  Sanctuary is an amazing show but there is a reason that Amanda looks physically tired during episodes of both shows and much better in Sanctuary Season 2.  Because she wasn’t having to do Stargate anymore.  She also had to wear a wig during the first season of sanctuary because the character had a different hair color.  

The Bridge Boys were also shooting themselves in the foot with this because they were in effect actively sabotaging another show being produced for the people cutting their paychecks.  Let’s just say SyFi liked Amanda a lot more then them.

As a weird aside also coming from Tapping she told my ex-wife at a con after the shows were over that she would read through fan message boards trying to figure out background for her character that made any sense (as it turned out I was writing some of that meta and she recognized my user name).  She had tried to ask the writers for any kind of backstory for Sam and got nothing.  She was also apparently not the only actor who was doing this.

freifraufischer

And I just remembered another “great” part of the production. There are things that you can ask extras to do “cheering with specific lines” but you can’t make them do because it’s technically acting.  A lot of extras will do so if the set is a nice place.   There are also lines that productions can’t cross with using non professional extras.  The stargate productions pulled so much bullshit that the vancouver extras union representative had to institute work to rule mandates that effected a ton of unrelated productions.  There are several episodes of Battlestar Galactica where the crowds are particularly uninvolved in the things going on and those episodes were filmed during this period of tension.

They were so shitty to extras that they made things hard for OTHER sets.

havocthecat

Like. I’m trying not to add things like “okay NOW malozzi is saying ‘oh weir was alive all along,’” but literally people (me) were going to cons and talking to torri and she was saying things like, “I wasn’t getting any answer about a future for elizabeth and I decided to say no to give the fans some closure, it was a surprise when they recast me.” it seems obvious to me that the decision to “make elizabeth alive and in stasis all along” was a bullshit ex post facto.

I also have pdfs of the old Higginson transcript about her knocking on doors asking where the women directors and writers were at. Not sure if I ever saved the audio though. (Kind of like how I saved the old Liz Gracen files on how The Raven turned into a trashfire because no way was I going to let THAT accusation go unanswered every time. How is it that the women always get accused? HOW?)

And fuck Lucius Lavin, that character was a rapey trashfire and I don’t care how venerable Richard Kind is as an actor, they could have written better material for him. Or just brought in Lucius’ less rapey twin brother to bring him back.

Stargate AtlantisSGAlong postbehind the scenesyeah I knew some of thisnot the union stuff mind youfunny I remember a line of Flanigan's that he really didn't get comfortable with John as character until S3 might coincide with him gettingtho writers not listening to fans and actors isnt anything new the mood it fostered behind the scenes here...
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reblog if your name isn’t Hans.

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if i have to read the word “Hans” ONE more time-

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