nd let the show give me a ride through parallel AR SG-1 teams.
Me, too. It was a fun enough episode.
There was, of course, the obligatory shot of one of the AR Sams wearing one of those odious tank tops from past seasons, thrusting her chest out for view. Talk about cattle call. This was in the scene with multiple Sams babbling along,
To be honest, I didn't even notice this--or the GeekSam others mentioned. I was too turned off by that scene to pay much attention to anything, but the main action, I guess.
Where, pray tell, were the scenes of multiple Daniels, whom we have NEVER met before in any AR/AU episode of Stargate before?
:-( Boo hoo. I can't tell you how many times I've read people saying how great and fantastic this episode was, then adding on, "Where was Daniel?" or "Daniel didn't have much to do" or something, as though it weren't really important, but just an observation. (And I'm guessing it's not important to everyone, but it is to me, dammit. *g*)
As I said, Tapping was amusing enough, and, considering the job she had in this corker of an episode, was pretty darn on top of things.
I didn't even find her that amusing.
So. TPTB of Stargate have reduced this female character to her vulva, her babble, and her tits, just like Tapping said they weren't going to, just like the writers said they weren't going to, and you have to wonder, what is the point of this character, if, in an episode where she's the focus, all they have to talk about is who she is or is not banging in another universe, when all that science is all around her?
And thank you for saying this. It's exactly what I think, too.
I did have a problem with Weir's treatment of Kavanaugh, and frankly, if the writers want me to hate this guy simply because Sheppard and everyone hates his guts, well, it ain't working. I like him. He tells his views like it is, and honestly, he is right about Weir and her synchophantic way of running Atlantis
I agree with all of this, but I think it didn't bother me that much because I don't care that much about Atlantis or Weir. I was so hoping we'd see Kavanaugh again. :-)
I'm surprised Kavanaugh didn't bring up the way Weir had Sheppard's rank raised so he could stay in command of the troops on Atlantis.
He probably didn't know about that. In the military, promotions are *not* done the way it's portrayed on Stargate. There are no *surprise* promotions like they imply with Sam and Jack. People are up for promotion for a *long* time and there are lists and things. Everyone knows who's going to make it. In Sheppard's case, he would have had to have been on the list already and, at Weir's insistence, possibly deep selected (i.e. promoted over those with more seniority and/or who were higher on the promotion list for a variety of reasons--it's a very complicated system), but he had to have been already on the promotion list--even if he was so far down that he had no chance in hell of making it any time soon. (And an officer passed over twice is booted out of the service, so he'd have to make it eventually.) Not that this has anything to do with anything. LOL I'm just ranting. hehe
As one fan of the show has said, if her voice hadn't been so obviously run through a studio set-up and echoed, it would have been more believable and effective.
That's true. It bothered me at first, but then I just went with it. hehe
Rodney was back to his season one self, which was great.
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Date: 2006-01-22 05:53 am (UTC)Me, too. It was a fun enough episode.
There was, of course, the obligatory shot of one of the AR Sams wearing one of those odious tank tops from past seasons, thrusting her chest out for view. Talk about cattle call. This was in the scene with multiple Sams babbling along,
To be honest, I didn't even notice this--or the GeekSam others mentioned. I was too turned off by that scene to pay much attention to anything, but the main action, I guess.
Where, pray tell, were the scenes of multiple Daniels, whom we have NEVER met before in any AR/AU episode of Stargate before?
:-( Boo hoo. I can't tell you how many times I've read people saying how great and fantastic this episode was, then adding on, "Where was Daniel?" or "Daniel didn't have much to do" or something, as though it weren't really important, but just an observation. (And I'm guessing it's not important to everyone, but it is to me, dammit. *g*)
As I said, Tapping was amusing enough, and, considering the job she had in this corker of an episode, was pretty darn on top of things.
I didn't even find her that amusing.
So. TPTB of Stargate have reduced this female character to her vulva, her babble, and her tits, just like Tapping said they weren't going to, just like the writers said they weren't going to, and you have to wonder, what is the point of this character, if, in an episode where she's the focus, all they have to talk about is who she is or is not banging in another universe, when all that science is all around her?
And thank you for saying this. It's exactly what I think, too.
I did have a problem with Weir's treatment of Kavanaugh, and frankly, if the writers want me to hate this guy simply because Sheppard and everyone hates his guts, well, it ain't working. I like him. He tells his views like it is, and honestly, he is right about Weir and her synchophantic way of running Atlantis
I agree with all of this, but I think it didn't bother me that much because I don't care that much about Atlantis or Weir. I was so hoping we'd see Kavanaugh again. :-)
I'm surprised Kavanaugh didn't bring up the way Weir had Sheppard's rank raised so he could stay in command of the troops on Atlantis.
He probably didn't know about that. In the military, promotions are *not* done the way it's portrayed on Stargate. There are no *surprise* promotions like they imply with Sam and Jack. People are up for promotion for a *long* time and there are lists and things. Everyone knows who's going to make it. In Sheppard's case, he would have had to have been on the list already and, at Weir's insistence, possibly deep selected (i.e. promoted over those with more seniority and/or who were higher on the promotion list for a variety of reasons--it's a very complicated system), but he had to have been already on the promotion list--even if he was so far down that he had no chance in hell of making it any time soon. (And an officer passed over twice is booted out of the service, so he'd have to make it eventually.) Not that this has anything to do with anything. LOL I'm just ranting. hehe
As one fan of the show has said, if her voice hadn't been so obviously run through a studio set-up and echoed, it would have been more believable and effective.
That's true. It bothered me at first, but then I just went with it. hehe
Rodney was back to his season one self, which was great.
Yay!