SGA 3.16: The Ark

[trinityofone]

Well, that was definitely a Willow-song episode. Fill-er! There were some okay character moments though. In brief:

*Rodney's "should've used a Mac." !!!! I almost died. You could tell Hewlett got a huge kick out of it. Also, this Mac user approves!

*Ronon! Man, I loved Ronon in this. The way he wrenched his arm back into his socket was so hard core, and you could tell that John thought it was way hard core. "I don't like waiting." Ronon, you have won my heart with your impatience. I also loved their vow to go down fighting by fighting each other to the death. Awww! Boys. *smishes*

*John's shirt. Hot.

*John's little emo collapse when the doors shut. Dorky!

*John in welding goggles and gloves. Really dorky. (And also strangely hot.)

ETA: *John's "I don't want to die." I mention this only because I've seen a lot of "John's suicidal!" in things like fic summaries lately. Um, no. Being willing to die and wanting to die are two separate things. Please let's not rehash the post-'The Gift' BtVS fandom debate.

*Rodney's "we don't leave men behind!" and Lorne's reaction to it. Can we have some Rodney/Lorne bonding fic please? (Er, not like that. Or like that, whatever!)

*Um. The suicidal guy was kinda hot?

Mostly though: blah. Yawn. And why do they always have to have jokes like the "except Rodney" line? I mean, obviously John's kidding—canon has shown this. And possibly, it is a case of John PROTESTING TOO MUCH TO THE POINT OF HILARITY, MR. MY PLANET OF KINKY BONDAGE FETISH PEOPLE HAD HEARTS ON THEIR LEATHER TUNICS. But, man, as someone who has always worried that her friends don't really like her that much, and that they talk smack about her behind her back—as the team has been shown to do to Rodney; hello, parts of 'McKay & Mrs. Miller' that make me wince and want to hide behind the couch—why? Seriously, why? Why do a bunch of writers who were almost certainly outcast dorks themselves want to take the side of the cool kids ragging on the geek? I mean, I'm fully willing to admit that my own issues are coloring my interpretation of this, but jeeze. I was ready to leave this episode having been, y'know, just sort of bored (and note: giving Teyla more lines does not equal giving her something to do, if said lines could just have easily been spoken by Bob Redshirt); instead I left it with a sour taste in my mouth.

I'm probably making too much out of nothing, and should go back to pretending that when Rodney said, "Any last thing you want to say?" he was really asking, "Do you love me, Sheppard?" And when John answered, "You owe me a week's pay, Rodney," that was secret code for "Yes, and you owe me a blow job." THE END.

Also...anyone want to buy my Peg2 ticket? Please? trinityofone AT livejournal DOT com. Reasonable rates! Will throw in a story or something! I have to go to the dentist tomorrow and I need money!

Okay, that was just pathetic. Please ignore.

ETA2: Well, apparently they're non-transferable. I hate my life.

Comments

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Fuck. Just...fuck.

*is not going to start crying at work*

[siria]

*hugs* Perhaps if you e-mail them, they might refund your money? Or agree to let you transfer the ticket to someone else? I think I saw something somewhere on the site about them transferring tickets if they were purchased as a gift, so maybe if you bullshit them?

I, on the other hand, have just found out that letting my mother and my sister use my credit card has pushed me over my limit, and I now cannot book my flights--so I can go to the bloody thing, but might have no way of getting over the sea.

I declare this Tuesday a LOSS.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I'll try contacting them and see what happens. Or I could just fucking QUIT.

What did your mom and your sister DO? They should reimburse you, STAT, and pay for your flights if they made the problem. Grr.

Tuesday officially sucks. It's like that bit from 'Once More With Feeling,' in a way.

[siria]

If you know you'll be financially stable for the length of time it takes you to find something else/go back to qualify for something else, and if it's making you as utterly miserable as it seems to be doing, then it's not worth it. It's been making you unhappy for ages.

But if you know you can still soldier on, if this is something where your common sense is still telling you to hang in there, then don't. Just my $0.02, of course--the final decision is always going to rest with you.

It was mostly my mam--she and my dad have this thing against credit cards, and have never had one in their own name, but see no problem with asking to use mine to book tickets to Vienna :| My limit is now maxed, it seems, until the next payment date, which is the 20th of January. So I either wait til then, and hope I can a) use my card again then and b) that the prices haven't gone up enormously or go into a travel agents tomorrow and pay an exorbitant cash price. Suckage.

Also, I have cramps and I can't get this porn battle entry to work and wah. *punches self in stomach*

[joannindiw.livejournal.com]

*sticks nose in*

um. Can you pay off part of your bill *now* and there fore increase your credit limit so you can book your tickets? coz at least for my cards, I can pay anytime I want... as long as there isn't a payment already pending...?

[siria]

No, I don't think so--it's a student credit card, and there are all kinds of weird things attached to it. *kicks it*

[joannindiw.livejournal.com]

*damn*. *sympathy*

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Part of me thinks—I'm young, why am I wasting my life doing something I hate? Isn't now the time to make brash, impulsive decisions? Shouldn't I do something for myself for a change? Work will still be here when I get back—some other job, maybe a better job. Why wait? Why do I always wait?

...See, I go and convince myself one way, and then the doubts creep back in and I'm back where I started.

So your parents get to go to Vienna and you're stuck hoping tickets will still be available? *growl* Well, on the plus side, I'm pretty sure there still will be tickets on the 20th—RyanAir has a lot of flights, right?

Just for personal reference, can you remind me of the dates you're going to be in London?

[siria]

Well, it's the kind of thing you need to sit down and consider, pros and cons. Have you talked about this with your parents? I'm sure they'd know more about the job situation/general industry over there than I would. At the moment, I'm almost inclined to say--if you want to, stick it out for another couple of months so it looks decent on your CV (you've not been there a year yet, right?). But you're right that it's not worth it if it's really that horrendous--I mean, you know how much I hated the nightclub towards the end, and wild horses couldn't get me back there now, even with all the extra stuff they've offered me.

I hope there will still be tickets on the 20th--I just hope they've not gone up enormously in price. I can only fly with either BMI or Ryanair, because Ryanair don't fly into Heathrow. Curses.

I will be in London from the 2nd through to either the 9th or the 12th, depending.

[(Anonymous)]

Here from friendsfriends. I sold mine last year, by the simple expedient of emailing the email ticket I received to the person who purchased it and suggesting that if they were asked by any of TPTB to pretend to be me. It meant they knew my RL details, but, well, they knew those anyway. *g* I sold it to someone I already knew.

However, they were never asked to confirm identity, just presented the printed out email ticket when first attending the con and all was fine. The email tickets haven't been sent out yet, but it's easy to send it on once received, given that it's all done by email anyway.

Er, I've deliberately made this comment anonymous, just in case. You might want to do a friendslocked post offering the ticket for sale, and asking people to spread the word.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I appreciate the advice, but as roaringmice said downthread, if something goes wrong, then the burden is on whoever bought the ticket from me, and I just don't feel comfortable with that. I'll think about it, but it just doesn't feel right to sell someone a ticket unless I can confirm that they'll be able to get in.

[(Anonymous)]

I can see that you wouldn't want to take the risk with someone who has to spend vast amounts to get there. In my case the person I sold the ticket to lives in London and therefore the worse that would have happened would be that they'd be out by only about £2 tube fare and they were happy to take the risk.

If you make it plain that there's a very slight risk they'll be asked to confirm identity (I think it very small because I've never been asked for ID at a con and there was no request to confirm ID at Peg One last year. In fact I doubt very much that any Brits would be able to confirm ID anyway, unless they happen to have their driving licence on them), then it's their risk to take. Ideally, if you can find someone who's in London anyway, and is content to travel to the con each day rather than stay over, then all they're risking is the tube fare and obviously the waste of time in getting there.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Well, that's true. I guess I can continue searching for someone under those terms. Thanks.