Stargate Thoughts
Mar. 28th, 2005 07:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielFan heavy SG-1/SGA post. You've been warned. Although Neesha may want to come drool over Ben with me.
Watching SG makes me happy. I'm so glad that I have my SGA tapes here at school with me now. That means I've got stuff to watch! Plus, there are a couple of episodes that I didn't get to see that actually got taped, so yea.
I finally got to see "Hot Zone." Not all of it, because the part before the credits was missing, but almost all. Unfortunately that meant that I missed the game of Prime/Not Prime between McKay and Zelenka and their bating of Ford. Sigh. Oh well. Anyway. Good episode if only for all of the interaction between the scientists. And Ford. I'm particularly in love with, like, all of Zelenka's reaction shots. Or background acting. There's a bit where he's being checked out by the doctors and notices Rodney beginning to wig out and then later when Sheppard mentions Ford and Zelenka's brains frying. He kind of gets a look of "Oh, yeah, right. Brain's gonna explode" all in a couple of seconds.
Best part of all though?
(Abruptly, Hays' rapid heartbeat stops altogether and the monitor emits a single long tone. Carson rushes over to Hays and starts to administer CPR as a medic puts an airbag over Hays' nose and mouth.)
BECKETT (counting chest compressions): One, two, three, four, five. (He stops, and the medic pumps air into Hays' lungs. Carson starts compressions again.) One, two, three, four, five.
McKAY (angrily): Stop! It's not his heart. Just ... (his voice fades into grief) stop.
(Carson and his team stop their work. The medic lifts away the airbag from Hays' face and we see that he too has blood coming out of his mouth and nose. Carson stands up and turns to face Rodney, whose expression is one of resignation combined with fear. A medic turns off Hays' heart monitor. Nearby, members of Rodney's team are clustered together for comfort. One of the women is in tears. Aidan looks at Rodney.)
FORD: How are you feeling?
McKAY: I'm ... I'm ... Listen, I have a sister. We're not close – I don't even know how you'd find her.
FORD: Don't talk like that.
McKAY: She's the only family I really have, so someone should tell her what happened. And, uh, make it sound good, OK? (He allows himself a small smile for a moment.) Tell her I ... I died saving someone ... kids! I died saving kids – a bunch of them. Nelenka ... (Zelenka shrugs at Rodney getting his name wrong again, but says nothing.) I've got some theories on looping the power on the Gate to charge a dummy ZedPM. It probably won't work but-but you should have someone look at it cos it might lead somewhere else.
ZELENKA: We'll look at it together.
McKAY (angry, but also on the verge of tears): Look, you seriously have to stop interrupting my last thoughts. I mean, this is important stuff you need to hear. (He looks round and sees that he has got everybody's attention. Zelenka nods at him to continue.) Now – if you're here for more than a year, I've left some notes on how to roll blackouts to effectively maintain your power requirements and-and, oh, tell everyone that I was, I was inches away from a Theory of Unification but uh, uh, the notes, they were lost when I died saving the ...
ZELENKA: ... kids.
McKAY: Yeah. (He pauses and looks around the room, expecting the ghostly visions to start. He turns around slowly and stares towards the ceiling, but still the ghosts don't come. After a long moment ...) OK. I should be dead now.
(Carson walks over to him.)
BECKETT: You ran into Dumais at the same time?
McKAY: Exactly the same time.
BECKETT: Then, yes, you should be dead.
McKAY (looking around as he realises that he isn't dead): Oh, God! (He looks round at Ford and Zelenka.) I'm still here! (He smiles in disbelieving delight.)
FORD: Yes you are.
ZELENKA: Interesting.
McKAY: "Interesting"?!
BECKETT: Don't take this the wrong way, but ...
ZELENKA: ... why?
BECKETT: Exactly.
McKAY: Well, I don't care. (He turns to Carson and smiles in relief.) I mean, I really don't care!
(Carson smiles and pats him on the arm.)
The final thoughts of McKay were very effective. David Hewlett was fantastic. The man can act. I'm quickly becoming even more of a fangirl. Sigh. Ties in very nicely with the McKay's tape in the later episode, "Letters From Pegasus."
McKAY: Ford, if you cut everything else, just, um, keep this part, OK? Jeannie? This is your brother, Rodney ... obviously! I wanna s-say, um ... I wanna say something. Uh ... family is important. I-I've come to realise that because the people here have become a sort of a ... kind of a surrogate family to me. (He smiles.) Now, I know what you're thinking: I've never really been the poster child for that kind of sentiment but, uh, when ... when one's contemplating ones own demise, one tends to see things more clearly. I really do wish you the best, you know, and I'm sorry we weren't closer. Perhaps, um ... if by chance I make it out of this, perhaps one day we can be, and I would like that. (He gazes at the camera for a moment, then pulls himself together.)
I love Rodney so much.
Which sort of leads me to how I feel about SGA's finale, "The Siege I & II." While watching it I wasn't too upset or too very worried about the outcome of the "To Be Continued..." If the show's going into a second season, which it is, they're not going to blow up Atlantis and Sheppard is not going to die. At least, I'm pretty sure. He's the first billed actor for one. And Sheppard's the character that the audience is supposed to connect to the show through. They just can't kill him off this early. He's not like Angel's Doyle.
Anyway, when "The Siege II" ended I wasn't overly upset or worried. Then I got to thinking about it on the way home from dinner Saturday night and I realized that while I've loved Sheppard from the moment I actually started watching the show (I wasn't too into him before with just previews, other than a passing "Oh, he's pretty."), I didn't realize how much I'd come to admire him.
This was sort of a surprise. I mean, I love McKay and every now and then his character surprises me, but I've come to sort of expect to be surprised by him. Sheppard I love, but wasn't really expecting surprises that made me love him more. And while his farewell to Rodney before he runs off to Elizabeth and the jumper was shitty, his actions were not. In my mind there are reasons for how abruptly he ran off after his decision was made. But that doesn't excuse him leaving Rodney behind wondering what was going on. But, anyway, yeah. Suicide mission to save his city, his people, his home. And he's so tough and determined with Elizabeth, but in the jumper on the way to the hive ships...You can tell he's frightened. But he's going to do it anyway. Because he has to protect his people. That's what Sheppard does.
(There was actually something in this ep that really reminded me of a series I've been reading, and that probably shouldn't have surprised me because everyone had already seen the finales weeks ago.)
Anyway. It's hard for me to really put into words just how much I'm loving these people. But I am and I do and I can't wait for July to get here.
Don't really have anything to say about the SG-1 season finale, other than squeeage over how frelling cute geek!Sam was. And Jack having the hots for her. And thinking Daniel was gay. That was great. PLUS the preview for season nine(?) with Ben Browder in *uniform* and leaning on the stargate and looking just very good altogether.
Meanwhile, another SGA meme.
I can live with that result. Prolly good thing didn't get Rodney. People would probably be lining up to smother me or something. But he and Elizabeth are tied...Interesting.
Watching SG makes me happy. I'm so glad that I have my SGA tapes here at school with me now. That means I've got stuff to watch! Plus, there are a couple of episodes that I didn't get to see that actually got taped, so yea.
I finally got to see "Hot Zone." Not all of it, because the part before the credits was missing, but almost all. Unfortunately that meant that I missed the game of Prime/Not Prime between McKay and Zelenka and their bating of Ford. Sigh. Oh well. Anyway. Good episode if only for all of the interaction between the scientists. And Ford. I'm particularly in love with, like, all of Zelenka's reaction shots. Or background acting. There's a bit where he's being checked out by the doctors and notices Rodney beginning to wig out and then later when Sheppard mentions Ford and Zelenka's brains frying. He kind of gets a look of "Oh, yeah, right. Brain's gonna explode" all in a couple of seconds.
Best part of all though?
(Abruptly, Hays' rapid heartbeat stops altogether and the monitor emits a single long tone. Carson rushes over to Hays and starts to administer CPR as a medic puts an airbag over Hays' nose and mouth.)
BECKETT (counting chest compressions): One, two, three, four, five. (He stops, and the medic pumps air into Hays' lungs. Carson starts compressions again.) One, two, three, four, five.
McKAY (angrily): Stop! It's not his heart. Just ... (his voice fades into grief) stop.
(Carson and his team stop their work. The medic lifts away the airbag from Hays' face and we see that he too has blood coming out of his mouth and nose. Carson stands up and turns to face Rodney, whose expression is one of resignation combined with fear. A medic turns off Hays' heart monitor. Nearby, members of Rodney's team are clustered together for comfort. One of the women is in tears. Aidan looks at Rodney.)
FORD: How are you feeling?
McKAY: I'm ... I'm ... Listen, I have a sister. We're not close – I don't even know how you'd find her.
FORD: Don't talk like that.
McKAY: She's the only family I really have, so someone should tell her what happened. And, uh, make it sound good, OK? (He allows himself a small smile for a moment.) Tell her I ... I died saving someone ... kids! I died saving kids – a bunch of them. Nelenka ... (Zelenka shrugs at Rodney getting his name wrong again, but says nothing.) I've got some theories on looping the power on the Gate to charge a dummy ZedPM. It probably won't work but-but you should have someone look at it cos it might lead somewhere else.
ZELENKA: We'll look at it together.
McKAY (angry, but also on the verge of tears): Look, you seriously have to stop interrupting my last thoughts. I mean, this is important stuff you need to hear. (He looks round and sees that he has got everybody's attention. Zelenka nods at him to continue.) Now – if you're here for more than a year, I've left some notes on how to roll blackouts to effectively maintain your power requirements and-and, oh, tell everyone that I was, I was inches away from a Theory of Unification but uh, uh, the notes, they were lost when I died saving the ...
ZELENKA: ... kids.
McKAY: Yeah. (He pauses and looks around the room, expecting the ghostly visions to start. He turns around slowly and stares towards the ceiling, but still the ghosts don't come. After a long moment ...) OK. I should be dead now.
(Carson walks over to him.)
BECKETT: You ran into Dumais at the same time?
McKAY: Exactly the same time.
BECKETT: Then, yes, you should be dead.
McKAY (looking around as he realises that he isn't dead): Oh, God! (He looks round at Ford and Zelenka.) I'm still here! (He smiles in disbelieving delight.)
FORD: Yes you are.
ZELENKA: Interesting.
McKAY: "Interesting"?!
BECKETT: Don't take this the wrong way, but ...
ZELENKA: ... why?
BECKETT: Exactly.
McKAY: Well, I don't care. (He turns to Carson and smiles in relief.) I mean, I really don't care!
(Carson smiles and pats him on the arm.)
The final thoughts of McKay were very effective. David Hewlett was fantastic. The man can act. I'm quickly becoming even more of a fangirl. Sigh. Ties in very nicely with the McKay's tape in the later episode, "Letters From Pegasus."
McKAY: Ford, if you cut everything else, just, um, keep this part, OK? Jeannie? This is your brother, Rodney ... obviously! I wanna s-say, um ... I wanna say something. Uh ... family is important. I-I've come to realise that because the people here have become a sort of a ... kind of a surrogate family to me. (He smiles.) Now, I know what you're thinking: I've never really been the poster child for that kind of sentiment but, uh, when ... when one's contemplating ones own demise, one tends to see things more clearly. I really do wish you the best, you know, and I'm sorry we weren't closer. Perhaps, um ... if by chance I make it out of this, perhaps one day we can be, and I would like that. (He gazes at the camera for a moment, then pulls himself together.)
I love Rodney so much.
Which sort of leads me to how I feel about SGA's finale, "The Siege I & II." While watching it I wasn't too upset or too very worried about the outcome of the "To Be Continued..." If the show's going into a second season, which it is, they're not going to blow up Atlantis and Sheppard is not going to die. At least, I'm pretty sure. He's the first billed actor for one. And Sheppard's the character that the audience is supposed to connect to the show through. They just can't kill him off this early. He's not like Angel's Doyle.
Anyway, when "The Siege II" ended I wasn't overly upset or worried. Then I got to thinking about it on the way home from dinner Saturday night and I realized that while I've loved Sheppard from the moment I actually started watching the show (I wasn't too into him before with just previews, other than a passing "Oh, he's pretty."), I didn't realize how much I'd come to admire him.
This was sort of a surprise. I mean, I love McKay and every now and then his character surprises me, but I've come to sort of expect to be surprised by him. Sheppard I love, but wasn't really expecting surprises that made me love him more. And while his farewell to Rodney before he runs off to Elizabeth and the jumper was shitty, his actions were not. In my mind there are reasons for how abruptly he ran off after his decision was made. But that doesn't excuse him leaving Rodney behind wondering what was going on. But, anyway, yeah. Suicide mission to save his city, his people, his home. And he's so tough and determined with Elizabeth, but in the jumper on the way to the hive ships...You can tell he's frightened. But he's going to do it anyway. Because he has to protect his people. That's what Sheppard does.
(There was actually something in this ep that really reminded me of a series I've been reading, and that probably shouldn't have surprised me because everyone had already seen the finales weeks ago.)
Anyway. It's hard for me to really put into words just how much I'm loving these people. But I am and I do and I can't wait for July to get here.
Don't really have anything to say about the SG-1 season finale, other than squeeage over how frelling cute geek!Sam was. And Jack having the hots for her. And thinking Daniel was gay. That was great. PLUS the preview for season nine(?) with Ben Browder in *uniform* and leaning on the stargate and looking just very good altogether.
Meanwhile, another SGA meme.
 | You scored as Carson. You are Carson Beckett! The doctor that everyone loves. You think human life is important, you honestly believe in the hypocratic oath First Do No Harm.
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I can live with that result. Prolly good thing didn't get Rodney. People would probably be lining up to smother me or something. But he and Elizabeth are tied...Interesting.
