In which "The Queen" is not about John being camp :(

[trinityofone]

Oh man, the "science" in this episode hurts my brain. I kept expecting Rodney to suddenly snap and start screaming, "I'm sorry! I can't go through with this! It makes no sense." Oh, show, why must you wound Rodney's poor science so?

In more general terms, Teyla is awesome but this was way more boring than it ought to have been. (siriaeve's The Language of Hard Nouns springs to mind as a story dealing (note: actually dealing) with some similar things while being about 10,000 times more interesting.) Also, I feel that Teyla could have totally kicked Bald Wraith's ass. The fact that they had her get rescued by Todd? LAME.

Also lame: John named Todd's 2IC Kenny, and yet we got no South Park joke? Is it bad that I want to write a fic just to kill off a boring secondary character now?

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[girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com]

I'm still blinking over the lack of opening credits. For everything after that, I was already (thankfully) glazed over and off balance.

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

I thought it was because TPTB decided that this episode was important (!) and intense (!!) enough to warrant cutting the credits in favor of more action (!!!).

And then there was no action. Bwah?

[girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com]

Wasn't it exciting enough to have Keller performing yet another highly specialized surgery? Because I know that had me on the edge of *my* seat. Could she pull it off? Would it work? WHO KNEW?? Oh the drama! :D

[trinityofone.livejournal.com]

Or John, Rodney, and Ronon, standing around being tense! Whoa, were those some tense boys! And the suspense—what if one of them got a tension headache?!? Did Rodney remember to bring the Excedrin? TO BE CONTINUED...

[girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com]

what if one of them got a tension headache?!? BWAHAHAHAHA!

I was particularly engrossed by the scene where they were sitting around that table.

No the other scene where they were sitting around the table.

No no no! I mean that OTHER scene where they were sitting around that table! Yes, that one. That was incredibly Hitchcockesque. *nods solemnly*

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't hold it up as any great achievement of appointment television or anything, but at least it didn't knock me unconscious for hours with a wave of concentrated hyper-boredom like "Whispers" did. And I appreciated Teyla finally getting to do something, even if I did spend half the episode thinking "Wait a minute... did the writers forget that the Wraith all telepathically plugged into a hive-mind that the Queens are the dominant centers of? How exactly is plastic surgery going to fool that?!?"

[girlnamedpixley.livejournal.com]

I had that same thought, but then I just assumed that it was one of those sheer will/concentration things like when she took over the body of the Wraith Queen in...was it Spoils of War? I *was* glad to see Teyla play a main part in a story for a change.

I actually liked Whispers. But I think I'm in the minority.

[lillian13.livejournal.com]

The only plus of this episode: Todd was made of awesome, and got all the best lines, as he always does. I get the impression he drops by Atlantis when he's bored and wants entertainment.

[jx-walker.livejournal.com]

Oh, they blew this one. Teyla with her fighting strengths should have been able to kick ass without needing Todd to save her. At least she didn't sprain her ankle, that would have been the final humiliation. Grrr.

[not-sally.livejournal.com]

It's all about your subject line.
Today, after the episode, I began thinking about writing a fic in which Todd and John are both old drag-queens, like, they'd sing in the equivalent of the Birdcage, right? So John would specialize in his Dolly Parton act, while Todd is totally Madonna, and they'd bicker like two bitter rivals but always stick together in the end, and there's this guy that's always watching John, and the "straight" bouncer that keeps sending Todd this threatening glares, and suddenly 'Marilyn Monroe' is upstaging them both, and John is about to rip her a new one, when he finds out that's actually that guy, that awkward, intensely dorky guy that keeps watching his performances even though it's obvious he hates country in any form, and John is kinda head over heels.

[anatsuno.livejournal.com]

oh my god I want to read this SO FUCKING MUCH. I'm salivating. Seriously.

[ceitie.livejournal.com]

Um, please write this? Even a little bit of this?

[argosy.livejournal.com]

I ABSOLUTELY LOVED Todd giving Teyla Wraith Queen lessons a la My Fair Lady. I am TOTALLY writing a fic about that if I can come up with the Wraith equivalent for "The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain."

[arby-m.livejournal.com]

HA! DO IT. That almost makes this shitty, shitty ep worthwhile.

*waits patiently*

PS I want to know how the Wraith distinguish each other when no one seems to have any names?? At one point Teyla was like, "This one" (referring to Todd).

PPS I totally thought Bald Wraith looked like a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle.

[seadraconian.livejournal.com]

Er, random lurker here, but my mum and I were trying to figure that out, and eventually came to the conclusion that it had to have something to do with the tattoos.

Any who...