OMG futhermucker!!!!!!!!!!!!
That was my reaction to pretty much the entire second half of that episode.
The following is pretty much a stream-of-consciousness ramble of squee-age about the episode.
Pissedoff!McKay rocks my socks. “I was drugged against my will, ya little punk!” I loved that. Oh, how I loved that. I seriously thought at some points during this episode that he was just going to haul off and punch someone. It was a refreshing change from scared-out-of-his-mind McKay. It would have been cool to see him totally hopped up and fighting, but I’m glad the writers didn’t do that; it would have gone against the character.
I also love how the boys tried to get on his good side by asking him for help. Appeal to the ego, that’s the way to get to McKay. I also love the way that he refused to fix the dart even after they were all like “But you are the great and powerful McKay! We need your help!” He knew it was a crappy idea and wasn’t about to send them all to their deaths. Its always easier to save the lives of people you’ve met than to save the lives of people you haven’t. He’s not willing to risk these people’s lives (esp. not Ford, because I think he still does care, as pissed as he is) on something that has so small a chance of working. If it were a suicide mission that stood a chance in hell of working, then maybe he would have done it.
I was kind of sad at the line "This is how it felt when I toked pot once in college", though. Only once? Now I don't get to have the image of young, stoned Rodney.
But off of McKay and on to Ronon and Teyla. They have such a sibling dynamic!!!!!!! The fight over the dinner table? Such a sibling thing! I love their chemistry and camaraderie. I see no canon ship there, and that makes me happy, because canon ship = bad.
Weir. Or, shall I say, Mama Weir. All concerned over her kids and sending Lorne off to check on them. I didn’t get the feeling that he wasn’t concerned, more of the feeling that, “c’mon, we just got back, can’t we have like an hour of downtime?” But Weir trusts Lorne, and she sends him out. I like that Lorne is being shown more and more, and I like how the writers and Kavan Smith are developing his character. Makes the show feel like even more of an ensemble cast than it already was. And he shows the dry humour so necessary to Stargate (“maybe someone can, but that’s a little outside of my abilities”).
And we got Zelenka! Yay for Zelenka! With the messed up hair that shows he had clearly been running his hands through it in frustration. It wasn’t a long scene, but hey, I love the character, so allow me my squee. Ya know, we see almost as much of him as we see of Beckett, can he be listed as a regular, too? Please?????????????
Okay, this episode proved to me that my apathy towards Ford in season 1 was the fault of the writers and not Rainbow. They gave him some depth, they showed that he does have some skill as a leader (probably would have been a half-way decent one had he not been quite as hopped up), and they showed that he cared about his men. They also showed how young and lost he is, keeping with the “Lost Boys” title. At the end, he sounded like a pissy teenager ("snot-nosed brat", as Shep says), and the whole bent on proving himself thing is a trademark of the young as well. I really want to see him detoxed and returned to Earth, but at the same time I don’t, because then I wouldn’t get to see crazy Ford anymore, and I don’t know that the writers quite know what to do with him when he’s sane.
I loved Elizabeth’s refusal to presume the team dead or permanently lost. She knows she should, but she can’t because she’s involved on an emotional level. That’s what I like about the Stargate series: everyone cares about their team. I say her reluctance is on an emotional level rather than a logical “they’ve pulled miracles out of their rears before” because of the way in which the line was written, and also in how Torri Higginson delivered it. It wasn’t a flat out, “nope, they’ll get through this”; she almost said it and then retreated. A logical denial would have been like Jack in “Threads”: nope, he keeps coming back, I refuse to believe it this time. In this, Weir’s really worried, and I like that. It also goes beyond her being friends with the team (although that’s the main part of it); Atlantis needs it’s Chief Scientist and Chief Military officer back, dammit.
We get a female Wraith, and she brings John to his knees! Girl power, yo!
Oh, and then there's "R-2, turn off the auto-pilot NOW"...so great.
This was a truly kick-a** episode, a cliff-hanger as a mid-season break should be. It leaves the audience wanting more. I think they should have aired this and Aurora separately though; this episode didn’t need the “Aurora” lead-in. It was probably done so as not to give us two cliff-hangers in one night, but still, this definitely deserves to be watched on it’s own.
That was my reaction to pretty much the entire second half of that episode.
The following is pretty much a stream-of-consciousness ramble of squee-age about the episode.
Pissedoff!McKay rocks my socks. “I was drugged against my will, ya little punk!” I loved that. Oh, how I loved that. I seriously thought at some points during this episode that he was just going to haul off and punch someone. It was a refreshing change from scared-out-of-his-mind McKay. It would have been cool to see him totally hopped up and fighting, but I’m glad the writers didn’t do that; it would have gone against the character.
I also love how the boys tried to get on his good side by asking him for help. Appeal to the ego, that’s the way to get to McKay. I also love the way that he refused to fix the dart even after they were all like “But you are the great and powerful McKay! We need your help!” He knew it was a crappy idea and wasn’t about to send them all to their deaths. Its always easier to save the lives of people you’ve met than to save the lives of people you haven’t. He’s not willing to risk these people’s lives (esp. not Ford, because I think he still does care, as pissed as he is) on something that has so small a chance of working. If it were a suicide mission that stood a chance in hell of working, then maybe he would have done it.
I was kind of sad at the line "This is how it felt when I toked pot once in college", though. Only once? Now I don't get to have the image of young, stoned Rodney.
But off of McKay and on to Ronon and Teyla. They have such a sibling dynamic!!!!!!! The fight over the dinner table? Such a sibling thing! I love their chemistry and camaraderie. I see no canon ship there, and that makes me happy, because canon ship = bad.
Weir. Or, shall I say, Mama Weir. All concerned over her kids and sending Lorne off to check on them. I didn’t get the feeling that he wasn’t concerned, more of the feeling that, “c’mon, we just got back, can’t we have like an hour of downtime?” But Weir trusts Lorne, and she sends him out. I like that Lorne is being shown more and more, and I like how the writers and Kavan Smith are developing his character. Makes the show feel like even more of an ensemble cast than it already was. And he shows the dry humour so necessary to Stargate (“maybe someone can, but that’s a little outside of my abilities”).
And we got Zelenka! Yay for Zelenka! With the messed up hair that shows he had clearly been running his hands through it in frustration. It wasn’t a long scene, but hey, I love the character, so allow me my squee. Ya know, we see almost as much of him as we see of Beckett, can he be listed as a regular, too? Please?????????????
Okay, this episode proved to me that my apathy towards Ford in season 1 was the fault of the writers and not Rainbow. They gave him some depth, they showed that he does have some skill as a leader (probably would have been a half-way decent one had he not been quite as hopped up), and they showed that he cared about his men. They also showed how young and lost he is, keeping with the “Lost Boys” title. At the end, he sounded like a pissy teenager ("snot-nosed brat", as Shep says), and the whole bent on proving himself thing is a trademark of the young as well. I really want to see him detoxed and returned to Earth, but at the same time I don’t, because then I wouldn’t get to see crazy Ford anymore, and I don’t know that the writers quite know what to do with him when he’s sane.
I loved Elizabeth’s refusal to presume the team dead or permanently lost. She knows she should, but she can’t because she’s involved on an emotional level. That’s what I like about the Stargate series: everyone cares about their team. I say her reluctance is on an emotional level rather than a logical “they’ve pulled miracles out of their rears before” because of the way in which the line was written, and also in how Torri Higginson delivered it. It wasn’t a flat out, “nope, they’ll get through this”; she almost said it and then retreated. A logical denial would have been like Jack in “Threads”: nope, he keeps coming back, I refuse to believe it this time. In this, Weir’s really worried, and I like that. It also goes beyond her being friends with the team (although that’s the main part of it); Atlantis needs it’s Chief Scientist and Chief Military officer back, dammit.
We get a female Wraith, and she brings John to his knees! Girl power, yo!
Oh, and then there's "R-2, turn off the auto-pilot NOW"...so great.
This was a truly kick-a** episode, a cliff-hanger as a mid-season break should be. It leaves the audience wanting more. I think they should have aired this and Aurora separately though; this episode didn’t need the “Aurora” lead-in. It was probably done so as not to give us two cliff-hangers in one night, but still, this definitely deserves to be watched on it’s own.
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