Just wanted to say that it's been a pleasure reading these commentaries all season. Even though my list of good episodes is almost entirely different than yours--the overlap being Doppelganger and kinda-sorta Tabula Rasa--I think your critiques are excellent and pretty damned entertaining, in a laugh-through-the-tears kidna way
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The FATE OF THE UNIVERSE wasn't enough motivation for him, show?
Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of
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It is sad how little of the importance of John's absence had to do with any distinctive traits of John himself, isn't it? Nothing besides Ronon's loyalty, really, right?
Actually, you might argue that Ronon's private army did more to hobble Michael temporarily than anyone else, ergo had John been around to keep commanding his loyalty within the increasingly compromised power structure of Atlantis, the galaxy would've been *worse* off. In terms of actual effect, I don't think it ultimately mattered in the long run, but frankly for me personally, given that Ronon and the men (they were all men, didja notice? I bet you did!) who fought with him are the only examples this season of Pegasus natives having any direct agency over their own fate, so if it's a matter of having that or having Sheppard.... What an interesting choice for the show to set up, you know?
[ETA: more like "caused," no?]Well, there is that. *g* But one thing I've said since the beginning is that I like the *concept* of an arc where all these things they do because
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given that Ronon and the men (they were all men, didja notice? I bet you did!)
Actually, Caroline is right-- there were quite a few prominently placed women in the training sequence, and I thought that was really neat!
(Of course, then in the scene with Todd, Ronon says "Get the men back to the gate" because, of course, they can't co-ordinate their actual dialogue with what they just showed us one minute ago. Lazy, lazy writing.)
I think my love of SGA plummeted as my respect for BSG grew. :) I keep wanting SGA to be as good as Farscape and BSG but it never hits those notes. (though to be fair I thought season 1 knocked it out of the ballpark)
I love your commentaries. :) I kind of de-invested in teh show sometime around season 3 so that's helping my enjoyment a lot. but really I kind of miss season 1 type storytelling a lot.
Yeah, I miss that part where they were sort of explorers. We don't see a lot of that anymore, except when they're specifically looking for usable gear/weaponry/staples. I almost kind of cried at the beginning of "The Ark" (not a bad episode overall, but) when everyone was trying to get Rodney to quit poking around the new type of space station. God, Rodney! What a waste of time! And then Sheppard actually says "It's not our job to satisfy your curiosity," which, IT ACTUALLY SO IS, or it used to be. Gah!
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Well, that's the crux of it. After Atlantis's combined monkeying around with Replicator programming and Wraith DNA has culminated in the complete collapse of the Pegasus Galaxy -- here in the season finale, I wanted someone to step up just a little bit, and no one did -- except maybe Sam, which is poignant because it wasn't even under her watch that all this shit went down in the first place. And then to find out in Rodney's case that it wasn't because there was nothing he could do, but because the things he could do were simply too much work until there was a chance to reunite with his dead wife in it for him....
Look, I get that very few of us devote our whole lives and every waking moment to righting the wrongs of the world; we're all "selfish" in that sense, barring a very few special people. But on the other hand, most of us didn't personally cause those wrongs to begin with. It really makes Rodney look like a special kind of asshole that for the whole rest of ( ... )
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Actually, you might argue that Ronon's private army did more to hobble Michael temporarily than anyone else, ergo had John been around to keep commanding his loyalty within the increasingly compromised power structure of Atlantis, the galaxy would've been *worse* off. In terms of actual effect, I don't think it ultimately mattered in the long run, but frankly for me personally, given that Ronon and the men (they were all men, didja notice? I bet you did!) who fought with him are the only examples this season of Pegasus natives having any direct agency over their own fate, so if it's a matter of having that or having Sheppard.... What an interesting choice for the show to set up, you know?
[ETA: more like "caused," no?]Well, there is that. *g* But one thing I've said since the beginning is that I like the *concept* of an arc where all these things they do because ( ... )
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given that Ronon and the men (they were all men, didja notice? I bet you did!)
Actually, Caroline is right-- there were quite a few prominently placed women in the training sequence, and I thought that was really neat!
(Of course, then in the scene with Todd, Ronon says "Get the men back to the gate" because, of course, they can't co-ordinate their actual dialogue with what they just showed us one minute ago. Lazy, lazy writing.)
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I don't think you're asking for too much. :)
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