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?

Comments

[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.