SGA 5x07: "Whispers"

[xparrot]

Okay, when John started with "I didn't realize you, uh..." to Major Teldey, show of hands that what he actually was going to say was, "I didn't realize you were a lesbian," because it's one thing to select women you probably know personally and are comfortable/confident with for your team, and another to specifically choose supermodels? Not that I've got anything against hot soldier girls, it just seems like their particular team aesthetics are bucking the odds a bit.

Also, what exactly is Carson doing now? Is he going back to Earth/SGC, or is he sticking around Pegasus to help out, just not on Atlantis? With the Athosians or what? He was weirdly vague about his actual destination.

Dusty was great fun, and best reason ever to come to Pegasus, to kill bad things. She should totally hook up with Amelia. Minor chars of awesome femmeslash for the win!

ETA: naye just reminded me - Michael has a logo! His own iratus-bug logo!!! He's so sent in his application to the Evil League of Evil, hasn't he?

Also, in response to various complaints I've seen, everything else about the ep is explained by how the creatures were emitting weird fog with unknown effects, one of which obviously was to make people act as dumb as if they're in a horror movie. Which, really, for an advanced predator, makes a lot of sense!

Comments

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that Sheppard's attitude to the team when he met them irked me. I mean, he's the military leader of Atlantis, for pete's sake, and he never had any problems with working for or with women so his "oh, you are all women" was so out of character :(

[jujuberry136.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was kind of weird. I mean, it's obvious now that he passes all his paperwork off to Lorne, but you'd think he would at least now all his officers (and perhaps, their gender?).

[katikat.livejournal.com]

That's true. Another fannish thing canonized - Lorne is doing the paperwork XP

But I really hate it when the writers make Sheppard so OOC. Like when Martin Gero dropped the mensa thing because, according to him, nobody believed that Sheppard could be that smart anyway.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I swear, the only less-OOC explanation for Sheppard's reaction that I can come up with is that he was reacting, not to them being women, but to them all being unusually supermodel-esque women, with their hair and make-up perfect and all. That surprised me a bit, so I can't blame John for blinking...

[naye]

You mean John hasn't noticed he's living in a TV show yet?

[sholio]

But look at the team he works with every day! You'd think he'd be so used to being surrounded by total hotness all the time that he'd hardly bat an eye. *g*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but when he first met Teyla, she had the wig of horror, and when he first met Ronon he was all smudged, and we know first impressions are everything for John! (it wasn't the hotness, see, it was the makeup that did it...!)

...I maintain that he wasn't surprised, just worried that Major Teldy was going to run afoul of DADT, as she wasn't exactly being subtle about her predilections XP

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

You could say that they transferred in during Rodney's illness, and John had handed everything over to Lorne during that time so as to be able to spend all his time with Rodney. He just hasn't had a chance to catch up with everything and everyone yet (not to mention his sleep). :D

Ok, it's weak - but it's a try. *grin*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Well, it's been at least a week since "The Shrine" - since Rodney says Carson's been there for a week - but otherwise, yes, I like this explanation!!

[leesa_perrie]

It's been more than a week as Rodney doesn't have a hole in his head (or even a scar by the looks of it, huh, lucky guy!).