I Just Like To Hear Myself Type
Sep. 30th, 2005 12:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielI'm totally being an LJ whore today. It's because I don't *really* have to have anything done until Tuesday and, damn it, I'm unwinding.
Oh, I will say this, though. I finally played with my copy of the Voyager program for Astronomy. So cool. You set the time and the location and you can track the movement of everything and find out densities and distances and it's just really *neat*. Spent a fun hour seeing if I could do next week's lab on my own.
This quarter is going to kill me dead with all of the reading. And recently I bought Neil Gaiman's new book Anansi Boys and it's sitting there all shiny and hardcover on my bookshelf between Candide and The Egyptologist and I *so* want to read it. But I have no time!. Or, rather, I have time but since I use all of my other time to read for classes, I find that in my free time I'd rather not read a lot. Sigh. I think I'll save it for Christmas break. Last break didn't really have a neat book to read. The Christmas before that I had Idlewild by Nick Sagan. It was fun having something to just absorb myself in and surface long enough to scratch my head and go "huh." For fun. Now I surface after reading to scratch my head and go "huh" for entirely different reasons. Most of them involving lots of confusion and annoyance at 18th century sentence structure and type-setting.
I wonder if Nick Sagan's other books are any good?
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I watched SGA's "The Lost Boys" again and made note of the parts I liked. It turned out kind of long because there were lots of parts. And lots of quoting. :) I probably need a life. But, hey, if this helps me get my mind off of stressful things, than it's all good.
SGA - "The Lost Boys"
- Maybe Shep's a little testy with McKay 'cause he brought up the tall, blond women?
- McKAY: I value my time and this is a waste of it.
SHEPPARD: What's a waste is listening to you, Rodney. This is a mission.
McKAY: Yeah, well, it strikes me that this is a mission better suited to one of the, uh, lower echelon teams.
RONON: Lower echelon?
TEYLA: He means to say less important.
Where I paused it, the look Teyla gave McKay was kinda funny. I think more than anything the team finds McKay amusing. Annoying every now and again, but mostly amusing. I really like the team interaction here. It just seems right.
- Teyla got to do the long suffering "Rodney." She's doing a mental eye-roll right now.
- And then they get shot! Oh no! Y'know, Sheppard gets shot *a lot*.
- OMG. After pulling the sacks off of their heads, the blond scientist dude is already making eyes at McKay! He's heard about him and he *wants* him.
- So, um, I guess I'm going to have to re-watch "Runner," because I'm not sure I got that there was massive conflict between Ford and Ronon there. I mean, didn't Ford shot a Wraith that was going after Ronon? Isn't that, like, a good thing? Hmmm.
- Ford! Your eye! Your hair! Your fashion sense!
- It's kind of weird hearing Ford call Sheppard "Sheppard." I don't remember him calling him Sheppard a lot before. Wasn't it usually "major" and "sir"? Just another indication of his separation from Atlantis, the team, and that little thing called reality.
- Stupid not!credits.
- Shep doesn't eat much, does he. That powerbar in "Aurora" and the powerbar in "The Defiant One" are probably the only times we've seen him eat anything.
- "...sort of alligator-thing..." I bet Ford tried to name it.
- "That's a lot of questions"? There were, like, three or four. Pfft. Ford.
- SHEPPARD: (look)
McKAY: (mouth kinda full) What? I get nervous I get hungry.
- "I cut open his enzyme pouch." That's not something you get to say often.
- It does make sense that Ford would find it pretty easy to get around the Wraith ship without being detected/stopped. Like he said, "there's next to no security" because they don't usually have people on board. Other than the ones they're going to eat that is.
- How come there are no lost girls? Are they too smart? Are the lost boys just not into the opposite sex? Or do they think girls have cooties?
- Do none of the planets in Pegasus have eating utensils?
- So, it's kind of poetic justice that the Wraith are now being kept locked up for Ford and Co. to "feed" on them. What if they got loose? There'd be hell to pay, I'm sure.
- Teyla's all about the first names.
- Why couldn't Teyla sense the Wraith in the cave?
- TEYLA: The Wraith can communicate with each other over a distance.
FORD: But not between stars. They'd have to be in this solar system. (points at McKay) You taught me that.
McKAY: Yes, well. Good for me.
I like the Ford/McKay interaction. When Ford's not all crazy, he seems to find McKay amusing. And, y'know, it's funny that when McKay gets all loud and bitchy he doesn't say anything, but when Beckett was all loud and scared in "The Storm/The Eye" Ford got kind of mean. Maybe he just knows better than to try to shut up Shep's scientist? ;)
- FORD: Do I look crazy? Do I seem out of control?
McKAY: Are we speaking in relative terms or, um...?
- Jace (whatever the spelling is) totally wants McKay. It's obvious. He's standing right there and keeps looking at him for recognition for his own smarty-pants-ness.
- "...we can even lace food with it." Well, shit. Y'know, Ford, tricking people into listening to you is never really a good way to endear yourself to them or make them want to help you.
- Wow. McKay went from "omg drugs" to "OMG DRUGS!!" in no time at all. DH does furious, like everything else, *really* well. And he called Ford "punk." I bet if SGA were on another channel, McKay would swear.
- "I'm itchy. I'm itchy all over. This is exactly what happened when I toked pot once in college!" Heh.
- Shep got clean food. Yea for him. He's already had to do the strange body chemistry changes thing this season. And only a couple of episodes ago, too.
- I love the scenes outside in the fields. They're pretty.
- SHEPPARD: Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
McKAY: Oh that little bastard. [Yeah, McKay definitely swears.]
SHEPPARD: Here it goes.
McKAY: Okay, this is what I was afraid of.
SHEPPARD: What'd he do?
McKAY: He's taken all the necessary control crystals. Something I showed him how to do on a mission, I might add.
SHEPPARD: Well, that's not good.
McKAY: That is the understatement of the year. [That is exactly what I was thinking, Rodney.]
SHEPPARD: Alright! See what you can do.
I like how Ronon's very intent upon what McKay's doing. And then he's sort of "geez, these guys are tense" through their conversation. And Ronon? I don't think you could take them all. Not with them hopped up on the enzyme.
- Teyla does a really good "you're fucking nuts" face.
- TEYLA: Perhaps if we were able to fast they would be unable to administer the enzyme?
SHEPPARD: I doubt that. I don't think they'd have a problem forcing us.
McKAY: 'kay, well this thing is useless. (gestures at DHD) And I ate my face off and I can tell you I can feel it working.
SHEPPARD: There's a good possibility that everything you're feeling right now might be psychosomatic. (checks DHD, too)
McKAY: Oh, is that right, Professor Science? Is that your expert opinion?
SHEPPARD: Yes, it is.
My god, I love them. So much. John said "psychosomatic"! Hee! Don't let the sarcasm fool you, Rodney likes it when John's surprisingly smart and uses big words. :)
- Lorne! Major Lorne is, excuse me, majorly hot. ::cough:: Plus, he seems very competent at his job.
- WEIR: Colonel Sheppard's team - three hours over-due.
LORNE: Wouldn't be the first time. Any radio contact?
WEIR: None since they left.
LORNE: Well, you know those guys.
WEIR: What do I know about those guys?
LORNE: Just that they tend to get all caught up in whatever it is they're doing and sometimes they don't check in. They forget how much you worry.
WEIR: (look)
LORNE: We worry. Collectively I mean.
WEIR: Yes, we do.
LORNE: Yeah, we do. Okay, guys, looks like we're heading back out.
WEIR: (beams ather boyfriend Lorne) Thank you, Major.
LORNE: You're welcome.
OMG, they are *so* doing each other! There is more chemistry between Weir and Lorne than there is between Weir/anybody else except Zelenka and Caldwell. I want to read Weir/Lorne fanfic now. Also, what's Lorne's first name? And how'd I miss that Lorne has the Ancient gene? (At least it says he does here.)
- SHEPPARD: Just be patient.
RONON: Historically that hasn't been a strength for me.
Ha!
- Way to show that chair who's boss, Ronon!
- "Oh good. Hate for things to be revealed too early."
- So the Wraith are territorial and they don't trust each other.
- Yeah, Jace totally wants McKay. He's all blond and smart and flattering.
- Ronon/Ford. Oh yeah. ;) And thank you Ford for bringing up the life saving. I was wondering about that.
- WEIR: Can you get me the last few addresses dialed from that DHD?
LORNE: Maybe somebody can, but that's a little out of my skill set.
WEIR: I'll send Zelenka.
LORNE: Good call.
I *really* like Lorne. Not only is he competent, he admits when he can't do something. And he recognizes Zelenka's skills. I hope they don't decide to send him the way of Grodin.
- SHEPPARD: So, uh, what's the plan?
KANAYO: We take them by force.
SHEPPARD: That's some groundbreaking strategy there.
TEYLA: I think the colonel is interested in the type of attack?
KANAYO: We plan to overpower them.
SHEPPARD: I think it's best if we just watch.
- SHEPPARD: What kind of plan is that?
KANAYO: One that works.
SHEPPARD: One of your men got hit.
And that, right there, is why doing anything with these people is a bad, bad idea. Shep's a leave-no-man-behind kind of guy. These guys are willing to leave whoever they have to behind to achieve their overall goal.
- Y'know, it's quite horrible of Ford to kidnap Atlantis' lead/top/main team and then threaten to kill Atlantis' resident head genius. If it all goes badly, Atlantis loses those resources and what if McKay really is as needed as he claims? But then what are Atlantis' head of military and head of science doing out on missions together anyway? It's like Picard and Riker going on away missions together. Or putting the president and vice-president in the same room. If something bad happens, bam! they're both gone.
- Genii. C4. Continuity! Poetic justice with the stealing (back) of the stolen goods.
- Destroy a Wraith hiveship with some C4. Is Ford on the special crack? Oh, wait, that's right, he is! ::eyeroll::
- SHEPPARD: [re: The Plan] Wow.
FORD: Wow?
SHEPPARD: You heard me.
McKAY: Let me see if I can couch what Colonel Sheppard means by "wow" in more explicit terms. That is a terrible plan.
TEYLA: Rodney.
McKAY: Made all the more frightening by the fact that you think it's a good plan!
FORD: What's wrong with it?
McKAY: What's right with it?
Has Teyla turned into John this ep with the "Rodney"'s, or is it just me?
- FORD: We have a spaceship.
McKAY: (folds arms) Oh really? What's it made out of, huh? Bark?
I love it when he folds his arms. It's so much fun to watch.
- KANAYO: [re: The ship] ...it's in need of some repairs.
FORD: And a real pilot.
SHEPPARD: This is why you brought us here.
FORD: It's the reason I waited 'til now, yes.
KANAYO: (slaps, lightly, at McKay's arm) Assuming this guy can get it working again.
FORD: He can. These people are the best at what they do.
KANAYO: Look, you fly it, you scoop us up, you take us to the hive, you drop us off. All we need is time to lay the charge. We'll be in and out of there before the Wraith have any idea what's going on.
FORD: It's perfect.
McKAY: It is far from perfect!
SHEPPARD: But it is possible.
TEYLA: Colonel...?
McKAY: Are you honestly considering this?
SHEPPARD: It's on its way to a culling, Rodney.
McKAY: Yeah, and I am sorry about that, but this is insane!
SHEPPARD: Maybe not.
FORD: Jace has been trying to get it working, but...he's not you, McKay. Can you fix it?
McKAY: Probably not.
SHEPPARD: That usually means "yes." [Calling Rodney on explaining his "wow."]
McKAY: Aren't you the one *not* taking the enzyme? You're supposed to be the clear voice of reason here.
FORD: Look, can you fix it?
McKAY: Even if I could, I wouldn't. I'm sorry, drug me all you want I'm not doing this. (walks off)
SHEPPARD: Let me talk to him, he'll come around. (follows)
- SHEPPARD: Rodney.
McKAY: Maybe you are on the enzyme. Maybe Ford lied because no rational person would think that was a good plan!
SHEPPARD: Look, a million things can go wrong, I know that. But just...look...stop! Shut up and listen. You fix that dart, we all get out of here. I know it's risky, but Ford's not thinking straight so-
McKAY: What are you talking about?
SHEPPARD: I'll insist you're all on the away team. I'll scoop you up and instead of flying out to the hiveship we fly out to Atlantis.
McKAY: How?
SHEPPARD: That dart's gotta have its own DHD, right?
McKAY: Of course.
SHEPPARD: Well, get that thing flight worthy we all go home!
McKAY: Right. Of course. You see, I would have thought of that myself before I became a drug addict.
SHEPPARD: I'm sure you would have.
McKAY: (hand-forehead gesture of I-wish-this-weren't-happening) I'm sorry. (turn to go back) Alright. (Sheppard touches arm in comfort) Okay.
The point of this scene? TOUCHIES. Also, the hand-forehead gesture-thing with the "I'm sorry." Oh, Rodney. ♥
- ZELENKA: (says something in Czech)
LORNE: That good, huh?
Zelenka! You make every episode you're in just a little bit better. Also, hey, you've made it into the grey and blue scientist uniform. I hope this means you're safe for at least the rest of the season.
- If I didn't know that McKay's on the enzyme, I'd almost suspect that Ford was lying about it. Because McKay's not really acting that much different. He's just more emotional and jittery.
- I like that Sheppard and Ford discuss why McKay's on the team.
- Work/Fight montage!
- I noticed this in "Aurora," also, but Sheppard's got really skinny legs/knees.
- Hee. Jace tries to help McKay with his data pad and McKay waves him off. Jace is just like, "Yeah, okay, that's cool. What was I thinking?" It's great.
- SHEPPARD: It's a good plan.
FORD: Couldn't have done it without you, sir.
SHEPPARD: Well, glad you trusted me enough to bring me here.
FORD: (looks pained)
SHEPPARD: What's wrong?
FORD: I want to go home.
Oh, Ford. Now, he says later he was playing Shep, but there seems to be sincerity here that's not fake. Oh, Ford. ::sigh:: You are so screwed up. I guess I'll forgive you some of your wonkiness becacuse you're so screwed up.
Either Shep is lying about seeing Ford's grandparents or he saw them and we didn't get to see that part. I think it's the lying. The cousin forbid him.
- Shep's so optimistic sometimes.
- Ronon and Teyla and the salad and then the fighting and the dragging over the table? HOT. Like, whoa. They're so doing each other.
- And Sheppard goes down like a brick. That man gets knocked over/out a lot.
- Drugs are bad. They make you crazy. This is obviously the moral of the episode.
- It's actually pretty cool that McKay can read Wraith.
- Much dislike for the guy that won't actually hand McKay his vest and weapons. Jerk. Much amusement watching McKay buckle his thigh-holster though. :)
- And then they turn on Rodney! And he looks confused and frightened and this just sucks. And John's all, "You do not point weapons at myboyfriend scientist!"
- FORD: You didn't really buy the whole "I want to go home" speech, did you?
.....
SHEPPARD: You didn't buy the whole "It's a great plan" speech, did you?
- Did Jace go with, or did he stay behind? I guess he went with...Does that mean he fell off the platform?
- The dart is interesting. That would be totally weird to fly. And Sheppard's such a dork talking at it. It's like me and my computer or the TV when I'm completely alone.
- Favorite line? "R2, I need you to turn the autopilot off. Now!" Nothing happens. "Worth a try." JF's delivery is just perfect and hilarious. ♥
- My god, they *did* lose Jace. How did I miss that before? That sucks. I liked him a bit. He seemed okay. Until he started pulling a gun on the team at least.
- I laugh every time Sheppard shoots the Wraith while he's still sitting in the dart. Cool *and* goofy. Which just generally defines him.
- "You want to live, stay behind me." Go Ronon.
- McKAY: Oh, do we have to-
GUARD ONE: (injects self with enzyme while McKay fidgets at table) Want some?
McKAY: No I'm good, thanks.
GUARD ONE: You sure?
McKAY: Yeah, pretty sure. Look, don't you think that they should be back by now? (gets up) I mean how long does it take to fly there and fly back, y'know? I say it's a minute from, uh, here to the gate, ten tops from their gate to the hiveship, um, twenty to get in and lay a charge, and and and what? Ten more to get back out and home, right? So-
GUAD ONE: Worrying really isn't going to do any good.
McKAY: Yeah well I subscribe to a different school of thought.
GUARD ONE: They're fine.
McKAY: You can't possibly know that!
(significant glances between the guards)
GUARD ONE: I got a gut feeling.
McKAY: Yeah well I have a different gut (guards get up and move in, front and behind) feeling.
McKay's doing a lot of frantic pacing and hand-wringing in this scene. :(
Oh god. This scene scares me. I mentioned this in a previous post. I am seriously worried about Rodney. These guys are bigger than he is and they're hopped up on more of the drug than he is. And so far we've only seen the drug make Rodney more jittery and unstable when he's upset and worried. There's a very non-con vibe coming from their looming, too. I'm 99.99% sure the show would never ever go there, but it's still frightening. What really gets me is the fact that we just don't know what they're going to do. We know what the Wraith are going to try on the rest of the team, but these guys are unknowns.
Gotta say, though, I am looking forward to Rodney's withdrawal from the drug. If they force more of the drug on him, how will he behave? How will he behave through the withdrawal? And what about Ronon and Teyla? Will they be tied down/locked up and put through detox or whatever as well?
- And, for the third episode in a row, Sheppard gets stunned, knocked out, and carried/dragged away. That's gotta start causing damage eventually.
- Ronon and Ford. Working together. Finally. Sort of.
- How long has the team been missing?
- "That's right you snot-nosed brat, I put my team's life on the line just to prove you wrong." Snot-nosed brat. Ha.
- The Wraith sniffing Ronon and then sniffing John? Creepy. For some reason, these Wraith seem creepier than the others. I don't know why.
- "If he dies, you die."
- The chamber/room is neat. And this female Wraith is, like, so much creepier than that other one. And what is that sound as she brings her hand up?
- John looks seriously frightened. Right there he's in the same position as Sumner was, but there's no one there to save him once she starts sucking the life out of him. If that's what's going to happen. Maybe she wants him for more than that. And I don't mean that in a play-with-your-food kind of way.
I'm not scared for John like I'm scared for Rodney. Like I said, we know what the Wraith do, what they want, how they get it. And, well, John is trained to deal with prisoner situations. At least I assume he does, being Air Force and having served in Afghanistan and places of that nature. Kind of goes back to the torture Rodney went through in "The Storm/The Eye." Rodney's a scientist, he's never had to deal with that before. But John's been through war.
- 'TO BE CONTINUED' Won't know what's going to happen until January. Bastards.
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When Atlantis first began, I wasn't a big fan of Ford. (Sheppard/McKay didn't ping on the slash-radar, either. Obviously I was very silly and blind back in the day. And that's a completely different story for an entirely different post.) For me, Ford was just sort of there. Sort of blah. But then somewhere along the line he grew on me. (Just like Teyla did. I suspect this may have something to do with the progression of her hair.) Ford became endearing with his grinning and friendly laughing-at-McKay and obsession with things that go boom. And then they went and Wraithified him and I was all, "Oh no, Ford!" and was very sad. And then he was all crazy but somehow still endearing in "Runner" before he went all desperate with the culling beam. And now here he is in "The Lost Boys" and I want him to shut up and go away. Seriously. Ford, right now? No love.
Well, okay, that's a lie. There's residual love. Probably more. But I swear, if this is all seriously frelled up and people I like more than you get hurt? And you continue to be a snot-nosed brat? I'm totally not stopping Teyla and Ronon from beating your Wraithified ass just a little.
Also, the people on this show begin sentences with "look" a lot. And McKay goes for "yeah, well" often.
Oh, I will say this, though. I finally played with my copy of the Voyager program for Astronomy. So cool. You set the time and the location and you can track the movement of everything and find out densities and distances and it's just really *neat*. Spent a fun hour seeing if I could do next week's lab on my own.
This quarter is going to kill me dead with all of the reading. And recently I bought Neil Gaiman's new book Anansi Boys and it's sitting there all shiny and hardcover on my bookshelf between Candide and The Egyptologist and I *so* want to read it. But I have no time!. Or, rather, I have time but since I use all of my other time to read for classes, I find that in my free time I'd rather not read a lot. Sigh. I think I'll save it for Christmas break. Last break didn't really have a neat book to read. The Christmas before that I had Idlewild by Nick Sagan. It was fun having something to just absorb myself in and surface long enough to scratch my head and go "huh." For fun. Now I surface after reading to scratch my head and go "huh" for entirely different reasons. Most of them involving lots of confusion and annoyance at 18th century sentence structure and type-setting.
I wonder if Nick Sagan's other books are any good?
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I watched SGA's "The Lost Boys" again and made note of the parts I liked. It turned out kind of long because there were lots of parts. And lots of quoting. :) I probably need a life. But, hey, if this helps me get my mind off of stressful things, than it's all good.
SGA - "The Lost Boys"
- Maybe Shep's a little testy with McKay 'cause he brought up the tall, blond women?
- McKAY: I value my time and this is a waste of it.
SHEPPARD: What's a waste is listening to you, Rodney. This is a mission.
McKAY: Yeah, well, it strikes me that this is a mission better suited to one of the, uh, lower echelon teams.
RONON: Lower echelon?
TEYLA: He means to say less important.
Where I paused it, the look Teyla gave McKay was kinda funny. I think more than anything the team finds McKay amusing. Annoying every now and again, but mostly amusing. I really like the team interaction here. It just seems right.
- Teyla got to do the long suffering "Rodney." She's doing a mental eye-roll right now.
- And then they get shot! Oh no! Y'know, Sheppard gets shot *a lot*.
- OMG. After pulling the sacks off of their heads, the blond scientist dude is already making eyes at McKay! He's heard about him and he *wants* him.
- So, um, I guess I'm going to have to re-watch "Runner," because I'm not sure I got that there was massive conflict between Ford and Ronon there. I mean, didn't Ford shot a Wraith that was going after Ronon? Isn't that, like, a good thing? Hmmm.
- Ford! Your eye! Your hair! Your fashion sense!
- It's kind of weird hearing Ford call Sheppard "Sheppard." I don't remember him calling him Sheppard a lot before. Wasn't it usually "major" and "sir"? Just another indication of his separation from Atlantis, the team, and that little thing called reality.
- Stupid not!credits.
- Shep doesn't eat much, does he. That powerbar in "Aurora" and the powerbar in "The Defiant One" are probably the only times we've seen him eat anything.
- "...sort of alligator-thing..." I bet Ford tried to name it.
- "That's a lot of questions"? There were, like, three or four. Pfft. Ford.
- SHEPPARD: (look)
McKAY: (mouth kinda full) What? I get nervous I get hungry.
- "I cut open his enzyme pouch." That's not something you get to say often.
- It does make sense that Ford would find it pretty easy to get around the Wraith ship without being detected/stopped. Like he said, "there's next to no security" because they don't usually have people on board. Other than the ones they're going to eat that is.
- How come there are no lost girls? Are they too smart? Are the lost boys just not into the opposite sex? Or do they think girls have cooties?
- Do none of the planets in Pegasus have eating utensils?
- So, it's kind of poetic justice that the Wraith are now being kept locked up for Ford and Co. to "feed" on them. What if they got loose? There'd be hell to pay, I'm sure.
- Teyla's all about the first names.
- Why couldn't Teyla sense the Wraith in the cave?
- TEYLA: The Wraith can communicate with each other over a distance.
FORD: But not between stars. They'd have to be in this solar system. (points at McKay) You taught me that.
McKAY: Yes, well. Good for me.
I like the Ford/McKay interaction. When Ford's not all crazy, he seems to find McKay amusing. And, y'know, it's funny that when McKay gets all loud and bitchy he doesn't say anything, but when Beckett was all loud and scared in "The Storm/The Eye" Ford got kind of mean. Maybe he just knows better than to try to shut up Shep's scientist? ;)
- FORD: Do I look crazy? Do I seem out of control?
McKAY: Are we speaking in relative terms or, um...?
- Jace (whatever the spelling is) totally wants McKay. It's obvious. He's standing right there and keeps looking at him for recognition for his own smarty-pants-ness.
- "...we can even lace food with it." Well, shit. Y'know, Ford, tricking people into listening to you is never really a good way to endear yourself to them or make them want to help you.
- Wow. McKay went from "omg drugs" to "OMG DRUGS!!" in no time at all. DH does furious, like everything else, *really* well. And he called Ford "punk." I bet if SGA were on another channel, McKay would swear.
- "I'm itchy. I'm itchy all over. This is exactly what happened when I toked pot once in college!" Heh.
- Shep got clean food. Yea for him. He's already had to do the strange body chemistry changes thing this season. And only a couple of episodes ago, too.
- I love the scenes outside in the fields. They're pretty.
- SHEPPARD: Just waiting for the other shoe to drop.
McKAY: Oh that little bastard. [Yeah, McKay definitely swears.]
SHEPPARD: Here it goes.
McKAY: Okay, this is what I was afraid of.
SHEPPARD: What'd he do?
McKAY: He's taken all the necessary control crystals. Something I showed him how to do on a mission, I might add.
SHEPPARD: Well, that's not good.
McKAY: That is the understatement of the year. [That is exactly what I was thinking, Rodney.]
SHEPPARD: Alright! See what you can do.
I like how Ronon's very intent upon what McKay's doing. And then he's sort of "geez, these guys are tense" through their conversation. And Ronon? I don't think you could take them all. Not with them hopped up on the enzyme.
- Teyla does a really good "you're fucking nuts" face.
- TEYLA: Perhaps if we were able to fast they would be unable to administer the enzyme?
SHEPPARD: I doubt that. I don't think they'd have a problem forcing us.
McKAY: 'kay, well this thing is useless. (gestures at DHD) And I ate my face off and I can tell you I can feel it working.
SHEPPARD: There's a good possibility that everything you're feeling right now might be psychosomatic. (checks DHD, too)
McKAY: Oh, is that right, Professor Science? Is that your expert opinion?
SHEPPARD: Yes, it is.
My god, I love them. So much. John said "psychosomatic"! Hee! Don't let the sarcasm fool you, Rodney likes it when John's surprisingly smart and uses big words. :)
- Lorne! Major Lorne is, excuse me, majorly hot. ::cough:: Plus, he seems very competent at his job.
- WEIR: Colonel Sheppard's team - three hours over-due.
LORNE: Wouldn't be the first time. Any radio contact?
WEIR: None since they left.
LORNE: Well, you know those guys.
WEIR: What do I know about those guys?
LORNE: Just that they tend to get all caught up in whatever it is they're doing and sometimes they don't check in. They forget how much you worry.
WEIR: (look)
LORNE: We worry. Collectively I mean.
WEIR: Yes, we do.
LORNE: Yeah, we do. Okay, guys, looks like we're heading back out.
WEIR: (beams at
LORNE: You're welcome.
OMG, they are *so* doing each other! There is more chemistry between Weir and Lorne than there is between Weir/anybody else except Zelenka and Caldwell. I want to read Weir/Lorne fanfic now. Also, what's Lorne's first name? And how'd I miss that Lorne has the Ancient gene? (At least it says he does here.)
- SHEPPARD: Just be patient.
RONON: Historically that hasn't been a strength for me.
Ha!
- Way to show that chair who's boss, Ronon!
- "Oh good. Hate for things to be revealed too early."
- So the Wraith are territorial and they don't trust each other.
- Yeah, Jace totally wants McKay. He's all blond and smart and flattering.
- Ronon/Ford. Oh yeah. ;) And thank you Ford for bringing up the life saving. I was wondering about that.
- WEIR: Can you get me the last few addresses dialed from that DHD?
LORNE: Maybe somebody can, but that's a little out of my skill set.
WEIR: I'll send Zelenka.
LORNE: Good call.
I *really* like Lorne. Not only is he competent, he admits when he can't do something. And he recognizes Zelenka's skills. I hope they don't decide to send him the way of Grodin.
- SHEPPARD: So, uh, what's the plan?
KANAYO: We take them by force.
SHEPPARD: That's some groundbreaking strategy there.
TEYLA: I think the colonel is interested in the type of attack?
KANAYO: We plan to overpower them.
SHEPPARD: I think it's best if we just watch.
- SHEPPARD: What kind of plan is that?
KANAYO: One that works.
SHEPPARD: One of your men got hit.
And that, right there, is why doing anything with these people is a bad, bad idea. Shep's a leave-no-man-behind kind of guy. These guys are willing to leave whoever they have to behind to achieve their overall goal.
- Y'know, it's quite horrible of Ford to kidnap Atlantis' lead/top/main team and then threaten to kill Atlantis' resident head genius. If it all goes badly, Atlantis loses those resources and what if McKay really is as needed as he claims? But then what are Atlantis' head of military and head of science doing out on missions together anyway? It's like Picard and Riker going on away missions together. Or putting the president and vice-president in the same room. If something bad happens, bam! they're both gone.
- Genii. C4. Continuity! Poetic justice with the stealing (back) of the stolen goods.
- Destroy a Wraith hiveship with some C4. Is Ford on the special crack? Oh, wait, that's right, he is! ::eyeroll::
- SHEPPARD: [re: The Plan] Wow.
FORD: Wow?
SHEPPARD: You heard me.
McKAY: Let me see if I can couch what Colonel Sheppard means by "wow" in more explicit terms. That is a terrible plan.
TEYLA: Rodney.
McKAY: Made all the more frightening by the fact that you think it's a good plan!
FORD: What's wrong with it?
McKAY: What's right with it?
Has Teyla turned into John this ep with the "Rodney"'s, or is it just me?
- FORD: We have a spaceship.
McKAY: (folds arms) Oh really? What's it made out of, huh? Bark?
I love it when he folds his arms. It's so much fun to watch.
- KANAYO: [re: The ship] ...it's in need of some repairs.
FORD: And a real pilot.
SHEPPARD: This is why you brought us here.
FORD: It's the reason I waited 'til now, yes.
KANAYO: (slaps, lightly, at McKay's arm) Assuming this guy can get it working again.
FORD: He can. These people are the best at what they do.
KANAYO: Look, you fly it, you scoop us up, you take us to the hive, you drop us off. All we need is time to lay the charge. We'll be in and out of there before the Wraith have any idea what's going on.
FORD: It's perfect.
McKAY: It is far from perfect!
SHEPPARD: But it is possible.
TEYLA: Colonel...?
McKAY: Are you honestly considering this?
SHEPPARD: It's on its way to a culling, Rodney.
McKAY: Yeah, and I am sorry about that, but this is insane!
SHEPPARD: Maybe not.
FORD: Jace has been trying to get it working, but...he's not you, McKay. Can you fix it?
McKAY: Probably not.
SHEPPARD: That usually means "yes." [Calling Rodney on explaining his "wow."]
McKAY: Aren't you the one *not* taking the enzyme? You're supposed to be the clear voice of reason here.
FORD: Look, can you fix it?
McKAY: Even if I could, I wouldn't. I'm sorry, drug me all you want I'm not doing this. (walks off)
SHEPPARD: Let me talk to him, he'll come around. (follows)
- SHEPPARD: Rodney.
McKAY: Maybe you are on the enzyme. Maybe Ford lied because no rational person would think that was a good plan!
SHEPPARD: Look, a million things can go wrong, I know that. But just...look...stop! Shut up and listen. You fix that dart, we all get out of here. I know it's risky, but Ford's not thinking straight so-
McKAY: What are you talking about?
SHEPPARD: I'll insist you're all on the away team. I'll scoop you up and instead of flying out to the hiveship we fly out to Atlantis.
McKAY: How?
SHEPPARD: That dart's gotta have its own DHD, right?
McKAY: Of course.
SHEPPARD: Well, get that thing flight worthy we all go home!
McKAY: Right. Of course. You see, I would have thought of that myself before I became a drug addict.
SHEPPARD: I'm sure you would have.
McKAY: (hand-forehead gesture of I-wish-this-weren't-happening) I'm sorry. (turn to go back) Alright. (Sheppard touches arm in comfort) Okay.
The point of this scene? TOUCHIES. Also, the hand-forehead gesture-thing with the "I'm sorry." Oh, Rodney. ♥
- ZELENKA: (says something in Czech)
LORNE: That good, huh?
Zelenka! You make every episode you're in just a little bit better. Also, hey, you've made it into the grey and blue scientist uniform. I hope this means you're safe for at least the rest of the season.
- If I didn't know that McKay's on the enzyme, I'd almost suspect that Ford was lying about it. Because McKay's not really acting that much different. He's just more emotional and jittery.
- I like that Sheppard and Ford discuss why McKay's on the team.
- Work/Fight montage!
- I noticed this in "Aurora," also, but Sheppard's got really skinny legs/knees.
- Hee. Jace tries to help McKay with his data pad and McKay waves him off. Jace is just like, "Yeah, okay, that's cool. What was I thinking?" It's great.
- SHEPPARD: It's a good plan.
FORD: Couldn't have done it without you, sir.
SHEPPARD: Well, glad you trusted me enough to bring me here.
FORD: (looks pained)
SHEPPARD: What's wrong?
FORD: I want to go home.
Oh, Ford. Now, he says later he was playing Shep, but there seems to be sincerity here that's not fake. Oh, Ford. ::sigh:: You are so screwed up. I guess I'll forgive you some of your wonkiness becacuse you're so screwed up.
Either Shep is lying about seeing Ford's grandparents or he saw them and we didn't get to see that part. I think it's the lying. The cousin forbid him.
- Shep's so optimistic sometimes.
- Ronon and Teyla and the salad and then the fighting and the dragging over the table? HOT. Like, whoa. They're so doing each other.
- And Sheppard goes down like a brick. That man gets knocked over/out a lot.
- Drugs are bad. They make you crazy. This is obviously the moral of the episode.
- It's actually pretty cool that McKay can read Wraith.
- Much dislike for the guy that won't actually hand McKay his vest and weapons. Jerk. Much amusement watching McKay buckle his thigh-holster though. :)
- And then they turn on Rodney! And he looks confused and frightened and this just sucks. And John's all, "You do not point weapons at my
- FORD: You didn't really buy the whole "I want to go home" speech, did you?
.....
SHEPPARD: You didn't buy the whole "It's a great plan" speech, did you?
- Did Jace go with, or did he stay behind? I guess he went with...Does that mean he fell off the platform?
- The dart is interesting. That would be totally weird to fly. And Sheppard's such a dork talking at it. It's like me and my computer or the TV when I'm completely alone.
- Favorite line? "R2, I need you to turn the autopilot off. Now!" Nothing happens. "Worth a try." JF's delivery is just perfect and hilarious. ♥
- My god, they *did* lose Jace. How did I miss that before? That sucks. I liked him a bit. He seemed okay. Until he started pulling a gun on the team at least.
- I laugh every time Sheppard shoots the Wraith while he's still sitting in the dart. Cool *and* goofy. Which just generally defines him.
- "You want to live, stay behind me." Go Ronon.
- McKAY: Oh, do we have to-
GUARD ONE: (injects self with enzyme while McKay fidgets at table) Want some?
McKAY: No I'm good, thanks.
GUARD ONE: You sure?
McKAY: Yeah, pretty sure. Look, don't you think that they should be back by now? (gets up) I mean how long does it take to fly there and fly back, y'know? I say it's a minute from, uh, here to the gate, ten tops from their gate to the hiveship, um, twenty to get in and lay a charge, and and and what? Ten more to get back out and home, right? So-
GUAD ONE: Worrying really isn't going to do any good.
McKAY: Yeah well I subscribe to a different school of thought.
GUARD ONE: They're fine.
McKAY: You can't possibly know that!
(significant glances between the guards)
GUARD ONE: I got a gut feeling.
McKAY: Yeah well I have a different gut (guards get up and move in, front and behind) feeling.
McKay's doing a lot of frantic pacing and hand-wringing in this scene. :(
Oh god. This scene scares me. I mentioned this in a previous post. I am seriously worried about Rodney. These guys are bigger than he is and they're hopped up on more of the drug than he is. And so far we've only seen the drug make Rodney more jittery and unstable when he's upset and worried. There's a very non-con vibe coming from their looming, too. I'm 99.99% sure the show would never ever go there, but it's still frightening. What really gets me is the fact that we just don't know what they're going to do. We know what the Wraith are going to try on the rest of the team, but these guys are unknowns.
Gotta say, though, I am looking forward to Rodney's withdrawal from the drug. If they force more of the drug on him, how will he behave? How will he behave through the withdrawal? And what about Ronon and Teyla? Will they be tied down/locked up and put through detox or whatever as well?
- And, for the third episode in a row, Sheppard gets stunned, knocked out, and carried/dragged away. That's gotta start causing damage eventually.
- Ronon and Ford. Working together. Finally. Sort of.
- How long has the team been missing?
- "That's right you snot-nosed brat, I put my team's life on the line just to prove you wrong." Snot-nosed brat. Ha.
- The Wraith sniffing Ronon and then sniffing John? Creepy. For some reason, these Wraith seem creepier than the others. I don't know why.
- "If he dies, you die."
- The chamber/room is neat. And this female Wraith is, like, so much creepier than that other one. And what is that sound as she brings her hand up?
- John looks seriously frightened. Right there he's in the same position as Sumner was, but there's no one there to save him once she starts sucking the life out of him. If that's what's going to happen. Maybe she wants him for more than that. And I don't mean that in a play-with-your-food kind of way.
I'm not scared for John like I'm scared for Rodney. Like I said, we know what the Wraith do, what they want, how they get it. And, well, John is trained to deal with prisoner situations. At least I assume he does, being Air Force and having served in Afghanistan and places of that nature. Kind of goes back to the torture Rodney went through in "The Storm/The Eye." Rodney's a scientist, he's never had to deal with that before. But John's been through war.
- 'TO BE CONTINUED' Won't know what's going to happen until January. Bastards.
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When Atlantis first began, I wasn't a big fan of Ford. (Sheppard/McKay didn't ping on the slash-radar, either. Obviously I was very silly and blind back in the day. And that's a completely different story for an entirely different post.) For me, Ford was just sort of there. Sort of blah. But then somewhere along the line he grew on me. (Just like Teyla did. I suspect this may have something to do with the progression of her hair.) Ford became endearing with his grinning and friendly laughing-at-McKay and obsession with things that go boom. And then they went and Wraithified him and I was all, "Oh no, Ford!" and was very sad. And then he was all crazy but somehow still endearing in "Runner" before he went all desperate with the culling beam. And now here he is in "The Lost Boys" and I want him to shut up and go away. Seriously. Ford, right now? No love.
Well, okay, that's a lie. There's residual love. Probably more. But I swear, if this is all seriously frelled up and people I like more than you get hurt? And you continue to be a snot-nosed brat? I'm totally not stopping Teyla and Ronon from beating your Wraithified ass just a little.
Also, the people on this show begin sentences with "look" a lot. And McKay goes for "yeah, well" often.
