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3x15: The Game (brief)
Okay, I need to go to bed because I have to work in a few hours and I am going to DIE if I don't sleep, but first ...
OMG! I could not stop laughing all through that episode...
I just about DIED when I saw spoilers for it on David Hewlett's blog a few months ago. Of the handful of episodes whose plots I knew ahead of time this year (and aside from the McKay's sister episode, which was THE must-see) this was the one I wanted to see the most.
The reason should be perfectly obvious ...
Sheppard and McKay, competitive! Snarking! SQUEEEE.....
This episode was pretty much everything I was expecting ... except for the fun with Lorne and Zelenka, which totally came out of left field. There weren't really any surprises -- most of the plot twists could be seen coming a mile away (although I didn't anticipate the fake war -- that *was* a surprise, if a kind of hard-to-swallow one). Still! It wasn't the most fantastic episode from a plot perspective, but it delivered everything I was hoping for and more. It was light and fun and filled with one-liners and adorable expressions from the boys (all of them) ... just generally a giant barrel of squee.
And I think it's pretty much canon now that Sheppard and McKay spend all their waking hours together. Playing chess too! The writers have been reading fanfic again, I swear! And wannabe-dictator-Zelenka! I *love* this show!
Gotta sleep now.
Squeeeee!
OMG! I could not stop laughing all through that episode...
I just about DIED when I saw spoilers for it on David Hewlett's blog a few months ago. Of the handful of episodes whose plots I knew ahead of time this year (and aside from the McKay's sister episode, which was THE must-see) this was the one I wanted to see the most.
The reason should be perfectly obvious ...
Sheppard and McKay, competitive! Snarking! SQUEEEE.....
This episode was pretty much everything I was expecting ... except for the fun with Lorne and Zelenka, which totally came out of left field. There weren't really any surprises -- most of the plot twists could be seen coming a mile away (although I didn't anticipate the fake war -- that *was* a surprise, if a kind of hard-to-swallow one). Still! It wasn't the most fantastic episode from a plot perspective, but it delivered everything I was hoping for and more. It was light and fun and filled with one-liners and adorable expressions from the boys (all of them) ... just generally a giant barrel of squee.
And I think it's pretty much canon now that Sheppard and McKay spend all their waking hours together. Playing chess too! The writers have been reading fanfic again, I swear! And wannabe-dictator-Zelenka! I *love* this show!
Gotta sleep now.
Squeeeee!
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"Wartha and Yansin were so intent on yelling at each other that they didn't even notice when Elizabeth sighed loudly, got up, and left the room. Two minutes later, they were gazing up in awed silence at the imposing figure of the Satedan, who stood before them, his arms crossed over his chest and a look of utter displeasure on his face.
"So...?" he asked, and the leaders resumed their screaming match.
Ronon listened for about a minute, his eyes moving from one to the other as he tried to to follow the gist of the argument. Then he shrugged, pulled his gun out of his holster and sent a bolt of energy into the far wall.
"If you don't shut up and start co-operating that-" he gestured at the sizeable crater the gun blast had left the substance of the wall, "-will be happening to your heads. He gazed at Wartha and then Yamsin placidly.
"You wouldn't dare!" Wartha protested.
Ronon smiled. "Wanna try me?"
Half-an-hour later they had an agreement.
Forty-five minutes later Elizabeth was admitted to the infirmary - with a migrane.'
But of course, if he'd been on a planet (as oppased to Atlantis - which os on a planet - but you know what I mean) it would have ended with a hole through the wall of someone's house, and the team running for their lives, with Ronon trying to convince John that he could totally take them if John would just let them stop and fight. Rodney would be shrieking about cave men and Teyla wouldn't be there - hence Ronon taking her place....
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Actually, in all seriousness, they *have* used Ronon that way in the past on the show (as with Kavanagh, for example). The really terrifying thing is the idea of sending him *by himself* to some hapless planet to negotiate. The last time we saw him try to do THAT was in Trinity, which, not coincidentally I believe, was also one of the first times they took him offworld. I don't think they let him do that anymore. :)
He'd probably come back with all kinds of trade concessions ... the first time. The second time, he'd be met by an army. :D