CSI: Atlantis - What happens in Vegas...
I watched this ep Sunday night and my head damn near exploded. My first coherent thought after watching this episode? Vegas is an AU fanfic. Robert C. Cooper is really one of us, but he got to pull the actors strings and put his fic on the screen goddammit. I'm so far beyond jealous, it's not even fit for words.
Wow.
At the end of the episode, I was yelling at the computer screen. "WTF!?" I cried. "NO! AIEEE!!" I was a bit dazed right afterward, read a couple of reviews and a couple of episode tags, and I've pretty much been thinking about the ep ever since. I don't think that I can really say anything new that hasn't already been said, but I'm trying to figure out what *I* think about it all.
Several others have commented that this was the best episode all season. I think that I might have to agree. It's certainly an amazing piece of work despite the nit pick flaws that annoy the crap out of me (a single person working on a case, a 'rouge element' without any watch dogs breathing down his neck? Shhyeah, right!) *BUT* I can suspend my disbelief. *snort* I'm watching a TV shows about energy sucking space vampires, I think I can suspend a little disbelief now and then.
Flannigan was *amazing* in this. He kicked *ASS*. I totally agree with those who said the lack of dialogue actually made it better because words are *SO* not John's friend. He is an action guy.
Poor, fucked up John Sheppard. We know there is so much more going on here than was going on in our universe. He had a freakin' *relationship* with someone who died while he was trying to save them. And he's only 12 grand in debt? It is truly amazing he hasn't self destructed already.
He is still, quitessentially, *JOHN* under it all. He saves the day, rides the rocket into the mouth of the Wraith ship and takes suicidal risks to save the planet. I could rave about him for several more paragraphs, but it's already been said and better.
Point of note: I have been falling harder and harder for the Flan in the last few months. Sheppard was, to me, simply window dressing to hightlight my fantastic city and my Rodney. But he has really *grown* on me, and I find that I really like the character a lot more than I did. I am official impressed all to hell with Joe Flannigan's acting like never before.
Rodney. OMG. How much did I LOVE this Rodney? Wow. He's not our Rodney. I like this Rodney better than mensa!verse Rod. But I still don't like him as much as my Rodney. He's kind of a heartless bastard who learned how to play the game, and clearly had to in order to survive, but he's lost some of the innocence I still see in *my* McKay.
Funny to see them in the sort of role reversal. And how they still belong together.
Some folks didn't like it at all. Which is interesting; there are *things* about it I don't like. Not seeing all the actors (Teyla! Ronon!) which has been remarked on already; mostly, though, the fact that it's damn fine writing and WTF! I finally watched the rest of Brain Trust and Identity and Infection all in one fell swoop and then I was furious that they wasted time on a story like Identity when they could have been giving us more of *THIS*! Feh!
Sidenote: Y'know, I like Keller well enough as character, and Staite as an actor, but I just find myself, at the end of Season 5, the end of the series, thinking that she was not a good fit for a feature character. And it doesn't help that I bristle every time I see her with Rodney, and no it's NOT just because I'm a McShepper. I actually don't buy their relationship being so easy. I don't buy his easy slide into humility with her. I actually liked the heated glance they shared in Vegas waaaay better than the relationship crap they've been feeding us. I can *totally* buy them having a tryst way better than a happy bf/gf thing.
Point of serious amusement and glee:
We were standing outside The Bridge while they were shooting this episode! OMG.
Hewlett and Nykle brought us cookies while they were DRESSED IN THOSE SUITS!
Picardo was filming some of these scenes while I was walking around the Daedalus!
Wow.
At the end of the episode, I was yelling at the computer screen. "WTF!?" I cried. "NO! AIEEE!!" I was a bit dazed right afterward, read a couple of reviews and a couple of episode tags, and I've pretty much been thinking about the ep ever since. I don't think that I can really say anything new that hasn't already been said, but I'm trying to figure out what *I* think about it all.
Several others have commented that this was the best episode all season. I think that I might have to agree. It's certainly an amazing piece of work despite the nit pick flaws that annoy the crap out of me (a single person working on a case, a 'rouge element' without any watch dogs breathing down his neck? Shhyeah, right!) *BUT* I can suspend my disbelief. *snort* I'm watching a TV shows about energy sucking space vampires, I think I can suspend a little disbelief now and then.
Flannigan was *amazing* in this. He kicked *ASS*. I totally agree with those who said the lack of dialogue actually made it better because words are *SO* not John's friend. He is an action guy.
Poor, fucked up John Sheppard. We know there is so much more going on here than was going on in our universe. He had a freakin' *relationship* with someone who died while he was trying to save them. And he's only 12 grand in debt? It is truly amazing he hasn't self destructed already.
He is still, quitessentially, *JOHN* under it all. He saves the day, rides the rocket into the mouth of the Wraith ship and takes suicidal risks to save the planet. I could rave about him for several more paragraphs, but it's already been said and better.
Point of note: I have been falling harder and harder for the Flan in the last few months. Sheppard was, to me, simply window dressing to hightlight my fantastic city and my Rodney. But he has really *grown* on me, and I find that I really like the character a lot more than I did. I am official impressed all to hell with Joe Flannigan's acting like never before.
Rodney. OMG. How much did I LOVE this Rodney? Wow. He's not our Rodney. I like this Rodney better than mensa!verse Rod. But I still don't like him as much as my Rodney. He's kind of a heartless bastard who learned how to play the game, and clearly had to in order to survive, but he's lost some of the innocence I still see in *my* McKay.
Funny to see them in the sort of role reversal. And how they still belong together.
Some folks didn't like it at all. Which is interesting; there are *things* about it I don't like. Not seeing all the actors (Teyla! Ronon!) which has been remarked on already; mostly, though, the fact that it's damn fine writing and WTF! I finally watched the rest of Brain Trust and Identity and Infection all in one fell swoop and then I was furious that they wasted time on a story like Identity when they could have been giving us more of *THIS*! Feh!
Sidenote: Y'know, I like Keller well enough as character, and Staite as an actor, but I just find myself, at the end of Season 5, the end of the series, thinking that she was not a good fit for a feature character. And it doesn't help that I bristle every time I see her with Rodney, and no it's NOT just because I'm a McShepper. I actually don't buy their relationship being so easy. I don't buy his easy slide into humility with her. I actually liked the heated glance they shared in Vegas waaaay better than the relationship crap they've been feeding us. I can *totally* buy them having a tryst way better than a happy bf/gf thing.
Point of serious amusement and glee:
We were standing outside The Bridge while they were shooting this episode! OMG.
Hewlett and Nykle brought us cookies while they were DRESSED IN THOSE SUITS!
Picardo was filming some of these scenes while I was walking around the Daedalus!