Busy. But still time for Atlantis.
The phone's off the hook, and there's speakers to arrange, email to answer, interns to hire, calendars to update, and parties to plan. And yet I still find time to play way too many rounds of trollprincess's movie quote tag. Oy.
It's gone on its fall hiatus now, but I've been really struck at how much I'm enjoying Stargate: Atlantis. It's one of the few times I've come in on a show from the beginning (Angel and Keen Eddie are the only other ones I can think of off-hand). I expected to only tolerate it, that it would be more of an SG-1 rip-off, only without RDA and MS, but I'm really enjoying it.
It's not the OMGsuckingmein! of Farscape or Angel - actually, it feels a little bit like Firefly: the who/when/what of the plotlines are interesting, but not important, and I just feel an enormous fondness for these characters. I'm not taking any deep philosophical journeys with them, nor being brought to any great emotional crisis by them; they pretty much just exist, there, within the TV screen and go away when I shut it off (especially Weir, for all that I like her). But damnit, I like them. Especially Sheppard. I'd expected him to be especially rip-off - just an O'Neill clone - but good on Joe Flanigan, he's avoided that. They've got similar traits (clearly, the ones that attract me: snarkiness and an ability to shoot things) but they're definitely not the same.
Die Hard "The Storm." I wanted to smack whiny "my father was an asshat and got himself killed You left my father to dieOMG!" girl, but Kolya was effectively cold-blooded, and hey, Sheppard's getting to show off now. And get wet. Suits me just fine.
It's gone on its fall hiatus now, but I've been really struck at how much I'm enjoying Stargate: Atlantis. It's one of the few times I've come in on a show from the beginning (Angel and Keen Eddie are the only other ones I can think of off-hand). I expected to only tolerate it, that it would be more of an SG-1 rip-off, only without RDA and MS, but I'm really enjoying it.
It's not the OMGsuckingmein! of Farscape or Angel - actually, it feels a little bit like Firefly: the who/when/what of the plotlines are interesting, but not important, and I just feel an enormous fondness for these characters. I'm not taking any deep philosophical journeys with them, nor being brought to any great emotional crisis by them; they pretty much just exist, there, within the TV screen and go away when I shut it off (especially Weir, for all that I like her). But damnit, I like them. Especially Sheppard. I'd expected him to be especially rip-off - just an O'Neill clone - but good on Joe Flanigan, he's avoided that. They've got similar traits (clearly, the ones that attract me: snarkiness and an ability to shoot things) but they're definitely not the same.
Die Hard "The Storm." I wanted to smack whiny "my father was an asshat and got himself killed You left my father to dieOMG!" girl, but Kolya was effectively cold-blooded, and hey, Sheppard's getting to show off now. And get wet. Suits me just fine.