SGA: The Tower

[selenay]

Not really a review. More of a squeeee!! moment.


Squeeeee!!

Oh, John, you are starting to get that Kirk thing going. And yet I didn't mind. I even managed to see slashiness. "Hi Teyla. Can I speak to Rodney?"

And I had much love for Carson here. And Ronon fights well, despite being kinda cuddly.

What? I had my arm around the man this weekend. I noticed. He's big, strong...and a little cuddly.

And Teyla...why did I suddenly really like your wispy hair thing this week?

The only bad thing was the lack of Zelenka and the minimal screen time for Elizabeth.

I kept thinking that the set dressers must have had a blast with this week's episode. Very cool.

I did like the plot. I picked out that the Chamberlain was going to be evil (British = evil, of course), but Peter Woodward was absolutely excellent and I was a little sad that he died because I'd love to see him playing a recurring villain.

Actually, I'd prefer to see him playing a Technomage who steps on the pale grey side of the moral divide, but failing that he'd make a great recurring villain on Atlantis. Or just any character on Atlantis.

But I digress. I haven't really been keeping up with what people are saying about the episodes, preferring to arrive at them without someone else's opinions colouring my impressions, so I have no idea whether this was one of the episodes that people have been kicking up a fuss about. I thought that this was a great episode and enjoyed ever minute of it. Even John's Kirk moment.


I love my shiny, slashy show *ggg*

Comments

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I hated this episode. I spent most of it saying out loud to my room-mate's bafflement 'this is crap, why am I watching' 'OMG, so much badness, my eyes, my eyes'

This episode wouldn’t be out of place on Xena, whereupon Xena and Gabby would come in, save the villagers, kick some arse and make ancient Greece safe again and being really cute.

In Stargate it was stupid, and it was insulting. And it was like ‘oh hi guys, we’re going to liberate you whether you like it or not, coz we REALLY want that handy dandy ancient technology, oops now we’ve drained your ZPM, but don’t worry if the wraith appear radio us and we’ll come help’.

Umm yeah, great. Just go in change the political status-quo and breeze out again, typical imperialism really.

So, in a word, I hated it. Easily the worst episode I've seen so far.

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

Also, how DAMN stupid is John. I mean really. 'Oh man you mean you're evil'

Yeah John, great leader material you.

[selenay]

Well, see, I was firmly hoping that Peter Woodward wasn't evil so had no real problems with John not spotting the evil guy straight off. The character was playing a number of sides and games to get what he wanted.

At the end of the episode, John did mention that they'll continue supporting and helping out the people of that planet, which makes their actions a little better to me. And it didn't take much to drain that ZPM - I wouldn't have trusted it to hold off a full Wraith attack.

What they did was no worse (and no better, possibly) than many of the SG-1 missions. It wasn't that they went in there with the intention of changing the planet's ruling body and taking away their protection from the Wraith - wrong time, wrong place was the way I read it. Yes, the broad ideas have been done before in Xena and dozens of other shows, but for me that doesn't invalidate it as a plot.

But I was watching it as a fun, not terribly thinky episode. There are definitely superior episodes out there with more depth and I don't think that this was intended to be one of those. They seem to be saving that up for the final few.

I don't think there have been any SGA episodes that I've hated yet. One or two early episodes had me yawning a little, but tend to watch most shows fairly uncritically.

[danamaree.livejournal.com]

I have a few ethical problems with the entire concept of the SG and TPTB use of it.

And the fact that there isn´t any type of self-awareness at all by the writers that this could be a problem. I keep telling myself that this show is just fairy floss for the brain, and I shouldn´t try and look for any true substance apart from the pretty.

My expectations are my downfall. I´m very critical on the shows I love.