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SGA 5x04
I'm starting to really wonder if my "meh" reaction to Seed really did have a lot to do with just being stressed-out and unhappy, because the rest of this season is totally knocking it out of the park. We're now four-for-four with strong team episodes, in which everyone gets something to do, the characters get to pair off with their teammates (YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN) in all kinds of interesting ways, and stuff blows up! With extra bonus feelings and teamy squishiness!
The most squeak-and-flail moments in the episode:
- RODNEY AND BABY. (And John: "There are FEELINGS happening here!" *flees*) As adorable as the introductory scene was -- yes, I'm SO easy; stick Rodney and John in a room and let them snark at each other, and I roll right over like a fangirl puppy -- I felt sad for Rodney, not getting to hold Teyla's baby. And then ... BABY!
- Rodney and Teyla! Doing technical stuff! Together! I had so much love for techie-Teyla in this episode that I could EXPLODE.
- Speaking of explosions, John and Ronon blowing stuff up! Ronon and his railguns. Awww. And John fanboying himself! (Much as Rodney was doing earlier with his alt-self's science.) Oh, DORKS.
- Ghost ship! I love derelict ships and abandoned space stations/top-secret facilities of all sorts. I mentioned I'm an easy sell for this stuff, right?
Extra bonus love for the team running the whole ship by themselves. Which, well, logistically, I tried not to think about too hard, really. But the whole theme of the team stranded, alone, forced to rely on themselves and each other, having to improvise and figure things out in a hurry -- that's really the core of what I love most about Atlantis, right there.
And so far, the season is four-for-four with delivering teamy aftermath scenes in the infirmary, too! DID I MENTION HOW EASY I AM? Every single episode, someone's been hurt and the episode wraps up with the characters, in different combinations, having a team moment around the bedside of the hurt one. I don't know whether to be thrilled or slightly worried, because this is pretty much what started burning me out on Supernatural -- it was fun for a while, and then it was just too much. Not that I'm complaining in the meantime, though.
The most squeak-and-flail moments in the episode:
- RODNEY AND BABY. (And John: "There are FEELINGS happening here!" *flees*) As adorable as the introductory scene was -- yes, I'm SO easy; stick Rodney and John in a room and let them snark at each other, and I roll right over like a fangirl puppy -- I felt sad for Rodney, not getting to hold Teyla's baby. And then ... BABY!
- Rodney and Teyla! Doing technical stuff! Together! I had so much love for techie-Teyla in this episode that I could EXPLODE.
- Speaking of explosions, John and Ronon blowing stuff up! Ronon and his railguns. Awww. And John fanboying himself! (Much as Rodney was doing earlier with his alt-self's science.) Oh, DORKS.
- Ghost ship! I love derelict ships and abandoned space stations/top-secret facilities of all sorts. I mentioned I'm an easy sell for this stuff, right?
Extra bonus love for the team running the whole ship by themselves. Which, well, logistically, I tried not to think about too hard, really. But the whole theme of the team stranded, alone, forced to rely on themselves and each other, having to improvise and figure things out in a hurry -- that's really the core of what I love most about Atlantis, right there.
And so far, the season is four-for-four with delivering teamy aftermath scenes in the infirmary, too! DID I MENTION HOW EASY I AM? Every single episode, someone's been hurt and the episode wraps up with the characters, in different combinations, having a team moment around the bedside of the hurt one. I don't know whether to be thrilled or slightly worried, because this is pretty much what started burning me out on Supernatural -- it was fun for a while, and then it was just too much. Not that I'm complaining in the meantime, though.
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About retaining it - heh. When I started watching SGA last year, I made a list of the episode titles I'd seen in my journal. (Clarifying: paper journal! Which is where I was organizing all of my thesis stuff, too.) Then I thought a lot about which episodes I liked best, and why. And then I got a hold of a list of writers, and matched them to the episodes. And then I organized another list of episodes, this one by writer, and I kept adding to it as I watched more of the show.
Um. I can't really explain this behavior except that I was right in the middle of thesis writing, and organizing lists and looking at who had written what seemed like a sane thing to do at the time. *g* But that laid the groundwork for my opinions on the writers, and since then I've been able to memorize episodes by title & writer, in most cases!
(The lists were good, though! They told me that the people who'd written "Sanctuary" were never allowed to write anything else ever again, which increased my faith in the staff writers. XD)
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I can recognize good writing, certainly. But as far as fannish love -- that's a whole separate thing for me, I think. And it's totally subjective. In fact, I think the things I love most as a fan can't be well written (well, can't be *that* well written) because the plot tropes I love the most just aren't really good writing choices. XD
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And Gero wrote Tao and M&MM and Miller's Crossing, soooooo~. Yes. There's a lot of Rodney, but there's also a lot of adorable, adorable team in his eps. He likes downtime! He likes writing snark and cute interactions! He's also usually the one to write season finales and premiers. (For example The Siege was his, as was were Adrift and TLM and Search & Rescue. The man can do epic, with lots of team on top. ♥)
*picks Gero-ep icon for comment*
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(And Mullie wrote TLM, and also Siege 2...)
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Always eat breakfast before trying to make a point!!
...so embarrassed now. orz
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Also wanted to share in the Cooper love (I've loved Cooper since SG-1, he's one of the very first writers I ever started watching for, because I loved his Daniel so) and the Wright love (Wright looooves the physical h/c. He did "38 Minutes," my favorite Sheppard-whump by far. He also wrote SG-1's "Serpent's Lair", with the first Jack-Daniel hug, which gives me...hope...for certain eps-to-come...)
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Man, Kindler also did "Trinity"... Too bad he's vanished.
Didn't Wright also write SG-1's "Abyss"? Or was that Cooper, or someone else? (Both Wright & Cooper are SO about the team love and the bonds the character share, seeing their names in the credits does make me squee!)
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