SGA - 3.17 - Sunday

[tielan]

[Not for the sga_newsletter, first thoughts only.]

My reaction is probably also a spoiler, so I'm going to cut this.

Does anyone else have the feeling that TPTB hand-crafted this episode purely to piss most of the fandom off?

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I don't think they did it on purpose...but I do hate it when they use a shoe-horn for character development (Weir) or take out characters I would like to watch do something meaningful (Teyla) and then replace it with two people fighting in training scenarios like we see ALL THE TIME anyway (John and Ronon).

I thought this ep was both well and badly written. It was kind of strange. I mean, the overarching theme and the overlaps and stuff were well done, and Rodney's character stuff tracked with what we've seen so far this season, but the Weir parts were just SO BAD and the John and Ronon parts were just so pointless and...why couldn't the bomb squad have come in and wrapped Carson and the nurse in protective gear?

They'll never top "Heroes" and "Heroes" was also, unfortunatly, a doctor, so they couldn't even give Weir a decent speech because the good one was already taken. And then the ending just destroyed any chance I had at taking this episode seriously. I think I could have handled either a hallucination or Rodney saying that Carson was his best friend...but not both.

*soldiers on, knowing that fandom, at least, writes good Teyla*

[tielan]

Well, some parts of fandom, anyway!