SGA 507: Whispers
1. Vega :( I liked her in Search and Rescue, I was totally plotting to slash her with Keller and now... well, now she's dead, so there goes that.
2. All-female team was very cool. I love Major Teldy's comment about being asked to pick the best and the brightest... it just sounds exactly right for some reason. Also, that they're so very much not like John's team, who more or less go along with his plans. I loved them sitting around saying yes, but... It's the whole marine v air force thing I was going on about in Never As Bad As Anticipated, that they want a back-up plan, not blind hope.
3. Caron - seriously, you were dead, you left, please, GO AWAY. Also, I'm not sure if I've forgotten how creepy I found him (I've never liked Carson) or that he's more so now but - seriously, so creepy. He's the kind of guy I wouldn't want to be left alone with, with the whole 'you're just a youngster, flirt flirt' thing. Just, no. And, what was wp with saying he couldn't let Mehra go alone - United States armed marine, doctor who falls apart when he leaves the city. I'd bet on her, any day. Ugh, someone tell me we're done with Carson, please.
4. Monsters - so damn creepy. With the eyes and the creeping, and... yeah. I closed my eyes for them.
5. Interesting bit of trivia - Christina Cox, who played Major Teldy, co-starred in Better Than Chocolate, the first lesbian film I ever saw. She also, accoridng to imdb, was in a couple of episodes of SG1, where she was Lt Kershaw. Married and promoted in the intervening period?
I can't remember how I got clicked on to this - someone on my flist was talking about it, I think; it's a seven part mini series about a group of marines in the first days of the invasion of Iraq, and I've just got to the end of it. It took me about three episodes to get all the characters straight - in uniform and with helmets, they all look pretty similar, and it doesn't help that they get called by a mix of first-name, nickname, last name, rank and position, or that I don't actually understand the structure of the US Marines well enough to always know who they're referring to when they say platoon commander, for example. That said, it was totally worth it, for two reasons:
1. I love programmes about soldiers on the ground, and watching them go from being all jazzed about getting to go to war, to being sad and guilty and in a moral quandry about what they did, and Gen Kill shows this really, really well. And they all have different things that they crack over, and different ways of dealing with it; and when it happens, everyone else rallies round in a very male, marine way, but a very obviously supportive, sympathetic way.
2. Seriously, the sergeant is more slashable than John Sheppard, which is not a phrase I ever thought I'd say. There's him and a lieutenant, and they look at each other and nod, and it's an entire conversation. And they say things like 'I'm glad you're my team leader' and 'I trust your judgement' while, I swear, looking deeply into each others' eyes and... yeah. Plus, he has a best friend/driver/radio guy, who I am absolutly convinced he must have slept with at some point.