Yea SciFi Friday!
Aug. 18th, 2006 08:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielDidn't go with Mom to Seattle this weekend so I could stay home and chill out and tape the 'gates. All I'd do in Seattle is the same thing I'd do here anyway: sleep in and read. However, I'm kind of regretting that now because it means I'm the only one left with my brother and the idiot cousin and that just sucks. These boys are gross.
Random SGA fandom question: Why is Sheppard/Weir called "Sparky?" I'm not a huge fan of cutesy names for couples (in real life or fandom), but it's usually fairly obvious where they come from. But Sparky? What?
Anyway, on to how I spent my Friday evening...
SG-1 - "200"
Let's just say I was about as excited for this as I get. For once I was actually looking forward to SG-1 more than SGA, which was kind of weird for me. And this episode was, well, insane. Everyone involved is on crack. Lots and lots of crack. And I loved it.
The behind-the-scenes thing beforehand was also good. Lots of love for Gary Jones. And Richard Dean Anderson. I forgot how very very much I love him. "O'Neill might get pregnant. That'd be cool." ♥
I attempted to keep track of the stuff I loved, since I so often forget once the ep is over.
- Furlings. We got to see Furlings and they were EWOKS and then they blew up their planet. HA.
- MITCHELL: [something something] jam-packed.
VALA: I love jam!
...later...
VALA: It's packed full of jam.
- Willie Garson. ♥
- "All these writers, and they couldn't come up with something better?"
- Loved the thing about big title sequences not being done anymore. "Throw up the title and get on with it." Heh.
- Zombies! Zombie!Siler! Walter getting eaten in the control room. The look on his face. "Zombies have been done to death."
- What happens when the lead doesn't want to work? Replace him with another character. I loved how everyone turned and looked at Mitchell and he was just like, "What?"
- Body swapping. I got a nice tee-hee out of Vala's, "As if anyone would believe that." No one will ever do body swapping as well as Farscape.
- O'Neill the invisible man. "He did it to me again?" Pretty much all of Daniel's lines. "He likes being invisible." "[something something about translating a tablet] that will determine the most important thing in the universe." "Poke around."
Teal'c: I assume I am staring at you stoically.
- So it's Mitchell's 200th trip through the event horizon. He's just so into it all, isn't he. But who's dialing in the control room?
- I like Daniel's new glasses.
- Poor Mitchell being Not!O'Neill.
- Technobabble. No one's really interested in it.
- The Wizard of Oz! That was just...well done. Daniel the Cowardly Lion and his coffee cup. Mitchell really did look a little, um, brainless. Teal'c just looked, well, like Teal'c but silver.
- Poor Siler. "Why does this always happen to me?"
- Star Trek. Oh the costumes!
DANIEL: Okay, 1) that's Star Trek and 2) it's ridiculous.
MITCHELL: Never underestimate your audience.
TEAL'C: I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.
- The younger, edgier versions of SG-1. That's so so wrong. Sam and Cam are getting it on in that version. (I wrote "Bam" at first. Weird mental images.)
- "Three hour reconnaissance mission."
- Farscape! Loved that all of it was the alien swearing. Loved that Mitchell was Stark and not, oh, Crichton. ASGARD RYGEL.
Love the implication that Vala watches Farscape.
"If you're going to rip something off, it has to be more obscure than that...You got me, I have no idea what that is." HEE!
- MARTIN: They slashed my budget.
CARTER: In a text message?
- "Act three just ends!" And then it did.
- 1,263 mission files. File 30185. Jack is Mitchell's father. For real? Or PUNKED.
- Team America! Now, I haven't seen Team America, but omg I loved this. PUPPETS. Puppets make everything better.
Hammond's reactions to everything that was said were just hilarious. Loved his, "We need someone who can say "brains" and "guts" in 27 languages" and "Well, we found the ring in the sand."
Daniel and the markers!
"Someone who can laugh in the face of his enemy even when it's inappropriate."
O'NEILL: I thought I told you I was retired?
HAMMOND: I thought you said you were tired.
O'NEILL: Oh, well, I am a little tired.
"Sergeant, make it spin...What do you mean it doesn't spin? It's round."
"Chevron seven, also lit up."
The string cutting was maybe one of my single favorite moments in the whole thing. Especially the falling on the other side and Teal'c lauging at them. Hammond's "Oh dear god" and Walter's puppet head hung in shame. "I feel so stupid."
"Yeah, that'll work. A whole movie with puppets."
- O'Neill!
VALA: Well, I don't think anyone will see that coming."
DANIEL: Nope, there'll be spoilers.
CARTER: It'll be in the commercial.
- Teal'c, P.I.
- "One last jaunt through the old orifice."
- Fishing!
- Wedding! Loved the wedding march mixed with the SG-1 theme and Walter crying and Daniel being best man. And Sam being late.
DANIEL: She's going to show. If she doesn't soon people are going to think that you and I...
O'NEILL: (looks at him) What?
HA.
MARTIN: Yeah, if I want to torture the audience on purpose.
- Everyone going through the 'gate for Mitchell's 200th. Walter's "I don't have the right outfit" and then he magically does.
- Of course they're renewing Wormhole X-treme. And 10 years later they're still going strong and Peter Delouise has replaced his brother and it's just freaking brilliant with the bleeping and the "SaveDoctorLavant.com" and the boy's club of writers.
- The ending. The quote, the tone, all of it just worked really well for me.
So, yes. All of that up there? Stuff I loved. Basically the whole thing just worked really really well for me. I was worried that they'd screw it up in some way or other, but I don't have any complaints. I come away feeling a large amount of love for the show, the characters, and the people that make it all happen.
SGA - "The Real World"
Less to say about this one. I will say that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would because of it's Weir-centric story. Loved getting some background for her like her mother and her father and the watch. Oh, also that Elizabeth wanted to be an astronaut when she was little.
- I really enjoyed the overall tone of the episode. I found it to be really quite creepy from the music and how quiet things were played to the creepy figure (which was obviously Sheppard from the beginning). That bit with the figure in the bed? Yikes.
- It would have been neat, or at least I thought it would have been neat, if they had incorporated the other people from Atlantis into her scenario. So that the people she had "made up" made sense to her in a, "oh, I have seen them before I guess" kind of way. (Had this not been done, a whole mass-delusion thing could have been interesting will all of them thinking they're in a nut house. Kind of like that episode of Buffy where Buffy thought her name was Joan and Spike thought his name was Randy.)
- So nanites are assimilating Weir. That bites.
- McKAY: That's the same look I get when I have a brilliant idea.
SHEPPARD: You know what you look like?
Heh. Rodney gets his brilliant ideas in front of the mirror.
- Sheppard's "So I'm not so profound." Reminded me of Buffy wanting to say something profound to Giles and finally just telling Jenny (is that right?) to think of something profound/smart and tell Giles she said it.
- Beckett doesn't do as well with McKay finishing his sentences as Zelenka, does he?
- O'NEILL: I don't mind being fantasized about occasionally.
- McKay was going to call Beckett a genius. Aw.
- "Reality check." Yeah, like the reality you're living in isn't insane, too.
- Sheppard's eyebrows at "Run" cracked me up. And exposing himself to the nanites, well, he did say he'd do anything for any of them.
- They all look so happy when Elizabeth wakes up. Yea! And John's kind of a jerk with the "What if this is all in my head now?" but you gotta love him. Nice ending anyway. Can we call the music Weir's theme or what?
So, yeah, overall enjoyed it. Not my favorite, but not bad at all. Loved Alan Ruck as Fletcher.
Next week Sheppard is kidnapped! Oh no!
They showed several commercials for BSG during tonight's episodes and, huh, Tigh really looks like an old sea captain. Half expected him to go, "Yargh! Ahoy, mateys!" and chew on a pipe.
Random SGA fandom question: Why is Sheppard/Weir called "Sparky?" I'm not a huge fan of cutesy names for couples (in real life or fandom), but it's usually fairly obvious where they come from. But Sparky? What?
Anyway, on to how I spent my Friday evening...
SG-1 - "200"
Let's just say I was about as excited for this as I get. For once I was actually looking forward to SG-1 more than SGA, which was kind of weird for me. And this episode was, well, insane. Everyone involved is on crack. Lots and lots of crack. And I loved it.
The behind-the-scenes thing beforehand was also good. Lots of love for Gary Jones. And Richard Dean Anderson. I forgot how very very much I love him. "O'Neill might get pregnant. That'd be cool." ♥
I attempted to keep track of the stuff I loved, since I so often forget once the ep is over.
- Furlings. We got to see Furlings and they were EWOKS and then they blew up their planet. HA.
- MITCHELL: [something something] jam-packed.
VALA: I love jam!
...later...
VALA: It's packed full of jam.
- Willie Garson. ♥
- "All these writers, and they couldn't come up with something better?"
- Loved the thing about big title sequences not being done anymore. "Throw up the title and get on with it." Heh.
- Zombies! Zombie!Siler! Walter getting eaten in the control room. The look on his face. "Zombies have been done to death."
- What happens when the lead doesn't want to work? Replace him with another character. I loved how everyone turned and looked at Mitchell and he was just like, "What?"
- Body swapping. I got a nice tee-hee out of Vala's, "As if anyone would believe that." No one will ever do body swapping as well as Farscape.
- O'Neill the invisible man. "He did it to me again?" Pretty much all of Daniel's lines. "He likes being invisible." "[something something about translating a tablet] that will determine the most important thing in the universe." "Poke around."
Teal'c: I assume I am staring at you stoically.
- So it's Mitchell's 200th trip through the event horizon. He's just so into it all, isn't he. But who's dialing in the control room?
- I like Daniel's new glasses.
- Poor Mitchell being Not!O'Neill.
- Technobabble. No one's really interested in it.
- The Wizard of Oz! That was just...well done. Daniel the Cowardly Lion and his coffee cup. Mitchell really did look a little, um, brainless. Teal'c just looked, well, like Teal'c but silver.
- Poor Siler. "Why does this always happen to me?"
- Star Trek. Oh the costumes!
DANIEL: Okay, 1) that's Star Trek and 2) it's ridiculous.
MITCHELL: Never underestimate your audience.
TEAL'C: I do not understand why everything in this script must inevitably explode.
- The younger, edgier versions of SG-1. That's so so wrong. Sam and Cam are getting it on in that version. (I wrote "Bam" at first. Weird mental images.)
- "Three hour reconnaissance mission."
- Farscape! Loved that all of it was the alien swearing. Loved that Mitchell was Stark and not, oh, Crichton. ASGARD RYGEL.
Love the implication that Vala watches Farscape.
"If you're going to rip something off, it has to be more obscure than that...You got me, I have no idea what that is." HEE!
- MARTIN: They slashed my budget.
CARTER: In a text message?
- "Act three just ends!" And then it did.
- 1,263 mission files. File 30185. Jack is Mitchell's father. For real? Or PUNKED.
- Team America! Now, I haven't seen Team America, but omg I loved this. PUPPETS. Puppets make everything better.
Hammond's reactions to everything that was said were just hilarious. Loved his, "We need someone who can say "brains" and "guts" in 27 languages" and "Well, we found the ring in the sand."
Daniel and the markers!
"Someone who can laugh in the face of his enemy even when it's inappropriate."
O'NEILL: I thought I told you I was retired?
HAMMOND: I thought you said you were tired.
O'NEILL: Oh, well, I am a little tired.
"Sergeant, make it spin...What do you mean it doesn't spin? It's round."
"Chevron seven, also lit up."
The string cutting was maybe one of my single favorite moments in the whole thing. Especially the falling on the other side and Teal'c lauging at them. Hammond's "Oh dear god" and Walter's puppet head hung in shame. "I feel so stupid."
"Yeah, that'll work. A whole movie with puppets."
- O'Neill!
VALA: Well, I don't think anyone will see that coming."
DANIEL: Nope, there'll be spoilers.
CARTER: It'll be in the commercial.
- Teal'c, P.I.
- "One last jaunt through the old orifice."
- Fishing!
- Wedding! Loved the wedding march mixed with the SG-1 theme and Walter crying and Daniel being best man. And Sam being late.
DANIEL: She's going to show. If she doesn't soon people are going to think that you and I...
O'NEILL: (looks at him) What?
HA.
MARTIN: Yeah, if I want to torture the audience on purpose.
- Everyone going through the 'gate for Mitchell's 200th. Walter's "I don't have the right outfit" and then he magically does.
- Of course they're renewing Wormhole X-treme. And 10 years later they're still going strong and Peter Delouise has replaced his brother and it's just freaking brilliant with the bleeping and the "SaveDoctorLavant.com" and the boy's club of writers.
- The ending. The quote, the tone, all of it just worked really well for me.
So, yes. All of that up there? Stuff I loved. Basically the whole thing just worked really really well for me. I was worried that they'd screw it up in some way or other, but I don't have any complaints. I come away feeling a large amount of love for the show, the characters, and the people that make it all happen.
SGA - "The Real World"
Less to say about this one. I will say that I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would because of it's Weir-centric story. Loved getting some background for her like her mother and her father and the watch. Oh, also that Elizabeth wanted to be an astronaut when she was little.
- I really enjoyed the overall tone of the episode. I found it to be really quite creepy from the music and how quiet things were played to the creepy figure (which was obviously Sheppard from the beginning). That bit with the figure in the bed? Yikes.
- It would have been neat, or at least I thought it would have been neat, if they had incorporated the other people from Atlantis into her scenario. So that the people she had "made up" made sense to her in a, "oh, I have seen them before I guess" kind of way. (Had this not been done, a whole mass-delusion thing could have been interesting will all of them thinking they're in a nut house. Kind of like that episode of Buffy where Buffy thought her name was Joan and Spike thought his name was Randy.)
- So nanites are assimilating Weir. That bites.
- McKAY: That's the same look I get when I have a brilliant idea.
SHEPPARD: You know what you look like?
Heh. Rodney gets his brilliant ideas in front of the mirror.
- Sheppard's "So I'm not so profound." Reminded me of Buffy wanting to say something profound to Giles and finally just telling Jenny (is that right?) to think of something profound/smart and tell Giles she said it.
- Beckett doesn't do as well with McKay finishing his sentences as Zelenka, does he?
- O'NEILL: I don't mind being fantasized about occasionally.
- McKay was going to call Beckett a genius. Aw.
- "Reality check." Yeah, like the reality you're living in isn't insane, too.
- Sheppard's eyebrows at "Run" cracked me up. And exposing himself to the nanites, well, he did say he'd do anything for any of them.
- They all look so happy when Elizabeth wakes up. Yea! And John's kind of a jerk with the "What if this is all in my head now?" but you gotta love him. Nice ending anyway. Can we call the music Weir's theme or what?
So, yeah, overall enjoyed it. Not my favorite, but not bad at all. Loved Alan Ruck as Fletcher.
Next week Sheppard is kidnapped! Oh no!
They showed several commercials for BSG during tonight's episodes and, huh, Tigh really looks like an old sea captain. Half expected him to go, "Yargh! Ahoy, mateys!" and chew on a pipe.
