Friday night squeeing
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thegrrrl2002With spoilers.
SG1: It's Good to be The King
Awww, that was fun and silly. It was fun seeing Maybourne again, especially as King. It suits him, you know? And yes, I squealed like a little girl when I realized they were going to find the puddlejumper. As for those prophesies, I'm willing to go with Maybourne being able to read ancient, but what I want to know, is why the Time Traveling Ancient decided to write it all up? I can't think of any good reason, aside from 'oh, look at me, I'm a Time Traveling Ancient, aren't I fabulous?". Well, you left your ship behind, maybe you're not so fabulous after all. The other question I have is, if this TTA was around to see all this, where was he/she during the show? Shouldn't they have been around to witness all this? Oh wait, they already witnessed it, because it's already written down.
So where was he/she during the ep?
See, time travel eps make my head hurt. Let me just focus on the pretty instead--and oh, so pretty it was. Why does MS look so damn good in a hooded robe? I mean, breathtakingly good. It must be those eyes. I won't even ask why he and Teal'c hung around to get discovered and beat up. Because that's how happy I was with the pretty. And Jack, yay, Jack is off-world! And he and Daniel get to be cute together. Concentrating. With Carter in the background looking cute and eager. That was all very fun. As was the stand-off with the guns and arrows and crossbows. Yeah, Jack, we miss this, too. And I missed you looking all hot in the sunglasses and oh, look at you getting all excited over the neato keen flying machine. I'll bet he acts just like that when Daniel brings home the new sex toys.
I liked Wayne Brady as Trelak. Sure, he wasn't as menacing as most First Primes, but he also came across as a little smarter than most first primes, too. And you just know he was having a ball. Especially during that very dopey fight scene.
They all had flowers at the end, too. Jack shouldn't look so good carrying a bunch of yellow wildflowers, but he does.
I have to admit, though, the overall feel of this ep was one of 'yay, Rick's on a shoot with us!'. Compared to Atlantis, I'm seeing the actors more than the characters in SG1. Atlantis is more earnest, and is trying harder than SG1 at this point. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that the vibes from the two shows are very different, at least during the last two episodes. Granted, the last two SG1 eps have been on the lighter side, so maybe that's it.
Hot Zone
I've probably already squealed over this ep when I first saw it, but it's worthy of another round of squealing. DH with the whole dying thing--that man is so fabulous. Saving small children. Zelenka is fabulous in this, too. I love the way he works with Rodney. Plus those cute little distressed!Zelenka moments. ::wibbles:: But I can't believe Sci-fi lost the first three minutes! All that dead air. The cut out the adorable prime/not prime thing. Rodney and Zelenka teasing Ford. Okay, Ford got kind of mean with them, but it was good, geeky fun for a while there.
This was one of those 'everybody does their part' episodes, which I really enjoy. Even though, to me, this was Rodney's show. This is the first time, I think, that we get to see him being in charge and very, very competent. (Mmm. yeah). Aside from the premiere. He's comfortable with that role, especially when he's in his element--the city. And he's just a tad obnoxious, which is why we love him so. And speaking of obnoxious, we get to see a less-than-pretty side of Sheppard, going against Weir's orders like that. I wish Weir had slapped him down harder at the end, because he so deserved it. Sure, he thought he was doing the right thing, but he wasn't in charge. Yay for Teyla, too, telling him off, in her very polite Athosian way. And yay for Teyla, whacking him in the ass. When I saw the spoilers for this ep, I was afraid it was going to be shippy, and I was so relieved that it wasn't. Instead Telya kicks his ass, and then later tells him he was wrong to do what he did. I'm very happy with that.
I was also very happy that Sheppard was the one who figured out that overloading the naquada generator would cause a big enough EMP to take out the nanoviruses. Smart, pretty boy.
The one thing that really, really bugged me about this ep--why would the Ancients (or whoever built the nanoviruses) store them in breakable glass containers? Tell me teflon-lined plastic containers don't exist in their world? All that technology, and they can't come up with shatter-proof storage devices?
SG1: It's Good to be The King
Awww, that was fun and silly. It was fun seeing Maybourne again, especially as King. It suits him, you know? And yes, I squealed like a little girl when I realized they were going to find the puddlejumper. As for those prophesies, I'm willing to go with Maybourne being able to read ancient, but what I want to know, is why the Time Traveling Ancient decided to write it all up? I can't think of any good reason, aside from 'oh, look at me, I'm a Time Traveling Ancient, aren't I fabulous?". Well, you left your ship behind, maybe you're not so fabulous after all. The other question I have is, if this TTA was around to see all this, where was he/she during the show? Shouldn't they have been around to witness all this? Oh wait, they already witnessed it, because it's already written down.
So where was he/she during the ep?
See, time travel eps make my head hurt. Let me just focus on the pretty instead--and oh, so pretty it was. Why does MS look so damn good in a hooded robe? I mean, breathtakingly good. It must be those eyes. I won't even ask why he and Teal'c hung around to get discovered and beat up. Because that's how happy I was with the pretty. And Jack, yay, Jack is off-world! And he and Daniel get to be cute together. Concentrating. With Carter in the background looking cute and eager. That was all very fun. As was the stand-off with the guns and arrows and crossbows. Yeah, Jack, we miss this, too. And I missed you looking all hot in the sunglasses and oh, look at you getting all excited over the neato keen flying machine. I'll bet he acts just like that when Daniel brings home the new sex toys.
I liked Wayne Brady as Trelak. Sure, he wasn't as menacing as most First Primes, but he also came across as a little smarter than most first primes, too. And you just know he was having a ball. Especially during that very dopey fight scene.
They all had flowers at the end, too. Jack shouldn't look so good carrying a bunch of yellow wildflowers, but he does.
I have to admit, though, the overall feel of this ep was one of 'yay, Rick's on a shoot with us!'. Compared to Atlantis, I'm seeing the actors more than the characters in SG1. Atlantis is more earnest, and is trying harder than SG1 at this point. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, it's just that the vibes from the two shows are very different, at least during the last two episodes. Granted, the last two SG1 eps have been on the lighter side, so maybe that's it.
Hot Zone
I've probably already squealed over this ep when I first saw it, but it's worthy of another round of squealing. DH with the whole dying thing--that man is so fabulous. Saving small children. Zelenka is fabulous in this, too. I love the way he works with Rodney. Plus those cute little distressed!Zelenka moments. ::wibbles:: But I can't believe Sci-fi lost the first three minutes! All that dead air. The cut out the adorable prime/not prime thing. Rodney and Zelenka teasing Ford. Okay, Ford got kind of mean with them, but it was good, geeky fun for a while there.
This was one of those 'everybody does their part' episodes, which I really enjoy. Even though, to me, this was Rodney's show. This is the first time, I think, that we get to see him being in charge and very, very competent. (Mmm. yeah). Aside from the premiere. He's comfortable with that role, especially when he's in his element--the city. And he's just a tad obnoxious, which is why we love him so. And speaking of obnoxious, we get to see a less-than-pretty side of Sheppard, going against Weir's orders like that. I wish Weir had slapped him down harder at the end, because he so deserved it. Sure, he thought he was doing the right thing, but he wasn't in charge. Yay for Teyla, too, telling him off, in her very polite Athosian way. And yay for Teyla, whacking him in the ass. When I saw the spoilers for this ep, I was afraid it was going to be shippy, and I was so relieved that it wasn't. Instead Telya kicks his ass, and then later tells him he was wrong to do what he did. I'm very happy with that.
I was also very happy that Sheppard was the one who figured out that overloading the naquada generator would cause a big enough EMP to take out the nanoviruses. Smart, pretty boy.
The one thing that really, really bugged me about this ep--why would the Ancients (or whoever built the nanoviruses) store them in breakable glass containers? Tell me teflon-lined plastic containers don't exist in their world? All that technology, and they can't come up with shatter-proof storage devices?
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Date: 2005-02-05 05:27 pm (UTC)He is, he is. Exceedingly bratty. While I'm sure we're supposed to think he did it to save Weir's and everyone else in the control room's lives, he comes across as a little kid wanting to get his way. And it did kind of bite him in the ass (his entirely theoretical ass, that is) since that guy got into the mess and infected a whole bunch of people. Although none of them died, now that I think about it.
for daring to have the lead characters repeatedly show they are less than perfect and often irritating or snotty.
Yes, yes! I can relate to these people. They're scared, they're snippy, they have moments of glory, then go back to being snarky again. I love that they make mistakes. I love that they are somehow bumbling through and surviving. (Some of them). It makes them very real.
if the nanites don't kill people with the ATA gene, why would they give people with the gene the same hallucinations?
Good question. My guess is, that the gene therapy doesn't quite give you the same level of protein, and therefore protection, that the native gene does. There does seem to some inherent variation on the effectiveness of the gene itself--Jack and Carson seem to have to really work to activate devices, while John just touches things and they go on.
I'm not really sure those two things have anything to do with each other. Anyway, I'm thinking that the folks born with the gene wouldn't have any symptoms, while the gene therapy folks have mild ones.
Yes, I am grasping at straws.
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Date: 2005-02-05 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-02-06 03:08 pm (UTC)I think Rodney was the only one in that group with the gene, right? Aside from Beckett, who was suited up.
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Date: 2005-02-06 12:52 am (UTC)And if Daniel, Sam, and Teal'c don't have the gene, why did the puddlejumper light up as they walked through it? That made no sense to me.
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Date: 2005-02-06 01:14 am (UTC)As for the lights going on, in Atlantis all the lights went on and a lot of the systems activated just when everyone entered the control room. But certain things only seem to activate when someone with the gene touch it. I think they mentioned that distinction in one of the eps, but I can't remember which.