You've got to FIGHT for your RIGHT to SQUEE.
*fights way up from sea of work, kicking legs furiously*
1) So I got the most amazing art in the mail from Pentapus. Seriously, you have to dig this:
2) Which reminds me, I finally updated my art gallery. There's loads of fun new art, including Ray the angry clown by j-s-cavalcante, a rocking sketch of Queen Teyla by mokarran (painted version here) and anna-luna's Royal Family.
3) Oh, yeah, and--YAY YAY for this week's SGA.
1) I was so proud of the writers, I really was. I was all verklempt that they're finally learning to steal from better writers than themselves, even if their implementation was a little--I mean, yes, they used a Polaroid in Memento, so now the Polaroid camera now joins the VCR in the hall of totally nonsensical outdated technology to bring to another galaxy in 2007. I am now convinced that John brought all his 8 track tapes and Weir was doing paperwork on an IBM selectric. And that Zelenka has a Walkman. Or maybe a Victrola.
Also, for the record, I have MADE JOKES ABOUT POLAROIDS before, so Benched has been Jossed--Teyla now canonically knows what a Polaroid is.
(Also, also, FWIW, the only people I know who still really love Polaroids are a) set dressers and b) people who like to take spontanous erotic pictures. Yes, hello, John Sheppard. I'm so not surprised.)
2) Particularly of the win was the way this ep let Ronon and Teyla roll their eyes and get really frustrated at the team--seriously, I have BEEN WAITING for that for so long, and it was DELICIOUS. If they would only USE these guys like this EVERY WEEK! Teyla and Ronon were so of the win, so essential and necessary!
3) Sorry, did anybody else, after Ronon explained that the cure grew like a weed, and after watching him come back with two huge garbage bags of weed, which they then put through the ventilation system, want the story where all of Atlantis wakes up with the insane, wild munchies, and there's wild fights for powerbars and all the remaining junk food, and they're all shoving each other and stuff, fighting for the last of their pre-packaged sandwiches? Okay, so that was just me, then?
4) I left this as a comment in mecurtin's journal, but seriously, John and Rodney are, in canon, generously, about fourteen years old. This is clearly why we need fanfiction, imo--I mean, half of it is about writing them as actual adults who are--well--old enough to have sex, which neither of them are in canon---partly because the writers are obviously trying to appeal to a target demographic audience that's male and fourteen. Anyway, that's the only answer I have for John and Larrin (she's the sexy goth cheerleader from the public school that John sees at the bus stop on his way home to play video games with his friends) and Rodney and Katie are sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Possibly Rodney will give her his class ring. She'll hide it in her pencil box. Jesus, guys. I have no problem with Katie, I actually like Katie, and I'm fine with them being awkward around each other except--can it be a bit more like "Geeks in Love" and a bit less like Rodney's dating Minnie Mouse? Anyway, the last scenes--the flip from John in the infirmary to Rodney at Katie's bedside was classic sublimation, a literal substitution of one love-object for another. \o/
5) THEY REMEMBERED THAT ATLANTIS IS A CITY. \o/ A BIG CITY!! (Actually, aside from that great shot of the city mid-ep, they were really rocking the sets this episode. Actually, they've rocked the sets all season--I wonder if that plastic gateroom thing was really just a matter of low budgeting and bad lighting. The whole set looks much much more plausible this year, IMO.
*bobs on surface, happily, and --GULP!--is eaten by whale!!!*
1) So I got the most amazing art in the mail from Pentapus. Seriously, you have to dig this:
2) Which reminds me, I finally updated my art gallery. There's loads of fun new art, including Ray the angry clown by j-s-cavalcante, a rocking sketch of Queen Teyla by mokarran (painted version here) and anna-luna's Royal Family.
3) Oh, yeah, and--YAY YAY for this week's SGA.
1) I was so proud of the writers, I really was. I was all verklempt that they're finally learning to steal from better writers than themselves, even if their implementation was a little--I mean, yes, they used a Polaroid in Memento, so now the Polaroid camera now joins the VCR in the hall of totally nonsensical outdated technology to bring to another galaxy in 2007. I am now convinced that John brought all his 8 track tapes and Weir was doing paperwork on an IBM selectric. And that Zelenka has a Walkman. Or maybe a Victrola.
Also, for the record, I have MADE JOKES ABOUT POLAROIDS before, so Benched has been Jossed--Teyla now canonically knows what a Polaroid is.
(Also, also, FWIW, the only people I know who still really love Polaroids are a) set dressers and b) people who like to take spontanous erotic pictures. Yes, hello, John Sheppard. I'm so not surprised.)
2) Particularly of the win was the way this ep let Ronon and Teyla roll their eyes and get really frustrated at the team--seriously, I have BEEN WAITING for that for so long, and it was DELICIOUS. If they would only USE these guys like this EVERY WEEK! Teyla and Ronon were so of the win, so essential and necessary!
3) Sorry, did anybody else, after Ronon explained that the cure grew like a weed, and after watching him come back with two huge garbage bags of weed, which they then put through the ventilation system, want the story where all of Atlantis wakes up with the insane, wild munchies, and there's wild fights for powerbars and all the remaining junk food, and they're all shoving each other and stuff, fighting for the last of their pre-packaged sandwiches? Okay, so that was just me, then?
4) I left this as a comment in mecurtin's journal, but seriously, John and Rodney are, in canon, generously, about fourteen years old. This is clearly why we need fanfiction, imo--I mean, half of it is about writing them as actual adults who are--well--old enough to have sex, which neither of them are in canon---partly because the writers are obviously trying to appeal to a target demographic audience that's male and fourteen. Anyway, that's the only answer I have for John and Larrin (she's the sexy goth cheerleader from the public school that John sees at the bus stop on his way home to play video games with his friends) and Rodney and Katie are sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Possibly Rodney will give her his class ring. She'll hide it in her pencil box. Jesus, guys. I have no problem with Katie, I actually like Katie, and I'm fine with them being awkward around each other except--can it be a bit more like "Geeks in Love" and a bit less like Rodney's dating Minnie Mouse? Anyway, the last scenes--the flip from John in the infirmary to Rodney at Katie's bedside was classic sublimation, a literal substitution of one love-object for another. \o/
5) THEY REMEMBERED THAT ATLANTIS IS A CITY. \o/ A BIG CITY!! (Actually, aside from that great shot of the city mid-ep, they were really rocking the sets this episode. Actually, they've rocked the sets all season--I wonder if that plastic gateroom thing was really just a matter of low budgeting and bad lighting. The whole set looks much much more plausible this year, IMO.
*bobs on surface, happily, and --GULP!--is eaten by whale!!!*