Atlantis and scrap paper
I'm "liveblogging" my way through research papers to keep myself sane, but out of consideration for you all, I'll just post it all together at the end. I had all these nice little breaks planned to pause and reply to LJ comments, write drabbles and things, but I always forget how much longer it takes to edit a plagiarized paper. I did manage to fit in the latest SGA last night. (That icon is so appropriate!)
Stargate Atlantis "The Seed"
* Props to Joe Finegan for his posture - when Woolsey was arriving, that was the least respectful standing-at-attention I've ever seen. I laughed out loud.
* I love, and totally believe, that Rodney was going and privately talking to Frozen!Beckett.
* I miss Elizabeth, I am sad that I don't miss Carter (since I love her and she has the potential to be interesting if they will just use her!), and my... indefinable feelings about Woolsey are growing. Possibly in anyone else's hands he would be pure prick, but from Robert Picardo I get the sense he *wants* to do a good job but honestly struggles in situations where flexibility is a virtue. As they wrote it this week, his world view is being challenged, and that's always tough. (Don't I know it!) Plus, as I learned from Percy Weasley, I have a certain sympathy for rules-bound folks. They're always the antagonist to the free-spirited heroes in fiction, and I think that's not the whole story.
The above thoughts were originally written in tiny tiny penciled letters on the inside of a paper teabag wrapper. I somehow went to the zoo (a good place to grade papers, really!) without my notebook, which I try never to leave home without. Since I can't function without writing all my thoughts, I had to sacrifice the teabag I carry in my wallet to scrounge the paper. As a last resort, my own skin can serve as a temporary notebook, but I was lathered up with sunscreen and it doesn't take the ink very well.
Stargate Atlantis "The Seed"
* Props to Joe Finegan for his posture - when Woolsey was arriving, that was the least respectful standing-at-attention I've ever seen. I laughed out loud.
* I love, and totally believe, that Rodney was going and privately talking to Frozen!Beckett.
* I miss Elizabeth, I am sad that I don't miss Carter (since I love her and she has the potential to be interesting if they will just use her!), and my... indefinable feelings about Woolsey are growing. Possibly in anyone else's hands he would be pure prick, but from Robert Picardo I get the sense he *wants* to do a good job but honestly struggles in situations where flexibility is a virtue. As they wrote it this week, his world view is being challenged, and that's always tough. (Don't I know it!) Plus, as I learned from Percy Weasley, I have a certain sympathy for rules-bound folks. They're always the antagonist to the free-spirited heroes in fiction, and I think that's not the whole story.
The above thoughts were originally written in tiny tiny penciled letters on the inside of a paper teabag wrapper. I somehow went to the zoo (a good place to grade papers, really!) without my notebook, which I try never to leave home without. Since I can't function without writing all my thoughts, I had to sacrifice the teabag I carry in my wallet to scrounge the paper. As a last resort, my own skin can serve as a temporary notebook, but I was lathered up with sunscreen and it doesn't take the ink very well.