SGA penultimate

[bironic]

OMG, this episode is amazing. I'm sitting here grinning. WHY DID THEY WAIT UNTIL THE NEXT-TO-LAST EPISODE TO DO THIS???

Squee with me! Or disagree. But expect squee in return. Because while not perfect, this is an amazing leap for this show.


Running commentary:

- It's CSI: Stargate!
- Sheppard is totally the same broody AU detective fandom has made him. Especially Pru's.
- Human playing Wraith playing human. Punk human. Love it.
- p.s. Wraith have spiny spines.
- Zombies! Rolling Stones!
- It has fingerless gloves. Fingerless gloves.
- Wish Sheppard had solved more on his own instead of having SGC-Rodney swoop in to explicate. Still, I guess that'll let the second half move forward quickly.
- Sheppard's standoffish with the nurse he may or may not have slept with, and the first thing Rodney says about him when he lists his secrets is that Sheppard's never been married. HM.
- Todd the poet. Poor starved, crazy Todd. Hope he comes back to help Sheppard save the day.
- Ooh. And when Rodney said they tried everything, I bet they fed Todd someone too. They seem just edgy enough.
- So if Sheppard was involved with the female medic he went to rescue, then does that mean he was involved with the male captain or whoever it was he went to rescue in "our" reality? [ /queering ]
- And poor Rodney. I wonder what it was that changed his life so he ended up doing police work instead of physics. Must've been tough to meet his counterpart.
- Aw, Zelenka, where are your glasses?
- Hee! Rodney didn't make it to the Star Trek Experience before it closed, either.
- Sheppard set to Johnny Cash. It's like a fanvid, only canon.
- Yeah, definitely /queering, since the song is very much about wanting and not having a girl by his side.
- They so stole that ship/plane zooming-focusing move from Firefly.
- You can just hear John's "Oh, crap!" in his head as he leaps over his convertible when the punk Wraith starts firing.
- You killed John Sheppard! You bastards.

Oh, that was thoroughly enjoyable. I wish we'd had an episode like that every season. Even with the flash-and-freeze montage overkill.

I'm trying not to think about how depressing this John's life was after the dishonorable discharge. And Rodney's, for that matter. His was more understated, since it was John's episode, but they were both pretty miserable there. Atlantis must be gloomy in this reality, too, with these suits running it.

It's also a shame that this wasn't more of an AU, so that Teyla and Ronon could've been around.

p.s. People in street clothes and suits instead of uniforms! I did not mention because it was kind of a given from the trailer, but you know I love when that happens. Even the Wraith had sweaters and pants. I just love, love, love when fantastic canons like that can come a little bit closer to our ordinary lives.

*listens to "Solitary Man" a time or ten*



Commentaries: thingswithwings, kassrachel
Tags: pollitt, harriet_spy, sheafrotherdon

Comments

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

*grins*

I'm liking it a lot, but I think they're actually going overboard on all the flashies.

And Rodney could show up any time now, KTHX.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Absolutely overboard, but it's okay because I'd rather they go too far with new direction -- or, hell, with any actual directing -- than to serve the same thing week after week.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Agree completely.

And YAY RODNEY!

"I've met a different version of you."

Oh God, loving this.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Seriously. I can't believe it's actually living up to the trailer.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

OMG SO MANY FLASHIES.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

I KNOW. I WAS ALL "ENOUGH WITH THE GODDAMN FLASHIES!"

Hee.

When you have a sec, I'd like your opinion on a ficlet what I wrote. It's the latest post on my LJ ... no rush, I just want to make sure I don't screw things up. *g*

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

It was everything I hoped it would be. Which wasn't much, but still! Lived up to it!

I am kind of amazed at how much like a fannish AU it was. The typical SG AUs seem to enjoy messing with people's personalities more than their situations, but this had everyone as themselves if slightly different.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

It was grand. Grand grand grand, like the MGM. The trailer got my hopes up so high I had to work to shove them down where I expected the episode would be -- seeing the trailer a bazillion times in the last few days during the marathons on Sci Fi helped -- but lo, like you say, it was everything I hoped. Though it sounds like I was hoping for more than you, heh.

At least now, if next week's is sucky or cliffhangery to prepare for the movies, I can pretend this was the finale.

But the real question I have for you is, will it motivate you to work more on Sheppard's 11? :D

[thedeadparrot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it was so much FUN. SGA eps usually try so hard in that area and fail, but this one did not!

*cough* yes *cough* I'd forgotten why I loved all these characters so much, but now I have been reminded! Oh, SGA. Plus, I've already put so much effort into it so far, it seems like a shame not to at least get a draft down.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I mean, now we've seen broke, beaten-down Sheppard lose at poker, so we've got to see a confident, card-countin', top-of-his-game Sheppard WIN at it. Possibly without a Wraith. Depending on what's up in your version. :)

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, but I think I need to watch it again to really understand it and how (or whether) it fits into our reality.

Loved the use of "Solitary Man" with Sheppard. Like you, I was thinking that Sheppard doesn't need a girl by his side, but rather a certain astrophysicist (or the whole team).

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Rodney would stay and not play games! Hee.

How it fits into SGA-canon reality or *our* reality reality? Seemed like they were just another among the parallel worlds....

I wonder what watching that episode was like on cold medicine.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

How it fits into SGA-canon reality or *our* reality reality?

The former. There were a few points in the episode where I wondered whether the writers were setting things up for potential consequences in "our" Atlantis from events in this AU universe (such as Rodney's opening of the Rift and the Wraith signal's dissipation into said Rift).

I wonder what watching that episode was like on cold medicine.

Bizarre!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I very much think we're meant to assume that the message could've gotten out to "our" Pegasus, and based on the preview, probably did.

Did Rodney open the rift or did the Wraith's busted-up dart do it again by accident? I guess I didn't catch that part.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

I got the impression from the conversation between Rodney and Zelenka that Rodney had opened the rift, in sort of this universe's parallel to the events on Doranda.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ah! Something to listen for on the next watch. When they were hissing at each other in the conference room? I wondered; it looked in the beginning as if the Wraith had somehow engineered his dart to do something extraordinary like that. Reminded me of the grieving Superman turning the world backwards, actually.

[perspi.livejournal.com]

I am getting ready to watch it! EEEEE! I am very excited! :)

Also, I'm going to have a candy cane cookie and some tea, so that is likewise exciting. *g*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Enjoy all of it! I'm off to bed; catch you in the morning to discuss, I hope.

[theninth.livejournal.com]

I was going to write a whole post about how "the greatest thing since sliced bread" is not really that impressive. The invention of bread is impressive. Sliced bread? "Hey, I can use this sharp thing and use it to slice the bread!" Pfft.

The invention of cheese is really impressive.

That episode of SGA was the greatest thing since cheese!

It was CSI: Stargate. It was X-files. It was a comic book. It was so funny and so brilliant and I loved it. I loved Zelenka without his glasses and his hair more orderly.

I also loved Rodney's suit!

I'd kinda like to be in that reality for a little longer.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Me too. Playing Cash is good for that world-extension.

Because, really. Who said "let's take this milk and heat it and stir it for a while until it curdles and then skim off the curdles and squeeze them together and put it on toast with some tomatoes"?

[theninth.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I mean, sure, wine is great, but it was more like a happy accident. But cheese! Why would anyone even consider doing that?

I wish I'd recorded last night's ep. I kept getting distracted with the set design and the cinematography. Which is probably not something that gets said about Stargate very often.

[no-detective.livejournal.com]

- So if Sheppard was involved with the female medic he went to rescue, then does that mean he was involved with the male captain or whoever it was he went to rescue in "our" reality? [ /queering ]

Oh, please don't stop with the queering! I love that idea. Love it, love it, love it! You are a very smart young woman.

Also, can I just say that John's shirt was just the right amount of too tight? Because among the many, many pretty things to admire in this ep, that sort of stood out for me. It's like the man can't help looking slutty in ANY universe, bless him.