Stargate and Atlantis
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Stargate - Ex Deus Machina
Compared to the previous first five, it was lame. The pacing was choppy-slow. I did like the Jaffa sequences, and enjoyed Teal'cs (CJ's acting) growing frustration, and using his First Prime mind for political tactics. Why haven't they been using Teal'c more like this? Using his mind, rather his body for as a bodygaurd? He's so much more, and CJ has proven in this episode that it's criminal that they haven't.
Onward. Beaming a building up in broad daylight. How unoriginal, stupid, and yes, dues ex machina. There you go. There's the reason for the title. The writers solved the main un-urgent problem (I wasn't worried, hubby wasn't worried) by using Asgard beaming technology. Our growing complaint is how more and more like Star Trek this show is becoming, with the constant use of a Terran spaceship to get the team out of its problems. I guess if Daniel or anyone else gets stranded on a planet again, like in Icon, then they can send the handy-dandy Prometheus to pick'em up.
There was no sense of urgency or excitement. The edge was gone.
Carter didn't bother me much. I thought there were a few too many touches there in her (looked a lot like Daniel's) office...bones for the Sam/Daniel shippers. He was right up next to her butt. Who knows: that "person" she might have meant in the van, while talking to Barrett, could have been *Daniel*. J&S shippers, dream on. Ain't never going to happen. Jack's gone. And I can't believe anyone would want their fave character to continue down a road that is doing the character no good whatsoever.
Hubby mentioned that he missed Jack: and in this specific episode, I could see his point. There was no humor that stood out. No wit. It was gerbils running on the wheel.
Baal...hot man, little to do...and was that corporate blond chica his personal untatooed Jaffa, or a fellow minor Goa'uld? If so, then why (in either case) didn't Miss National Treasure not *sense* the snake, esp if she'd been Goa'ulded, unless it happened *after* Carter met with her?
Well, this episode wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but then, it certainly didn't have too far to fall to be the worst (this season). There was no "center" to the story, no emotional center. I have to say, Earth based stories generally bore me, because, at this point, this is a completely alternate Earth to the one that we started out with this show. These events aren't happening *here*, remotely ever. And that was the charm of the show when it started out. That charm is gone. The premise is gone. It's been gone for a while, but everytime they return to Earth and do stuff like that most of the population would hear about and start wondering...no.
I hope next week perks up. This was sad. Sad sad sad.
Atlantis - Instinct
Hubby, who watches with me (SF nuts both from way back) asked me tonight if I'd heard anything about Weir. He meant her actress, and I said all I'd heard was that in person, she was much more lively and engaging than her character...and he paused for a moment and asked if Weir were on drugs, or something, because that's how Weir seemed to him. Who knows, maybe she's playing Weir on valium or something.
Shouldn't she have *known* about this HUGE medical project that the doc was working on? How dumb WAS it to take the actual, unfinished samples *with* him to the planet, then leave the case unlocked. Did he and the girl's father not realize she was around? Dumb dumb dumb.
Loved Shep's reaction to Beckett's "and she's stronger and faster than any Wraith I've ever seen before." Like, that's all they need, to be creating a superrace of Wraith. Cripes.
Rodney looked like he was unsure of himself completely, he was *for him* more subdued. But unlike earlier in the season, he wasn't dropping the cartridge out of his gun or doing stupid things like that. And he didn't do the girly scream, for which I was grateful.
What else? Jewel, the actress doing the wraith girl, was fine. I like her in Firefly, and I don't think her casting was an accident at all. I only wish the make-up for the wraith wasn't so dire. She's a gorgeous woman.
The interplay continues between Ronan and Teyla, doing the "not listening" bit -- Teyla *plainly* has her own standards of what she thinks is best. I wonder if Ronan covered for her after he saved Sheppard, by saying it was his idea to leave Teyla behind. I think, even without any shippy vibes between these two, that they definitely have something else going on, which I like better than ship: their cultural differences are going to get them in trouble, eventually, with WeironValium, and I wonder what is then going to happen.
Stargate - Ex Deus Machina
Compared to the previous first five, it was lame. The pacing was choppy-slow. I did like the Jaffa sequences, and enjoyed Teal'cs (CJ's acting) growing frustration, and using his First Prime mind for political tactics. Why haven't they been using Teal'c more like this? Using his mind, rather his body for as a bodygaurd? He's so much more, and CJ has proven in this episode that it's criminal that they haven't.
Onward. Beaming a building up in broad daylight. How unoriginal, stupid, and yes, dues ex machina. There you go. There's the reason for the title. The writers solved the main un-urgent problem (I wasn't worried, hubby wasn't worried) by using Asgard beaming technology. Our growing complaint is how more and more like Star Trek this show is becoming, with the constant use of a Terran spaceship to get the team out of its problems. I guess if Daniel or anyone else gets stranded on a planet again, like in Icon, then they can send the handy-dandy Prometheus to pick'em up.
There was no sense of urgency or excitement. The edge was gone.
Carter didn't bother me much. I thought there were a few too many touches there in her (looked a lot like Daniel's) office...bones for the Sam/Daniel shippers. He was right up next to her butt. Who knows: that "person" she might have meant in the van, while talking to Barrett, could have been *Daniel*. J&S shippers, dream on. Ain't never going to happen. Jack's gone. And I can't believe anyone would want their fave character to continue down a road that is doing the character no good whatsoever.
Hubby mentioned that he missed Jack: and in this specific episode, I could see his point. There was no humor that stood out. No wit. It was gerbils running on the wheel.
Baal...hot man, little to do...and was that corporate blond chica his personal untatooed Jaffa, or a fellow minor Goa'uld? If so, then why (in either case) didn't Miss National Treasure not *sense* the snake, esp if she'd been Goa'ulded, unless it happened *after* Carter met with her?
Well, this episode wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but then, it certainly didn't have too far to fall to be the worst (this season). There was no "center" to the story, no emotional center. I have to say, Earth based stories generally bore me, because, at this point, this is a completely alternate Earth to the one that we started out with this show. These events aren't happening *here*, remotely ever. And that was the charm of the show when it started out. That charm is gone. The premise is gone. It's been gone for a while, but everytime they return to Earth and do stuff like that most of the population would hear about and start wondering...no.
I hope next week perks up. This was sad. Sad sad sad.
Atlantis - Instinct
Hubby, who watches with me (SF nuts both from way back) asked me tonight if I'd heard anything about Weir. He meant her actress, and I said all I'd heard was that in person, she was much more lively and engaging than her character...and he paused for a moment and asked if Weir were on drugs, or something, because that's how Weir seemed to him. Who knows, maybe she's playing Weir on valium or something.
Shouldn't she have *known* about this HUGE medical project that the doc was working on? How dumb WAS it to take the actual, unfinished samples *with* him to the planet, then leave the case unlocked. Did he and the girl's father not realize she was around? Dumb dumb dumb.
Loved Shep's reaction to Beckett's "and she's stronger and faster than any Wraith I've ever seen before." Like, that's all they need, to be creating a superrace of Wraith. Cripes.
Rodney looked like he was unsure of himself completely, he was *for him* more subdued. But unlike earlier in the season, he wasn't dropping the cartridge out of his gun or doing stupid things like that. And he didn't do the girly scream, for which I was grateful.
What else? Jewel, the actress doing the wraith girl, was fine. I like her in Firefly, and I don't think her casting was an accident at all. I only wish the make-up for the wraith wasn't so dire. She's a gorgeous woman.
The interplay continues between Ronan and Teyla, doing the "not listening" bit -- Teyla *plainly* has her own standards of what she thinks is best. I wonder if Ronan covered for her after he saved Sheppard, by saying it was his idea to leave Teyla behind. I think, even without any shippy vibes between these two, that they definitely have something else going on, which I like better than ship: their cultural differences are going to get them in trouble, eventually, with WeironValium, and I wonder what is then going to happen.
