thegrrrl2002 | SGA "The Intruder" Thoughts (Reply)

First of all--GIP!! Look at the wonderful icon

mmmchelle made! It makes me giggle every damn time I look at it.

This ep made me giggle too. And squee. And slap my forehead in disbelief.

Okay, first of all, the opening scene with Sheppard and Weir--Worst Exposition Scene Ever. I mean, really, could it be any clunkier? Let's spoonfeed the viewers everything thing they need to know to pick up the story from here. Man, they could have just done a voiceover and had done with it! Hell, even I know better than to start stories out like that. Bad writers! Bad!

But you know, even that didn't matter too much, because I loved this ep. Oh how I love my gay, geeky show. It was the cliche to end all cliches, it's been done a million times before, but I'm a big ole geeky dork and will never tire of it, sort of like how I'll never tire of Aliens Made Them Do It fic. It's that whole "trapped in a small space with things going very wrong" storyline that I just adore. An episode focusing on my favorite characters doing my favorite kind of geeky things. And, even more conveniently, all of the extraneous people on the ship are confined to quarters so that they don't get in the way of my favorite characters. Shameless, yet squeeful at the same time. This way I got loads of John and Rodney in almost every single scene. Not to mention Rodney's nipples. And his ass. I think they need to get separate billing. (There's going to be some serious screencapping going on of this ep, believe me).

But okay, the show. Virus in the ship's computer. Wraith virus, actually. I can buy that. It's a tired storyline, but I thought it was pretty nicely done. It was actually pretty damn creepy watching ~~Ingraham~~ Lindstrom die. (thank you, coreopsis) (Dr. Lindstrom, BTW, was the original name of McKay's character, wasn't it?) That scene was genuinely intense, especially since we watched Rodney witness the whole thing. His horror was palpable. The resolution to the problem --rebooting (how cute is it that Sheppard does the same thing with his laptop?), and then rebooting again, and then cussing and futzing and then rebooting again--hell, I can't help myself, it was fun to watch. No genuine tension, because obviously we are not going to lose the Daedalus, or Weir, or Sheppard, or McKay, or Caldwell.

There were lots of fun moments, too, like Sheppard getting a little freaked out about Hermiod (he's naked!) along with that whole "ten fingers and I'll check the rest later" moment. (Rodney was definitely going to help out with that part). Not to mention the slashy moments, (touchies!! They touched!! Or more like: Rodney pawed John!! OMG!). Plus they got to stare into each other's eyes in the bay, and then get shut up in an fighter together, and, if that wasn't enough fun, Rodney gets taken for a ride when Sheppard goes out to shoot down the rogue fighter. Have I mentioned how much I love this show?

By the way, what happened to Novak? Did she remain back on Atlantis?

It was frustrating, though, that the earth-based SGC part of the storyline got scant attention. Finally getting back to earth, after thinking they'd never see it again, and we don't get to see their reactions? Not to mention that the wisdom of taking all the senior staff off of Atlantis for a month is rather questionable. (Yeah, we're pretty sure the Wraith won't bother us for a while...) And the storylines from the SGC--god, Weir gets one good scene at that briefing with General Landry, and then it's back to the ole lovelife storyline, which seems to be the only kind of personal story the writers can think of for women on Stargate. It's sad, really. I hate to break this to them, but women are not defined by their romantic involvements. Really, they're not. If they wanted to tell us a little more about what kind of person Weir is, there are all kinds of ways to do it that don't involve romance. The whole thing was just painfully bad.

In sharp contrast, we get a wonderful scene with Sheppard visiting Ford's cousin, presumably breaking the news to her that Ford is MIA. JF plays this scene beautifully, you can just see the pain and the weight of his responsibility in his face. The bit about "misplaced trust" was heartbreaking. I'm glad Ford isn't being totally forgotten, and that there are lingering consequences to people's actions.

I'm still sulking that we didn't get to see Rodney enjoying the wonders of being back on Earth. But we did get to see him being smart and mostly saving the day on the Daedalus. This is classic Rodney, snarky and whiny and a little freaked out by it all. I love that it was Sheppard at the end who realized that there was one computer left for the virus to hide in (I'm not going to go into the technical silliness of all that, because, come on, this is Stargate. Of course it's technically silly!). There's always a teamwork aspect to solving problems on Atlantis, and I appreciate that, a lot.

Plus John told Rodney that he did a good job on the fighter. *g* I so love when John teases Rodney. Especially about 'taking the stick'.

Last but not least, when the team arrived back in Atlantis, I thought it was incredibly sweet how happy Teyla was to see everyone. And my, she was acting awfully protective of Weir. Are Radek and Teyla going to have to duke it out over Weir? I'm guessing Radek isn't much of a fighter. But he's wily!

So, overall: dopy plot, but I had so much fun watching John and Rodney, that it just didn't matter. Hell, I'm easy.