SGA - Trio and Midway
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ivyficI know I'm waaaay behind on this, but I just rented the SGA season 4 DVDs to catch up before the premier tonight.
I quite enjoyed this episode. Interesting problem-solving, and lots of good character moments. Rodney gets to be the reluctant hero again, plus he says he'd shag Stephen Colbert. That whole "who would you do" conversation was hilarious. Plus Rodney's complete obliviousness to the fact that he broke up with Katy. McShepper though I am, man, I feel for the guy.
Here's my question, though—why is Keller hitting on Rodney? I mean, she starts a very flirty conversation, finds out that McKay has broken up with his girlfriend, tells him she thinks he's a nice guy, lets him go on about her relative physical attributes, then asks him out for a drink at the end. All this would be fine, but…didn't she and Ronon have a moment just a few episodes ago? I mean, why make me wrap my head around Keller/Ronon (which I did come around to, though it's not an obvious pairing to me), only to have her hitting on someone else two episodes later? Clearly she's the Lonnie Henderson of SGA. (Yes, that was a seaQuest reference for all you kids playing along at home.)
Also--what was with the random Zelenka bashing? He's a great character! From the way they danced around this, and with Carter's original comment, I have to conclude that he smells, and that's why it was bad to be stuck in a small space with him.
Hey! It's Kavanagh! Who's been given what has to be the shittiest assignment in the history of the military and is still incompetent. You know, he wasn't actually incompetent before—in fact, he often pointed out legitimate flaws with how Weir was running things. In his last appearance, he was actually completely innocent and yet still subjected to torture just because Weir didn't like him. And we're still supposed to see him as a villain. Yes, I know, we're supposed to hate him because he doesn't agree with our heroes. But I really wished he had actually known something about Midway McKay didn't and saved the day.
No fuckin' way Sheppard made it into that suit in time. No way. It would have taken him much less time just to get to the Jumper, since he was right next to it anyway.
And Dr. Lee. I was actually afraid they'd kill him off. They've done that too many times before for me to trust them with secondary characters.
But really, here's the most important thing about this episode: Teal'c's hair. What. The. Fuck.
I liked bringing Teal'c in and having him bond with Ronon, but this whole "you two have so much in common. You should have a lot to talk about," thing—um, what? He's a former first prime of Apophis who's almost 200 years old and spent the first century or so of his life as a slave and the second century or so trapped in a time bubble on a space ship with only four other people, and is now a relatively important figure in a burgeoning interplanetary government. Plus, he's not human. Ronon's a twenty-something soldier from a relatively advanced planet in Pegasus who's planet was wiped out by the Wraith and spent seven years running. They have nothing in common.
No, wait, I'm sorry. What they have in common is that they fill the same archetype: the outside, non-white, warrior alien among the Earth humans. That's it. This would kind of be like saying to, say, a black man and, say, a Hawaiian, "Oh! You have so much in common!" Really, the only thing they have in common is they're not white. Beyond that…not so much. Ronon and Teal'c are both examples of the noble savage stereotype that is forever repeated in sci fi television (hello, Worf). Given that, it just kind of made me cringe for the show itself to point out that it views them as pretty much equivalent because of their non-white-ness despite their vastly different backgrounds and personal experiences. Um, way to go, SGA.
I quite enjoyed this episode. Interesting problem-solving, and lots of good character moments. Rodney gets to be the reluctant hero again, plus he says he'd shag Stephen Colbert. That whole "who would you do" conversation was hilarious. Plus Rodney's complete obliviousness to the fact that he broke up with Katy. McShepper though I am, man, I feel for the guy.
Here's my question, though—why is Keller hitting on Rodney? I mean, she starts a very flirty conversation, finds out that McKay has broken up with his girlfriend, tells him she thinks he's a nice guy, lets him go on about her relative physical attributes, then asks him out for a drink at the end. All this would be fine, but…didn't she and Ronon have a moment just a few episodes ago? I mean, why make me wrap my head around Keller/Ronon (which I did come around to, though it's not an obvious pairing to me), only to have her hitting on someone else two episodes later? Clearly she's the Lonnie Henderson of SGA. (Yes, that was a seaQuest reference for all you kids playing along at home.)
Also--what was with the random Zelenka bashing? He's a great character! From the way they danced around this, and with Carter's original comment, I have to conclude that he smells, and that's why it was bad to be stuck in a small space with him.
Hey! It's Kavanagh! Who's been given what has to be the shittiest assignment in the history of the military and is still incompetent. You know, he wasn't actually incompetent before—in fact, he often pointed out legitimate flaws with how Weir was running things. In his last appearance, he was actually completely innocent and yet still subjected to torture just because Weir didn't like him. And we're still supposed to see him as a villain. Yes, I know, we're supposed to hate him because he doesn't agree with our heroes. But I really wished he had actually known something about Midway McKay didn't and saved the day.
No fuckin' way Sheppard made it into that suit in time. No way. It would have taken him much less time just to get to the Jumper, since he was right next to it anyway.
And Dr. Lee. I was actually afraid they'd kill him off. They've done that too many times before for me to trust them with secondary characters.
But really, here's the most important thing about this episode: Teal'c's hair. What. The. Fuck.
I liked bringing Teal'c in and having him bond with Ronon, but this whole "you two have so much in common. You should have a lot to talk about," thing—um, what? He's a former first prime of Apophis who's almost 200 years old and spent the first century or so of his life as a slave and the second century or so trapped in a time bubble on a space ship with only four other people, and is now a relatively important figure in a burgeoning interplanetary government. Plus, he's not human. Ronon's a twenty-something soldier from a relatively advanced planet in Pegasus who's planet was wiped out by the Wraith and spent seven years running. They have nothing in common.
No, wait, I'm sorry. What they have in common is that they fill the same archetype: the outside, non-white, warrior alien among the Earth humans. That's it. This would kind of be like saying to, say, a black man and, say, a Hawaiian, "Oh! You have so much in common!" Really, the only thing they have in common is they're not white. Beyond that…not so much. Ronon and Teal'c are both examples of the noble savage stereotype that is forever repeated in sci fi television (hello, Worf). Given that, it just kind of made me cringe for the show itself to point out that it views them as pretty much equivalent because of their non-white-ness despite their vastly different backgrounds and personal experiences. Um, way to go, SGA.