SGA 4.4, "Doppelganger"
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bironicWhee! Funny and scary and revealing and all kinds of great stuff.
YAY John being psycho!
I was going to say Heightmeyer's makeup and clothes made her look dead, but, um. Now she is, so it seems kind of tasteless. ...I mean, nice foreshadowing.
OMG, Ronon and John were so absolutely having rough sex when John clipped him in the forehead and they had to go to Keller for stitches. THAT is subtext, ladies and gentlemen. The looks they shared, the smirks, the "it's the middle of the night" comment, the "we're gonna have a rematch tomorrow" ... God.
Once again: John has very small shoulders. It's especially noticeable when he wears that flannel.
Speaking of which: leather jacket, open? Hot.
Lorne thinking John's a Replicator: it's so easy to believe John isn't what he says, part Pegasus paranoia, the stress of the war and constant threats on their lives, and part the fact that John's so laconic and secretive about himself.
YAY John being psycho!
Very happy to see that everyone's nightmares are personal after all: Teyla remembering her father's death and being convinced that nobody on Atlantis trusts her, in part because of her connection to the Wraith, and fear of Sheppard assaulting her as he did when he was possessed by the Iratus/Wraith retrovirus, and of being seen as romantically involved with or interested in Sheppard; Keller terrified of the threats Pegasus poses, the situations she's never been trained to handle and is now responsible for; Ronon being abandoned and running again and being betrayed by someone he thought was a friend (and, ooh, Sheppard knocking him out with the pipe is awesomely sexy-scary); Heightmeyer ... well, I don't know what that was – breaking down over all the stuff her patients unload on her? being cut off from her friends when she's the one who needs help?; Rodney with that delightfully ridiculous whale, resigned to the futility of his efforts, but still trying to get home through the storm past creatures trying to eat him; John afraid of his friends dying, turning against him, being relieved of duty, afraid of himself ... more on that in a minute.
Rodney's description of his daily nightmares = awesome. As was Ronon teasing him about the Moby Dick dreams never having stopped, and his lingering fear of Alien (which kept coming back, and back, and back, during the ep).
Argh, is it just around here, or is the Sci Fi Channel hiccupping all over the place? The music's all ooOOOOooeeeeeeeEEEeeooo and the picture's jumping. It's distracting.
YAY John being psycho!
ZELENKA. ♥ Why do you let Rodney push you around so? Still working off guilt over the 'jumper incident of "Grace Under Pressure"?
I continue to like Keller, a lot -- the way she speaks, the way she thinks (well, tonight at least; although she repeated herself a lot), the way it's easy to identify with her fear and sense of being overwhelmed -- and to not be bothered by Sam. It felt like watching a different show sometimes, though, when the two of them had scenes together, the newbies among the seasoned, familiar SGA crew. Not sure what to make of Keller supporting Carter after the PA announcement: women need support? women give support? (Why are the women's uniforms so tightly tailored and unzipped to the breastbone while the men's hang looser? Well, other than Rodney's lately. Fandom is beginning to make me more conscious of these things. The gender assumptions and inequalities, I mean; the shallow was always there.)
Didn't like all the references to things that happened on SG-1. There seem to be more of those lately. Come up with new ideas, writers! Don't repeat yourself from another show that most viewers have already seen and the rest of us don't really care about! The VR dream-entering idea would've been fine, but coming on the tail of those three or four other references to things Sam has seen before, it felt a bit ... unoriginal.
But: YAY John and Rodney hooking into each other's subconscious minds a la the VR in "Aurora" to save each other! And seeking each other out immediately upon waking before letting themselves go limp!
Twice the Sheppard, twice the fun. Imagine evil!John/Rodney/good!John threesomes! Hot Sheppard-on-Sheppard action! Loved the fight in the gateroom. Nothing like a little symbolic self-flagellation, eh?
"Good you or bad you?"
"Me me."
Ah, but John didn't answer – because he's both. He's sociopathic, tightly controlled, cold Air Force killer John Sheppard, and he's cares for his friends, saves lives, hurt and frightened John Sheppard. Evil!alien!John taunted him with the knowledge – the voice in his head, "I'm what you're afraid of," the coldness inside him, the one who sometimes hurts his friends, who can't always save them – and then John overcame the fear – sort of – and accepted that he contains both, even if he wants to throw the less savory part of himself through the Stargate (read: still viciously suppressing it).
Loved getting to see Sheppard trudging through the corridors after Rodney died. Man, he really looked sad. I never expected to get to see that on the show.
And again with John imagining something mundane, even dangerous, when he has complete subconscious control over his environment. See also: "Home."
They need to stop fluffing Rodney's hair. It looks like a hairpiece. We like his thinning hair! Let it spike naturally! It makes him look cute. And has the color darkened or what?
I, er. Liked his chest in the defibrillating scenes. It looked nice and squishy-solid. Better for some reason than the last glance in "Duet." Ten times better than Zelenka's in "Tao of Rodney" and Sheppard's in "38 Minutes." Just sayin'. Not sure what to make of the hair-plastered-to-head, no-neck, shirt-taut-over-bulky-shoulders-and-arms look in the dream.
And we have the calm-after-the-storm, gathering-after-being-shaken, team and then extended-team moment at the end. Love.
In other news: YAY John being psycho!
Super-handy list of preexisting fic/art
linabean's rxn, and friendshipper's, and aesc's screencappy, ficcy recap, and thingswithwings' feminist reading
"So Very Wrong (but so very good)" by telesilla (NC-17, semi-con)
YAY John being psycho!
I was going to say Heightmeyer's makeup and clothes made her look dead, but, um. Now she is, so it seems kind of tasteless. ...I mean, nice foreshadowing.
OMG, Ronon and John were so absolutely having rough sex when John clipped him in the forehead and they had to go to Keller for stitches. THAT is subtext, ladies and gentlemen. The looks they shared, the smirks, the "it's the middle of the night" comment, the "we're gonna have a rematch tomorrow" ... God.
Once again: John has very small shoulders. It's especially noticeable when he wears that flannel.
Speaking of which: leather jacket, open? Hot.
Lorne thinking John's a Replicator: it's so easy to believe John isn't what he says, part Pegasus paranoia, the stress of the war and constant threats on their lives, and part the fact that John's so laconic and secretive about himself.
YAY John being psycho!
Very happy to see that everyone's nightmares are personal after all: Teyla remembering her father's death and being convinced that nobody on Atlantis trusts her, in part because of her connection to the Wraith, and fear of Sheppard assaulting her as he did when he was possessed by the Iratus/Wraith retrovirus, and of being seen as romantically involved with or interested in Sheppard; Keller terrified of the threats Pegasus poses, the situations she's never been trained to handle and is now responsible for; Ronon being abandoned and running again and being betrayed by someone he thought was a friend (and, ooh, Sheppard knocking him out with the pipe is awesomely sexy-scary); Heightmeyer ... well, I don't know what that was – breaking down over all the stuff her patients unload on her? being cut off from her friends when she's the one who needs help?; Rodney with that delightfully ridiculous whale, resigned to the futility of his efforts, but still trying to get home through the storm past creatures trying to eat him; John afraid of his friends dying, turning against him, being relieved of duty, afraid of himself ... more on that in a minute.
Rodney's description of his daily nightmares = awesome. As was Ronon teasing him about the Moby Dick dreams never having stopped, and his lingering fear of Alien (which kept coming back, and back, and back, during the ep).
Argh, is it just around here, or is the Sci Fi Channel hiccupping all over the place? The music's all ooOOOOooeeeeeeeEEEeeooo and the picture's jumping. It's distracting.
YAY John being psycho!
ZELENKA. ♥ Why do you let Rodney push you around so? Still working off guilt over the 'jumper incident of "Grace Under Pressure"?
I continue to like Keller, a lot -- the way she speaks, the way she thinks (well, tonight at least; although she repeated herself a lot), the way it's easy to identify with her fear and sense of being overwhelmed -- and to not be bothered by Sam. It felt like watching a different show sometimes, though, when the two of them had scenes together, the newbies among the seasoned, familiar SGA crew. Not sure what to make of Keller supporting Carter after the PA announcement: women need support? women give support? (Why are the women's uniforms so tightly tailored and unzipped to the breastbone while the men's hang looser? Well, other than Rodney's lately. Fandom is beginning to make me more conscious of these things. The gender assumptions and inequalities, I mean; the shallow was always there.)
Didn't like all the references to things that happened on SG-1. There seem to be more of those lately. Come up with new ideas, writers! Don't repeat yourself from another show that most viewers have already seen and the rest of us don't really care about! The VR dream-entering idea would've been fine, but coming on the tail of those three or four other references to things Sam has seen before, it felt a bit ... unoriginal.
But: YAY John and Rodney hooking into each other's subconscious minds a la the VR in "Aurora" to save each other! And seeking each other out immediately upon waking before letting themselves go limp!
Twice the Sheppard, twice the fun. Imagine evil!John/Rodney/good!John threesomes! Hot Sheppard-on-Sheppard action! Loved the fight in the gateroom. Nothing like a little symbolic self-flagellation, eh?
"Good you or bad you?"
"Me me."
Ah, but John didn't answer – because he's both. He's sociopathic, tightly controlled, cold Air Force killer John Sheppard, and he's cares for his friends, saves lives, hurt and frightened John Sheppard. Evil!alien!John taunted him with the knowledge – the voice in his head, "I'm what you're afraid of," the coldness inside him, the one who sometimes hurts his friends, who can't always save them – and then John overcame the fear – sort of – and accepted that he contains both, even if he wants to throw the less savory part of himself through the Stargate (read: still viciously suppressing it).
Loved getting to see Sheppard trudging through the corridors after Rodney died. Man, he really looked sad. I never expected to get to see that on the show.
And again with John imagining something mundane, even dangerous, when he has complete subconscious control over his environment. See also: "Home."
They need to stop fluffing Rodney's hair. It looks like a hairpiece. We like his thinning hair! Let it spike naturally! It makes him look cute. And has the color darkened or what?
I, er. Liked his chest in the defibrillating scenes. It looked nice and squishy-solid. Better for some reason than the last glance in "Duet." Ten times better than Zelenka's in "Tao of Rodney" and Sheppard's in "38 Minutes." Just sayin'. Not sure what to make of the hair-plastered-to-head, no-neck, shirt-taut-over-bulky-shoulders-and-arms look in the dream.
And we have the calm-after-the-storm, gathering-after-being-shaken, team and then extended-team moment at the end. Love.
In other news: YAY John being psycho!
Super-handy list of preexisting fic/art
linabean's rxn, and friendshipper's, and aesc's screencappy, ficcy recap, and thingswithwings' feminist reading
"So Very Wrong (but so very good)" by telesilla (NC-17, semi-con)
