Famous last words
I have a plan!*
I am going to watch the first season of Stargate: Atlantis, but not until I've hit the point where the show kicks off at the end of Season 7 of Stargate. I often appreciate shows more when I see them in order, so this will give me a chance to evaluate whether it's any good** and worth picking up in real time in the summer.
Stargate is crack. Crack, I tell you. But to counterbalance that, I have every intention of watching both Babylon 5 and Due South in the near future.
In the meantime...
5.07 - "Beast of Burden"
* Hey! It's Benny from L.A. Law! And he's not even the first alumnus from that show to guest on Stargate. Scary.
* D'oh. That was Daniel's friend Chaka getting captured there. Chaka, who learned not to fear humans from Daniel.
* I'm going to pretend that the justification for sending SG-1 to rescue Chaka and check out the villains (they have goa'uld weapons!) is not incredibly flimsy.
* Slavery is evil, y'all.
* Great, SG-1 has pissed off the whole village.
* Hee. Daniel is intent on studying the Unas, whereas Jack is focusing his attention on the fact that they're all chained up in a barn. They have such different priorities.
* Benny is quite the evil, slaveholding jerk.
* So SG-1 escapes, and leaves the armed Unas to start a revolution. Yay?
5.08 - "The Tomb"
* Hm. Our Russian friends have been using their gate.
* Hard-line elements in Russian intelligence sending secret missions through the gate? Sounds familiar. I wish Teal'c hadn't made the explicit reference. We get it.
* Jack sure is an old Cold Warrior. The Russian guy has a point, though--the US representing all of Earth is pretty bogus.
* Joint mission to another planet! Trapped in a pyramid (well, ziggurat) with a skeleton covered in tiny teethmarks. I hope there aren't scarab beetles around. Scarab beetles creep me out..
* Argh! If someone was trying to seal the sarcophagus from the outside, it might have been for a reason--like trapping something dangerous. It's maybe not a good idea to just bust it open! When did SG-1 get so stupid?
* Terrific--it's a creature that's been infected by a goa'uld. That's a double whammy. Terror in the haunted ziggurat! Button, button, who's got the goa'uld?
* It's always the quiet Russian ones wearing the red shirts.
* What does this eye do? Why is it such a huge stake that everyone is trying to get it? Will we ever find out? I am trying to get worked up over the Russian threat, but it's kind of hard when it's this vague.
5.09 - "Between Two Fires"
* Sam really shouldn't have turned Nerim down. He's even passing her secret messages. Although "Earth is in grave danger" is kind of vague and not really that helpful.
* Hm. The Tollan need trinium, and they're willing to trade weapons for it--something they'd previously refused to do--even though they can supposedly get it elsewhere. Omak opposed trading with Earth but sent them a warning. Something fishy is up.
* Yeah, something is up. The deal is for one cannon that can't be reverse-engineered.
* Okay, maybe Nerim isn't completely ideal. The fact that he has his home programmed to greet him with Sam's voice is a little creepy. But just a little creepy. Not incorporeal-stalker creepy.
* Nerim has a Watergate moment--his government is up to no good.
* I like how Omak becomes the hero of this piece. He wasn't pleasant, but he was principled and honest.
* Terrific. The goa'uld can defend against ion cannons? They are in deep shit.
* The Tollan curia entered into a pact with Tanith? And they're developing bombs for the goa'uld that can penetrate the iris? Evil!
* Tanith is working for someone else? Hm.
* Oh, Sam, it is so goodbye. Nerim is a potentially viable love interest, so he is doomed. See also: Martouf.
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What is a hero? A hero is someone who takes one for the team, who endures so that others may benefit. My friends, asta77 is a hero, as she once again listens to Ron Moore's bloviating so that we don't have to.
* * * * *
New Veronica Mars tonight! I'm all a-tingle with anticipation.
* * * * *
This post has footnotes!
* These never end well. Never.
** "Good" on the Stargate scale, that is.
I am going to watch the first season of Stargate: Atlantis, but not until I've hit the point where the show kicks off at the end of Season 7 of Stargate. I often appreciate shows more when I see them in order, so this will give me a chance to evaluate whether it's any good** and worth picking up in real time in the summer.
Stargate is crack. Crack, I tell you. But to counterbalance that, I have every intention of watching both Babylon 5 and Due South in the near future.
In the meantime...
5.07 - "Beast of Burden"
* Hey! It's Benny from L.A. Law! And he's not even the first alumnus from that show to guest on Stargate. Scary.
* D'oh. That was Daniel's friend Chaka getting captured there. Chaka, who learned not to fear humans from Daniel.
* I'm going to pretend that the justification for sending SG-1 to rescue Chaka and check out the villains (they have goa'uld weapons!) is not incredibly flimsy.
* Slavery is evil, y'all.
* Great, SG-1 has pissed off the whole village.
* Hee. Daniel is intent on studying the Unas, whereas Jack is focusing his attention on the fact that they're all chained up in a barn. They have such different priorities.
* Benny is quite the evil, slaveholding jerk.
* So SG-1 escapes, and leaves the armed Unas to start a revolution. Yay?
5.08 - "The Tomb"
* Hm. Our Russian friends have been using their gate.
* Hard-line elements in Russian intelligence sending secret missions through the gate? Sounds familiar. I wish Teal'c hadn't made the explicit reference. We get it.
* Jack sure is an old Cold Warrior. The Russian guy has a point, though--the US representing all of Earth is pretty bogus.
* Joint mission to another planet! Trapped in a pyramid (well, ziggurat) with a skeleton covered in tiny teethmarks. I hope there aren't scarab beetles around. Scarab beetles creep me out..
* Argh! If someone was trying to seal the sarcophagus from the outside, it might have been for a reason--like trapping something dangerous. It's maybe not a good idea to just bust it open! When did SG-1 get so stupid?
* Terrific--it's a creature that's been infected by a goa'uld. That's a double whammy. Terror in the haunted ziggurat! Button, button, who's got the goa'uld?
* It's always the quiet Russian ones wearing the red shirts.
* What does this eye do? Why is it such a huge stake that everyone is trying to get it? Will we ever find out? I am trying to get worked up over the Russian threat, but it's kind of hard when it's this vague.
5.09 - "Between Two Fires"
* Sam really shouldn't have turned Nerim down. He's even passing her secret messages. Although "Earth is in grave danger" is kind of vague and not really that helpful.
* Hm. The Tollan need trinium, and they're willing to trade weapons for it--something they'd previously refused to do--even though they can supposedly get it elsewhere. Omak opposed trading with Earth but sent them a warning. Something fishy is up.
* Yeah, something is up. The deal is for one cannon that can't be reverse-engineered.
* Okay, maybe Nerim isn't completely ideal. The fact that he has his home programmed to greet him with Sam's voice is a little creepy. But just a little creepy. Not incorporeal-stalker creepy.
* Nerim has a Watergate moment--his government is up to no good.
* I like how Omak becomes the hero of this piece. He wasn't pleasant, but he was principled and honest.
* Terrific. The goa'uld can defend against ion cannons? They are in deep shit.
* The Tollan curia entered into a pact with Tanith? And they're developing bombs for the goa'uld that can penetrate the iris? Evil!
* Tanith is working for someone else? Hm.
* Oh, Sam, it is so goodbye. Nerim is a potentially viable love interest, so he is doomed. See also: Martouf.
* * * * *
What is a hero? A hero is someone who takes one for the team, who endures so that others may benefit. My friends, asta77 is a hero, as she once again listens to Ron Moore's bloviating so that we don't have to.
* * * * *
New Veronica Mars tonight! I'm all a-tingle with anticipation.
* * * * *
This post has footnotes!
* These never end well. Never.
** "Good" on the Stargate scale, that is.