Saturday, Stargate
Today I sat around in my underwear watching Stargate, knitting and eating popsicles. All day. I honestly have no idea how I accomplished this, but I think the important thing is that I did. I think it was good for me. I didn't even *make* a list until 4 p.m.
Maybe the heat helped. It made me feel tired even from indoors. Here's a screenshot of the online weather report from 5:30 p.m. That's down by 4 degrees from 2 p.m. (Note the heat index as well.) I know it's hot almost all over the country. This is the kind of weather where when you go outside, your *eyeballs* hurt, and the squirrels just look at you like, "I'd run toward the safety of that tree, but... eh. I seriously doubt you're going to expend the effort to catch me, either." And you see them draped over branches, legs hanging off either side, panting. The mockingbirds perch with their beaks wide open as if it helps them keep cool.
We had thunder and a brief power failure but no rain, which is also to be expected. I do wish it would rain.
Crap. I just checked, and since the power failure, the temp in my apartment has gone up about 7 degrees. I think my AC may be on the way out again.
Stargate Continuum
* I've miss SG-1! I've missed Jack, too.
* I want Daniel to be both a geeky archaeologist and a man with arms like THAT, and this has me confused.
* Claudia Black's breasts get a lot of action in this, and they're fine breasts, but I found that I prefer her in tight leather pants. I don't say that often.
* The impact of Jack's death was greatly diminished for me by the fact that he was almost instantly killed by needle in his clavicle area. Really? After all he's survived, it's a needle that gets him? I really hope it was tipped with some kind of drug that's ultratoxic to non-host humans. (The amount of blood they CGI'd in didn't make sense either. I think the wound was too far to the outside to have hit a major artery.)
* Ba'al is so great. He does subtlety and psychological plotting much better than most system lords. He had a great plan and executed it brilliantly up until it completely unraveled. I really enjoyed this story. "Gotta give him credit for knowing which buttons to push" with Teal'c, said Mitchell, and I agree.
* I almost cried when Mitchell, Carter and Daniel had to go off to their separate lonely lives in the alternate timeline. It was very sad. AND DANIEL ONLY HAD ONE LEG.
* I watched the "SG-1 Goes to the Arctic" special feature, and DUDE. The submarine breaking through the ice? WAS A REAL U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE breaking through REAL ARCTIC ICE. Just for the show! As were the scenes inside the sub bridge. How cool is that? (The F-16 jets were real, too. Air Force wouldn't want the Navy to get one up on them.)
Fun. I enjoyed it very much. And it was nice to watch something with snow and ice.
Maybe the heat helped. It made me feel tired even from indoors. Here's a screenshot of the online weather report from 5:30 p.m. That's down by 4 degrees from 2 p.m. (Note the heat index as well.) I know it's hot almost all over the country. This is the kind of weather where when you go outside, your *eyeballs* hurt, and the squirrels just look at you like, "I'd run toward the safety of that tree, but... eh. I seriously doubt you're going to expend the effort to catch me, either." And you see them draped over branches, legs hanging off either side, panting. The mockingbirds perch with their beaks wide open as if it helps them keep cool.
We had thunder and a brief power failure but no rain, which is also to be expected. I do wish it would rain.
Crap. I just checked, and since the power failure, the temp in my apartment has gone up about 7 degrees. I think my AC may be on the way out again.
Stargate Continuum
* I've miss SG-1! I've missed Jack, too.
* I want Daniel to be both a geeky archaeologist and a man with arms like THAT, and this has me confused.
* Claudia Black's breasts get a lot of action in this, and they're fine breasts, but I found that I prefer her in tight leather pants. I don't say that often.
* The impact of Jack's death was greatly diminished for me by the fact that he was almost instantly killed by needle in his clavicle area. Really? After all he's survived, it's a needle that gets him? I really hope it was tipped with some kind of drug that's ultratoxic to non-host humans. (The amount of blood they CGI'd in didn't make sense either. I think the wound was too far to the outside to have hit a major artery.)
* Ba'al is so great. He does subtlety and psychological plotting much better than most system lords. He had a great plan and executed it brilliantly up until it completely unraveled. I really enjoyed this story. "Gotta give him credit for knowing which buttons to push" with Teal'c, said Mitchell, and I agree.
* I almost cried when Mitchell, Carter and Daniel had to go off to their separate lonely lives in the alternate timeline. It was very sad. AND DANIEL ONLY HAD ONE LEG.
* I watched the "SG-1 Goes to the Arctic" special feature, and DUDE. The submarine breaking through the ice? WAS A REAL U.S. NAVY SUBMARINE breaking through REAL ARCTIC ICE. Just for the show! As were the scenes inside the sub bridge. How cool is that? (The F-16 jets were real, too. Air Force wouldn't want the Navy to get one up on them.)
Fun. I enjoyed it very much. And it was nice to watch something with snow and ice.