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Whew! SGA S4 watched!
Midway
Teyla's interview: I'm always half-amused, half-horrified when the bureaucracy rears its ugly head in Stargate. I mean, theoretically, it should be there - it's expected. I just dislike it. And Teyla would have gone through it with grace and elegance, even if "a pregnant woman" isn't "suitable" to be "part of the fight against the wraith".
On the question of Teyla's returning to the team...I saw Teyla's comment of "he does not expect me to return to the team" to be a kind of "well, I'll show him", even if her look at Sheppard suggested that her return might not make things precisely as they were before. And, from inside the universe (without the knowledge of how the Stargate universe works from the outside), she believes she's going to have a child to bring up. That'll change things certainly. It's not so easily a case of 'go out and save the galaxy' when she's got a son to nurse and care for. So, no, I don't think that Teyla believes she'll be back on the team in precisely the same capacity that she was before.
On the other hand, I don't think she'd up and leave, either.
I love the Sam/Teal'c friendship, it is teh awesomeness of DOOM. *smooches them*
Ah, Teal'c. I love Teal'c. In this ep, he's so "the very young have much to learn" - especially in the commissary. The fight was...wow. Although you can see Sam going, "Oookay. Testosterone poisoning." And she gets in there between them! Love it.
How convenient, two spacesuits. Foreshadowing much?
Suggestion: they vent the midway to atmo: then no-one dangerous gets through. (ETA: Woohoo! I was right!)
"Just under ten minutes before the self-destruct goes off." How convenient. They have just under ten minutes before the episode is due to end!
I LOL'd at John locking himself in the cockpit after the first day. No, he wasn't off having buttsex with Rodney; he had a huge and massive headache that even the presence of his "bestest friend evah" couldn't make go away.
Conclusion: I liked this episode and would watch it again. Teal'c and Ronon kicking ass and taking numbers? Yes, please. I don't have the history of the 'black man fights' that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cesperanza referred to about this episode; to me, it was just a couple of guys getting their egos out and measuring it. I suspect that Teal'c knew he had to prove himself to Ronon on a physical/fighter level before Ronon was going to even halfway listen to him - hence the fighting and the keeping up.
Kindred I
Aha! The funeral pyre dream sequence. Alas for dream sequences. :) Not the first time a Teyla-centric ep began with a dream sequence. It's a pity they didn't get to introduce Kanaan earlier in the show, though. *mutter*
Ooh. Lorne's probably thinking, "Oh, shit. My ass is grass and Teyla's team-mates are the lawnmowers."
This ep is packing it in. It's like the Half-Blood Prince of Stargate Atlantis: oh, no time left, must cram it all into a couple of eps!!!
Okay, that is beyond freaky. Michael through Kanaan to Teyla. I see why there's the sudden Teyla/Michael obsession in fandom. Hoo boy. So Teyla thinks she's responding to Kanaan, but Michael's actually the one she's responding to. That is twisted. And I love it!
Michael really is fixated on Teyla. Like ex-boyfriend stalker obsessed. And I love Sheppard's expression when he realises what he's too early for and how Teyla's up there on the ship being fired upon. ACK!
ENDING! OMG! ENDING!
I totally forgot what was going to happen in the last five minutes until we hit the last five minutes and was all, "Ooh! OOH! WOOHOO! CARSON!" See my joy. This is my joy. My job is abject. Observe my abject joy.
I FORGOT WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES!
*does the dance of yes, I am spoiled but I forgot I was!*
Conclusion: Uh. I really liked this one. As in, really liked.
Kindred II
I have this feeling that this episode is going to focus more on Carson than Teyla. *sadface* Not that I don't like Carson, only that I want more TEYLA! *whines*
Better living through Replicator assistance?
I guess it would have been too much to ask for Teyla to rescue herself.
Plothole #1: If she can deceive and control Wraith Queens, why can't she do the same with the males? I mean, it's just Michael and the hybrids. I don't know who wrote this one, but I bet it wasn't Alan McCullough.
Conclusion: Lovely for Carson, but too much Teyla-as-victim. They're big on women as victims, aren't they?
The Last Man
"Count yourself lucky, young man!" *snerks*
I love how the city lights up ahead of John and dims behind him.
Shouldn't he have serious sunburn from the increased radiation and heat of the desert outside the city?
OMG: ROCKS FALL, EVERYBODY DIES!
Conclusion: Excellent ep. I'm a sucker for AUs and this one was pretty damned awesome.
For those who are annoyed at how the AUs worked out in the sand-blasted timeline, the key aspect is that they're here to change the future.
So, this was a much more enjoyable quartet to watch for me. Other than the women-as-victims angle (of which we already knew TPTB are overly fond), and not enough Teyla (again, something that couldn't be helped this season) they were good.
My order of preference: Kindred I, Midway, The Last Man, then Kindred II. Kindred II might have scored higher if they'd follow the other path opened in Kindred I. Still, all four are waaaaaay above and beyond Miller's Crossing, The Seer, Trio, and even Outcast (which is the top of that last set).
Having seen most of this season, my current top four for this season are: Spoils Of War, Kindred I, Midway, and The Last Man. That may change as they fade into the background of my memory, but for the moment, that's how it stands.
Oddly, in spite of the overall lack of Teyla, I still like S4 overall better than I did S3. S3 had far too much formulaic stuff; S4 had some formulaic stuff, but they seem to be working at breaking the mould...at least a little. I doubt they'll ever break it completely, but S4 - and the last four eps in particular - had a much better feel to them than a lot of the other eps in the season.
And now it's lunchtime and I have four ficathons to write.
Midway
Teyla's interview: I'm always half-amused, half-horrified when the bureaucracy rears its ugly head in Stargate. I mean, theoretically, it should be there - it's expected. I just dislike it. And Teyla would have gone through it with grace and elegance, even if "a pregnant woman" isn't "suitable" to be "part of the fight against the wraith".
On the question of Teyla's returning to the team...I saw Teyla's comment of "he does not expect me to return to the team" to be a kind of "well, I'll show him", even if her look at Sheppard suggested that her return might not make things precisely as they were before. And, from inside the universe (without the knowledge of how the Stargate universe works from the outside), she believes she's going to have a child to bring up. That'll change things certainly. It's not so easily a case of 'go out and save the galaxy' when she's got a son to nurse and care for. So, no, I don't think that Teyla believes she'll be back on the team in precisely the same capacity that she was before.
On the other hand, I don't think she'd up and leave, either.
I love the Sam/Teal'c friendship, it is teh awesomeness of DOOM. *smooches them*
Ah, Teal'c. I love Teal'c. In this ep, he's so "the very young have much to learn" - especially in the commissary. The fight was...wow. Although you can see Sam going, "Oookay. Testosterone poisoning." And she gets in there between them! Love it.
How convenient, two spacesuits. Foreshadowing much?
Suggestion: they vent the midway to atmo: then no-one dangerous gets through. (ETA: Woohoo! I was right!)
"Just under ten minutes before the self-destruct goes off." How convenient. They have just under ten minutes before the episode is due to end!
I LOL'd at John locking himself in the cockpit after the first day. No, he wasn't off having buttsex with Rodney; he had a huge and massive headache that even the presence of his "bestest friend evah" couldn't make go away.
Conclusion: I liked this episode and would watch it again. Teal'c and Ronon kicking ass and taking numbers? Yes, please. I don't have the history of the 'black man fights' that
cesperanza referred to about this episode; to me, it was just a couple of guys getting their egos out and measuring it. I suspect that Teal'c knew he had to prove himself to Ronon on a physical/fighter level before Ronon was going to even halfway listen to him - hence the fighting and the keeping up.Kindred I
Aha! The funeral pyre dream sequence. Alas for dream sequences. :) Not the first time a Teyla-centric ep began with a dream sequence. It's a pity they didn't get to introduce Kanaan earlier in the show, though. *mutter*
Ooh. Lorne's probably thinking, "Oh, shit. My ass is grass and Teyla's team-mates are the lawnmowers."
This ep is packing it in. It's like the Half-Blood Prince of Stargate Atlantis: oh, no time left, must cram it all into a couple of eps!!!
Okay, that is beyond freaky. Michael through Kanaan to Teyla. I see why there's the sudden Teyla/Michael obsession in fandom. Hoo boy. So Teyla thinks she's responding to Kanaan, but Michael's actually the one she's responding to. That is twisted. And I love it!
Michael really is fixated on Teyla. Like ex-boyfriend stalker obsessed. And I love Sheppard's expression when he realises what he's too early for and how Teyla's up there on the ship being fired upon. ACK!
ENDING! OMG! ENDING!
I totally forgot what was going to happen in the last five minutes until we hit the last five minutes and was all, "Ooh! OOH! WOOHOO! CARSON!" See my joy. This is my joy. My job is abject. Observe my abject joy.
I FORGOT WHAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE LAST FIVE MINUTES!
*does the dance of yes, I am spoiled but I forgot I was!*
Conclusion: Uh. I really liked this one. As in, really liked.
Kindred II
I have this feeling that this episode is going to focus more on Carson than Teyla. *sadface* Not that I don't like Carson, only that I want more TEYLA! *whines*
Better living through Replicator assistance?
I guess it would have been too much to ask for Teyla to rescue herself.
Plothole #1: If she can deceive and control Wraith Queens, why can't she do the same with the males? I mean, it's just Michael and the hybrids. I don't know who wrote this one, but I bet it wasn't Alan McCullough.
Conclusion: Lovely for Carson, but too much Teyla-as-victim. They're big on women as victims, aren't they?
The Last Man
"Count yourself lucky, young man!" *snerks*
I love how the city lights up ahead of John and dims behind him.
Shouldn't he have serious sunburn from the increased radiation and heat of the desert outside the city?
OMG: ROCKS FALL, EVERYBODY DIES!
Conclusion: Excellent ep. I'm a sucker for AUs and this one was pretty damned awesome.
For those who are annoyed at how the AUs worked out in the sand-blasted timeline, the key aspect is that they're here to change the future.
So, this was a much more enjoyable quartet to watch for me. Other than the women-as-victims angle (of which we already knew TPTB are overly fond), and not enough Teyla (again, something that couldn't be helped this season) they were good.
My order of preference: Kindred I, Midway, The Last Man, then Kindred II. Kindred II might have scored higher if they'd follow the other path opened in Kindred I. Still, all four are waaaaaay above and beyond Miller's Crossing, The Seer, Trio, and even Outcast (which is the top of that last set).
Having seen most of this season, my current top four for this season are: Spoils Of War, Kindred I, Midway, and The Last Man. That may change as they fade into the background of my memory, but for the moment, that's how it stands.
Oddly, in spite of the overall lack of Teyla, I still like S4 overall better than I did S3. S3 had far too much formulaic stuff; S4 had some formulaic stuff, but they seem to be working at breaking the mould...at least a little. I doubt they'll ever break it completely, but S4 - and the last four eps in particular - had a much better feel to them than a lot of the other eps in the season.
And now it's lunchtime and I have four ficathons to write.