Stargate - Reckoning (ohmygod)

[raven]

amchau, you were right. You were so right.

Reckoning. Ohmygodsofabulous. I couldn't honestly believe how good it was. I didn't watch the first part. Actually, I haven't bothered with a single season eight episode since... Zero Hour, was it called? The one where a giant plant is trying to take over the SGC. Anyway, for the first time in my life ever I actually had to pay attention to the "Previously" montage, and it was sufficiently intriguing for me to keep watching. And oh, my. So good. The good bits:

-Teal'c with hair. That never gets old.

-Sam and Jacob, all the way through, but particularly when they're bickering over the flipped over Ancient inscription. "You blow up one sun, everyone expects you to walk on water." So good.

-A detail - Replicarter puts Daniel in those blue robes from Vix Uban (and this is quite apart from my usual thing about Daniel in robes shutupColleen), which could be said to represent the point in his life where he was the weakest. Clever.

-Sam and Jacob and Ba'al. Ah, wonderful! The snark! Accusations of guessing and posturing as gods! Snark. And Selmak was an inspired addition. "This was not my idea" - that cracked me up.

-The lead-up to the replicators invading Earth. The gate dials in, we all expect it to be the uber cool weapon activating to make everything better again, but no. Effective twist, that.

-The flashback to Full Circle, one of my absolute favourite episodes (and the one that should have been the last, but that's an entry for another time) and what's more, my favourite bit of it. That scene of Daniel-the-Ancient and Anubis-the-Ancient attempting to kick the crap out of each other is my desktop at the moment.

-Siler and Jack. So cool. Jack insisting Siler put him in his will, and his bemusement upon discovering he's already in it. Hee.

-"Gotcha now." Ahahaha, I loved that so much. Daniel's inner spoiled child can hold off replicators on every planet in the galaxy!

-The Ancient weapon. The effects were pristine throughout, but I particularly liked the bit where a huge sweep of replicators turns into Lego. Too funny. And on that note, the montage of Stargates opening was really cohesive and clever. That violently purple planet Daniel hallucinated back in Forever in a Day is a real planet! Yay!

-Daniel's death. Again. But it was starkly presented in the otherwise positive sequence of cool things happening, and well, I liked it.

-The end bit. I did think it was slightly too perceptive to make the connection between the replicators stopping and Daniel, but still. One flaw in a stunning episode.

And it's so stunning, I'm committed to watching all the other episodes in the season now. I know Threads features Daniel and Oma Desala, again, which I am interested in. I always liked ascended!Daniel, particularly in Full Circle but really in all the episodes he appeared in. I would quite like for him to ascend again but stay a member of the main cast, just like I wanted after Meridian, but they're never going to do that, I know. Sigh. Sky are making noises about its being an hour and a half rather than an hour. Is it like that in America too? Anyone know?

And Moebius. I'm wary of the time-travel storyline (oh, come on - been done, and done well, in 1969, and they should leave it there) but I don't know. Might be good. I like the idea of its being another AU episode (yay!) and Rodney's in it, which is even more of the yay.

On the subject of AUs, the subtitle people are apparently channelling PegB. They keep on referring to her as "General Carter." Heh.

This is me officially liking my first and original fandom, and this is good. Stargate sucks me back in again and again, and I just wish it would stay this good all the time.

Comments

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

It is going to be an hour and a half in the US, as well.

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

oh i love your review/recap. and i can't wait to see the episode. what you said about daniel's inner "spoiled" child cracks me up. thank you for posting this. *g*

[the-acrobat.livejournal.com]

I thought you might be interested in this (http://www.livejournal.com/users/thistlerose/301230.html). It's kind of a rec. ;)

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the heads-up. :)

Also, that fic involving Daniel on drugs? Just about done. My brain has been eaten.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Glad you liked it! It's a fab episode.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

*squees* You're so nice to me.

[tafkarfanfic.livejournal.com]

And you're going to email it to me when you're done, right? For beta, naturally, because otherwise I'd have NO interest in such a story. *g*

[jenlev.livejournal.com]

and it's great to have next season to look forward to. *g*

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

Hee! I'm being dragged to Bristol pretty soon, so I'll send it to you late tomorrow night or early Tuesday. :)