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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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I love techy Teyla. It so works for me that Teyla is going to learn anything and everything she can that will give her people and her team an advantage. And Ronon's more of a doer and banging on the controls just made me laugh.
I really loved that Lorne didn't wait on any confirmation that Team Sheppard was actually on the ghost Daedalus, he just took Radek and went.
All in all, it was such a good adventure, team story. I love, love, loved it!
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I know; I noticed that, too. Like I was commenting at someone else's journal this morning, it's hard for me to believe that they died of starvation - I just can't believe that they'd go down that easily. If worst came to worst, I think they'd abandon the Daedalus, give up all hope of getting back and take the jumper down to the planet. Rodney might have to be dragged away from the ship, but it's hard to believe John wouldn't have made them all leave rather than watching them slowly die. It makes more sense to me that they were killed by something in one of the realities that they came to -- radiation, enemies, something. But, whatever got them, they were all clustered together at the end, and I loved that.
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Which would require, that their jumper was actually still in working order, something we don't know for sure, right?
But yes, I also think they didn't die of starvation, they just don't *look* that way. Dehydration, maybe, or knocked out by something and then frozen to death. John said the place was cold like a meat locker.
Somehow I get the impression, their death came to them on "soft feet", as if they were taken by surprise while unconscious.
But I actually like the fact that we don't know for sure what exactly killed them but still left them looking so uninjured and kind of peaceful, the apparently didn't have to fight violently for their life. Very mysterious.
Ah, stuff to explore in fanfiction... *G*