{"id":331,"date":"2005-07-20T06:56:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=331"},"modified":"2005-07-20T06:56:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T13:56:37","slug":"usa-today-the-lighter-side-of-scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/usa-today-the-lighter-side-of-scifi\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: The Lighter Side of SciFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Critic&#8217;s Corner: Robert Bianco &mdash; What to watch this weekend<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/images2\/901cmvala.jpg\" height=\"112\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Vala Mal Doran and Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/images2\/blog-image-space.jpg\" height=\"112\" width=\"15\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\">&#8220;If <i>Battlestar Galactica<\/i> is the dark side of sci-fi &mdash; and Sci Fi &mdash; <i>Stargate SG-1<\/i> (Friday, 8 ET\/PT) is definitely the lighter side,&#8221; Bianco opens up his review.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;More space adventure than deep drama, <i>Stargate<\/i> places no great demands on its audience &mdash; unless you&#8217;re determined to keep track of its increasingly complicated plot. While it&#8217;s not a great series, it can be an entertaining one. And that entertainment quotient jumps immeasurably tonight with the addition of <i>Farscape<\/i>&#8216;s Ben Browder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Even better for <i>Farscape<\/i> fans, Browder is reunited &mdash; for a few episodes, anyway &mdash; with former co-star Claudia Black. Throw in Beau Bridges and some new supervillains and you have a show poised for late-run rejuvenation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With <i>Stargate<\/i> at 8 and <i>Galactica<\/i> at 10, you might as well stay on Sci Fi for <i>Stargate Atlantis<\/i> (9 ET\/PT). It&#8217;s the least of the three, but this way you won&#8217;t have to search for the remote.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/life\/columnist\/criticscorner\/2005-07-14-critics-corner_x.htm\">Read the rest of the review here.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/index.php\/9.01_%22Avalon_Part_1%22_Episode_Guide\">9.01 &#8220;Avalon Part 1&#8221; Episode Guide<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/index.php\/9.02_%22Avalon_Part_2%22_Episode_Guide\">9.02 &#8220;Avalon Part 2&#8221; Episode Guide (spoilers present)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critic&#8217;s Corner: Robert Bianco &mdash; What to watch this weekend &#8220;If Battlestar Galactica is the dark side of sci-fi &mdash; and Sci Fi &mdash; Stargate SG-1 (Friday, 8 ET\/PT) is definitely the lighter side,&#8221; Bianco opens up his review. &#8220;More space adventure than deep drama, Stargate places no great demands on its audience &mdash; unless &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/usa-today-the-lighter-side-of-scifi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USA Today: The Lighter Side of SciFi&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}