SGA: 5x20 "Enemy at the Gate" *whimper*

[xparrot]

Oh, show! I will miss you...for all my whinging this season, I'm not ready to say goodbye...

What really hurts is that this would've made a fine season finale - it's not quite a cliffhanger, but it sets up a lot of interesting stuff to be dealt with, and that we won't get a season to do it - that we might not even get a movie - it's sad.

But it was a fun ep! I'd spoilered myself for a lot of stuff, but not everything - and there was a lot there...

Kavanaugh, hee! All the cameos were nice. Love Woolsey, but Sam, I do miss you! And the mention of General Hammond was sad but nicely done. And then Caldwell! Lorne! Radek! Keller! (her bit with Woolsey was one of her best scenes of the season.)

And most importantly: TEAM! Team team team!

We got Rodney, Ronon, & Teyla running around together! Could've been more, but I have been wanting that for a long time, so yes, happy-making.

Rodney! Was sciencey and smart, and his hair was fluffy and his lashes long, and oh, I love the meek way he says, "Earth," they're in such deep shit that he's a few parsecs beyond panic. Of everything about the show, it's David Hewlett's McKay that I'm going to miss the most.

Also, he and John are mindmelded. Eeee~!

Woolsey talking to Ronon and Teyla about Pegasus and their responsibilities...not as much as it should be, too little too late, but at least it was acknowledged somewhere, eventually.

It wouldn't be John Sheppard if he didn't end up on a volunteer suicide mission, flying a nuke. Oh, John. The team better thwap him good for this stunt.

Jason Momoa has way too much fun playing dead, no? But Teyla and Rodney with Ronon dying, and how much do I love that Lorne has to drag them away - lovely, lovely!

They get to hear John's good-bye! Awww...

Though seriously, how awesome would it have been if they hadn't gotten in touch in time and John had blown the nuke? With his whole team inadvertently going up with him? Together to the last? I mean, yeah, major death, tragic, etc, but oh, the irony!

A couple points of anti-squee:

Is Teyla's last line in the show really, "I'm sorry, John"? Like, nine minutes from the end? Man. And Ronon got Amelia but Kanaan and Torren didn't merit so much as a mention, that I heard.

And then, the end...it wasn't as bad as I was dreading (hell, a few episodes ago I was thinking there was going to be a McKeller proposal...) But it was still frustrating...the timing of the musical swell to accentuate Rodney & Keller was unfortunate, and then in that last shot, why couldn't Rodney have been standing a little closer to Teyla? Or he could've reached out to touch her shoulder, or she could have touched his...something to bridge the gap, to unite the team in the final image.

All right, anti-squee over! Speaking of that final image - anyone else get Star Trek IV flashbacks? ...Okay, just me, then.

Awful convenient for Todd to show up with those ZPMs just when they're needed most. And now he's on Earth, too...

And they get extra ZPMs, and promptly bring Atlantis to Earth - bwahahah, Victorsverse, much? And up in the air whether they'll let it go back...lots of fic potential there.

The wormhole drive thing...hmmm. Might come in handy for my own devious fic purposes.

I'm sure there was more, but I find myself not wanting to think about it. So, for now. Yeah. Okay. That's the show.

That's the show. But Rodney, John, Teyla, Ronon, Radek, Woolsey, Lorne, Sam, Amelia, Atlantis - they're ours, now and forever.

And I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on giving them back!

Comments

[wneleh.livejournal.com]

Our points of squee and antisquee line up. Husband and I were making STIV cracks through the ending, and now we've got to show it to our kids.

Now I've got to write a post-ep fic, and I'm staring at a blank document. There are holes to fill aplenty, but none are really calling to me.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, I'm tickled to see I wasn't the only one thinking STIV! (we also spent most of the discovery of the Wraith Super-Hive going, "That's no moon, that's a Wraith-station" and the like ^^)

I need to write something, badly, but not sure what myself...

[katikat.livejournal.com]

I liked the scene with Ronon and Amelia, they might get together or they might not, they let the fans decide. That's how the McKeller romance should have been handled - Rodney asking Jennifer out in the very last episode and she accepting. That would allow people to come to their own conclusion. It's just too bad :(

But the episode was awesome. Action pure with very little romancing - someone finally remembered that it was a scifi show, not General Hospital! Great :)

And why do you think that there won't be any movie? Mallozzi said that both the SGA and the SG-1 movies will start filming in late spring/early summer with release date in 2010...

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Would've preferred a bit more team and a bit less 'ship in the final scene, but otherwise, yup, fun times, that's our show!

Last I heard, while the movies were being written, none of the actors had been signed yet, which is a little odd...am hoping it's just paranoia, though, and they're not so distracted by SGU as to drop it...

[gritkitty.livejournal.com]

anyone else get Star Trek IV flashbacks

Hell yeah. nestra and I both said the same thing: Very Star Trek.

I'm not going to miss the show terribly, but after this surge of post-series fic, I am going to miss it all slowly going away. Probably to that Merlin show, eh?

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heee, I think everyone was thinking Star Trek!

Ehhh, I'm not going to Merlin anyway - it was fun, but didn't take my heart. Anime maybe...but for now, for now I still want to be here! *loves on SGA hardcore*

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Wonderful episode. I love Todd and his freaky, complicated relationship with Sheppard and his deus ex machina hat tricks. I will miss him. :)

Amelia & Ronon: Sweet. I wasn't happy to see John so readily dismissed by Ronon *gulps* but ... oh well. At least Amelia is a good match.

I loved the similarities between this hive ship battle and the one we saw in flashbacks in Vegas. I can definitely see one or two darts making it to Earth's surface undetected and history repeating itself. And Brad Wright claiming they don't have enough stories for a season 6. Ha! Fiddlesticks.

I have been hysterically worried about the final image you posted a while back, and it turned out much better than I thought. But wasn't Carter in that promo pic as well? I can't find it anymore.

Bye Team. ♥

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Todd & Sheppard is pretty cool. And unavoidable slashy. Meanwhile, with Ronon at the end, heh - all I could think was John going, "Wait, you mean my whole team is straight? what the heck!?"

And yeah, I wasn't happy with the final image, but it didn't kill me, either...frustrating, but that's it...

Not bye Team! Bye show, but the team, they go on, in our hearts and fic and everything else! *holds on defiantly, for at least a little longer*

[elandrialore.livejournal.com]

All right, anti-squee over! Speaking of that final image - anyone else get Star Trek IV flashbacks? ...Okay, just me, then.

HA! It wasn't just you, I totally described it like that to a friend when recapping the episode. *g*

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heee, it seems like everyone saw it! (so many secret Trekkies on my flist, it turns out ^^)

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

That's the show. But Rodney, John, Teyla, Ronon, Radek, Woolsey, Lorne, Sam, Amelia, Atlantis - they're ours, now and forever.

And I don't know about you, but I'm not planning on giving them back!

And to me, that's the best part of season 5 (bar 3 episodes) !!! :D

Finally the writers can make it right and nice and all SGAy again :D

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what we're all here for! But oh, I'm gonna miss them on our screen...gonna miss having stuff to fix, even! Sigh...

[e313.livejournal.com]

i totally agree with what u've said and only have one objection to the whole ep: Carson flew Atlantis? Carson?! THE Carson who got headaches from trying to control a drone Carson? oh, cooome oooon! i'd buy Lorne. Damn, i'd even buy Mckay, but Carson?!

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, yeah...don't know why it wasn't Lorne. Maybe he doesn't like the Chair? Oh well...

[e313.livejournal.com]

cuz he wants a throw and some pillows? :D

[parisntripfan.livejournal.com]

That was my thought as well. It could be that they wanted to show us just how far Carson2 has come - in comparison to where he was way back when Rising aired. It could be they wanted to bring back Paul McGillion and this was the way they came up with. Or it could be that they wanted to give us a little bit of a chuckle as we watched Carson steering the city because while he is getting better at it, he still looks like he's going to the bathroom and has a touch of constipation.

[e313.livejournal.com]

meh! he's a doctor! they could have thrown him in the infirmary with Keller and some injured personnel and stress how the battle and re-entry was a rough deal after all

[ariadne83]

Hee with the wormhole drive the possibilities are limitless. Want to write about them fixing up the city and then stealing it, to become galaxy-hopping pirates? Go ahead! *glee*

And no, I'm never, ever giving them up.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I've got a WiP the wormhole drive might fit nicely into, am contemplating it now...

*holds on tight and won't let go*

[stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com]

Given that you've already been active in this fandom longer than any other, I think (maybe X-Files lasted longer??), I can't imagine you sticking around here too much longer without the show to feed you--especially if something new captures your fancy... but please do stay with it at least long enough to finish Closer to Ordinary. I only get dragged into these fandoms because your writing makes me fall for the characters, and then... and then... you've developed a pattern of leaving me hanging out there without endings to tales I've become invested in, with characters I love in limbo indefinitely. And I fall for so few series and hang onto them so much longer than you and have so little time to invest in new fandoms that I can't keep up with you!!

I know, I know, the inspiration and the love need to be there to write. And you're a serial monogamous fan, so once you've moved on to a new love, it's hard to go back. But... but... please stay in love long enough to give John and Rodney their just desserts after the hell you've been putting them through! Please don't leave us with the hurt without the comfort.

Love you (and your writing) muchly, of course, however it plays out.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I need to finish CtO!!! I'm frustrated myself with how easily I slip out of fandoms, I want to keep them longer...it's hard, though, with the BAD INFLUENCES around me (you know Gnine's attention span, and Naye's on an anime kick now...)

But while I've been watching other stuff lately, SGA's the only thing that's still inspiring the urge to fic in me, so yeah, I'm gonna at least finish CtO before I go - I MUST! Arggh!

love you!

[stitcher2ficcer.livejournal.com]

Well, I hope the show finale has inspired you to get past your usual winter writing block and back to CtO. If it encourages you to know, I'm anxiously awaiting the next installment.

It will be interesting to see what effect living with your brother, away from Gnine, will have on your writing in the next year or two. And yes, I've been on LJ enough lately to notice Naye's latest obsessions. I'm afraid her current squeeing may just push me into a new fandomw... or at the very least into investigating some new anime.

But I've GOT to finish the CQ teddy bear for your grandmother before I let myself get distracted. And we just scheduled a short vacation in Seattle over Presidents' Day weekend next month, and I've got something I want to make as a housewarming present for Matthew and Miriam by then (HA! In my dreams!! If I didn't have a job, maybe!!) So must resist fandom for the time being. Except maybe for Dr. Who. The disks for season four have finally become available on Netflix (since certain people never did get around to sending me a disk with all the S.4 eps they have on their computers... arrgghh!). We saw the rather ridiculous Christms special last week, and the first disk with Donna as companion is supposed to arrive tomorrow.

But for now? Must get to work.

Love you.

[moonriddler-mim.livejournal.com]

hi ^^ I got recommended to come here by menuriko. hope it's okay?

I recently fell head over heels for the SGA series and have spent the last two weeks or so nailbiting and lol-ing (oh, the Sheppard+McKay snark is killing me!) my way through the first four seasons (had to close my eyes as I scrolled down this post ^^). I loove it! ^_~

anyways, I saw you have some recs for fics and such, mind if I pop by now and then to check for more? or even friend you?

have a good day ^_^
Mim

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Don't mind at all, friend away - welcome to the flist, and the fandom! SGA is a marvelous fun if extremely cracktastic place to be...folks are a bit mopey now what with the series being over, but there's still plenty of fic and such out there!

I've got a few fic recs here - pretty much entirely team gen and/or McShep - but whatever tickles your fancy in the show, you can probably find it somewhere in the fandom! And all my own fic is here (I write the same sort of stuff as I rec, generally...)

Happy fanning! ^^