SGA 2x18 - Michael
Jan. 18th, 2006 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
erilynDear people who think the show has been too Rodney-centric lately,
See what happens when they give DH most of the week off? It sucks!
No love,
Me.
Ok, that's unfair. I can understand where people like that are coming from (*coughs*freaks*coughs*), and it wasn't only DH's absence that was wrong with this (and to be honest, I skipped some of the cafeteria scene). But it didn't help.
Good guest-star, thought he looked familiar (only ever saw the pilot of Enterprise), and it did take me a little while to decide that he was an experimented upon Wraith. I think I was in denial that they brought back my least favourite plot device ever - Beckett's Magical Retrovirus of Doom. I love sf, and am quite willing to suspend my disbelief in many and varied ways, but sometimes this show makes my brain hurt. Also, Weir and Beckett have the worst ethical standards ever, but the show wasn't nearly as heavy-handed about the Moral of the Week as they have been at times, so they get points for that. But do the plots always have to depend on the characters being stupid?
And Ronon needs to keep his hair tied back, it really doesn't look good in this ep.
Overall, kudos for trying something a bit different with their storytelling/format of the show, but I was bored or annoyed for a fair bit of it. I they have a kickass season finale, to make up for big chunks of this season. Plus, more Rodney and more Caldwell! Together, even!
See what happens when they give DH most of the week off? It sucks!
No love,
Me.
Ok, that's unfair. I can understand where people like that are coming from (*coughs*freaks*coughs*), and it wasn't only DH's absence that was wrong with this (and to be honest, I skipped some of the cafeteria scene). But it didn't help.
Good guest-star, thought he looked familiar (only ever saw the pilot of Enterprise), and it did take me a little while to decide that he was an experimented upon Wraith. I think I was in denial that they brought back my least favourite plot device ever - Beckett's Magical Retrovirus of Doom. I love sf, and am quite willing to suspend my disbelief in many and varied ways, but sometimes this show makes my brain hurt. Also, Weir and Beckett have the worst ethical standards ever, but the show wasn't nearly as heavy-handed about the Moral of the Week as they have been at times, so they get points for that. But do the plots always have to depend on the characters being stupid?
And Ronon needs to keep his hair tied back, it really doesn't look good in this ep.
Overall, kudos for trying something a bit different with their storytelling/format of the show, but I was bored or annoyed for a fair bit of it. I they have a kickass season finale, to make up for big chunks of this season. Plus, more Rodney and more Caldwell! Together, even!
