Thank you guys for explaining what "Jumped the Shark" means!!<br /><br />It's actually rather incredible that I have never heard that phrase before considering the fact that I watch way too much television... 
)<br /><br />I absolutely agree that when Richard Dean Anderson left the show that the greatness of the show went with him....the storylines and plots were not as well written, the action and general scenes were not done with their usual perfection, overall the show did change in many more ways than with just his departure....I am thinking that maybe RDA had a lot more input than we realize while he was there...<br /><br />As to Amanda Tapping and SGA...in my humble opinion...the fault lies not with the actor but with the scripts.....she KNOWS her character as well as anyone could possibly know with the exception of the writers but she simply has not been given good lines and plots and to tell the truth she just doesn't seem to have the same chemistry with SGA as she did with the characters in SG-1....it is a shame....I blame the writers in this regard...<br /><br />My biggest problem with SGA is that they just do not explore for the sake of exploring....THAT is what was great about SG-1....they used to explore and run across great characters like the Nox, for example....it just seems like whenever a television show does continual war plots, the show ends up getting boring....AND it is also now the Rodney McKay show....he has basically taken over the show and THAT is also a mistake.....and whatever happened to that great tension between Carter and McKay when they were on SG-1 when he first showed up (that was great fun!)....now THAT would have made for a much better relationship instead of what we have now....sigh.<br /><br />In spite of all of this....I still watch SGA because there is just so little good television left, especially in science fiction....so like the good little Stargate fan that I am, I will be watching SGA tonight as usual at 10pm...<br />
)<br /><br />I absolutely agree that when Richard Dean Anderson left the show that the greatness of the show went with him....the storylines and plots were not as well written, the action and general scenes were not done with their usual perfection, overall the show did change in many more ways than with just his departure....I am thinking that maybe RDA had a lot more input than we realize while he was there...<br /><br />As to Amanda Tapping and SGA...in my humble opinion...the fault lies not with the actor but with the scripts.....she KNOWS her character as well as anyone could possibly know with the exception of the writers but she simply has not been given good lines and plots and to tell the truth she just doesn't seem to have the same chemistry with SGA as she did with the characters in SG-1....it is a shame....I blame the writers in this regard...<br /><br />My biggest problem with SGA is that they just do not explore for the sake of exploring....THAT is what was great about SG-1....they used to explore and run across great characters like the Nox, for example....it just seems like whenever a television show does continual war plots, the show ends up getting boring....AND it is also now the Rodney McKay show....he has basically taken over the show and THAT is also a mistake.....and whatever happened to that great tension between Carter and McKay when they were on SG-1 when he first showed up (that was great fun!)....now THAT would have made for a much better relationship instead of what we have now....sigh.<br /><br />In spite of all of this....I still watch SGA because there is just so little good television left, especially in science fiction....so like the good little Stargate fan that I am, I will be watching SGA tonight as usual at 10pm...<br />
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