caught between laughter and tears

[tielan]

Sent out the john_teyla_fic assignments. Phew!

I should probably have asked for people to email back that they'd received their assignment, shouldn't I? Bah.

Anyway, that's done.

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Bones is watched.

I'm very ambivalent about Zack as the Gormagon's apprentice. Mostly because it felt a little too "we need shock value so we'll have one of the regular cast characters be in the Gormagon plot" than I liked. It would have been nice to have a few more ducks lined up before they gunned Zack down.

I can believe that Zack would over-rationalise things, that he would take too much of Hodgins' conspiracy theories to heart, that he hasn't made the emotional connection that Brennan has. But there's more to a person than the disconnects and dysfunctions - and, for me, they didn't show enough disconnect between Zack-as-part-of-the-team and Zack-as-the-rationally-thinking-being-who-is-okay-with-murder-for-the-good-of-mankind.

*sigh*

It makes more sense for Zack than anyone else on the team. The only person I could have otherwise believed would have been Sweets. And that was just a little too obvious. Hodgins might believe that secret societies devalue the human experience, but he'd act very differently in order to counteract their influence.

Ultimately, although Zack is the best candidate to willingly assist Gormagon out of the regular team, I still don't think it was presented well-enough to satisfy me - at least, not on a show where I've been admiring the degree of interpersonal connection and development that's shown from week to week.

The big downside of Zack as the Gormagon's apprentice is that it'll be real difficult to backwatch episodes now and not think, "You're going to take a sharp left at psychosisville."

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sgabigbang has been put on hiatus while I try to deal with reel_sga. It's proving more difficult than I expected. They always do.

Oh, and greenconverses? This should be right up your alley: ontd_twatlight! Prepare to be dazzled! (Although the sparkly font is making me want to kill-kill-kill-kill-kill...)

Comments

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Got my assignment...

I might have bought Zach if I could a moment believe that he was approached by Gormagon only three months before hand....I've read that the last few eppys were heavily re-written, taking OUT Gormagon stuff that would have made more sense to it being Zach.

[mahoni.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't have said no to more foreshadowing, but in this case I didn't need it. Which is odd, because usually I'm right there with my torch and pitchfork, irate at writers for taking shortcuts to service a plot, but yeah, not so much this time. *shrug*

[tielan]

I've read that the last few eppys were heavily re-written, taking OUT Gormagon stuff that would have made more sense to it being Zach.

Yes. They needed more setup for me to accept it was Zack. They needed to more clearly show Zack's disconnect with his team after his return from Iraq, if that's what they were going to attribute his 'turning' to.

Nothing big, just a few more points where his opinion is shown most clearly to be non-consonant with general society - where the audience really got to see that Zack wasn't the same guy they'd worked with in S1 and S2.