SGA: 5x20 "Enemy at the Gate" *whimper*
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xparrotOh, 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!
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!
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Date: 2009-01-14 02:01 pm (UTC)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 ridiculousChristms 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.