SGA: The Tower
Feb. 8th, 2006 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
selenayNot 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*
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*
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Date: 2006-02-11 07:20 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2006-02-13 07:02 am (UTC)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.