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ravenNo! No, Stargate, not all is forgiven! How can you be so bad after being so good! It's trying to do the same thing it did last week, with several subplots for each character, with the difference that this time it doesn't work.
Sigh. Last week's was so good, and this was so not. So much wasted potential. I missed the first twenty minutes, so there may be some incredibly redeeming feature there that I missed, but blah. So blah. And so inconsistent with what's come before. To whit:
-Oh, Jack has a girlfriend? Yes, I know he he's had three canon relationships with women. I just don't think this is at all plausible whatsoever.
-And this happened just when Sam's romance was souring? Can we say "convenient?"
-And on that note, since when was Sam cooling off Pete anyway? There's no continuity, people!
-Then there's Daniel. After being fab last week, he gets to slouch around and be pissed off for an hour and a half. I'm not saying the diner wasn't a cool idea and a clever set-up, but blah. Oma Desala was a far better character when she was elusive, and so were the Ancients as a whole.
-Anyone else think Teal'c and Bra'tac were sent on a mission just to get them out the way? And how can they juxtapose the destruction of the galaxy (Daniel's subplot) with the crushing of the rebellion (the Jaffa subplot) with the sort of angsty soap opera that is Sam and Jack? It does not make sense.
-Anubis has an evil bad-guy laugh. I died from blah.
-Jacob! What reason was there to kill him off at all? Just so Sam can get with Jack and they can be together 4eva(!!11eleventy-one!!1)? And if they had to kill him off, where is the fucking continuity? Why not tell us something like this last week? The episodes where Jacob and Selmak first become joined are so nicely done - the arc stretches over a few episodes, it's clever and the story slots nicely into place. This was just bad.
Okay, so there were redeeming features. Two, to be precise. When Daniel comes back as a disembodied voice, that's fun. And the incredibly slashy bit that follows is also fun. (Jack's little squeak - ohmygod-Daniel's-naked - is just darling.) But I have a quibble with that too! Sigh. What actually happened? Surely if Daniel didn't ascend, he'd die? Where'd the middle way come from?
Anyway. The last scene, with Sam and Jack on the lake, was a nice character moment even if it did make me want to shriek a bit at the unwarranted het. But when Daniel and Teal'c arrive too, and calmly set up their chairs and rods, I thought, aaah. That's nice. SG-1 go fishing. An unexpectedly good ending to a really disappointing episode. There should be fic about that trip.
Yes, I'm going to watch it next week. But, really, I'm remembering exactly why I skipped the majority of this season.
And now for fic-writing and other such wonders.
Sigh. Last week's was so good, and this was so not. So much wasted potential. I missed the first twenty minutes, so there may be some incredibly redeeming feature there that I missed, but blah. So blah. And so inconsistent with what's come before. To whit:
-Oh, Jack has a girlfriend? Yes, I know he he's had three canon relationships with women. I just don't think this is at all plausible whatsoever.
-And this happened just when Sam's romance was souring? Can we say "convenient?"
-And on that note, since when was Sam cooling off Pete anyway? There's no continuity, people!
-Then there's Daniel. After being fab last week, he gets to slouch around and be pissed off for an hour and a half. I'm not saying the diner wasn't a cool idea and a clever set-up, but blah. Oma Desala was a far better character when she was elusive, and so were the Ancients as a whole.
-Anyone else think Teal'c and Bra'tac were sent on a mission just to get them out the way? And how can they juxtapose the destruction of the galaxy (Daniel's subplot) with the crushing of the rebellion (the Jaffa subplot) with the sort of angsty soap opera that is Sam and Jack? It does not make sense.
-Anubis has an evil bad-guy laugh. I died from blah.
-Jacob! What reason was there to kill him off at all? Just so Sam can get with Jack and they can be together 4eva(!!11eleventy-one!!1)? And if they had to kill him off, where is the fucking continuity? Why not tell us something like this last week? The episodes where Jacob and Selmak first become joined are so nicely done - the arc stretches over a few episodes, it's clever and the story slots nicely into place. This was just bad.
Okay, so there were redeeming features. Two, to be precise. When Daniel comes back as a disembodied voice, that's fun. And the incredibly slashy bit that follows is also fun. (Jack's little squeak - ohmygod-Daniel's-naked - is just darling.) But I have a quibble with that too! Sigh. What actually happened? Surely if Daniel didn't ascend, he'd die? Where'd the middle way come from?
Anyway. The last scene, with Sam and Jack on the lake, was a nice character moment even if it did make me want to shriek a bit at the unwarranted het. But when Daniel and Teal'c arrive too, and calmly set up their chairs and rods, I thought, aaah. That's nice. SG-1 go fishing. An unexpectedly good ending to a really disappointing episode. There should be fic about that trip.
Yes, I'm going to watch it next week. But, really, I'm remembering exactly why I skipped the majority of this season.
And now for fic-writing and other such wonders.
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on 2005-02-08 10:26 pm (UTC)At least I watched it while going backwards and forwards to the kitchen, so I don't feel like I've lost an hour and a half of my life to no purpose.
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on 2005-02-09 05:04 pm (UTC)Also, wrapped Daniel in the SGC flag. Jack has no respect for symbols, but if he did, boy, what a symbol that would be.
What actually happened? Surely if Daniel didn't ascend, he'd die? Where'd the middle way come from?
He ascended and chose human form while the Ancients weren't looking, so nobody bothered to strip his memories.
I swear I'm going to write a post about the symbolism of the hair. I'm still gathering data, but it's coming, and this made me want to write it all the more. As did Need; I noticed that Teal'c head stays shaven even after several days in prison and no washing facilities (look at Jack and Sam!), which is very interesting.
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on 2005-02-09 05:25 pm (UTC)I'll put the Need stuff into email - suffice it to say you had all the fan-reaction going in, and I had nothing. Not even a two line TV guide synopsis. I just happened to watch it because it was on, and bam. Before I even knew slash existed.
Re: the hair - you might want to hold off on finishing the post on hair symbolism until you've seen a season two ep called Holiday. It's quite soon, and I'm loath to spoil you for it if you don't already know what happens. It's one of those things that has me choking with laughter, so it's all good.
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on 2005-02-09 08:06 pm (UTC)I am, a little, yes. The older I get, the more I seem to see everything in terms of symbolism and metaphor. Partly all the stuff I have to do for English, picking them out, but also there's a whole antropology thing (and really, that's easier to explain in person, with the gestures).
Yeah, I can see that Need with no preperation would be quite a shock. I know if I'd seen it cold, as it were, I'd be seeking out the fan reaction now.
Okay, I'll wait until I've seen Holiday before writing the hair-symbolism post.