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I fucking love the background acting on this show, guys. I'm sure there's a professional name for it or a better way to put it, but we'll go with background acting. I watched "Adrift" and now "Be All My Sins Remember'd" and both of them had awesome scenes wherein, when two characters got into an awkward conversation, a third tiptoed away from them in the background. In "Adrift," it's Ronon turning heel when John and Rodney are having their moment. In "Be All My Sins Remember'd," Radek slowly backs out of the frame when FRAN explains to Rodney that she's looking forward to "fulfilling her purpose."
Really? Oh god, it's awesome. I love these guys. I know Gero wrote both the episodes, but I just checked and Mikita directed BAMSR and Martin Wood directed "Adrift." (Martin + Martin is my sekrit writer/director OTP. bee tee dubs.)
Oh my god, John is flirting with Rodney overtime at the end of BAMSR. Oh show.
Also, Skinner/Carter? Y/N? I mean Skinner, too, not Caldwell. You know how it goes. Mulder and Scully are poking around some alien thing that's actually Goa'uld, the SGC sends Carter over to deal with it after Skinner's identical cousin with better vision is unable to convince him to make his agents drop it. They do a little wining and dining and one thing leads to another...
I'm kind of mental.
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While I was out with moonsheen, we made some discoveries about the Wraith characters on the show. While it makes sense for Todd to be the Wraith!Rodney, their personalities don't quite match. Todd would make a better Wraith!John, really, which would totally make Michael the Wraith!Rodney.
It went kind of like this:
Alex: I love how all of their mistakes are coming back to bite them in the ass.
Kait: I know! Go show! Continuity!
Alex: Michael was clearly the wrong Wraith to mess with, being all science-y. No wonder he was captured--while all the other Wraith were learning fighting he was being a scientist. And now he's making them pay.
Kait: It would be like if the Wraith captured Rodney.
Alex: Oh my god! Michael is the Wraith!Rodney!
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Vaguely relatedly, I know a lot of people considering John and/or Rodney to be the little black dress of Atlantis, but I really don't see that. I think that John has chemistry with very few people and while Rodney has chemistry with TONS of people (except his supposed girlfriends), I can't see anyone but John putting up with him longterm.
That being said, I do have my own little black dress of Atlantis, and it is apparently Radek Zelenka.
I have shipped Radek with the following people at one point or another: Elizabeth, Sam, Teyla, Ronon, Rodney, Carson, and I'm sure I'm missing people. WHAT? WHAT EVEN? Guys, I'm crazy. And Radek is apparently getting some from everyone in the city.
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I'm watching a movie on SciFi now. Here are some things about it:
1. There are Nazis. This is how I know: THERE ARE SWASTIKAS ON EVERYTHING. There are like, six on this random machine they're using and another six plastered on the side of the castle they're set up in.
Actually, now that I think about swastika castles, I may have seen this before. Should I even admit to that?
2. It stars Corin Nemec and I shit you not, they made a Parker Lewis Can't Lose joke. When this other officer is reading a list of names for Jonas' (shut up, Jonas is easier to type than Corin Nemec) team, the first name he reads is "Parker Lewis."
Oh Jonas. I hope you have a banana at some point in this episode. Also, why are you the only one without a British accent? WHO KNOWS. The joy of SciFi Original Movies.
(Another conversation between Alex and myself: Corin Nemec: Least effective Scientology convert ever? "Oh, we've got Tom Cruise and John Travolta and a whole bunch of people.... oh, and that guy who played a knock off version of Ferris Bueller and a knock-off version of Daniel Jackson.")
Oh man, some officer just called Jonas' team "The biggest bunch of misfits ever assembled!" in SciFi terms, that means that they are the only thing that can save the world from whatever trouble is facing it. According to the "INFO" button on my teevee, that trouble is "soldiers engineered by the Nazis to create the ultimate evil army." It's called SS Doomtrooper. It promises to be a winner, let me tell you.
eta: Oh my god, guys, there are like, NINE HUNDRED swastikas in this movie. They are really driving home the fact that these guys are Nazis. "Yeah, their German accents suck, but they have to be Nazis! Look at how many swastikas are around!" Also, the monster is RIDICULOUSLY STUPID LOOKING. I keep giggling whenever it's on screen.
Also, they found these French resistance fighters and Jonas gave them a speech and it was hilariously reminiscent of the South Park movie. I kept humming "La Resistance."
Also also, the character of Parker Lewis just said, "I can't win!" and it basically made the entire bad movie worth the time and effort I'm putting into it.
Really? Oh god, it's awesome. I love these guys. I know Gero wrote both the episodes, but I just checked and Mikita directed BAMSR and Martin Wood directed "Adrift." (Martin + Martin is my sekrit writer/director OTP. bee tee dubs.)
Oh my god, John is flirting with Rodney overtime at the end of BAMSR. Oh show.
Also, Skinner/Carter? Y/N? I mean Skinner, too, not Caldwell. You know how it goes. Mulder and Scully are poking around some alien thing that's actually Goa'uld, the SGC sends Carter over to deal with it after Skinner's identical cousin with better vision is unable to convince him to make his agents drop it. They do a little wining and dining and one thing leads to another...
I'm kind of mental.
***
While I was out with moonsheen, we made some discoveries about the Wraith characters on the show. While it makes sense for Todd to be the Wraith!Rodney, their personalities don't quite match. Todd would make a better Wraith!John, really, which would totally make Michael the Wraith!Rodney.
It went kind of like this:
Alex: I love how all of their mistakes are coming back to bite them in the ass.
Kait: I know! Go show! Continuity!
Alex: Michael was clearly the wrong Wraith to mess with, being all science-y. No wonder he was captured--while all the other Wraith were learning fighting he was being a scientist. And now he's making them pay.
Kait: It would be like if the Wraith captured Rodney.
Alex: Oh my god! Michael is the Wraith!Rodney!
***
Vaguely relatedly, I know a lot of people considering John and/or Rodney to be the little black dress of Atlantis, but I really don't see that. I think that John has chemistry with very few people and while Rodney has chemistry with TONS of people (except his supposed girlfriends), I can't see anyone but John putting up with him longterm.
That being said, I do have my own little black dress of Atlantis, and it is apparently Radek Zelenka.
I have shipped Radek with the following people at one point or another: Elizabeth, Sam, Teyla, Ronon, Rodney, Carson, and I'm sure I'm missing people. WHAT? WHAT EVEN? Guys, I'm crazy. And Radek is apparently getting some from everyone in the city.
***
I'm watching a movie on SciFi now. Here are some things about it:
1. There are Nazis. This is how I know: THERE ARE SWASTIKAS ON EVERYTHING. There are like, six on this random machine they're using and another six plastered on the side of the castle they're set up in.
Actually, now that I think about swastika castles, I may have seen this before. Should I even admit to that?
2. It stars Corin Nemec and I shit you not, they made a Parker Lewis Can't Lose joke. When this other officer is reading a list of names for Jonas' (shut up, Jonas is easier to type than Corin Nemec) team, the first name he reads is "Parker Lewis."
Oh Jonas. I hope you have a banana at some point in this episode. Also, why are you the only one without a British accent? WHO KNOWS. The joy of SciFi Original Movies.
(Another conversation between Alex and myself: Corin Nemec: Least effective Scientology convert ever? "Oh, we've got Tom Cruise and John Travolta and a whole bunch of people.... oh, and that guy who played a knock off version of Ferris Bueller and a knock-off version of Daniel Jackson.")
Oh man, some officer just called Jonas' team "The biggest bunch of misfits ever assembled!" in SciFi terms, that means that they are the only thing that can save the world from whatever trouble is facing it. According to the "INFO" button on my teevee, that trouble is "soldiers engineered by the Nazis to create the ultimate evil army." It's called SS Doomtrooper. It promises to be a winner, let me tell you.
eta: Oh my god, guys, there are like, NINE HUNDRED swastikas in this movie. They are really driving home the fact that these guys are Nazis. "Yeah, their German accents suck, but they have to be Nazis! Look at how many swastikas are around!" Also, the monster is RIDICULOUSLY STUPID LOOKING. I keep giggling whenever it's on screen.
Also, they found these French resistance fighters and Jonas gave them a speech and it was hilariously reminiscent of the South Park movie. I kept humming "La Resistance."
Also also, the character of Parker Lewis just said, "I can't win!" and it basically made the entire bad movie worth the time and effort I'm putting into it.