SG-1 and Atlantis
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icepixieI tried my best, but each of these sections has spoilers for the other, 'cause I'm comparative like that.
Lockdown
Random observations:
- Jack, you're so mean!
- Okay, so Jack's stressed and that's why he's mean. Love that he uses SG-1 as group therapy. Also love that they're revisiting the Russian alliance, at least briefly.
- Sam's hair this season is such an improvement over last season's weedwhacked look. She's so puuuurty. And she looks more and more like Rebecca Cole, which amuses me to no end. [/Surprise By Design geeking]
- Hooray for Teal'c and his apartment! I so wanna see this housewarming party. Does he have a special display area for his hat collection, I wonder?
- So the new doctor's a Janet clone. Sort of. If you aren't paying too much attention, she sort of looks like Teryl. But she's not, and that's sad. :(
- Oooooh, that's gotta hurt. Sucks to be you, Daniel.
- Hee, the CDW commercial about wormholes is so perfectly perfect when it airs during Stargate.
- "Who shot me?" Um, well, you see...
- Bwah! It's Anubis! They're never gonna kill that bastard, are they?
- "Freaky supercosmic powers." Hee.
- Um...whoops. Yeah, we're professional. Ignore the black floaty thingy in the corner that's running around the base and could take over the universe if it escapes. Yeah.
- Okay, in the real world, Jack would last about two days as a general after pulling that stunt. But this is Stargate's alternate universe, so it's okay. ;)
- Aw, crap, it's Entity all over again. That must've brought back some bad memories for Jack.
- Did anyone else's cable company keep cutting out and muting randomly throughout the entire episode? It muted the entire last minute or so for me. Anything happen besides Anubis-in-Russian-guy getting sent to the ice world? And, um, can't he gate to wherever he wanted to go originally from there and get his force shield and build up his army again? Did we just get ourselves back into essentially the same mess we recently got out of?
Hide and Seek
So. Okay, it was still way better than Joe Reality Show Five Million and Three, but there was a noticible, if not huge, drop in quality from the pilot. I think it was all due to those damn contraction-impaired kids. (I have issues when characters don't use contractions. It sounds all stiff and formal and annoys the hell out of me.) And, dude, you guys don't really know that that was a nice, godfearing black cloud o' nastiness you just sent through the gate, do you? I mean, it could've been, well, anything. Well, not Anubis, 'cause SG-1 was dealing with him, but anything else. And you let it go? I know, I know, it was going to kill you, yeah, yeah, whatever, but do you have any idea what you just let loose into the universe at large? Hmmm?
Anyway. Random observations:
- This is going to be the most quoteable show EVER. Hee. Beckett and McKay should take their comedy routine on the road. McKay may turn out to be a tolerable little twerp after all (I had serious doubts when I first heard about the casting). Much love for that opening scene between them. And, dude. Slash. Yes. Not particularly serious slash, but funny, we're-putting-this-in-to-see-who-gets-it-and-we'll-all-have-a-good-laugh slash. Heh.
- Atlantis is still oh so pretty. I want posters, dammit.
- "C'mon, hit me." / "Notice that he didn't hesitate..."
- "That wasn't the first thing we tried."
"I shot him. ...In the leg!" *snort!* Weir is so gonna be playing base mommy to everyone, but particularly those two.
- Heh, McKay might end up being the most amusing character on the show. Although I hope they don't keep him quite this over the top all the time, or it could get annoying after a season or two. But for now, I'm cracking up.
- The credits are AWESOME! Lovelovelove the theme! OMG, I want to have whoever was responsible for that's babies. (Well, not really, 'cause again with the annoying kids, but you know what I mean.)
- Hee, they're making up nicknames for McKay. Please let this be a running gag.
- "We're very cautious intergalactic explorers." See, told ya it was quoteable.
- *snerk* at the culture clash going on during Sheppard's storytime. *files away "likes football" and "is good with kids" for future fic reference* Dude, no wonder he didn't like Jack. They're completely opposed on what sport is best. (And I really need to stop using "dude" so much.)
- Bwah! I heart Weir. "And you didn't invite me?" Hee, W/S UST! Excellent! Um, mostly because Torri Higginson seems to turn just about everything she says into a flirtatious remark, but still. Yaaaaay UST! Although, um, how the hell did they get a video tape to play in that city? Did two other people work together to bring a TV and VCR (or I guess it was actually a projection screen?) as their personal items? How would they get naquadah-powered electricity to work with those things--not to mention the laptops--anyway? I doubt Atlantis has standard 120v electrical outlets. Not to mention if someone from another continent brought something electrical; you'd have to have adaptors, and it'd be a big mess. How are they running all those things, anyway?
- So they only got one personal item, eh? Hmmm, this opens all kinds of fic possibilities...
- Ooooh, what book was Sheppard reading? And hey, wasn't his personal item the football tape? Hmmm...
- Cool, Weir speaks Ancient.
- Shades of the Re'tu episode of SG-1 with all the running around in the dark pointing guns at shadows.
- The stairs in the gateroom--do they remind anyone else of the stairs in the Brady Bunch family home? That's been bothering me since last week
- Bwah, the laptops are monogrammed with the Atlantis logo!
- Heheheh, the mist is a goooood thing. [/Farscape reference]
- I really wish Torri would settle on an accent. Even if it's quasi-British, I really don't care at this point.
I sort of wish that SG-1 and Atlantis didn't air on the same night. It's almost too much of a good thing, and it leads to comparing the plots of them in ways they probably weren't meant to be compared. But it is sort of nice to have two hours of Stargatey goodness instead of just one.
Lockdown
Random observations:
- Jack, you're so mean!
- Okay, so Jack's stressed and that's why he's mean. Love that he uses SG-1 as group therapy. Also love that they're revisiting the Russian alliance, at least briefly.
- Sam's hair this season is such an improvement over last season's weedwhacked look. She's so puuuurty. And she looks more and more like Rebecca Cole, which amuses me to no end. [/Surprise By Design geeking]
- Hooray for Teal'c and his apartment! I so wanna see this housewarming party. Does he have a special display area for his hat collection, I wonder?
- So the new doctor's a Janet clone. Sort of. If you aren't paying too much attention, she sort of looks like Teryl. But she's not, and that's sad. :(
- Oooooh, that's gotta hurt. Sucks to be you, Daniel.
- Hee, the CDW commercial about wormholes is so perfectly perfect when it airs during Stargate.
- "Who shot me?" Um, well, you see...
- Bwah! It's Anubis! They're never gonna kill that bastard, are they?
- "Freaky supercosmic powers." Hee.
- Um...whoops. Yeah, we're professional. Ignore the black floaty thingy in the corner that's running around the base and could take over the universe if it escapes. Yeah.
- Okay, in the real world, Jack would last about two days as a general after pulling that stunt. But this is Stargate's alternate universe, so it's okay. ;)
- Aw, crap, it's Entity all over again. That must've brought back some bad memories for Jack.
- Did anyone else's cable company keep cutting out and muting randomly throughout the entire episode? It muted the entire last minute or so for me. Anything happen besides Anubis-in-Russian-guy getting sent to the ice world? And, um, can't he gate to wherever he wanted to go originally from there and get his force shield and build up his army again? Did we just get ourselves back into essentially the same mess we recently got out of?
Hide and Seek
So. Okay, it was still way better than Joe Reality Show Five Million and Three, but there was a noticible, if not huge, drop in quality from the pilot. I think it was all due to those damn contraction-impaired kids. (I have issues when characters don't use contractions. It sounds all stiff and formal and annoys the hell out of me.) And, dude, you guys don't really know that that was a nice, godfearing black cloud o' nastiness you just sent through the gate, do you? I mean, it could've been, well, anything. Well, not Anubis, 'cause SG-1 was dealing with him, but anything else. And you let it go? I know, I know, it was going to kill you, yeah, yeah, whatever, but do you have any idea what you just let loose into the universe at large? Hmmm?
Anyway. Random observations:
- This is going to be the most quoteable show EVER. Hee. Beckett and McKay should take their comedy routine on the road. McKay may turn out to be a tolerable little twerp after all (I had serious doubts when I first heard about the casting). Much love for that opening scene between them. And, dude. Slash. Yes. Not particularly serious slash, but funny, we're-putting-this-in-to-see-who-gets-it-and-we'll-all-have-a-good-laugh slash. Heh.
- Atlantis is still oh so pretty. I want posters, dammit.
- "C'mon, hit me." / "Notice that he didn't hesitate..."
- "That wasn't the first thing we tried."
"I shot him. ...In the leg!" *snort!* Weir is so gonna be playing base mommy to everyone, but particularly those two.
- Heh, McKay might end up being the most amusing character on the show. Although I hope they don't keep him quite this over the top all the time, or it could get annoying after a season or two. But for now, I'm cracking up.
- The credits are AWESOME! Lovelovelove the theme! OMG, I want to have whoever was responsible for that's babies. (Well, not really, 'cause again with the annoying kids, but you know what I mean.)
- Hee, they're making up nicknames for McKay. Please let this be a running gag.
- "We're very cautious intergalactic explorers." See, told ya it was quoteable.
- *snerk* at the culture clash going on during Sheppard's storytime. *files away "likes football" and "is good with kids" for future fic reference* Dude, no wonder he didn't like Jack. They're completely opposed on what sport is best. (And I really need to stop using "dude" so much.)
- Bwah! I heart Weir. "And you didn't invite me?" Hee, W/S UST! Excellent! Um, mostly because Torri Higginson seems to turn just about everything she says into a flirtatious remark, but still. Yaaaaay UST! Although, um, how the hell did they get a video tape to play in that city? Did two other people work together to bring a TV and VCR (or I guess it was actually a projection screen?) as their personal items? How would they get naquadah-powered electricity to work with those things--not to mention the laptops--anyway? I doubt Atlantis has standard 120v electrical outlets. Not to mention if someone from another continent brought something electrical; you'd have to have adaptors, and it'd be a big mess. How are they running all those things, anyway?
- So they only got one personal item, eh? Hmmm, this opens all kinds of fic possibilities...
- Ooooh, what book was Sheppard reading? And hey, wasn't his personal item the football tape? Hmmm...
- Cool, Weir speaks Ancient.
- Shades of the Re'tu episode of SG-1 with all the running around in the dark pointing guns at shadows.
- The stairs in the gateroom--do they remind anyone else of the stairs in the Brady Bunch family home? That's been bothering me since last week
- Bwah, the laptops are monogrammed with the Atlantis logo!
- Heheheh, the mist is a goooood thing. [/Farscape reference]
- I really wish Torri would settle on an accent. Even if it's quasi-British, I really don't care at this point.
I sort of wish that SG-1 and Atlantis didn't air on the same night. It's almost too much of a good thing, and it leads to comparing the plots of them in ways they probably weren't meant to be compared. But it is sort of nice to have two hours of Stargatey goodness instead of just one.
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Date: 2004-07-24 04:16 am (UTC)First viewing of Atlantis, and it's pretty good... something to watch on Friday nights, which is always a plus.
So, I don't have everyone's names down yet... Joe Flan....whatever. HOTTIE!! Yes, I'll be watching for him... and the little twerp is amusing.
The guns expert, I don't understand why anyone would name their kid 'Rainbow Sun' - did he change his name or were his parents especially cruel and wanted him to be tortured as a child?
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Date: 2004-07-24 04:53 am (UTC)First viewing of Atlantis, and it's pretty good... something to watch on Friday nights, which is always a plus.
Psst...the pilot was way better. ;)
So, I don't have everyone's names down yet... Joe Flan....whatever. HOTTIE!! Yes, I'll be watching for him...
OH, yeah. Mmm-hmm. Very easy on the eyes, he is. Character's name is John Sheppard (what is it with naming characters John??!), actor's is Joe Flanigan.
and the little twerp is amusing.
I was so not looking forward to seeing more of him after his three SG-1 eps, but he's being written as way funnier, so yay.
The guns expert, I don't understand why anyone would name their kid 'Rainbow Sun' - did he change his name or were his parents especially cruel and wanted him to be tortured as a child?
I think it was his parents, but I'm not sure. If they did name him that, I hope he came up with a nickname real quick, or else he so would've got beaten up on the playground...
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Date: 2004-07-25 05:54 am (UTC)Dangit!! Wish I could remember the days when the few shows I like are on... it's amazing I was able to remember Farscape when it came on... oh wait, took me the whole first season to remember what night it was on. Gah!
and Yes... Sheppard/Flanigan. I knew the last name was Flanigan but I didn't want to show ignorance cause I was thinking it was spelled Flanagan - like the restaurant down here.
And yes... the twerp, uuggghhh!! I just wanted to strangle him the few times he was on SG1... so obnoxious.
Poor Rainbow getting beat up again...
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Date: 2004-07-26 03:59 am (UTC)Hee! Just remember--it's always Friday! Everything Sci-Fi is on Friday! Oh, but the pilot's gonna reair on...um...Tuesday, I think. *checks Skiffy* Yeah, Tuesday at 8 PM Eastern. Watch it! It's soooo good!
and Yes... Sheppard/Flanigan. I knew the last name was Flanigan but I didn't want to show ignorance cause I was thinking it was spelled Flanagan - like the restaurant down here.
:) It took me weeks to figure out that Joe was the actor's name and John was the character's name. Too freaking many Johns in TV-Land...
And yes... the twerp, uuggghhh!! I just wanted to strangle him the few times he was on SG1... so obnoxious.
I wanted Sam to stealthily feed him citrus at some point and make him die. *eg*
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Date: 2004-07-26 04:15 am (UTC)Yay!! I wrote it in really big letter on my mirror... yay for tuesday!!
Too freaking many Johns in TV-Land...
*snerk* For real... I don't know why but last night I had a brain freeze... I kept on thinking that O'Neill's name was John... weird.
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Date: 2004-07-26 05:14 am (UTC)I do that sometimes (more now that there's a John on Atlantis). It's excuseable because a common nickname for Jonathan is Jon/John. ;)
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Date: 2004-07-27 01:12 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-27 02:44 am (UTC)