SGA 3x11: The Return, Part II
Nov. 21st, 2006 04:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eruthrosSGA! OMG SQUEE.
(Note for the spoiler-phobic: that squee is not episode-related squee. It is "the episode is here! finally! hiatuses sucks! omg!" squee.)
1. Jack! You're still a little too amused by the world, but ... Jack! You kicked ass! So much ass! You figured out the plan and kept it secret! You pardoned everyone just because you could! Elizabeth hugged you and you didn't know what to do with your hands! You asked for Carter! You said that you resisted the mind-probing by closing your eyes and thinking of England! Oh, Jack.
2. Plot = revolves around keeping-plan-from-audience. Despite the fact that this almost never works and the audience says "whatever, where's the real plan?" and "ooh, I bet they're actually..." and so on. Especially when Ronon used the "wrong gun" - clear sign. Plus, I was briefly positive that something was wrong with the episode when they rewound to show us the Real Plan.
3. That was, um, really handy, wasn't it. I mean, the way Jack was handily there to open the hatch, and the way they handily had enough spare weapons crystals for the shield, and the way they handily let the replicators rebuild the control tower so's not to have to do repairs, and the way they handily got pardoned. I mean, they're the Good Guys in this universe, but could it be a little less... obviously manipulated? Could John at least get a scolding? (Obviously not from Jack, because Jack supports John and John's team and ridiculous million-to-one plans.)
4. Something in this episode makes me want to see more of John and Jack together. Hanging out, being snarky, and pretending not to have plans. And Jack would make "am I going to have to fire you?" jokes when John didn't like the right beer, and John would roll his eyes, all, "look, if I'm twelve you're maybe six." And then they would drink beer and sit on a pier at Atlantis and not-talk-about-their-feelings, but say things like "nice sunrise" and "good fishing here?" and mean all sorts of warm fuzzy things like "thanks" and "Atlantis is making me feel home again" and "I know what it's like to work like that with a team" and "I'm glad you made it back, you belong here" and "I can relax for the first time in months; everything I love is a transporter ride away" and it would be cute. In, you know, a joking about fishing way.
Because:
John: "We've got a plan, sir. A good one."
Jack: "Yes, Colonel. I'm sure you do. But in the unlikely event you don't fail miserably, you're fired."
John: "Yes sir, I'm looking forward to that."
5. Rodney's plan didn't work! I was saddened. I mean, he came up with another plan but ... what went wrong with the first plan exactly?
5a. Okay, okay, but Rodney's little "oh not again" when the jumper was stuck underwater? Great! (Also, it means someone on the staff actually has a sense of continuity. At least one guy. Maybe.)
5b. "By impossible I mean NOT POSSIBLE!" Poor Rodney, he's going to have to define "impossible" every time he says it.
5c. Rodney shot Niam and was on top of it and everything. Sweet.
5d. He could have been an actor! Ha.
5e. "Actually, it was a group effort." Rodney gives credit where credit is due.
6. John: "I'll try to run the drones into your least favorite buildings." John: snarky under fire!
6a. "This part of the plan isn't going so well." Meet understatement man! How we have missed him.
7. Not enough Teyla.
7a. Okay, but the shooting? Was good shooting. Two ARGs! Five replicators in two seconds! Go Teyla.
8. Apparently Ronon is along only for the shooting.
8a. Oh, and to actually sound panicked for once: "Sheppard can't keep this up forever." Astonishingly tense.
9. So, okay, overall not the best episode ever, but still fun! Go John and Rodney and Elizabeth and Jack (and thirty seconds of Beckett, Teyla, and Ronon)! We missed them all! (I still miss Teyla, actually.) And with luck we won't have to see the Replicators again!
10. WAIT THIS MEANS WE HAVE ZPMS AGAIN. And Rodney can make the city FLY. If he can fix the "stardrive." FLYING CITY. OMG.
11. PS: I really don't like Landry. Not because of the way he doesn't love our team(s) the way Hammond did, and the way he's an idiot, though that's not fun, but because he's so ... wooden. And melodramatic. It's hard to be both at once; it's like junior-high drama class.
12. PPS: Why do the replicators wear hideous codpieces? And washboards on their chests?
(Note for the spoiler-phobic: that squee is not episode-related squee. It is "the episode is here! finally! hiatuses sucks! omg!" squee.)
1. Jack! You're still a little too amused by the world, but ... Jack! You kicked ass! So much ass! You figured out the plan and kept it secret! You pardoned everyone just because you could! Elizabeth hugged you and you didn't know what to do with your hands! You asked for Carter! You said that you resisted the mind-probing by closing your eyes and thinking of England! Oh, Jack.
2. Plot = revolves around keeping-plan-from-audience. Despite the fact that this almost never works and the audience says "whatever, where's the real plan?" and "ooh, I bet they're actually..." and so on. Especially when Ronon used the "wrong gun" - clear sign. Plus, I was briefly positive that something was wrong with the episode when they rewound to show us the Real Plan.
3. That was, um, really handy, wasn't it. I mean, the way Jack was handily there to open the hatch, and the way they handily had enough spare weapons crystals for the shield, and the way they handily let the replicators rebuild the control tower so's not to have to do repairs, and the way they handily got pardoned. I mean, they're the Good Guys in this universe, but could it be a little less... obviously manipulated? Could John at least get a scolding? (Obviously not from Jack, because Jack supports John and John's team and ridiculous million-to-one plans.)
4. Something in this episode makes me want to see more of John and Jack together. Hanging out, being snarky, and pretending not to have plans. And Jack would make "am I going to have to fire you?" jokes when John didn't like the right beer, and John would roll his eyes, all, "look, if I'm twelve you're maybe six." And then they would drink beer and sit on a pier at Atlantis and not-talk-about-their-feelings, but say things like "nice sunrise" and "good fishing here?" and mean all sorts of warm fuzzy things like "thanks" and "Atlantis is making me feel home again" and "I know what it's like to work like that with a team" and "I'm glad you made it back, you belong here" and "I can relax for the first time in months; everything I love is a transporter ride away" and it would be cute. In, you know, a joking about fishing way.
Because:
John: "We've got a plan, sir. A good one."
Jack: "Yes, Colonel. I'm sure you do. But in the unlikely event you don't fail miserably, you're fired."
John: "Yes sir, I'm looking forward to that."
5. Rodney's plan didn't work! I was saddened. I mean, he came up with another plan but ... what went wrong with the first plan exactly?
5a. Okay, okay, but Rodney's little "oh not again" when the jumper was stuck underwater? Great! (Also, it means someone on the staff actually has a sense of continuity. At least one guy. Maybe.)
5b. "By impossible I mean NOT POSSIBLE!" Poor Rodney, he's going to have to define "impossible" every time he says it.
5c. Rodney shot Niam and was on top of it and everything. Sweet.
5d. He could have been an actor! Ha.
5e. "Actually, it was a group effort." Rodney gives credit where credit is due.
6. John: "I'll try to run the drones into your least favorite buildings." John: snarky under fire!
6a. "This part of the plan isn't going so well." Meet understatement man! How we have missed him.
7. Not enough Teyla.
7a. Okay, but the shooting? Was good shooting. Two ARGs! Five replicators in two seconds! Go Teyla.
8. Apparently Ronon is along only for the shooting.
8a. Oh, and to actually sound panicked for once: "Sheppard can't keep this up forever." Astonishingly tense.
9. So, okay, overall not the best episode ever, but still fun! Go John and Rodney and Elizabeth and Jack (and thirty seconds of Beckett, Teyla, and Ronon)! We missed them all! (I still miss Teyla, actually.) And with luck we won't have to see the Replicators again!
10. WAIT THIS MEANS WE HAVE ZPMS AGAIN. And Rodney can make the city FLY. If he can fix the "stardrive." FLYING CITY. OMG.
11. PS: I really don't like Landry. Not because of the way he doesn't love our team(s) the way Hammond did, and the way he's an idiot, though that's not fun, but because he's so ... wooden. And melodramatic. It's hard to be both at once; it's like junior-high drama class.
12. PPS: Why do the replicators wear hideous codpieces? And washboards on their chests?
