I rather enjoyed the ep for all the various team moments (minus Teyla, as naye referenced above, but I've almost gotten resigned to her being ignored. And she did do the science thing with the medical scanner, and she also is the one who caught that Rodney should have noticed the stars being wrong, which is aww - I'll take my Rodney-Teyla scenes where I can get 'em!) And Rodney + Rodney is adorable squared (and RepliJohn was so guarding the 2 McKays when everyone else was out hiking and chatting, no?)
There were of course grave plotholes, amazingly clunky exposition, and blatant ripping-off of (better) SG-1 episodes, as you mentioned, but, well...it's an M&M episode; I wasn't expecting any better (it's kind of sad that they are the worst writers on the show, discounting a couple one-shots scripts.) There was in fact more cuteness than I was expecting, so overall I came out of it pleased. Also the final scenes of Rodney with Radek and then John are so very touching. And that he thanks Radek, that even in pain he is making the effort, because he's lost so many friends and might be losing more, but he's slowly learning, and oh, Rodney... (SGA is so the Rodney McKay show these days. You won't find me complainin'!)
The only thing that really got me was the completely pointless deaths of the RepliTeam, not just that they were so willing to die, but willing to die for so little reason...why couldn't it have been Sheppard alone piloting that jumper? I'm totally disbelieving that was the real plan, not if the duplicates were one-tenth their real selves. McKay managed to short-circuit the replicator stunners (or whatever those weapons were) (and yes, found a way in 10 minutes, this is Rodney!) and the scene changed just before they jumped the replicators, stole their ship, and went off and fight the good fight on their own terms! Preferably in really snazzy costumes! ...Hey, I ended up fic'ing the SG-1 android team back to life after "Double Jeopardy", because I couldn't take them being gone. A duplicate SGA team, with nanite-superpowers - way too good to pass up! The line for the AU starts here-->
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There were of course grave plotholes, amazingly clunky exposition, and blatant ripping-off of (better) SG-1 episodes, as you mentioned, but, well...it's an M&M episode; I wasn't expecting any better (it's kind of sad that they are the worst writers on the show, discounting a couple one-shots scripts.) There was in fact more cuteness than I was expecting, so overall I came out of it pleased. Also the final scenes of Rodney with Radek and then John are so very touching. And that he thanks Radek, that even in pain he is making the effort, because he's lost so many friends and might be losing more, but he's slowly learning, and oh, Rodney... (SGA is so the Rodney McKay show these days. You won't find me complainin'!)
The only thing that really got me was the completely pointless deaths of the RepliTeam, not just that they were so willing to die, but willing to die for so little reason...why couldn't it have been Sheppard alone piloting that jumper? I'm totally disbelieving that was the real plan, not if the duplicates were one-tenth their real selves. McKay managed to short-circuit the replicator stunners (or whatever those weapons were) (and yes, found a way in 10 minutes, this is Rodney!) and the scene changed just before they jumped the replicators, stole their ship, and went off and fight the good fight on their own terms! Preferably in really snazzy costumes!
...Hey, I ended up fic'ing the SG-1 android team back to life after "Double Jeopardy", because I couldn't take them being gone. A duplicate SGA team, with nanite-superpowers - way too good to pass up! The line for the AU starts here-->