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Should I talk about this week's SGA? Well, I suppose ...
Stargate Atlantis: 5-7 Whispers
My reaction to the episode was a resounding "meh." Which, really, is very disappointing. I mean, zombies! All-girl team! These are two things I should enjoy watching. And if anybody had told me before I watched the ep that these things were in it, I probably would have had fairly (well, relatively) high expectations. So, it's probably a good thing nobody told me.
It's just ... I can so easily imagine this as a ficathon prompt. "Two things you want to see: zombies, an all-girl team." And pretty much every fic I can imagine being written is a million times better than this episode. (In fact, I really want somebody to write that fic now. Preferably one that has nothing to do with this episode.)
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cesperanza articulated pretty much my exact response when she said:
I kind of felt like I was watching someone play a not terribly well designed first-person shooter game. Look, there's zombies! they're coming at you! shoot them!--for like, an hour. And then they were all dead, and our guys went home! I mean, who cares? There wasn't a shred of character development or anything that changed or, you know, anything. It doesn't matter whether or not these people bonded or got emotionally closer because I'll bet you dollars to donuts we'll never see any of them again, so I mean--I don't know.
Because that's it, exactly. More than anything, this episode was boring. And the fact that these were (I assume, because, well, this is SGA) all throwaway characters means that I couldn't even care about them for the duration of the episode.
(Side note: I did, in fact, love Rusty. A lot. But I suspect the reasons I love her had very little to do with the writing, and more to do with the acting. And I would love her exponentially more if I thought we would ever see her again.)
And ... I gather that Vega's death was supposed to be shocking, or whatever? Because such a big deal was made of her as a recurring character? I wasn't impressed by it at all - in fact, instead of making her death more poignant or unexpected because I didn't see it coming it, I spent a good ten minutes waiting for her to come back because, well, I actually expected TPTB's version of "recurring character" to mean "appears in more than two episodes." I mean, she barely even had lines. I know, I know, silly me. I should know better than to put my faith in this show.
I will go against the grain and say that I thought John and Carson's fist bump in the beginning was cute. John's reaction to Teldy's team, less so. But really, I suspect I was just so bored I can't even care.
Stargate Atlantis: 5-7 Whispers
My reaction to the episode was a resounding "meh." Which, really, is very disappointing. I mean, zombies! All-girl team! These are two things I should enjoy watching. And if anybody had told me before I watched the ep that these things were in it, I probably would have had fairly (well, relatively) high expectations. So, it's probably a good thing nobody told me.
It's just ... I can so easily imagine this as a ficathon prompt. "Two things you want to see: zombies, an all-girl team." And pretty much every fic I can imagine being written is a million times better than this episode. (In fact, I really want somebody to write that fic now. Preferably one that has nothing to do with this episode.)
cesperanza articulated pretty much my exact response when she said:I kind of felt like I was watching someone play a not terribly well designed first-person shooter game. Look, there's zombies! they're coming at you! shoot them!--for like, an hour. And then they were all dead, and our guys went home! I mean, who cares? There wasn't a shred of character development or anything that changed or, you know, anything. It doesn't matter whether or not these people bonded or got emotionally closer because I'll bet you dollars to donuts we'll never see any of them again, so I mean--I don't know.
Because that's it, exactly. More than anything, this episode was boring. And the fact that these were (I assume, because, well, this is SGA) all throwaway characters means that I couldn't even care about them for the duration of the episode.
(Side note: I did, in fact, love Rusty. A lot. But I suspect the reasons I love her had very little to do with the writing, and more to do with the acting. And I would love her exponentially more if I thought we would ever see her again.)
And ... I gather that Vega's death was supposed to be shocking, or whatever? Because such a big deal was made of her as a recurring character? I wasn't impressed by it at all - in fact, instead of making her death more poignant or unexpected because I didn't see it coming it, I spent a good ten minutes waiting for her to come back because, well, I actually expected TPTB's version of "recurring character" to mean "appears in more than two episodes." I mean, she barely even had lines. I know, I know, silly me. I should know better than to put my faith in this show.
I will go against the grain and say that I thought John and Carson's fist bump in the beginning was cute. John's reaction to Teldy's team, less so. But really, I suspect I was just so bored I can't even care.