Sci-Fi Friday!
Jan. 27th, 2006 11:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
icepixieAtlantis: Grace Under Pressure
We're not even going to go into how much bad science was in this one.
...Okay, actually, we will. Um, even a microfissure at that depth does not just mean water seeping in. It means the jumper crushes like an aluminum can in the hands of a drunken frat boy. In fact, a lot of things ought to have meant the jumper getting crushed. I... *drinks more, thinks less*
But I suppose it was mostly made better by three things:
1.) Sam! Even if she is McKay's fantasy and is therefore doing Really Bad Things with him! Amanda Tapping had some great expressions in this one, particularly her response to Rodney's declaration that if she were really from his subconscious, she'd be wearing something more revealing. So the cleavage shown by that horrible pink top wasn't enough for you? Her hair was very pretty, though. I can see why Real!Sam wouldn't have the time to style it like that, but it was nice anyway.
2.) Zelenka! Lots and lots of Zelenka! And he can't swim and hates water! I knew there was a reason I liked this guy.
3.) Sea Monster! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! I hadn't thought about the possibility of a sea monster in Atlantis before, but the moment McKay mentioned it, I was all over the idea. And it looks like the deformed love child of a shark, a manta ray, and a platypus, but hey! Atlantis's very own Nessie!
(...How soon you wanna bet people are gonna write fic focusing on Carson and this?)
All in all, better than last week's. Although I feel like there was an episode earlier this season or perhaps late last season wherein McKay learned the same lesson about trusting other Atlantis people not to let him die. Am I making things up?
BSG
Even after the episode's over, I am still very, VERY confused. Which I suppose was the point, but...buh? The girl? The other girl? The little girl (was that one of Jamie Bamber's kids)? Huh?
- Lee's emo boy act is starting to get old. It wasn't so flagrant as two episodes ago, but...
- In that scene towards the beginning, Adama and Roslin were so cute. Awww, he likes her! Also, yay for Laura being healthy!
- Ah, of course Zarek is in on this whole black market thing. Naturally.
- Yeah, I'd say there is definitely a line, and they have so crossed it. *whimpers*
- You know, you'd think there'd be enough work to do in the fleet for people to, oh, DO some of it instead of sitting around trading on the black market in sketchy clubs on sketchy ships. What happened to that primitive textile-making enterprise mentioned awhile ago? (That was mentioned onscreen, right? I'm not pulling that from fanfic somewhere?)
- Glad to see people finally remembered Billy. Glad to see Dee remembered Billy. (Come on, they're the cutest thing ever after Adama/Roslin!) Really hope that whole Lee/Dee thing never goes anywhere, not the least because the rhyming names would make me have to kill myself.
- Oooooh, Baltar who actually wants political power is dangerous. Whoopsie. Obviously he hasn't forgotten Roslin's letter from last week.
We're not even going to go into how much bad science was in this one.
...Okay, actually, we will. Um, even a microfissure at that depth does not just mean water seeping in. It means the jumper crushes like an aluminum can in the hands of a drunken frat boy. In fact, a lot of things ought to have meant the jumper getting crushed. I... *drinks more, thinks less*
But I suppose it was mostly made better by three things:
1.) Sam! Even if she is McKay's fantasy and is therefore doing Really Bad Things with him! Amanda Tapping had some great expressions in this one, particularly her response to Rodney's declaration that if she were really from his subconscious, she'd be wearing something more revealing. So the cleavage shown by that horrible pink top wasn't enough for you? Her hair was very pretty, though. I can see why Real!Sam wouldn't have the time to style it like that, but it was nice anyway.
2.) Zelenka! Lots and lots of Zelenka! And he can't swim and hates water! I knew there was a reason I liked this guy.
3.) Sea Monster! Yaaaaaaaaaaaay! I hadn't thought about the possibility of a sea monster in Atlantis before, but the moment McKay mentioned it, I was all over the idea. And it looks like the deformed love child of a shark, a manta ray, and a platypus, but hey! Atlantis's very own Nessie!
(...How soon you wanna bet people are gonna write fic focusing on Carson and this?)
All in all, better than last week's. Although I feel like there was an episode earlier this season or perhaps late last season wherein McKay learned the same lesson about trusting other Atlantis people not to let him die. Am I making things up?
BSG
Even after the episode's over, I am still very, VERY confused. Which I suppose was the point, but...buh? The girl? The other girl? The little girl (was that one of Jamie Bamber's kids)? Huh?
- Lee's emo boy act is starting to get old. It wasn't so flagrant as two episodes ago, but...
- In that scene towards the beginning, Adama and Roslin were so cute. Awww, he likes her! Also, yay for Laura being healthy!
- Ah, of course Zarek is in on this whole black market thing. Naturally.
- Yeah, I'd say there is definitely a line, and they have so crossed it. *whimpers*
- You know, you'd think there'd be enough work to do in the fleet for people to, oh, DO some of it instead of sitting around trading on the black market in sketchy clubs on sketchy ships. What happened to that primitive textile-making enterprise mentioned awhile ago? (That was mentioned onscreen, right? I'm not pulling that from fanfic somewhere?)
- Glad to see people finally remembered Billy. Glad to see Dee remembered Billy. (Come on, they're the cutest thing ever after Adama/Roslin!) Really hope that whole Lee/Dee thing never goes anywhere, not the least because the rhyming names would make me have to kill myself.
- Oooooh, Baltar who actually wants political power is dangerous. Whoopsie. Obviously he hasn't forgotten Roslin's letter from last week.