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naye's screencappy write-up of Adrift -- I meant to do this before and kept forgetting, but I think it's my favorite of the reviews for that episode that I've run across; it's just nice to bask in, when other episodes don't quite stand up to the squeefulness of Adrift. Like, say, this one.
It wasn't bad; it's just that overall, this episode didn't "wow!" me the way the first half did. (Is there some rule that the second half of a two-parter never stands up to the coolness of the first part?) Quite a few of the episode reactions that I'd read mentioned the character dynamic being a bit off -- the characters being tenser and snappier, McKay being gloomier. Watching with that in mind, I can sort of see it, but I think that within the context of the show, tension and fear is a perfectly reasonable explanation; I think John also might still be a little bit ticked at Rodney, especially at the end.
Basically this was a nice middle-of-the-road, action episode. While I wasn't too happy that Teyla was sidelined, again -- I just watched the Rachel Luttrell profile on the S3 DVDs and I'm struck all over again at what a neat person she seems like in real life, which makes me feel bad for her character not getting to do much of anything -- I really did like that they left her in charge of Atlantis, and it made sense to me. One thing that I would have loved to see, though, would be a cut back to Atlantis in the middle of the action on the Replicator homeworld; I know they only had so much time in the episode to do everything, but still, I think that getting to see the second-stringers plus Teyla dealing with some kind of crisis on Atlantis would have gone a long way towards making them feel less marginalized.
Besides that, my other big niggle with the episode was that I wasn't satisisfied by the Apollo showing up to rescue them in the nick of time. I mean, Rodney was halfway to solving the problem, wasn't he? All he needed was another few seconds to get the ZPM online and then they could have jumped back to Atlantis -- maybe to find the Apollo waiting for them there? I don't know ... the perfect-timing, last-minute save just felt way too easy to me.
There were a lot of problems with their plan on the Replicator planet, but isn't that ALWAYS true of their plans? My husband points out that activating the code to turn the Replicators into obsessed fighting machines is about the stupidest thing they could possibly have done. What if the Replicators decide to destroy the Wraith by removing their food source, i.e. humans? What if they kill all the Wraith and then go looking for other things to kill, and other galaxies to kill it in? Lots of fascinating story possibilities, though...
And if they had to take off Elizabeth, I really liked how they did it. She went out heroically, but, like Ford, she's not really gone and there are many interesting possibilities for having to deal with Elizabeth of Borg in the future. And I also liked (and was very surprised) that the show ended with Carter going back to Earth -- thus giving the audience time to deal with Elizabeth being gone and the shake-ups in the city's power structure without throwing a new leader into the mix. So this means Sheppard's still in charge, I guess -- or, more like the Sheppard-McKay duo running the city, since that's how they seemed to implement it the last time. I really want to write fic dealing with it, but I can't really until seeing how they resolve the power vacuum in the next episode (which I'm completely unspoiled for, yay!).
Loved the scene with Teyla packing up Elizabeth's office, and Ronon comforting her ... awwwwww...
Also, I'm made unreasonably happy that my favorite post-First Strike story from last summer, Anchor and Chain, isn't really jossed at all by the events of these two episodes. Seriously, go read it -- it's adorable and can slot right into actual continuity, what with all the moons on their new world.
Trying to write this up before work, so it'll be fairly short. Before I get into it, I just wanted to pimp
naye's screencappy write-up of Adrift -- I meant to do this before and kept forgetting, but I think it's my favorite of the reviews for that episode that I've run across; it's just nice to bask in, when other episodes don't quite stand up to the squeefulness of Adrift. Like, say, this one.It wasn't bad; it's just that overall, this episode didn't "wow!" me the way the first half did. (Is there some rule that the second half of a two-parter never stands up to the coolness of the first part?) Quite a few of the episode reactions that I'd read mentioned the character dynamic being a bit off -- the characters being tenser and snappier, McKay being gloomier. Watching with that in mind, I can sort of see it, but I think that within the context of the show, tension and fear is a perfectly reasonable explanation; I think John also might still be a little bit ticked at Rodney, especially at the end.
Basically this was a nice middle-of-the-road, action episode. While I wasn't too happy that Teyla was sidelined, again -- I just watched the Rachel Luttrell profile on the S3 DVDs and I'm struck all over again at what a neat person she seems like in real life, which makes me feel bad for her character not getting to do much of anything -- I really did like that they left her in charge of Atlantis, and it made sense to me. One thing that I would have loved to see, though, would be a cut back to Atlantis in the middle of the action on the Replicator homeworld; I know they only had so much time in the episode to do everything, but still, I think that getting to see the second-stringers plus Teyla dealing with some kind of crisis on Atlantis would have gone a long way towards making them feel less marginalized.
Besides that, my other big niggle with the episode was that I wasn't satisisfied by the Apollo showing up to rescue them in the nick of time. I mean, Rodney was halfway to solving the problem, wasn't he? All he needed was another few seconds to get the ZPM online and then they could have jumped back to Atlantis -- maybe to find the Apollo waiting for them there? I don't know ... the perfect-timing, last-minute save just felt way too easy to me.
There were a lot of problems with their plan on the Replicator planet, but isn't that ALWAYS true of their plans? My husband points out that activating the code to turn the Replicators into obsessed fighting machines is about the stupidest thing they could possibly have done. What if the Replicators decide to destroy the Wraith by removing their food source, i.e. humans? What if they kill all the Wraith and then go looking for other things to kill, and other galaxies to kill it in? Lots of fascinating story possibilities, though...
And if they had to take off Elizabeth, I really liked how they did it. She went out heroically, but, like Ford, she's not really gone and there are many interesting possibilities for having to deal with Elizabeth of Borg in the future. And I also liked (and was very surprised) that the show ended with Carter going back to Earth -- thus giving the audience time to deal with Elizabeth being gone and the shake-ups in the city's power structure without throwing a new leader into the mix. So this means Sheppard's still in charge, I guess -- or, more like the Sheppard-McKay duo running the city, since that's how they seemed to implement it the last time. I really want to write fic dealing with it, but I can't really until seeing how they resolve the power vacuum in the next episode (which I'm completely unspoiled for, yay!).
Loved the scene with Teyla packing up Elizabeth's office, and Ronon comforting her ... awwwwww...
Also, I'm made unreasonably happy that my favorite post-First Strike story from last summer, Anchor and Chain, isn't really jossed at all by the events of these two episodes. Seriously, go read it -- it's adorable and can slot right into actual continuity, what with all the moons on their new world.