SGA 5x14: "The Prodigal"

[xparrot]

Oh, yeah, that's how it's done, SGA!

So much fun all around! Everyone on my flist's covering it, so I'll just briefly touch on highlights:

I <3 Andy Mikita's direction. He shoots everyone gorgeous.

Amelia is awesome!

I am formally announcing Ronon/Woolsey as my crack OTP of DOOOOOM. OMG, the final mission report! They're perfect together! Ronon's got enough hair for both of them!

Teyla still has Kanaan (even if he's been turned invisible, Ancient invention accident, tragic really) and Torren!! Yay show!! And she still gets to kick ass, too (even if I did squawk at the bit she was with Woolsey, because she really should've given the baby to him and taken point herself. The only reason she didn't is because she'd peeked a bit ahead in the script and realized they'd all be screwed if she got stunned then.)

Poor Lorne, zapped and then out of the picture. While John listens to his Rodney.

The John/Rodney!!! Is back!!! Where did they get the toys? Gift from Jeannie? Hand-built from shipped parts? Inquiring minds want to know! Best thing about the cars is, if you look at them closely, they are all scratched and dented - the Atlantis 500 has been going on for a while, looks like. How much do I love that they sneak off at night to play together? Without anyone else and Rodney gets a bit huffy about Teyla disturbing their private time, with his comment about not thinking anyone else was around? gnine & I now are thinking that the "beer on the Pier" line in "The Shrine" isn't about a particular tradition of having beer together so much as that the East Pier is their special clubhouse pier (they probably have signs up around it saying NO GURLZ ALLOUD (EXCEPT TEYLA)). (And all of Atlantis probably does think they're having a clandestine affair, with all the late-night sneaking, while really they're just spending their time being little boys together. They've probably got slingshots and spitball straws stashed in a secret wall cubby.)

Also, John scolding Rodney about not fixing the jumpers, and making him go do it "like he should have done two years ago". So married.

Also also the handshake (and John is self-aware about his suicide runs, though still very happy to get out of them) and my slasher side admits to enjoying that it was interrupted, because then I can imagine how far it would've gone if it hadn't been...

--Oh, yeah, there was Michael, too. Being as crazy supervillain as ever before, down to the dramatic fight at the edge of a building. (And I liked John couldn't handle him in hand-to-hand even after Michael had taken a shot or two.) And Teyla gets the final blows, oh yeah. Kicking him off the ledge, while John watches her thinking, "If we were a real superheroes, I'd be saying something profound now about how if you do this you're no better than him...oops, too late."

Of course Michael might not really be dead, they didn't make it clear if they'd found a body (naye suggests that had there been a s6 he would've turned up with an army of Wraith-human-mermaid hybrids). Or he could've pulled a Baal and cloned himself. Or one of his henchmen will take over his Evil Hybrid Empire (tm).

But the episode wasn't really about Michael anyway; it was about Atlantis and the team saving the day in their dorktastic, slightly suicidal, slightly dark way, just as it should be.

And oh, Teyla at the end, with her son, laughing at her other boys - that's the show I love, right there!

Comments

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Just a big yes to everything you said. This made me want to hug my show tight, while loudly chanting. "You've come back to me!"

*loves it*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I know! I didn't realize how much I was missing a good ol' fashioned SGA ep until we got one! So much *squeeeee*!

[tringasolitaria.livejournal.com]

Yes yes yes. This was awesome. As I've commented to you before, I stopped watching after Tracker, but the general squee about this episode convinced me to try it, and I'm so glad I did. It was wonderful. :)

The only thing I would have changed was to have Teyla be the one to fight Michael on the tower, instead of John. I just have really been wanting a good Teyla fight, although I loved it that she was the one to finish it. Michael's arc has IMO had more affect on Teyla than any of the others, and after kidnapping her no less than three times, I badly wanted her to be the one to finish it - to not be the victim this time. So yay for that. I'm kinda wondering though if for some reason Rachel isn't being able to do the fights this season, because they've pulled back on her hand-to-hand stuff. She'll throw a punch or two, or a kick, but she hasn't had any all-out fight scenes.

Anyway, that aside, it was a great episode. The Ronon/Woolsey stuff was great, I loved Amelia Banks, and yay, John and Rodney are back! I so much love it that they spend their down time playing together like kids. :) And I loved the ending scene with Teyla hanging out with them and laughing. That's a side of her we don't get to see often, and I don't think I've ever seen her just hanging out with John and Rodney. :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Totally worth it, yup! (and you're making a good call to miss the rest, I think...)

Yeah, they have been cutting back on Teyla's fighting, I was wondering if it was Rachel's choice, for whatever reasons. But I liked that John couldn't really hold his own, and I loved that Teyla was there to deal the final blow. Of everyone on Atlantis, Michael wronged her the most, and she got to deal with that. Awesome!

And oh, how I loved her with John & Rodney at the end - I think that is the first time we've seen them hanging like that. So cute!

[raiining.livejournal.com]

That last scene was possibly the most familyglee! moment we've ever had on the show, and it only needed Ronon snickering in the corner to make it complete. Totally awesome.

(God - why couldn't they have made last week's this good? Besides the fact that last week needed a three episode arc build up. Ghah)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I know!! Loved Teyla with John & Rodney - we've never really gotten just the three of them on downtime together - but I want a team tag so bad. We haven't gotten one this season so far - tragic!

...not thinking about the last ep, I'm glad to put it out of my mind...

[ariadne83]

Aaaah. Are there episode tags yet? Cos this is crying out for them.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Don't know, but I hope to see some explanations of where they got those cars!

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Big yes to everything. I *loved* this episode. Everybody got a moment to shine, the team interactions were wonderful, and the story line was great. Why can't they write 'm like this all the time?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yes! I hope we get at least one more like this...

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

This was the SGA I fell in love with. Sometimes, they manage to get it right :)

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

The squee is back!! Let's hope it's there for at least a couple more eps...

[ladyoflisquill.livejournal.com]

had there been a s6 he would've turned up with an army of Wraith-human-mermaid hybrids

::snort::

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

C'mon, you know he would've XD

[dovil.livejournal.com]

Clubhouse Pier, I love it. army of Wraith-human-mermaid hybrids and that just made me laugh too hard for comfort.

But the episode wasn't really about Michael anyway; it was about Atlantis and the team saving the day in their dorktastic, slightly suicidal, slightly dark way, just as it should be.

I haven't watched an episode since the Shrine and was incredibly disappointed with season five, but that just won a sliver of my heart back. Everything that I love about the show got to shine for a perfect episode.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

The Wraith-mermaid hybrids are all naye's! ^_^ She's so right about 'em, too XD

I don't know if I'm more pleased or sad, to have one ep to remind me why I love the show. I had reached the point I was almost relieved it had been canceled...now I just am thinking how much I'm gonna miss it when it's gone!

[dovil.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you. I'm in exactly the same position. It's all very bitter sweet.

[horridporrid.livejournal.com]

I totally, totally agree that John and Rodney have themselves a clubhouse (a secret clubhouse *g*). Their love is so twelve. ;)

And also?

But the episode wasn't really about Michael anyway; it was about Atlantis and the team saving the day in their dorktastic, slightly suicidal, slightly dark way, just as it should be.

Yes! And that's what made it so awesome. :D

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Their love is SO twelve. I almost have a hard time slashing them when they're like this, it feels like it's underage XPPP

The show's been missing something this season, but this ep had it back, in spades!

[ezazahaz.livejournal.com]

I did squawk at the bit she was with Woolsey, because she really should've given the baby to him and taken point herself. The only reason she didn't is because she'd peeked a bit ahead in the script and realized they'd all be screwed if she got stunned then.

Oh, was that why? That makes sense now! :)

The "beer on the Pier" line in "The Shrine" isn't about a particular tradition of having beer together so much as that the East Pier is their special clubhouse pier (they probably have signs up around it saying NO GURLZ ALLOUD (EXCEPT TEYLA)). (And all of Atlantis probably does think they're having a clandestine affair, with all the late-night sneaking, while really they're just spending their time being little boys together. They've probably got slingshots and spitball straws stashed in a secret wall cubby.)

Hee! I love this image. So believable!

John watches her thinking, "If we were a real superheroes, I'd be saying something profound now about how if you do this you're no better than him...oops, too late."

But since he's really an anti-hero in disguise, he's all "You have learned well, grasshopper." Yay dark!Team! :)


And everything else you said: Yes. SO yes. God, I love this show...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

greyias just wrote a clubhouse AU fic, I suggest checking out her lj for it ^^

GAH that ending shot = SO DANG CUTE!!!