*hums* I think this one...
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trinityofone...is mostly filler.
Allow me to elaborate:
1. Okay, so nothing, pretty much NOTHING could possible compare to 'Grace Under Pressure'--I think it would have actually had to be the "Sheppard and McKay declare their true feelings for each other, have exorbitant amounts of sex, then join the rest of the gang for a musical EXTRAVAGANZA wherein Zelenka has a solo in which he slides across the dance floor on his knees to run his hand up Elizabeth's thigh and glitter rains down from the ceiling and coats everyone's eyelashes and we freeze-frame on a long, slow kiss and possibly there are tap-dancing penguins" episode for it to even come close. *breath* And since it wasn't I'm glad it also wasn't actually all that good so I don't have to feel unfairly disgruntled toward it.
2. That said: blah blah blah whatever, this was totally just an excuse to refresh their supply of drones, wasn't it? Those drones are going to show up later and we're all supposed to go, "Ooh! Continuity! Those are the drones they got in 'The Tower'!" Except the episode served no other purpose at all, so no, no continuity kudos for you. *neener*
3. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY LEFT MCKAY TRAPPED. I mean, obviously, he's fine, but could we please conclude things a little more thoroughly? One episode in three with a thorough conclusion--it isn't much. A semi-thorough conclusion. One shot of Shep giving Rodney a manly hand up out of the hole, okay? Seriously: that's all I ask.
4. Okay, I lied. I ask this: can we stop with Sheppard being just randomly slutty? You're giving the Shep!Whore fanon credence, and it's irritating. This incidence seemed especially gratuitous: I understood (and am actually still rather intrigued by) Chaya, and even the woman from the Village of the Bland in 'Epiphany' made some sort of sense--dude, that place looked so boring, I might have slept with her, just to break up the monotony. (Plus, that Chosen One stuff is always a good line.) But this chick? Obviously no sort of connection at all, and my God, such an airhead--the McKay in me is most bothered by that, I think. And slashy stuff aside, it just felt so out-of-character to me that Sheppard would just bang some random alien floozie: he works so hard to keep people at a distance, and I can't see him wanting to let anyone that close, even for casual sex. I'd much rather have him be "mysteriously drawn" to a billion more semi-Ascended women, 'cause that at least makes sense. But then maybe I'm just proving once and for all that I'm not a guy: is any sex good sex? Really? *spreads estrogen everywhere*
5. The title of this episode is cool. I went into it wishing that it would have something to do with the Tarot card meaning(s) of the Tower--it's the freakiest card in the deck, symbolizing false structures, false institutions and false beliefs coming crashing down: suddenly, violently, and all at once. [Watch me paraphrase.] And while there may have been some of that for the people of Not!Vancouver, none of that cool, violent disruption had any impact or significance for our people. There was no character development for any of them at all, and I think that's what bothers me most about this episode. It could have been about a team of any four (then five) people on an alien planet--that's how nonexistent the character development was. How disappointing, especially after last week--guh.
Still, it will all be (nearly) worth it if icons appear of either a) 'And then they made me their chief' Sheppard or b) Teyla in one of those omnipresent (well, in Berkeley) Che Guevara shirts. Or maybe just Teyla in a beret. That'd be cool.
Also, someone needs to write fic to explain why Sheppard is suddenly SUCH A HO. Psychoanalyze him, baby! I'd love a trip through his crazy-beautiful mind.
Allow me to elaborate:
1. Okay, so nothing, pretty much NOTHING could possible compare to 'Grace Under Pressure'--I think it would have actually had to be the "Sheppard and McKay declare their true feelings for each other, have exorbitant amounts of sex, then join the rest of the gang for a musical EXTRAVAGANZA wherein Zelenka has a solo in which he slides across the dance floor on his knees to run his hand up Elizabeth's thigh and glitter rains down from the ceiling and coats everyone's eyelashes and we freeze-frame on a long, slow kiss and possibly there are tap-dancing penguins" episode for it to even come close. *breath* And since it wasn't I'm glad it also wasn't actually all that good so I don't have to feel unfairly disgruntled toward it.
2. That said: blah blah blah whatever, this was totally just an excuse to refresh their supply of drones, wasn't it? Those drones are going to show up later and we're all supposed to go, "Ooh! Continuity! Those are the drones they got in 'The Tower'!" Except the episode served no other purpose at all, so no, no continuity kudos for you. *neener*
3. I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY LEFT MCKAY TRAPPED. I mean, obviously, he's fine, but could we please conclude things a little more thoroughly? One episode in three with a thorough conclusion--it isn't much. A semi-thorough conclusion. One shot of Shep giving Rodney a manly hand up out of the hole, okay? Seriously: that's all I ask.
4. Okay, I lied. I ask this: can we stop with Sheppard being just randomly slutty? You're giving the Shep!Whore fanon credence, and it's irritating. This incidence seemed especially gratuitous: I understood (and am actually still rather intrigued by) Chaya, and even the woman from the Village of the Bland in 'Epiphany' made some sort of sense--dude, that place looked so boring, I might have slept with her, just to break up the monotony. (Plus, that Chosen One stuff is always a good line.) But this chick? Obviously no sort of connection at all, and my God, such an airhead--the McKay in me is most bothered by that, I think. And slashy stuff aside, it just felt so out-of-character to me that Sheppard would just bang some random alien floozie: he works so hard to keep people at a distance, and I can't see him wanting to let anyone that close, even for casual sex. I'd much rather have him be "mysteriously drawn" to a billion more semi-Ascended women, 'cause that at least makes sense. But then maybe I'm just proving once and for all that I'm not a guy: is any sex good sex? Really? *spreads estrogen everywhere*
5. The title of this episode is cool. I went into it wishing that it would have something to do with the Tarot card meaning(s) of the Tower--it's the freakiest card in the deck, symbolizing false structures, false institutions and false beliefs coming crashing down: suddenly, violently, and all at once. [Watch me paraphrase.] And while there may have been some of that for the people of Not!Vancouver, none of that cool, violent disruption had any impact or significance for our people. There was no character development for any of them at all, and I think that's what bothers me most about this episode. It could have been about a team of any four (then five) people on an alien planet--that's how nonexistent the character development was. How disappointing, especially after last week--guh.
Still, it will all be (nearly) worth it if icons appear of either a) 'And then they made me their chief' Sheppard or b) Teyla in one of those omnipresent (well, in Berkeley) Che Guevara shirts. Or maybe just Teyla in a beret. That'd be cool.
Also, someone needs to write fic to explain why Sheppard is suddenly SUCH A HO. Psychoanalyze him, baby! I'd love a trip through his crazy-beautiful mind.
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Date: 2005-12-20 06:11 pm (UTC)I have a problem with the casualization of sex that's happening on Atlantis. That's not to say I think you should save yourself for your wedding day and only sleep with your one twu wuv. No. I'm not.
I just think that Sheppard having sex with that girl (and I don't say girl lightly) was the height of bad security. First of all it's the Basic Instinct Principle and I can't beleive that Sheppard who's pretty smart and has gotten a very good idea of what runs this fuedal society isn't wary of anyone attempting to get near his *cough* genetic material in the name of sex. Sex? Can be pretty darned distracting.
Second it's just NOT A GOOD IDEA TO SLEEP WITH THE NATIVES YOU JUST MET ESPECIALLY THE ONES RELATED TO AN ARGUMENT ABOUT THE ROYAL BLOODLINE. I hate that the SG writers just throw caution to the wind when sex gets involved. I've *met* men who *can* say no. It's possible. Even with the naked woman throwing herself at you. Which again, Sheppard, it really should have set off some alarms, and not that one with the slow disco beat and the deep masculine voice that sounds a lot like shaft. Also? He's gotten laid recently, I don't buy the "omg haven't had sex in forever, must hunmp now!" theory either.
There just some very disturbing undertones about sex, sexuality and the how if it's pretty, it's obvously not dangerous. Now they made up for it a litttle because Sheppard totally got screwed by her later. Though I can buy him going back for her, she expressed some ideas he found attractive in terms of a human being and in the orignal scenario laid out for him, she was in a lot of danger.
Also yes, OMG ENDINGS, I crave endings! Is that so wrong? Has there been some new break through in story telling that's decided conclusively that the more the audience has to pretend happened the happier the audience is? Becuase there's leaving it to the imagination and then there's leaving a character in a situation WITH NO CLEAR MEANS OF ESCAPE, just a few possibilities that are... very slim at best.
*rereads* So yeah, I'll be taking most of this and throwing in my LJ too. *sheepish*
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Date: 2005-12-20 06:42 pm (UTC)And yeah, again with the endings. Even one line of exposition to Elizabeth--"Is McKay still complaining about having to be hauled out of there with a rope made from Ronon's hair?"--would have done it. Sheesh.
No need to feel sheepish at all. Get your rant on--and spread it! We are irritable fangirls. *nods*
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Date: 2005-12-20 06:58 pm (UTC)Like... it'd serve him right if she HAD gotten him with an ice pick.
I'm sick and tired of the "well it was incredibly dangerous and stupid but it worked and no one got hurt despite this peice of evidence I didn't have back then and if I'd had it I wouldn't have done it, so it's all good" sort of mindset the SGA writers seem to be unable to shake off.
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Date: 2005-12-21 03:11 am (UTC)And my workmates are particularly taken with the line, "as the flames rose, tickled her nose and her walkman started to melt..."