Aquarium 4.15 -- "Outcast"

[hth_the_first]

Posting this after my first viewing, which I rarely do (I usually watch one time for the fun of it, then a second time with the pause button and something to take notes with, which then become the basis of my lj comments and YES, I KNOW, IT'S ABSURD HOW SERIOUSLY I TAKE THIS SHOW. I have no defense.) I'm just saying, in case this is all jumbled

Comments

[spike21]

This is interesting. This is a really interesting review -- let me think about it for a while. I have so long inured myself to the mainstream view of what is and isn't sentient (it HURTS us, Precious) that the Replicator plotline hasn't even blipped my radar, except in the sense of a vague discomfort with the actions of the heroes. I think I felt it much more strongly in the whole retrovirus plotline, which I found horrifying but... in a good way. I honestly believed that the *intention* of the retrovirus plotline was to subvert the idea of our guys as heroes -- that the great tragedy of it was that, as in most wars, they stepped over a moral line and in the end it was their undoing (and I believe this is still playing out). I have less faith in the Replicator plotline -- I don't think there's any ironic subtext there. And I really felt they just missed so many opportunities to well, say *anything* about *anything* in this ep. Anyway, yeah, I have to think about your review more. And watch again. I'm not sure how much I liked the episode either, but then the Rodney-John, Ronon-John interaction of Bizarrely Functional Love for Dummies made up for a lot.*g*