SGA: Reunion quick reaction

[wickedwords]

I thought a lot of the Sam stuff was very awkward, and I ended up having to pause and deep breath for a bit to work my way through those scenes. It squicked me so much, from the moment it's clear that Rodney thinks he's been chosen to lead Atlantis through the 'goodbye' scene between Sam and Teal'c (which really makes the most sense if Teal'c and Sam got together during 'Unending', but I don't remember exactly why I thought it at the time.) and the welcoming speech and the fruit basket--yeah.

I was incredibly stunned to see how deeply Ronon felt about Elizabeth. I mean, in my head, I was a total Elizabeth/Ronnon shipper, but the intensity of his reactions only make sense if that context is there. He's abandoning Sam and everyone else the way they are abandoning Elizabeth. John preaches 'leave no man behind' but then they go ahead and leave Elizabeth back on replicator world. Extreme grief clouds his judgment throughout the episode.

Oh, I did love watching Ronon's eyes roll back into his head whenever Sam talked her technobabble, and I loved that his reaction was different with Rodney. The fact that how Rodney was treated by team Sateada was a clue to their evilness was fun, as the whole point of the set-up was to grab Rodney--and obviously pissed-off insane-knife guy really hated that.

But I still think Teyla should have kicked their butts in the teaser. She would have been cleaning them up off the floor when Ronon walked in, and then mentioned how rude they were to attack her. Of course, that would have stopped the whole show, so I know why it wasn't done, but that doesn't mean I don't think that it was wrong, wrong, wrong.

Shallow ending notes: Rodney looked *great* while John looked stressed; he's obviously having trouble dealing with having a commander who might actually care about that whole 'don't ask, don't tell' thing. (Once he gets used to her, he'll realize that it's not that big a deal, I'm sure.)

Oh, man--Zelenka. He's got good rapport with Sam already, and he's just calmly sliding into the job of going offworld to a wraith infested lab on a rescue mission without even thinking twice about it. How far my cute little scientist has come--and how pragmatic he is at the change in leadership, as long as it's not Rodney. Personally, I wonder what happened in his past--i.e. who in his family suddenly just disappeared and could never be mentioned again--that made him react like that.

I also wonder if maybe Radek finds Ronon drinking heavily on one of the balconies after this, and joins him. Ronon needs a good cuddle.

Comments

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

Given where and when Zelenka grew up, somebody disappearing and not being mentioned again isn't too big of a stretch. It just depends if you think it happened in 1968 or after.

I have yet to watch all of it. Rodney going to Sam's quarters and the fruit basket thing was the last straw. My humiliation squick was hit so hard and so often to that point that I'd already skipped about half of it. I decided the better part of valor was to read people's reactions and be forewarned before trying again.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Man, my embarrassment squick was pressed a lot as well. My husband turned the show off at one of the Rodney/Sam interactions, too, because he couldn't take it. There was so much bad in this on a public humiliation level is made me squirm.

Tell me, did the guy who wrote this ep write any others this season? I know Rob Cooper only did "Doppleganger", as he was working on the movie. Is it too much to hope that Joe M was pulled off onto something else as well?

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

It is my understanding that Joe M wrote this ep. I really hated this episode because of what he did to Rodney. That was just uncalled for.

[wickedwords.livejournal.com]

Oh, man. I just looked up his writer credits in SGA, and he has consistently created some of my least favorite eps, ones that are supposed to have a funny side but the humor falls flat, like in Irresponsible. I was already worrying about Travelers from the promo I saw, and the fact that he wrote it is just icing on the cake.

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah. His sense of humor is about as funny as a knife to the gut is. I'm already planning to read fanfic while Travelers is on so I won't spit at my tv screen.