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Nov. 22nd, 2005 11:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
merelynSo I haven't updated this in a while, mostly because the semester started and RL ate me and I went back to lurking mode. I've been writing a bit (HP fic, probably nothing most of y'all who read this lj would be interested in, because through whatever strange twist of fannish fate, it doesn't matter what I'm into or how ridiculously unactive I am in HP fandom, I can only ever write HP P/O fic. Don't ask me why.)
Anyway, I've returned, basically to put up some thoughts on SGA 2.11: The Hive, but really more to shamelessly exult in my own cleverness with a spoilerly icon I made for the ep that's under the cut:
Okay, these are only really random, completely lacking in substance thoughts.
Overall, I thought it was okay, but, as others have said, it was a little uneven. Still, I think I had prepared myself a little for that possibility, so I was able to just go with it.
*Rodney: Wow. Where to begin. Him beating the crap out the guards was hot like woah. The withdraw part was almost physically painful to watch. Best part part of the episode, really the only bit that definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. Yeah, he got over it too fast, but it's not like they could have waited around for the days it should have taken for him to get better within the confines of the other storyline. So yeah, that was just a familiar "Oh SGA. Realism? What?" eyeroll kind of moment. DH was completely fabulous, as usual.
*Carson: His scenes w/ Rodney were great, and I totally thought Carson was holding Rodney's hand when Elizabeth came in before I got a better look. And yeah, Rodney's rant about Carson being jealous made me cringe for some reason, like maybe it hit close to home, which is weird, because I don't think Carson really likes being out in the field at all. Hmm. Also, maybe I read this totally wrong, but when Rodney said something like, "You have no idea what this is like!" and Carson replied, "I think I might have an inkling," was I only the only person who's brain went to the place where Carson's backstory suddenly had a "Trainspotting" interlude in it where he was a heroin addict? Obviously, that's not what he meant, and clearly my brain is just a frightening place, but...
*Ronon: With the knives? AHAHAHA. I love you forever. That whole scene was great. Also, was I the only one who thought that when he told Teyla they needed to "create a diversion" that what he really meant was "have sex NOW as a diversion"? Everone in this ep was just perving off of everyone. Seriously.
*Neera: She was pretty annoying, and I was glad she turned out to be evil. (Her leaning and getting all up in Sheppard's personal space was just wrongbadwrong of the highest degree. Nobody does that. Stop it.) Also, Sheppard asking her if she had a hairpin vaguely twinked off my feministy buttons.
Also, I liked the tiny little moral question the show raised as regards her. You know, the old saving people from the Wraith vs. saving yourself. I like how this time Sheppard clearly did the right thing, and Ford was the morally dubious asshole about it, but in the end he was right. They shouldn't have saved her.
*Ford- I really really liked his scenes with Sheppard, and the end when he told him to go just broke my heart a little. *huggles*
*The wraith worshippers creeped me out, actually. And uh, nice plan and all, but not really like what we've seen of how the Wraith operate in the past, and why didn't the queen just kill them all right away except for Shep? Eh, whatever. *leaps over the plothole*
*The whole Rodney and Lorne bit was cute, because you could kind of tell that Lorne still thinks Rodney's annoying as crap. But I totally didn't buy the fact that Rodney would just roll over and turn around when Caldwell told him to, even though his team was out there and probably GOING TO DIE. Same with them deciding to blow the hive ships up. The writing totally dropped the ball on that, I think, though it was made up for by Rodney's "It's Sheppard!" face and the angsty look when he thought they were gone and the "Why aren't you dead?" "It's good to see you too, Rodney." which made me all gooey.
*Which brings me to what was, with the exception of Rodney, the best moment hands down of the ep, which will sure to be latched onto and spread far and wide throughout fandom:
Clowns. Clowns and Volkswagons. *dies, just dies* JF delivered it brilliantly, and moments like that are why SGA is just...hahahaha. I can't take it.
And with that, here's the icon I made to go with it. It's spoilery, mind, but if you want to gank it you're welcome to. Comment, credit, I guess, I don't really do this a lot:
Anyway, I've returned, basically to put up some thoughts on SGA 2.11: The Hive, but really more to shamelessly exult in my own cleverness with a spoilerly icon I made for the ep that's under the cut:
Okay, these are only really random, completely lacking in substance thoughts.
Overall, I thought it was okay, but, as others have said, it was a little uneven. Still, I think I had prepared myself a little for that possibility, so I was able to just go with it.
*Rodney: Wow. Where to begin. Him beating the crap out the guards was hot like woah. The withdraw part was almost physically painful to watch. Best part part of the episode, really the only bit that definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. Yeah, he got over it too fast, but it's not like they could have waited around for the days it should have taken for him to get better within the confines of the other storyline. So yeah, that was just a familiar "Oh SGA. Realism? What?" eyeroll kind of moment. DH was completely fabulous, as usual.
*Carson: His scenes w/ Rodney were great, and I totally thought Carson was holding Rodney's hand when Elizabeth came in before I got a better look. And yeah, Rodney's rant about Carson being jealous made me cringe for some reason, like maybe it hit close to home, which is weird, because I don't think Carson really likes being out in the field at all. Hmm. Also, maybe I read this totally wrong, but when Rodney said something like, "You have no idea what this is like!" and Carson replied, "I think I might have an inkling," was I only the only person who's brain went to the place where Carson's backstory suddenly had a "Trainspotting" interlude in it where he was a heroin addict? Obviously, that's not what he meant, and clearly my brain is just a frightening place, but...
*Ronon: With the knives? AHAHAHA. I love you forever. That whole scene was great. Also, was I the only one who thought that when he told Teyla they needed to "create a diversion" that what he really meant was "have sex NOW as a diversion"? Everone in this ep was just perving off of everyone. Seriously.
*Neera: She was pretty annoying, and I was glad she turned out to be evil. (Her leaning and getting all up in Sheppard's personal space was just wrongbadwrong of the highest degree. Nobody does that. Stop it.) Also, Sheppard asking her if she had a hairpin vaguely twinked off my feministy buttons.
Also, I liked the tiny little moral question the show raised as regards her. You know, the old saving people from the Wraith vs. saving yourself. I like how this time Sheppard clearly did the right thing, and Ford was the morally dubious asshole about it, but in the end he was right. They shouldn't have saved her.
*Ford- I really really liked his scenes with Sheppard, and the end when he told him to go just broke my heart a little. *huggles*
*The wraith worshippers creeped me out, actually. And uh, nice plan and all, but not really like what we've seen of how the Wraith operate in the past, and why didn't the queen just kill them all right away except for Shep? Eh, whatever. *leaps over the plothole*
*The whole Rodney and Lorne bit was cute, because you could kind of tell that Lorne still thinks Rodney's annoying as crap. But I totally didn't buy the fact that Rodney would just roll over and turn around when Caldwell told him to, even though his team was out there and probably GOING TO DIE. Same with them deciding to blow the hive ships up. The writing totally dropped the ball on that, I think, though it was made up for by Rodney's "It's Sheppard!" face and the angsty look when he thought they were gone and the "Why aren't you dead?" "It's good to see you too, Rodney." which made me all gooey.
*Which brings me to what was, with the exception of Rodney, the best moment hands down of the ep, which will sure to be latched onto and spread far and wide throughout fandom:
Clowns. Clowns and Volkswagons. *dies, just dies* JF delivered it brilliantly, and moments like that are why SGA is just...hahahaha. I can't take it.
And with that, here's the icon I made to go with it. It's spoilery, mind, but if you want to gank it you're welcome to. Comment, credit, I guess, I don't really do this a lot:
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Date: 2005-11-22 10:03 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-23 02:58 am (UTC)Anyhow, Carson's "Oh, I think I might have an inkling" hit two possible meaning for me:
1) It was killing him to watch Rodney go through what he was going through.
2) Carson's a former addict.
So, no, it wasn't just you. I think it's intentional. Whether we'll ever see that followed up on is another question entirely, of course.