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Obviously there is no way I could possibly have seen SGA 5x01...
You know, last year, when episodes leaked ahead of time, I tried to be the best I could possibly be (aside from not watching them, which would clearly have been beyond my willpower). I didn't post about them, didn't pass around links -- clamped down on all my fannish impulses, squeed quietly by myself and waited for the rest of the world to see them.
This year ... feh. I try to be a good fan, I really do; I buy the episodes on iTunes *and* on DVD; but I've been waiting months and it's not MY fault if they keep tempting me beyond endurance and ... I want to post about it, darn it!
Oh my show, my silly silly space show. I ♥ ♥ ♥ YOU SO MUCH.
Rodney delivered Teyla's baby. RODNEY DELIVERED TEYLA'S BABY. Sadly, I was spoiled for this just last night watching the 30-second preview. Had I only known! But I don't really care, because RODNEY DELIVERED TEYLA'S BABY. You know, if Mallozzi and Gero had come knocking on my door and had said, "Layla, what would you like to see in Season 5 of SGA that hasn't happened yet, no matter how unlikely?" ... aside from "realistic alien cultures", I would probably have said "Rodney delivering Teyla's baby". But I doubt if I'd even have bothered listing it on a Season 5 wishlist, because ... what are the odds of THAT happening?
Pretty good, apparently! And once again, I'm so pleased with how they've handled Teyla's whole pregnancy and, now, childbirth. They've kept her Teyla -- still capable and self-possessed and believably herself, even while delivering a baby on a hiveship. And I liked the childbirth scene -- okay, I did find myself trying really hard not to think about where the placenta got off to, but all in all, for a TV childbirth scene, it was at least passingly realistic and they kept Teyla in-character, which was what I was most worried about. None of my worst fears about the Teyla-baby storyline have come true; it was a (relatively) normal pregnancy and a (relatively) normal baby ("relatively"="by Stargate-verse standards") and they got baby AND mother back safe and sound! SQUEE!
And there was SO MUCH ELSE! All the Ronon-and-John-in-the-ruins stuff, their macho-ness and rough boy-affection and "stay with me!" and most of all their "last" stand ... and John's "McKay's alive?" to Keller with his heart in his eyes (because he hadn't even dared to ask when they rescued him about the fate of anyone in the ruins he cared about -- oh, John!) ... and FORD!!!!!! ... and John running around half-dead trying to rescue Teyla while the rest of his team tries to watch out for him (Rodney seeing right through him -- because his lousy people skills are only lousy with people who aren't John -- and Ronon's "You don't have to do everything yourself!" ♥) ... and Teyla so brave and trying so hard not to go into labor and knowing that her team would come for her ... and naming her baby after John ... and Rodney bringing Teyla the world's dorkiest bouquet of flowers ...
... and, uh, I just realized, in enumerating my squee, that we never saw what happened to Kanaan. Er. What? Last we saw, he was showing the team to safety and then ... nothing. Um. That's, er, kind of a major loose end there. I can't help thinking there should have been another scene that got cut. There were lots and lots of places where it would have been nice to have a little bit more, but nowhere else that was plot-critical in quite that way.
(Also, didn't the name of Teyla's father used to be Tagan?)
*distacts self with squee* JOHN WITH CUDDLY BABY AND DOPEY "I HAVE A BABY" EXPRESSION. DESERVES CAPSLOCK. OMG.
Anyway.
This episode was total FANFIC, all the way. And unabashedly space-opera enough that I really didn't care about nitpicky plot details such as two USAF colonels letting an injured soldier and two mildly injured civilians single-handedly pull off a rescue operation when they have a whole ship full of uninjured, trained soldiers whose job it is to do that stuff. I mean, really, IT MAKES NO SENSE but I'm so easy -- I don't care as long there are awesome space explosions (the hyperdrive window winking out when they shot Michael's ship made me gasp! I love f/x that surprise me) and John being self-sacrificing and Rodney delivering a baby and TEAMY TEAM all over the place. And cute baby! Baby with Rodney! And baby with John! Why does guy+cute baby never get old? The only thing we didn't really get was Ronon+cute baby, but he got to carry Teyla+cute baby around for awhile, so I guess it all evens out.
This year ... feh. I try to be a good fan, I really do; I buy the episodes on iTunes *and* on DVD; but I've been waiting months and it's not MY fault if they keep tempting me beyond endurance and ... I want to post about it, darn it!
Oh my show, my silly silly space show. I ♥ ♥ ♥ YOU SO MUCH.
Rodney delivered Teyla's baby. RODNEY DELIVERED TEYLA'S BABY. Sadly, I was spoiled for this just last night watching the 30-second preview. Had I only known! But I don't really care, because RODNEY DELIVERED TEYLA'S BABY. You know, if Mallozzi and Gero had come knocking on my door and had said, "Layla, what would you like to see in Season 5 of SGA that hasn't happened yet, no matter how unlikely?" ... aside from "realistic alien cultures", I would probably have said "Rodney delivering Teyla's baby". But I doubt if I'd even have bothered listing it on a Season 5 wishlist, because ... what are the odds of THAT happening?
Pretty good, apparently! And once again, I'm so pleased with how they've handled Teyla's whole pregnancy and, now, childbirth. They've kept her Teyla -- still capable and self-possessed and believably herself, even while delivering a baby on a hiveship. And I liked the childbirth scene -- okay, I did find myself trying really hard not to think about where the placenta got off to, but all in all, for a TV childbirth scene, it was at least passingly realistic and they kept Teyla in-character, which was what I was most worried about. None of my worst fears about the Teyla-baby storyline have come true; it was a (relatively) normal pregnancy and a (relatively) normal baby ("relatively"="by Stargate-verse standards") and they got baby AND mother back safe and sound! SQUEE!
And there was SO MUCH ELSE! All the Ronon-and-John-in-the-ruins stuff, their macho-ness and rough boy-affection and "stay with me!" and most of all their "last" stand ... and John's "McKay's alive?" to Keller with his heart in his eyes (because he hadn't even dared to ask when they rescued him about the fate of anyone in the ruins he cared about -- oh, John!) ... and FORD!!!!!! ... and John running around half-dead trying to rescue Teyla while the rest of his team tries to watch out for him (Rodney seeing right through him -- because his lousy people skills are only lousy with people who aren't John -- and Ronon's "You don't have to do everything yourself!" ♥) ... and Teyla so brave and trying so hard not to go into labor and knowing that her team would come for her ... and naming her baby after John ... and Rodney bringing Teyla the world's dorkiest bouquet of flowers ...
... and, uh, I just realized, in enumerating my squee, that we never saw what happened to Kanaan. Er. What? Last we saw, he was showing the team to safety and then ... nothing. Um. That's, er, kind of a major loose end there. I can't help thinking there should have been another scene that got cut. There were lots and lots of places where it would have been nice to have a little bit more, but nowhere else that was plot-critical in quite that way.
(Also, didn't the name of Teyla's father used to be Tagan?)
*distacts self with squee* JOHN WITH CUDDLY BABY AND DOPEY "I HAVE A BABY" EXPRESSION. DESERVES CAPSLOCK. OMG.
Anyway.
This episode was total FANFIC, all the way. And unabashedly space-opera enough that I really didn't care about nitpicky plot details such as two USAF colonels letting an injured soldier and two mildly injured civilians single-handedly pull off a rescue operation when they have a whole ship full of uninjured, trained soldiers whose job it is to do that stuff. I mean, really, IT MAKES NO SENSE but I'm so easy -- I don't care as long there are awesome space explosions (the hyperdrive window winking out when they shot Michael's ship made me gasp! I love f/x that surprise me) and John being self-sacrificing and Rodney delivering a baby and TEAMY TEAM all over the place. And cute baby! Baby with Rodney! And baby with John! Why does guy+cute baby never get old? The only thing we didn't really get was Ronon+cute baby, but he got to carry Teyla+cute baby around for awhile, so I guess it all evens out.
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I just about died when I saw Ford in the opening (what a nice surprise, really), and proceeded to flail incoherently in the dining room where I've set up my laptop.
and Rodney bringing Teyla the world's dorkiest bouquet of flowers
They were so adorkably cute that I wished I was fictional so I could hug him!
JOHN'S "I HAVE A BABY" EXPRESSION ALSO KILLED ME DED. His expression when he walked in and saw his "nephew" for the first time. And Rodney's expression after the hi-larious "OH GOD THIS IS GROSS!" face -- and OMG Ronon's face/gentle "are you okay?" touch and... that was quite a loaded scene, come to think of it.
Ronon's soft squeeze to Teyla's shoulder before he and John went to go blow things up was absolutely adorable, as well as the stern "look after her" to McKay. God, I want more Ronon and Teyla scenes, because those two are so awesome together. And Micheal has Wikipedia and, and...
I think "SQUEE!" is much more succinct. I'm going to have to go watch it again.
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Ford in the opening was a total shock! I had no idea they'd gotten Rainbow to do a scene! It makes me wonder if we might see him again this season. I'm not getting my hopes up, but it would be awesome if it did happen. And I also loved the continuity of Ford's loss continuing to be felt, by Sheppard at least, in the present day.
And Teyla and Ronon -- yes! I really fell for them in season 2, as surrogate-siblings or as a couple (I could happily have gone either way) and I always adore their interaction.
... I think need to go watch again.
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Totally! :-) I discussed the baby-storyline with a friend (long before the ep was leaked) and we both thought that the producers of the show should *use* the fact that all four of the team had babies at home, three brand new ones and one how old - two years now? We considered having actors at hand who'd actually experienced the feelings of becoming a parent not too long ago just too good an opportunity to waste it.
And then the script authors actually went there and *gave* them those scenes! Awesome!
>>Ford in the opening was a total shock! ... And I also loved the continuity of Ford's loss continuing to be felt, by Sheppard at least, in the present day.<<
Hurray for continuity and character development! That was *such* a fanfic-moment!
>>I think need to go watch again.
And again, and again, and again ... ;-)
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All four of them were adorable (I so want Ronon babysitting scenes); they definitely brought the baby love. That scene at the end with Teyla looking at her son, oh... that was just, just... God, I ♥ this show.
And I'm completely with you on the Ronon and Teyla front. They had such an instant connection back in "Runner" that it could have gone in a romanitc direaction and I would have been more than fine with it. They have such fun interactions, one of my favorite being Teyla's half-smirk and not quite eye-roll at the beginning of "Progeny" when Ronon's spinning his gun and trying to look cool.
I'm contemplating a third watching... but I shouldn't wear out the episode before it airs. That would be bad manners.