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Yes, I was naughty. But then, I'm in Australia. If I wasn't naughty, I'd still be back in the middle of Season Three.
OMG! OMG OMG OMG OMG! ALLI, WHERE WERE YOU RIGHT WHEN I NEEDED TO SQUEE?
John and Teyla. Candlelight, wine, and Teyla "I cherish these times when it is just you an me" and "properly" thanking John for her rescue. Which, of course, John doesn't remember because this is a dream sequence. Naturally.
But, dude, this is all in John's head! In. John's. Head. Didn't I say that we get more personal insight into John when Teyla's involved than when any other character's involved.
And Ford! FOOOOOORD! They mentioned Ford! They got Rainbow in! *sniffles*
Rodney and Lorne are awesome. Lorne in particular! I love this boy. His practicality; his snarkiness with Rodney. "If you could just sit tight and not make the ceiling colapse, that would be great..."
"No bad guys. No bad guys around." And of course, there are bad guys. Thre are always bad guys...
Interesting view skimming backwards and out to Michael's ship where the hybrids are workingand singing a happy working song away industriously on Michael's ship.
Note: Teyla is now second-billed, after Joe Flanigan. Jewel gets fourth billing after Jason, and Robert Picardo gets in after Jewel. Neatness! Let's hope that this means more for Teyla for a change.
Okay, Two moons in Atlantis' sky? Wonder what that does to the tides? Any people care to speculate?
Special guest star Amanda Tapping. I missed who wrote this one.
*laughs* at the difference between Rodney's jackpot and Lorne's jackpot! "Oh no." Dear Rodney, enough with the 'oh no'.
John and Ronon bonding. And loyalty. They're so cute.
"As a rule, I prefer to keep daring rescues down to one a day." I'm so glad that Caldwell's still around. I hope he sticks around for a few episodes and that he and his crew don't get totally screwed in Deadelus Variations.
"She's over there counting on us." YAY SAM!
"I have more respect for you than I've ever had for any commanding officer..." Oh, John. That is teh awesome. Although I have to ask, why the hell are you doing shit when you've got Ronon and Rodney to do it for you, instead?
Ah, TV giving birth. So easy. A few pushes, an hour of contractions, and it's all done, no blood, no liquid, no afterbirth, no clean-up. One would think that the writers had never given birth.
OH, WAIT...
I like that Ronon's the one who distrusts Kanaan, while John's the one who steps forward first - even if it's to disarm Kanaan.
Torin John Emmagan. Okay, that's an interesting one, since Teyla introduced herself originally as a daughter of Tegan. It seems that Tegan is the mother of Teyla, not the father. So do Athosian children count their bloodlines through the parent of the same gender, then? Teyla, daughter of Tegan; Jinto, son of Halling... Will Torin count himself Torin, son of Teyla or Torin, son of Kanaan?
And, yeah, Rodney's gonna be pissed. So will the Rodney-fans. There will be fic. I give it until midnight tonight, Sydney time. That's another 12 hours.
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My conclusions, let me show you them: it's not the strongest episode I've ever seen, but I loved it. As much because everyone got to do something, as because there were some really lovely team and loyalty and friend/ship angles. Really, everyone was awesomesauce in this.
However, I think that there was too much in a single episode. They had major pacing issues. The first half was considerably more action-dramatic than the second-half, which was more relational-dramatic. Again, this is a problem with all the things they had to cover/tie up in this ep.
I think they played the Rodney-helps-Teyla-give-birth scene too strongly for laughs. I think that they really needed an episode-and-a-half to give everything the kind of due consideration it needed to be given. I think that they really needed to clear up the actual escape-from-Michael's-ship - to say nothing of what happened to Kanaan and what happened to Michael.
I know we're seeing Michael later in the season, and I suspect that Kanaan didn't die in the explosion either - but neither did he come to Atlantis with the team or I think he'd have been with Teyla and her son in the infirmary. So did he escape the hiveship and ended up returning to the Athosians? Did he stay on the hiveship and escape there later? Investigating minds want to know!
On the 'ship front, I think that there's definitely something in the fact that John's the one hallucinating Teyla in a scenario that, if it were Rodney in Teyla's place, would have all the slashers screeching about TRUE LOVE 4EVAH!!!11eleventy! When they face Kanaan, Teyla reassures John, not Ronon. And John's expression as he comes to stand behind Teyla is about as "showdown at the OK corral" as he gets, even as he tells Kanaan to hand over his weapon and lead the way.
Incidentally, for those looking for more personal development for John, I still think you should be encouraging Teyla and Ronon angles, because those two are the ones with whom we see John really interact on a more personal basis than just "we're guys playing computer games against each other".
Without major spoilers: it was an acceptable start out of the traps, and I enjoyed it.
OMG! OMG OMG OMG OMG! ALLI, WHERE WERE YOU RIGHT WHEN I NEEDED TO SQUEE?
John and Teyla. Candlelight, wine, and Teyla "I cherish these times when it is just you an me" and "properly" thanking John for her rescue. Which, of course, John doesn't remember because this is a dream sequence. Naturally.
But, dude, this is all in John's head! In. John's. Head. Didn't I say that we get more personal insight into John when Teyla's involved than when any other character's involved.
And Ford! FOOOOOORD! They mentioned Ford! They got Rainbow in! *sniffles*
Rodney and Lorne are awesome. Lorne in particular! I love this boy. His practicality; his snarkiness with Rodney. "If you could just sit tight and not make the ceiling colapse, that would be great..."
"No bad guys. No bad guys around." And of course, there are bad guys. Thre are always bad guys...
Interesting view skimming backwards and out to Michael's ship where the hybrids are working
Note: Teyla is now second-billed, after Joe Flanigan. Jewel gets fourth billing after Jason, and Robert Picardo gets in after Jewel. Neatness! Let's hope that this means more for Teyla for a change.
Okay, Two moons in Atlantis' sky? Wonder what that does to the tides? Any people care to speculate?
Special guest star Amanda Tapping. I missed who wrote this one.
*laughs* at the difference between Rodney's jackpot and Lorne's jackpot! "Oh no." Dear Rodney, enough with the 'oh no'.
John and Ronon bonding. And loyalty. They're so cute.
"As a rule, I prefer to keep daring rescues down to one a day." I'm so glad that Caldwell's still around. I hope he sticks around for a few episodes and that he and his crew don't get totally screwed in Deadelus Variations.
"She's over there counting on us." YAY SAM!
"I have more respect for you than I've ever had for any commanding officer..." Oh, John. That is teh awesome. Although I have to ask, why the hell are you doing shit when you've got Ronon and Rodney to do it for you, instead?
Ah, TV giving birth. So easy. A few pushes, an hour of contractions, and it's all done, no blood, no liquid, no afterbirth, no clean-up. One would think that the writers had never given birth.
OH, WAIT...
I like that Ronon's the one who distrusts Kanaan, while John's the one who steps forward first - even if it's to disarm Kanaan.
Torin John Emmagan. Okay, that's an interesting one, since Teyla introduced herself originally as a daughter of Tegan. It seems that Tegan is the mother of Teyla, not the father. So do Athosian children count their bloodlines through the parent of the same gender, then? Teyla, daughter of Tegan; Jinto, son of Halling... Will Torin count himself Torin, son of Teyla or Torin, son of Kanaan?
And, yeah, Rodney's gonna be pissed. So will the Rodney-fans. There will be fic. I give it until midnight tonight, Sydney time. That's another 12 hours.
--
My conclusions, let me show you them: it's not the strongest episode I've ever seen, but I loved it. As much because everyone got to do something, as because there were some really lovely team and loyalty and friend/ship angles. Really, everyone was awesomesauce in this.
However, I think that there was too much in a single episode. They had major pacing issues. The first half was considerably more action-dramatic than the second-half, which was more relational-dramatic. Again, this is a problem with all the things they had to cover/tie up in this ep.
I think they played the Rodney-helps-Teyla-give-birth scene too strongly for laughs. I think that they really needed an episode-and-a-half to give everything the kind of due consideration it needed to be given. I think that they really needed to clear up the actual escape-from-Michael's-ship - to say nothing of what happened to Kanaan and what happened to Michael.
I know we're seeing Michael later in the season, and I suspect that Kanaan didn't die in the explosion either - but neither did he come to Atlantis with the team or I think he'd have been with Teyla and her son in the infirmary. So did he escape the hiveship and ended up returning to the Athosians? Did he stay on the hiveship and escape there later? Investigating minds want to know!
On the 'ship front, I think that there's definitely something in the fact that John's the one hallucinating Teyla in a scenario that, if it were Rodney in Teyla's place, would have all the slashers screeching about TRUE LOVE 4EVAH!!!11eleventy! When they face Kanaan, Teyla reassures John, not Ronon. And John's expression as he comes to stand behind Teyla is about as "showdown at the OK corral" as he gets, even as he tells Kanaan to hand over his weapon and lead the way.
Incidentally, for those looking for more personal development for John, I still think you should be encouraging Teyla and Ronon angles, because those two are the ones with whom we see John really interact on a more personal basis than just "we're guys playing computer games against each other".
Without major spoilers: it was an acceptable start out of the traps, and I enjoyed it.