SGA - Tabula Rasa
Not to sound like an overexcited fangirl or anything but OMG I FREAKING LOVE THIS EPISODE!!!eleventyone11!
I don't think there's anything I didn't like about it.
First of all, after this stupid post that I made, it was fantastic to see Rodney and Teyla working together. I thought it couldn't get better than Rodney tied to a chair with a picture of Teyla saying "This is Teyla. Find her." I loved that so much. Please tptb, give us more of this quality.
And um, I loved the whole way it was filmed. I don't exactly know what that effect was called each time we came back to the present, but it was very well done and extremely fitting.
Things I liked, because I can never make a coherent review because I like lists:
1. Teyla. They should really write her more like this. By god, it took her like, 3 seconds to decide Lorne had lost it and the next second, soldiers were flying through the air. I less-than-three her so much!
2. Teyla. She was technobabbling at one point. It's always a treat to see a non-scientist do that. And man, she knows pi. Where does she get all the free time to learn all this stuff? *jealous* Also I love David Hewlett for the way he recited the numbers of pi. How much time did he spend practicing that part?
3. The Pegasus natives bonding thing when she and Ronon twigged on to the fact that they were immune to the disease. Yes, Teyla and Ronon are from another galaxy. That means they have had significantly different childhoods and life experiences than the rest of the Expedition. Thank you a thousand times for acknowledging that, writers.
4. Lorne and his team of soldiers. I am not coherent right now but the image of them roaming the corridors being stalked by a metal-rod wielding Zelenka is several kinds of awesome. So dedicated to the job, but having lost it in small and significant ways.
5. The fact that we could see that Atlantis has more than 3 technicians in addition to the main team. There were people everywhere and I loved it. Also, plucky female nurse from Sunday was there. I was a little afraid she was going to buy the farm but it seems she's safe. And Rodney's quest to find Teyla and him grouping with Sam and Zelenka to search just underlined how effing big Atlantis is when communications are down and nobody knows how to use an LSD.
6. Every single scene with John and Ronon together. OMG, who wrote this episode? Handcuff them to their desk and never let them go until they've churned out twenty more eps of this quality.
7. Ronon was written so effing well here. We were all in an advanced state of ROFLMAO when he just stunned John for slowing him down. He was direct, slightly impatient, focussed on the job at hand and such a soft-hearted guy at the bottom of it all. His appeal to John to remember their friendship was a thing made of good... things. Still, "nice try". Very in character for John and reassuring to know that he isn't quite gullible enough to give up his gun.
8. The entire story was made of win. Yes, I had to resort to an internetism to describe my feelings for this episode because I loved it so much.
Was that someone's (and by "someone's" I mean "John's") golf club that Zelenka was wielding in the hallways? You just know there will be a lot of fallout from this little brush with Pegasus childhood diseases, what with memory erased people trying to use computers and stuff.
Nitpicks:
1. Singular: bacterium; plural: bacteria. Doctor, learn your plural forms and be grateful it's only english you're trying to speak properly. /grouchy
2. Atlantis has a relatively small population but is at significant risk of medical problems of all kinds. What happened to the other doctors? Why did this episode give me the impression Dr. Keller was the only one around?
I don't think there's anything I didn't like about it.
First of all, after this stupid post that I made, it was fantastic to see Rodney and Teyla working together. I thought it couldn't get better than Rodney tied to a chair with a picture of Teyla saying "This is Teyla. Find her." I loved that so much. Please tptb, give us more of this quality.
And um, I loved the whole way it was filmed. I don't exactly know what that effect was called each time we came back to the present, but it was very well done and extremely fitting.
Things I liked, because I can never make a coherent review because I like lists:
1. Teyla. They should really write her more like this. By god, it took her like, 3 seconds to decide Lorne had lost it and the next second, soldiers were flying through the air. I less-than-three her so much!
2. Teyla. She was technobabbling at one point. It's always a treat to see a non-scientist do that. And man, she knows pi. Where does she get all the free time to learn all this stuff? *jealous* Also I love David Hewlett for the way he recited the numbers of pi. How much time did he spend practicing that part?
3. The Pegasus natives bonding thing when she and Ronon twigged on to the fact that they were immune to the disease. Yes, Teyla and Ronon are from another galaxy. That means they have had significantly different childhoods and life experiences than the rest of the Expedition. Thank you a thousand times for acknowledging that, writers.
4. Lorne and his team of soldiers. I am not coherent right now but the image of them roaming the corridors being stalked by a metal-rod wielding Zelenka is several kinds of awesome. So dedicated to the job, but having lost it in small and significant ways.
5. The fact that we could see that Atlantis has more than 3 technicians in addition to the main team. There were people everywhere and I loved it. Also, plucky female nurse from Sunday was there. I was a little afraid she was going to buy the farm but it seems she's safe. And Rodney's quest to find Teyla and him grouping with Sam and Zelenka to search just underlined how effing big Atlantis is when communications are down and nobody knows how to use an LSD.
6. Every single scene with John and Ronon together. OMG, who wrote this episode? Handcuff them to their desk and never let them go until they've churned out twenty more eps of this quality.
7. Ronon was written so effing well here. We were all in an advanced state of ROFLMAO when he just stunned John for slowing him down. He was direct, slightly impatient, focussed on the job at hand and such a soft-hearted guy at the bottom of it all. His appeal to John to remember their friendship was a thing made of good... things. Still, "nice try". Very in character for John and reassuring to know that he isn't quite gullible enough to give up his gun.
8. The entire story was made of win. Yes, I had to resort to an internetism to describe my feelings for this episode because I loved it so much.
Was that someone's (and by "someone's" I mean "John's") golf club that Zelenka was wielding in the hallways? You just know there will be a lot of fallout from this little brush with Pegasus childhood diseases, what with memory erased people trying to use computers and stuff.
Nitpicks:
1. Singular: bacterium; plural: bacteria. Doctor, learn your plural forms and be grateful it's only english you're trying to speak properly. /grouchy
2. Atlantis has a relatively small population but is at significant risk of medical problems of all kinds. What happened to the other doctors? Why did this episode give me the impression Dr. Keller was the only one around?