Okay, just got done watching and I have to post some thoughts before I go back and read everyone else's opinions!
First of all - I loved this ep. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a good and proper sci-fi, spaceship, rockets and artifical gravity adventure story and it was great! I loved the sci-fi and technical aspects of the story and I adored the excellent human relationships shown and the banter and the dialogue.
It was a nice change to see the team mixed up a bit - Sheppard with Ronon instead of McKay for example. Lovely to see some interaction and banter between those two - and we still got the McKay snark and banter etc without the whole show having to be the "Rodney and John" hour, as some people have criticised of late. Nice to see Teyla have some decent dialogue and real role to play in the story. Great to see Sheppard get to be a pilot and do his derring-do bit and lovely to see good use of Lorne too.
The guest actors were excellent and really sold their parts and made you care about their people and their history.
I absolutely adored the ending - I'm sure those who ship will enjoy a happy Sheyla moment there but on a purely team friendship level it was also wonderful and developed into some of that great banter that shows how close the team are.. also ties back nicely to Sheppard's conversation with Teyla in Sateda about how
lovely characterisation.
I loved McKay doom and gloom prognosis - yet all the while he was still working to find them a way out of it. Loved also the again wonderful team moments as McKay tried to tell Sheppard not to do what he was planning. Just lovely little moments there that really build on the bond between these people.
All in all, a fab episode of a science fiction show - we had a sci-fi plot set in space, we had danger, we had drama, we had humour and snark. A really good self-contained episode of SGA.
First of all - I loved this ep. Thoroughly enjoyed it. It was a good and proper sci-fi, spaceship, rockets and artifical gravity adventure story and it was great! I loved the sci-fi and technical aspects of the story and I adored the excellent human relationships shown and the banter and the dialogue.
It was a nice change to see the team mixed up a bit - Sheppard with Ronon instead of McKay for example. Lovely to see some interaction and banter between those two - and we still got the McKay snark and banter etc without the whole show having to be the "Rodney and John" hour, as some people have criticised of late. Nice to see Teyla have some decent dialogue and real role to play in the story. Great to see Sheppard get to be a pilot and do his derring-do bit and lovely to see good use of Lorne too.
The guest actors were excellent and really sold their parts and made you care about their people and their history.
I absolutely adored the ending - I'm sure those who ship will enjoy a happy Sheyla moment there but on a purely team friendship level it was also wonderful and developed into some of that great banter that shows how close the team are.. also ties back nicely to Sheppard's conversation with Teyla in Sateda about how
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I loved McKay doom and gloom prognosis - yet all the while he was still working to find them a way out of it. Loved also the again wonderful team moments as McKay tried to tell Sheppard not to do what he was planning. Just lovely little moments there that really build on the bond between these people.
All in all, a fab episode of a science fiction show - we had a sci-fi plot set in space, we had danger, we had drama, we had humour and snark. A really good self-contained episode of SGA.
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