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Wow. The show really has tanked during the season. *grimace*
Honestly? This episode had OMG! WOMEN SHOULD LOOK AFTER THE KIDS AND MIND THE HOUSE written all over it to me. Maybe it's just me and my feminazi views but...
The fact that Teyla doesn't actually do anything until right up at the end of the episode is classic example #1 of WOMEN ARE USELESS IN ATLANTIS, and Amelia Whatshername who does kickboxing is classic example #2. Women can kick ass, but should be left behind to mind the children and keep the house while the men solve all the problems of the city. AMIRITE?
Other than that...
Was it just me, or did Michael seem...OOC? Technically, it's not possible for a character in canon to be OOC and I've written Michael with a need for Teyla's approval - albeit tied in more with his Wraithness and the Wraith social structure of following a Queen, but...I don't know. There was something "wrong" about his portrayal. I can't quite put my finger on it. And...well, the fight-above-Atlantis scene was lovely and dramatic, but...somehow lacking. Truthfully, I'd have preferred to see Michael on the verge of winning everything: destroying Atlantis, taking Teyla's son, winning Teyla over to his side...and then having it all crumble in a split-second as the net closes around him. Success is in his grasp! Only...not. And his castles come crashing down.
If this was a fanfic, it would have been written by someone whose definition of 'team' means John and Rodney friendship, who doesn't know what to do with either Teyla or Ronon, and who believes that women are permitted a moment of awesomeness, but certainly not anything more than that. I could name names, but fandom would lynch me.
If this had been my fanfic, I'd have:
1. had Teyla stash her son in the access hatch, take out the hybrid who was coming after her in a kick-ass fight, take his weapon, and sneak back out and fight, while still carrying her son,
2. had Amelia go out with Ronon and the two guys, and help take on the control room before getting knocked out,
3. had John and Rodney show just a little more concern for Teyla, her son, and her sleepless nights,
4. ...written it with a Ronon/Amelia angle.
Did anyone else see the Ronon/Amelia thing? (Is her name Amelia? That's what I thought Teyla said.)
Overall, it wasn't a bad episode. But it could have been so much better.
Thoughts on The Fall Of Stargate Atlantis here.
Honestly? This episode had OMG! WOMEN SHOULD LOOK AFTER THE KIDS AND MIND THE HOUSE written all over it to me. Maybe it's just me and my feminazi views but...
The fact that Teyla doesn't actually do anything until right up at the end of the episode is classic example #1 of WOMEN ARE USELESS IN ATLANTIS, and Amelia Whatshername who does kickboxing is classic example #2. Women can kick ass, but should be left behind to mind the children and keep the house while the men solve all the problems of the city. AMIRITE?
Other than that...
Was it just me, or did Michael seem...OOC? Technically, it's not possible for a character in canon to be OOC and I've written Michael with a need for Teyla's approval - albeit tied in more with his Wraithness and the Wraith social structure of following a Queen, but...I don't know. There was something "wrong" about his portrayal. I can't quite put my finger on it. And...well, the fight-above-Atlantis scene was lovely and dramatic, but...somehow lacking. Truthfully, I'd have preferred to see Michael on the verge of winning everything: destroying Atlantis, taking Teyla's son, winning Teyla over to his side...and then having it all crumble in a split-second as the net closes around him. Success is in his grasp! Only...not. And his castles come crashing down.
If this was a fanfic, it would have been written by someone whose definition of 'team' means John and Rodney friendship, who doesn't know what to do with either Teyla or Ronon, and who believes that women are permitted a moment of awesomeness, but certainly not anything more than that. I could name names, but fandom would lynch me.
If this had been my fanfic, I'd have:
1. had Teyla stash her son in the access hatch, take out the hybrid who was coming after her in a kick-ass fight, take his weapon, and sneak back out and fight, while still carrying her son,
2. had Amelia go out with Ronon and the two guys, and help take on the control room before getting knocked out,
3. had John and Rodney show just a little more concern for Teyla, her son, and her sleepless nights,
4. ...written it with a Ronon/Amelia angle.
Did anyone else see the Ronon/Amelia thing? (Is her name Amelia? That's what I thought Teyla said.)
Overall, it wasn't a bad episode. But it could have been so much better.
Thoughts on The Fall Of Stargate Atlantis here.
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Even while she was prisoner, I felt she could have drawn Michael out more, asked questions that developed the situation. "What are your specific plans for my son? Where will we be going? How will this work?" Once Michael declared himself, there was an opportunity to use his conflicts against him. Teyla's a leader of her people, a speaker, a communicator - this is one of the things she was originally billed as, and yet nothing was used of it.
They did this with Elizabeth as well, actually. In The Game, an international deal-broker can't bring two warring groups to the table and get them to even talk to each other or see the others' point of view.
Then again, they did this to Jack O'Neill, too, back in Season 5 of SG1: from the bomb expert he was in the original movie, he needed Carter to tell him which wires to cut in Fail Safe.
To be honest, I enjoyed it as much as I could enjoy an episode of Stargate given my current state of mind regarding the show and the characters - yes, there were some neat moments in there - but it still fell far short of the possibilities of the show and the characters.
*sigh*
And yeah, Ronon/Amelia looks neat! Any communities started up that you know of? I haven't been keeping track of the Newsletter.