Yes. Where in the first season it seemed very out of place and in the second a little odd, Ben's overconfidence and naivete appearing in season three just fits the bill. Now that he actually has saved the galaxy and prevented war, he thinks he can do it again without problem, ignoring how hard it was the first time around and how many sacrifices they really had to make. Honestly, now that I think about it, Stan Berkowitz's episodes are the most cynical of the lot. Ben is constantly being betrayed or tricked because he's got a hero complex worse than Harry Potter's. I'm just waiting for the day when Gwen points out he's got a "saving people thing."
Yeah, it looks like the next episode is going to be another general, fillerish one, "Don't Fear the Repo." I remember Dwayne McDuffie saying that it was about Ship getting kidnapped by intergalactic repo men. These episodes are fine, but honestly, coming off of a two-season spanning plot? An episodic take on the third season feels so weak. It's the third-season slump again, like with JLU. You have your first season getting used to things, so it's a little rough. Second season carries the story over from first season and makes it epic. Then the third season is made unexpectedly, and it doesn't have as cohesive a storyline. At least JLU had the Legion of Doom to worry about in season 3, much as people complained it wasn't as epic as the Cadmus arc. Ben so far doesn't have a Legion to worry about, and I really hope he does end up with some kind of major threat introduced.
And not the Forever Knights. It's like the Lucian Alliance being used as the major enemy for seasons 9-10 of SG-1.
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Date: 2009-10-11 03:37 pm (UTC)Yeah, it looks like the next episode is going to be another general, fillerish one, "Don't Fear the Repo." I remember Dwayne McDuffie saying that it was about Ship getting kidnapped by intergalactic repo men. These episodes are fine, but honestly, coming off of a two-season spanning plot? An episodic take on the third season feels so weak. It's the third-season slump again, like with JLU. You have your first season getting used to things, so it's a little rough. Second season carries the story over from first season and makes it epic. Then the third season is made unexpectedly, and it doesn't have as cohesive a storyline. At least JLU had the Legion of Doom to worry about in season 3, much as people complained it wasn't as epic as the Cadmus arc. Ben so far doesn't have a Legion to worry about, and I really hope he does end up with some kind of major threat introduced.
And not the Forever Knights. It's like the Lucian Alliance being used as the major enemy for seasons 9-10 of SG-1.