mid-season finales
STAAAARGATE.....
In a radical departure from last week, I'm going to start with the eye candy and see if there's anything left over at the end.
So, eyecandy:
Sam in Leather:
Wowza. Sam is looking damn fine this season. It must be my inner lesbian finally protesting all these months of male-slash, or something, but I'm definitely appreciating the fineness that is Sam lately. I kind of failed to notice all the plot that was going on in the midst of the Sam-in-bondage-and-leather-yayness, so forgive me if my knowledge of the plot is a little shoddy...
Sam/Daniel in jeans:
They were both looking quite kick-ass and comfy in their tight jeans. I think MS has lost a little weight or something; he's looking rather trim. And did we mention hot? They need to go out in civvies all the time. Together. Twincest is the new blue.
Sam/Daniel in general:
This show really needs to become the Twincestuous Adventures of Sam and Daniel in Denim. No actual quotes or specific moments, just their general comfort with each other. The teasing they do each other about Jack. I think of Sam/Daniel at this point in canon as a sort of agreement they have: yes, Jack is sexy and wonderful and they love him, but they've had enough of the terrible angst and his terrible stupidity at times and they've agreed to pine after him from afar but have hot, hot, hot sex with each other. And eventually they realize that they actually love each other too, and can give each other something Jack never could.
Bling:
The bad guy is played by a sci-fi guest star of doom. The same one who played Fro'tak six seasons ago. Fans have long memories, though, and hearing him badmouth Jaffa was like... pain. So much pain.
Jack:
I love Jack so much. And maybe this is an unpopular fannish opinion, but I think RDA is a good actor. I think that in this episode, he was especially... good. Especially the ending. Just with his intonation and the way he ducked his head and all... he's hating this so much, being behind a desk, and he's going to have to make The Decision one of these days, and he's going to hate himself so much for it. That's really the impending tragedy of this season... too bad they won't actually let it happen.
Jack/Daniel:
Old. Married. Couple.
Daniel: They'll never see it coming.
Jack: That's one of the advantages of a totally insane plan.
Daniel: Now where did I learn that from?
Oh yeah. So much sexy hotness.
Daniel: In retrospect, maybe you should have destroyed the ship after all.
Jack: Yeah. Tough choice.
Plot:
Nope, I think I pretty much summed it up in the eye candy/shippy aspects. Sam. Daniel. Guh. Jack. Aww. Oh! Walter! And Walter's little coffee-drinking friend reminded me so much of Andrew from B:tVS. Anyone else get that? The uber-uke-vibes-of-doom? Daniel is a fucking snarky bitch. Coffee!
End "Endgame."
The Storm
Less eyecandy in this episode, and I'm beginning to have serious problems with McKay's lower lip, but if one watches through the lens of the OTP, one definitely gets... well, high is a word. Embarrasses oneself in front of the yaoi fangirls is another word. Yeah, I'm a big old shippy geek.
Ford, Teyla, Carson
So, the splitting the team begins... I liked that they stuck Ford, Teyla, and Beckett elsewhere, away from the Big Personalities, to see if they had personalities of their own, but obviously they don't. Teyla and Ford as so totally whipped, and Beckett is the best of the lot, probably, but still not much. I wish they could do something other than bitch about whether to go back and help Sheppard, just play cards or something. But whatever.
McKay
Dr. Zelenka from the Czech Republic was kinda cute in a hugely geeky sort of way. And it's good to know McKay is making "friends." :p
Zelenka: You're unpleasant when you're like this, McKay.
McKayL I'm always like this.
Zelenka: My point exactly.
Clarified in my mind a lot of the debates/discussions we've been having over on pegasus_gate about McKay and how smart he is/how smart he thinks he is. I think first of all he does seem to have some sort of knowledge of his limitations, and second, that he is more aware than we realize of how he comes across. Though I definitely think that's something he is learning. Like, right now. As we speak. As part of being on Atlantis.
More McKay thoughts: scientists. Yeah. Not military. No training in being resistant to torture. Off-screen massive McKay torture. McKay breaking. The guilt. The guilt. "I tried not to open my mouth, I tried, but...." McKay, woobie of the fandom, we adore you so much. You don't really need to prove anything. This has just given you over to us entirely.
Sheppard
I must confess I liked Sheppard better here than ever before. There was the instinctive moment of "damn, he's good," with the C4. And that was all with the McKay and the leaning on the comm, and yeah. Sexy teamwork yay! If only I liked Sheppard better, the whole second half would have been one great big squee of teamly joy.
And I think this must bring us to our final points: Weir/McKay, and finally, Weir.
Science Twins, take two:
They are so cute. Science-twins all over again. They're the new S/D, only even better, because there isn't yet any conflicting canon pairing.
The way McKay favors his Elizabeth. Sex. "Elizabeth was complaining about her knee the other day..." *snerk* *mind does not go to gutter* But still, cute. He's got such a cute boy-crush on her. I think I'm going to declare that my Official Interpretation at this point: McKay is pining after the sexy genius CO. Not at all out of character.
And I just love Weir's amused tolerance of McKay. Cuteness.
Lots of cute spending-time together, and lots of... understanding, scientifically, and words left unsaid. And then the hurt/comfort screaming to be written about the torture and the breaking and the poor McKay...
And finally, of course...
Elizabeth Weir:
This is definitely an unpopular fannish opinion, but I'm madly in love with Weir. I think Torri Higginson is gorgeous, and I feel such incredible pity for Weir having to make decisions constantly that she doesn't want to. I'm amazed by how together she keeps herself, and there's so much that's ready to break at any minute, because she has to keep herself together. So I really, really like Weir.
And I lovehatelovehate that the TBC was Weir in jeopardy. I was praying it wouldn't be Sheppard, because if it were I'd just be bored. But now, there's the whole will-they-won't-they? I mean, this isn't the Jossverse, so they really won't kill their second billed in the middle of S1, and there is no indication at all that Atlantis is going to be darker than SG-1, but I'm still worried. Which is a good thing. When I flip the execs off and say "fuckers!" at the TBC, deep inside on a meta level, I'm a happy RE.
But they can't kill Weir! She hasn't told Rodney how she feels about him yet!
I think I'm going to bed. I can hit up stargates.tk and explore friendsfriends' interpretation of the episodes tomorrow.
In a radical departure from last week, I'm going to start with the eye candy and see if there's anything left over at the end.
So, eyecandy:
Sam in Leather:
Wowza. Sam is looking damn fine this season. It must be my inner lesbian finally protesting all these months of male-slash, or something, but I'm definitely appreciating the fineness that is Sam lately. I kind of failed to notice all the plot that was going on in the midst of the Sam-in-bondage-and-leather-yayness, so forgive me if my knowledge of the plot is a little shoddy...
Sam/Daniel in jeans:
They were both looking quite kick-ass and comfy in their tight jeans. I think MS has lost a little weight or something; he's looking rather trim. And did we mention hot? They need to go out in civvies all the time. Together. Twincest is the new blue.
Sam/Daniel in general:
This show really needs to become the Twincestuous Adventures of Sam and Daniel in Denim. No actual quotes or specific moments, just their general comfort with each other. The teasing they do each other about Jack. I think of Sam/Daniel at this point in canon as a sort of agreement they have: yes, Jack is sexy and wonderful and they love him, but they've had enough of the terrible angst and his terrible stupidity at times and they've agreed to pine after him from afar but have hot, hot, hot sex with each other. And eventually they realize that they actually love each other too, and can give each other something Jack never could.
Bling:
The bad guy is played by a sci-fi guest star of doom. The same one who played Fro'tak six seasons ago. Fans have long memories, though, and hearing him badmouth Jaffa was like... pain. So much pain.
Jack:
I love Jack so much. And maybe this is an unpopular fannish opinion, but I think RDA is a good actor. I think that in this episode, he was especially... good. Especially the ending. Just with his intonation and the way he ducked his head and all... he's hating this so much, being behind a desk, and he's going to have to make The Decision one of these days, and he's going to hate himself so much for it. That's really the impending tragedy of this season... too bad they won't actually let it happen.
Jack/Daniel:
Old. Married. Couple.
Daniel: They'll never see it coming.
Jack: That's one of the advantages of a totally insane plan.
Daniel: Now where did I learn that from?
Oh yeah. So much sexy hotness.
Daniel: In retrospect, maybe you should have destroyed the ship after all.
Jack: Yeah. Tough choice.
Plot:
Nope, I think I pretty much summed it up in the eye candy/shippy aspects. Sam. Daniel. Guh. Jack. Aww. Oh! Walter! And Walter's little coffee-drinking friend reminded me so much of Andrew from B:tVS. Anyone else get that? The uber-uke-vibes-of-doom? Daniel is a fucking snarky bitch. Coffee!
End "Endgame."
The Storm
Less eyecandy in this episode, and I'm beginning to have serious problems with McKay's lower lip, but if one watches through the lens of the OTP, one definitely gets... well, high is a word. Embarrasses oneself in front of the yaoi fangirls is another word. Yeah, I'm a big old shippy geek.
Ford, Teyla, Carson
So, the splitting the team begins... I liked that they stuck Ford, Teyla, and Beckett elsewhere, away from the Big Personalities, to see if they had personalities of their own, but obviously they don't. Teyla and Ford as so totally whipped, and Beckett is the best of the lot, probably, but still not much. I wish they could do something other than bitch about whether to go back and help Sheppard, just play cards or something. But whatever.
McKay
Dr. Zelenka from the Czech Republic was kinda cute in a hugely geeky sort of way. And it's good to know McKay is making "friends." :p
Zelenka: You're unpleasant when you're like this, McKay.
McKayL I'm always like this.
Zelenka: My point exactly.
Clarified in my mind a lot of the debates/discussions we've been having over on pegasus_gate about McKay and how smart he is/how smart he thinks he is. I think first of all he does seem to have some sort of knowledge of his limitations, and second, that he is more aware than we realize of how he comes across. Though I definitely think that's something he is learning. Like, right now. As we speak. As part of being on Atlantis.
More McKay thoughts: scientists. Yeah. Not military. No training in being resistant to torture. Off-screen massive McKay torture. McKay breaking. The guilt. The guilt. "I tried not to open my mouth, I tried, but...." McKay, woobie of the fandom, we adore you so much. You don't really need to prove anything. This has just given you over to us entirely.
Sheppard
I must confess I liked Sheppard better here than ever before. There was the instinctive moment of "damn, he's good," with the C4. And that was all with the McKay and the leaning on the comm, and yeah. Sexy teamwork yay! If only I liked Sheppard better, the whole second half would have been one great big squee of teamly joy.
And I think this must bring us to our final points: Weir/McKay, and finally, Weir.
Science Twins, take two:
They are so cute. Science-twins all over again. They're the new S/D, only even better, because there isn't yet any conflicting canon pairing.
The way McKay favors his Elizabeth. Sex. "Elizabeth was complaining about her knee the other day..." *snerk* *mind does not go to gutter* But still, cute. He's got such a cute boy-crush on her. I think I'm going to declare that my Official Interpretation at this point: McKay is pining after the sexy genius CO. Not at all out of character.
And I just love Weir's amused tolerance of McKay. Cuteness.
Lots of cute spending-time together, and lots of... understanding, scientifically, and words left unsaid. And then the hurt/comfort screaming to be written about the torture and the breaking and the poor McKay...
And finally, of course...
Elizabeth Weir:
This is definitely an unpopular fannish opinion, but I'm madly in love with Weir. I think Torri Higginson is gorgeous, and I feel such incredible pity for Weir having to make decisions constantly that she doesn't want to. I'm amazed by how together she keeps herself, and there's so much that's ready to break at any minute, because she has to keep herself together. So I really, really like Weir.
And I lovehatelovehate that the TBC was Weir in jeopardy. I was praying it wouldn't be Sheppard, because if it were I'd just be bored. But now, there's the whole will-they-won't-they? I mean, this isn't the Jossverse, so they really won't kill their second billed in the middle of S1, and there is no indication at all that Atlantis is going to be darker than SG-1, but I'm still worried. Which is a good thing. When I flip the execs off and say "fuckers!" at the TBC, deep inside on a meta level, I'm a happy RE.
But they can't kill Weir! She hasn't told Rodney how she feels about him yet!
I think I'm going to bed. I can hit up stargates.tk and explore friendsfriends' interpretation of the episodes tomorrow.