SGA 5x19: "Vegas"

[xparrot]

I actually watched the leak of this a couple weeks ago, and haven't had a chance to rewatch it yet, but my el quicko reaction was: Loved it, one of my favorite eps of the season, and season 6 so should've been the Season of AUs, every one being a parody homage to a different TV show/genre. The sleek stylish CSI impersonation was fun and sexxxxxy - Joe Flanigan, you are one damn good-looking man, and David Hewlett was mighty fine in that suit with the cool and the confidence and the gum and OH, yeah, that's the Rodney I love.

Only not really - he was damaged - John was obviously broken, but Rodney was so subdued and bitter, Pegasus has not treated him kindly and John wasn't there to be his friend and help ease that load - and maybe not the rest of the team, either; Rodney said he had a team, but was Teyla or Ronon on it? Or did they not make it to Atlantis, without John? (This better have been how it was, else it was inexcusable that they weren't there in the second to last ep of the entire show...)

Also, heavy metal Wraith, and Todd was channeling the Cylon ship-mind and/or Dalek Caan, and Radek was all slick and Woolsey was FBI and oh, it was much ridiculous fun. Now bring on the tags (because seriously, like it ended there? Pshaw! Don't be silly!)

But really, what made it for me - and all non-McShep OTPers might want to stop reading now, because the tinhat might as well be fitted to my skull with superglue - was how both John and Rodney were broken when they were not together, and how fast and sure they cleaved to one another when they did meet. How disappointed Rodney was, and yet determined to get through to this lesser shadow of a man he'd met but briefly but entirely admired; how distrusting and disbelieving John was, and yet he could not help but remember everything Rodney said, and it was Rodney's theory he had faith in...yeah. That's who and what these boys are to each other, to me.

Comments

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was a bit confusing - what Rodney really said was that he had traveled to another universe himself once, and had met another John (and maybe another Rodney?) there. Which seems to be what inspired him to seek & study the John of his own universe, when he got back.

This was one of SGA's better writers so I don't know how they would've pulled off a whole season of genre-parody, but it would've been fun (I'd love to see a show like that, about the same set of chars in different universes...was just pitching it to the sibs, actually! ^^)

[stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com]

Methinks you need to pitch it to Hollywood and/or Vancouver. I'll watch it if you're a creator/writer. ^__~

Are you thinking in terms of a scenario in which the audience sees the various manifestations of the chars/team but they generally don't encounter each other? Or would this be something along the lines of one manifestation of the team "traveling" or "thrown" into encounters with other manifestations of themselves as we've seen in SGA and other sci-fi shows? Or perhaps the audience would see various individuals from a team thrown into AUs with alternates of the others and having to constantly adapt to the differences while solving the problems of the day in that AU? A sort of Quantum Leap meets SGA AU scenario. Seems to me the audience--at least at first--might connect better with a single team/chars they get to know and love in a "home" setting before they start seeing various AU versions of them, so there's a constant connection between each char, the team, and the audience. Would love to be a fly on the wall to hear your pitch/discussions with the sibs. Sure would be a great show for fic writers--talk about leaving the door wide open for writing settings and scenarios!