Comments | wneleh: SGU 2x15 "Seizure"

wneleh

SGU 2x15 "Seizure"

Apr 08, 2011 06:41

Maybe if I really tried, I could understand the A and B plots as poignant counterpoints, different explorations of the theme of… urg, I really couldn’t figure out the theme, and maybe that was my problem.

( Not my favorite, but there were bits I enjoyed )

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shadowesque13 April 8 2011, 15:35:24 UTC

I don't think we were meant to worry about Rush getting back to reality, because of course he was going to, unless they were going to pull some epic twist on us and give us program!Rush. It was more the realization that sweet little miss brilliant Mandy was really a well-meaning obsessive creeper the entire time and that Eli had to make the choice to give up his own girlfriend to help save Rush. And then Rush loses someone he cares about. Again. One only hopes that he realizes how messed up and unhealthy that relationship actually was and doesn't get hung up on her.

I’m not sure McKay and Rush are ruled by the same universal laws
I love this line; it does make sense when you think about it. I mean, they'd probably hate each other (although Rodney did admit that Rush's work was brilliant, so who knows), but it is true. It's mixing a more lighthearted witty quipper with the ego much much larger than a bus with, well, darker grittier more dramatastic. Not saying they can't exist in the same space, SGA and SGU (and SG1) since we ( ... )

wneleh April 17 2011, 10:59:15 UTC

It was more the realization that sweet little miss brilliant Mandy was really a well-meaning obsessive creeper the entire time and that Eli had to make the choice to give up his own girlfriend to help save Rush. And then Rush loses someone he cares about. Again. One only hopes that he realizes how messed up and unhealthy that relationship actually was and doesn't get hung up on her.

I think where I detached is that ... oh, golly, I don't know how I'd actually react / will react when it comes down to it for myself IRL, but I'm pretty spiritual, and kind of regard death as part of life. And so while it was tragic that Mandy and what's her-name were killed young I didn't have an overwhelming desire to see them brought back.

RE: Mandy - I hang with physicists - she actually scans as comparatively pretty well adjusted, even in her obsessive mode.

RE: Eli/what's-her-name - IDEK.

ariadne83 April 13 2011, 03:35:41 UTC

Especially since Langara was their ally, last time I checked.

wneleh April 17 2011, 11:00:21 UTC

It was just bizarre.