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Okay, finally got around to watching this ep. I've kinda skipped Travellers - I'm probably going to skip Miller's Crossing unless someone can give me a better reason than "It has John and Rodney!" to watch it.
I loved the way they got around the memory loss - although Rodney writing the codes on his arm? How did he remember them in the mess hall and not when they were outside the prison? How did he remember them at all? Or did he scribe them all down on his arm when he still had his memory? Why didn't more people do that?
Paranoid!Lorne was wonderful - as was the way Sheppard and Ronon got around the issue of memory loss. Ronon did some fantastic talking-down of Sheppard. All right, and some fantastic shooting-of-Sheppard: "You're just gonna slow me down." I LOL'd, okay?
Teyla. *sigh* So totally rocked. Both the fact that she and Ronon were the only ones remembering, plus the way she managed to keep Rodney on track and reassure him. The woman knows her team-mates and how to manage them. Maybe she doesn't know every technical in-and-out of the city, but she's a people-person, just the way Rodney...isn't.
Rodney/Katie. They so cute together. And I really like how Rodney's still not Mr. Smooth, but he knows how he should behave, and for Katie, he makes an effort.
Slight diversion here. I have a friend who's on the autistic scale. Not savant-autistic, just not too good with people. She's a teacher, though. And she's trained herself to react in a socially appropriate manner - in a way that won't have people looking sidewise at her. It's a little more effort, but it can be done.
I see Rodney a bit like that. Mostly, he doesn't make too much of an effort to be socially appropriate - it's his signature. In Atlantis, with the friendship and, yes, approval of his team, he's developing more as a person, less as a scientist. With the addition of his relationship with Katie, he's developing even further as a person. Which is good.
Maybe I won't feel the need to make him the comedic humour quite so much if he actually develops as a person.
Teyla and her dodging of the marines and running from Lorne. Must write something in which she apologises for beating up the marines. And where Lorne apologises for getting paranoid about her. Actually, there's probably a whole slew of apologies that are going to go around the base in the 'episode epilogues'. And, doubtless a lot of ones where the characters fawn over Rodney and his wonderful day-saving skills.
Meh.
But on to happier things. Keller was great in this episode. Teyla was great in this episode. Ronon was great in this episode. I am, quite possibly, one of the few people who doesn't resent the Sam/Sheppard time on-screen. I rather like it. It neither demeans or dismisses Sam, nor cuts John out of the story. There's a balance to it - and I like balance. We'll see how things continue as the episodes go on.
Plus, you know, I've never been a true believer that "screen time together = TWU WUV!!!" *rolls eyes*
I strongly recommend that people watch this ep, even if they're not watching the season. This episode gives all the characters some really cool moments - which is wonderful if you like everyone on the show.
I loved the way they got around the memory loss - although Rodney writing the codes on his arm? How did he remember them in the mess hall and not when they were outside the prison? How did he remember them at all? Or did he scribe them all down on his arm when he still had his memory? Why didn't more people do that?
Paranoid!Lorne was wonderful - as was the way Sheppard and Ronon got around the issue of memory loss. Ronon did some fantastic talking-down of Sheppard. All right, and some fantastic shooting-of-Sheppard: "You're just gonna slow me down." I LOL'd, okay?
Teyla. *sigh* So totally rocked. Both the fact that she and Ronon were the only ones remembering, plus the way she managed to keep Rodney on track and reassure him. The woman knows her team-mates and how to manage them. Maybe she doesn't know every technical in-and-out of the city, but she's a people-person, just the way Rodney...isn't.
Rodney/Katie. They so cute together. And I really like how Rodney's still not Mr. Smooth, but he knows how he should behave, and for Katie, he makes an effort.
Slight diversion here. I have a friend who's on the autistic scale. Not savant-autistic, just not too good with people. She's a teacher, though. And she's trained herself to react in a socially appropriate manner - in a way that won't have people looking sidewise at her. It's a little more effort, but it can be done.
I see Rodney a bit like that. Mostly, he doesn't make too much of an effort to be socially appropriate - it's his signature. In Atlantis, with the friendship and, yes, approval of his team, he's developing more as a person, less as a scientist. With the addition of his relationship with Katie, he's developing even further as a person. Which is good.
Maybe I won't feel the need to make him the comedic humour quite so much if he actually develops as a person.
Teyla and her dodging of the marines and running from Lorne. Must write something in which she apologises for beating up the marines. And where Lorne apologises for getting paranoid about her. Actually, there's probably a whole slew of apologies that are going to go around the base in the 'episode epilogues'. And, doubtless a lot of ones where the characters fawn over Rodney and his wonderful day-saving skills.
Meh.
But on to happier things. Keller was great in this episode. Teyla was great in this episode. Ronon was great in this episode. I am, quite possibly, one of the few people who doesn't resent the Sam/Sheppard time on-screen. I rather like it. It neither demeans or dismisses Sam, nor cuts John out of the story. There's a balance to it - and I like balance. We'll see how things continue as the episodes go on.
Plus, you know, I've never been a true believer that "screen time together = TWU WUV!!!" *rolls eyes*
I strongly recommend that people watch this ep, even if they're not watching the season. This episode gives all the characters some really cool moments - which is wonderful if you like everyone on the show.
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I loved the scene with Teyla, when he's fretting that he can't, and Teyla asks him about Pi. At which point he hits scientist mode and then frets that it makes him a bad person. I think the fact that he frets about this - even if it's only when he's losing his memory - says a lot about his character.
And the fact that Teyla can be patient with him again and again and again - and knows exactly how to draw him out and get him to do his stuff - says a lot about her character and her ability to read people.