SGA 5x12: "Outsiders"

[xparrot]

Neutral-to-bored about most of the episode, as I am about most Pegasus-society focused eps (in theory I'd love to see other Pegasus peoples; in practice, the dung-colored-dressed stiff-alien-speeched faux-medieval-except-for-the-guns-and-industrial-manufactured-furnishings peasant types drive me batty. NON-EARTH CULTURES: U'RE DOING THEM RONG.)

Though I must admit the Pegasusian Wise Leader Dude cracked me up with the single truest line ever in the show: "The Atlantians have no idea what they're doing!" At last somebody notices!

gnine is wondering whose idea it was to use the sell-out peasants as bait. It might have been the Wise Leader Dude who suggested it - we know he went along with the plan, but it's possible Sheppard & Co. just said, "well, we need to lure the Wraith here," and WLD came up with how. On the other hand, with Rodney & Carson taken, John's circle of people-to-give-a-damn-about would've closed to Team and not a hell of a lot further, so he definitely could've come up with the plan, and Rodney wasn't around to question its morality (Rodney's not Daniel, but he'll at least go, "Uhhhh..." and make frowny faces in such circumstances.)

Speaking of morality, have I mentioned how much the classic "if we do this, we're no better than the Wraith" line cracks me up in this show? Because, uh, no, you are not the same. Seeing as you don't want to EAT PEOPLE. Also any human being who ever trusts any bargain a Wraith makes with them is dumb as an exceptionally thick post. Because the Wraith don't want to eventually make peace with you or accept a later favor or count on your political influence or preserve their honor. All they want is to EAT YOU. The only reasons they're not eating you right now is because they're hoping you'll have lots of children so they can EAT THEM. Silly Pegasus peoples. After 10,00 years, how are you still so mind-bogglingly naive about this?

Enough about Pegasus. Poor John & team, misplacing their Rodney again just an episode later. (John: "The Wraith just got Beckett and McKay." Ronon: "What? You couldn't keep an eye on him for like five minutes?") They really ought never to let Rodney off alone with anyone but one of them again. Or at least peel off the "Damsel in Distress" sticker afixed to his back.

Beckett 2.0 is still boring to the point of irritation, if a little funnier when McCullough's penning him. To me, Carson's biggest selling point is that he's not Keller; I'm better at ignoring him to focus on Rodney being all awesome. (Yeah, I really need to master that ability with Keller.) Actually I kind of liked Carson's role in much of this ep, which was to make Rodney look more awesome - like questioning his navigation skills, as John sometimes does, only Rodney actually had memorized the schematics and really did know where they were going. Also see: Rodney's blase (for McKay) "don't panic" waking up on the hive ship, and his ridiculously risky and dumb and Sheppard-worthy brilliant plan with the dart's dematerializer. And the bit where John comes to fetch Rodney to help them take down the Wraith, and Carson volunteers to come to, and John is all, "Not a chance." Because he trusts Rodney at his back with a gun, but not Carson. (It's been pretty subtle, but the last couple seasons Rodney's starting to hit Daniel Jackson levels of geek-gone-soldier...)



In other news, I've watched through ep 4 of Merlin. Swords! Amazing BBC-cgi sorcery! Ridiculously pretty and just plain ridiculous capes! Such dorktastic fun.

...oh yeah, and more gay than you can shake a flaming stick at. It was Arthur's line about "Maybe I haven't found the right person to love." Why was it "person"? Seriously? They're playing with us. PLA-YING.

...Please to be doing it more, BBC?

Also - dorky teenage boy with amazing unnatural abilities who must hide his true self from an unaccepting community, even while he protects said community from other gifted people abusing their power, saves the life of and proceeds to form a very very gay strong friendship with another boy in a position of much authority, who struggles under the weight of his responsibilities and the influence of his overbearing father, and has potential to do great harm, or great good.

I'm beginning to think what really went wrong with Smallville is there wasn't a convenient dragon around to tell Clark that Lex was the other half of his coin and yes, it damn well was his destiny to help and believe in him.

Comments

[trystings.livejournal.com]

NON-EARTH CULTURES: U'RE DOING THEM RONG.

Oh, this group had oil drums, corrugated rooftops and everything. It was amazing.

I enjoyed the episode (despite the rampant stupidity), but boy, is Carson starting to annoy me. He has one expression. One!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

XDDDD The first season, when the Hoffans and the Genii both had '40s North American filing cabinets, I nearly had a mental breakdown. WHYYYYYY?

Carson annoys me less than Keller...which isn't saying much, but still. At least Rodney's not in love with him! XP