*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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takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 12:21 am (UTC)just for the sake of argument, let's say that whatever the glowy thing was with Chaya *actually* constitutes sex. and then, while not *shown*, let's say that he knocked it out with both the girl from Epiphany and this one. (solid arguments could be made, i think, for either position but let's just go with they did.)
that makes three times total. 3 times in how long have they been on Atlantis? almost 2 years?
that makes Sheppard a whore?
it could just be me, but that strikes me as some wacky math.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 12:25 am (UTC)i think that where the characterization is coming from is McKay. he's the one constantly calling Sheppard a whore with the Kirk comments, and that actually speaks to me of having nothing to do with what's true and everything to do with Rodney characterization as to how he perceives himself and others through that self-perception....witness Grace Under Pressure.
wow. that's more meta than i usually engage in so i'm just gonna lie down until the feeling goes away.
hope you don't mind the crash visit.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 01:27 am (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 04:43 am (UTC)i don't see it as bad writing at all.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 06:07 am (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 10:20 am (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 10:48 am (UTC)leaves secret stash of ice cream untouched, adds carton of Cherry Garcia then folds up the couch and sneaks out.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 06:41 am (UTC)I don't *get* the whore thing at all. Three sex partners in two years--or with the six months of Epiphany, over two years...
Argh. Thank you. I needed that badly. And that's if I think he's lying when he says he turned down the girl. Which I don't.
I like you. You defuse my frustration.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 06:50 am (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 07:20 am (UTC)you're totally welcome, and i can completely relate. i have to keep my reading of fandom meta to a very judicious level or it kinda makes me homicidal. heh.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 10:03 am (UTC)Basically, I was trying to say that I don't think Sheppard is a ho and have always found that characterization stupid, so why was this episode so careless about supporting those ideas?
And I guess I need to rewatch the scene where he told Elizabeth he turned down the girl--I thought he meant, "turned down her offer to stay/go with her wherever she was going/impregnate her with genetically advanced babies."
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 12:25 pm (UTC)see why Rodney's jealous? *snerks* poor Rodney. :::hugs neurotic!Rodney tight:::
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 10:16 am (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 10:50 am (UTC)he didn't though. it's covered in the tag. and, i'm confused, but, it bothers you that, as you see the characterization, it's making Sheppard a slut, but you loathe him already? why would you care how they wrote him them? :::scratches head in confusion. offers cookies:::
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 11:43 am (UTC)And clearly I need to re-watch the tag, 'cause I thought what John was saying to Elizabeth was merely, "I refused to go with her/stay with her/make her babies" and not, "I refused to sleep with her." There seems to be general confusion about this.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 12:21 pm (UTC)ooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhh. i understand. sorry. misread that, and *totally* agree.
And clearly I need to re-watch the tag, 'cause...
he says something pithy about saving the day and getting the girl, and Elizabeth says 'got the girl?', and he says no, didn't get the girl. /paraphrasing badly.
Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 12:32 pm (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 01:12 pm (UTC)Re: takes a stab at the fanon characterization of Shep
Date: 2005-12-21 01:14 pm (UTC)Let this be a lesson to you!Of course we don't! *unconvincing smile*