This season SGA so far.
Oct. 6th, 2007 04:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
castaliaI'm watching and mostly enjoying but right now am having a hard time drumming up any enthusiasm about it all. The premier was good - lots of Radek, which was nice. Doc Keller is fine, though she seems a bit young to be any sort of head physician.
I liked what they tried to do with the whole Elizabeth plotline, but honestly, when it came time for Sheppard to be all sad and upset over her? I laughed. Flanigan's lack of any acting chops at all and the stupid face he pulled was so completely and utterly bad that it threw me right out of the story and all I could do was yell at the screen for him to "Emote! Emote, damn you!". And of course he didn't. I weep.
As for "Lifelines", last night's ep was okay but dude, didn't we already see this episode on SG-1? They cribbed so much from "Reckoning" it wasn't even funny. From the Weir vs. Ober-whatshisface mental standoff mirroring the Daniel vs Replicarter scenes, to all the Replicators freezing so the mission can get completed in time. Damn, guys, you're even stealing from yourselves now. Stop it.
The dialogue was massively clunky in this ep, and I still don't know why we had to have so much technobabble thrown in when the plot is all "Hurry, it's urgent, we're all going to die if we don't shut up and get this done!" and yet they don't shut up and get things done. They argue. They technobabble. They gripe about how much shit they're in - shit they wouldn't have been in if they had just be happy with the smaller victory and got the hell out of Dodge when they had the chance.
Also, SG writers? Stop using Bill as your butt monkey for all the geek jokes you want to make. Seriously, you don't have to make Carter the only competent scientist the SGC has on staff. We know they have all of the "best and brightest" and it undermines that when you try and make them look stupid or have the other characters belittle them just for a crappy moment of "humor". We all love Bill and his Twilight Bark references and his World of Warcraft playing and how he looks exactly like a lot of real scientists you might find in a lab somewhere. Be nice to Bill, damn it.
I did like Teyla being the one left in charge, though please, give her more to do this season!! Please! I also like Colonel Ellis and I really hope we can keep him and give him more to do. So far Sam is just there, not in charge, but I suppose that will change soon. It might actually be nice to have a scientist in charge, b/c at least that way she won't need stuff explained to her all the time. I in no way think this will cut down on the exposition, b/c Sam is the technobabble exposition Queen, but still, perhaps it will help. And she'll snark at Rodney and be funny again, and that is always of the good.
I liked what they tried to do with the whole Elizabeth plotline, but honestly, when it came time for Sheppard to be all sad and upset over her? I laughed. Flanigan's lack of any acting chops at all and the stupid face he pulled was so completely and utterly bad that it threw me right out of the story and all I could do was yell at the screen for him to "Emote! Emote, damn you!". And of course he didn't. I weep.
As for "Lifelines", last night's ep was okay but dude, didn't we already see this episode on SG-1? They cribbed so much from "Reckoning" it wasn't even funny. From the Weir vs. Ober-whatshisface mental standoff mirroring the Daniel vs Replicarter scenes, to all the Replicators freezing so the mission can get completed in time. Damn, guys, you're even stealing from yourselves now. Stop it.
The dialogue was massively clunky in this ep, and I still don't know why we had to have so much technobabble thrown in when the plot is all "Hurry, it's urgent, we're all going to die if we don't shut up and get this done!" and yet they don't shut up and get things done. They argue. They technobabble. They gripe about how much shit they're in - shit they wouldn't have been in if they had just be happy with the smaller victory and got the hell out of Dodge when they had the chance.
Also, SG writers? Stop using Bill as your butt monkey for all the geek jokes you want to make. Seriously, you don't have to make Carter the only competent scientist the SGC has on staff. We know they have all of the "best and brightest" and it undermines that when you try and make them look stupid or have the other characters belittle them just for a crappy moment of "humor". We all love Bill and his Twilight Bark references and his World of Warcraft playing and how he looks exactly like a lot of real scientists you might find in a lab somewhere. Be nice to Bill, damn it.
I did like Teyla being the one left in charge, though please, give her more to do this season!! Please! I also like Colonel Ellis and I really hope we can keep him and give him more to do. So far Sam is just there, not in charge, but I suppose that will change soon. It might actually be nice to have a scientist in charge, b/c at least that way she won't need stuff explained to her all the time. I in no way think this will cut down on the exposition, b/c Sam is the technobabble exposition Queen, but still, perhaps it will help. And she'll snark at Rodney and be funny again, and that is always of the good.