Time is Fleeting
Dec. 9th, 2006 01:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annundrielReally enjoyed Doctor Who tonight ("Love & Monsters"). I'm not entirely sure why. I think I just like seeing familiar characters and situations from other points-of-view. Elton was a goof, which worked well for me because, yeah, I get that. And I really dug the end because I've got a thing for foreshadowing and really think-y speeches.
Thought the whole, "Elton! Fetch me a spade!" was hilarious. Mostly because of Tennant's enunciation. (Mom's convinced his teeth are going to fall out of his mouth one day. There are a lot of them.) And also because, boy, the whole scenario is just bizarre.
Also caught up with Battlestar Galactica. I liked last week's ep, especially Adama and Roslin, but I'm mostly up in the air concerning Apollo and Starbuck. Starbuck's great, but Apollo has lately been not much more than a pretty face. Dualla and Anders should hook up just to spite them.
Tonight's episode made me bawl. I was a weeping mess. There's hardly an episode that goes by that doesn't leave me wanting to cry at least a little. I think it's because it's a lot more intense than the other shows I watch. Or, at least, it's pretty much unrelenting in its intensity. So most of an ep will go by and it will be action action action danger danger danger and then it climaxes and I'm left tearing up just from relief that they've all made it. Or, and this is a little embarrassing, tear up with love and pride for these (fictional) people that continually (for the most part) do amazing things.
I don't think I've ever cried as much over any other show, including the ones that have ended and the ones that killed my favorite characters. Except for maybe Farscape. The emotional reaction has never reached the level of crying that watching the last five minutes of that series finale. That show will kill you, even with the mini-series.
Anyway. BSG. I couldn't believe they actually killed Kat. I didn't think they were going to go that far, but I really appreciate the fact that they did.
We're getting closer and closer to the five other human-form Cylons, I feel. Or at least we're starting to get a little more information. I am really excited about this as it's something I've been intrigued by since, oh, forever on the show. A few weeks ago I even had a dream about it.
Earlier I also watched the last episode of SGA.
SGA - "Irresponsible"
I wasn't expecting much from this one when I spoiled myself with people's general reactions of disappointment. I'm pretty easy to entertain and don't really ask a lot from the things I watch, but even I was disappointed with this one. Practically from the start.
I went in thinking that, okay, so people had been disappointed, it certainly couldn't be all bad. And then within the first, oh, couple of minutes I realize, no, it really could be. And it wasn't even something glaring. Rodney entered for the first time and said something that just felt so off character-wise I immediately knew someone not Gero or the other competent SGA writers had done the script. The line about the autograph book wasn't even necessarily out of character, it just felt wrong somehow. And I don't think it was DH's acting.
Should probably just drop that right there or I'll circle it forever wondering about it. Don't know what it was about the line, about the delivery, about the whole thing, but whatever it was felt off and wrong to me and I didn't like it. From then on I pretty much expected things to be bumpy.
Y'know, it's kind of hard for me to really admit displeasure over an episode because I love the characters so damn much.
And that's not touching on the biggest disappointment of the episode. They could have stretched the Kolya-thing for another year at least. He was fantastically creepy and cruel and clever. (Yea, alliteration.) And now he's dead. And not even the kind of questionable dead that comes from situations where you never see the body. We saw him get shot. We saw him go down. Unless he's a zombie (which, hey, that could be a little cool) he is not coming back.
(Now I'm going to be thinking about zombies in Atlantis. I don't need that!)
They could have done something seriously amazing with the end of the Sheppard-McKay-Kolya arch, but they didn't. They tagged it onto an episode that was mostly ridiculous. It should have had depth and emotion and resonated. Instead we're left with Lucius's screams of pain as he realizes, hey, little kids kicking shins can really hurt.
I feel a little cheated.
But because I don't want to be entirely negative here, there were a few things that weren't completely awful that I at least found vaguely amusing or not complete crap.
- Ronon. In general. He's really grown on me this season, mostly due to his interactions with the other characters.
- John's childhood hero being Eval Knieval. Until I heard about the mother of my aunt's hairdresser and how she used to own an antiques shop in Montana and Eval Knieval would come in drunk sometimes and break things. Now my view of him is kind of colored and while no one is perfect, I will now always think of John's hero as breaking delicate antiques while drunk off his ass.
- Rodney's hero is Batman. Makes sense to me. Except I kind of wanted to argue with John that, hey, Batman is human. He doesn't even technically have superpowers. I bet John and Rodney have argued this.
- Everyone in this episode was hot. Although some of them could be hotter if they removed their jackets once in awhile.
- I love Teyla being human and super bored during Lucius's story hour. And love that she's the voice of reason around the trigger-happy boys.
- Rodney's face watching Ronon eat.
- Rodney's super fluffy hair.
- "We're the good guys!" With added pointing in case they still don't get it.
- Rodney in general, basically, despite my weirdness over his first line.
- TEYLA: We were concerned for the safety of the village.
RONON: Now we don't care.
McKAY: Okay, just pretend he didn't say that and then let us out of here.
- KOLYA: I have to give Colonel Sheppard credit. No opponents ever caused me this much trouble. Unfortunately, I am going to have to kill him.
McKAY: Funny, he says the same thing about you.
I will happily pretend that John and Rodney discuss things outside of the team. They are, after all, the two of the four that have been through the most together. And the Kolya thing connects them. And we have proof that they do stuff together anyway.
- Kolya going straight for Rodney when he started threatening John's team. He's already got a more personal antagonistic relationship with Rodney. Plus, I don't know if I'm too blinded by slash and fandom and things, I think he'd be able to pick up on how close the two are and how that adds to Rodney's overall importance.
- The whole team stepping in front of the gun for Rodney. And then Rodney kind of protesting that. I'm going to read that as major team love and just leave it like that.
One final not so positive thing: Why did Carson go? I love you, Carson, but you're kind of superfluous. I could understand the writers wanting to get him into situations outside of the infirmary where he's doing something other than his doctor-things, but not randomly and without reason. Did he just decide it would be fun to get away from the smell of antiseptic? Who knows.
Also, I thought that the personal shields imprinted on the wearer? Are the writers just being stupid again?
Holy crap, it's almost one in the morning! How'd that happen?
Thought the whole, "Elton! Fetch me a spade!" was hilarious. Mostly because of Tennant's enunciation. (Mom's convinced his teeth are going to fall out of his mouth one day. There are a lot of them.) And also because, boy, the whole scenario is just bizarre.
Also caught up with Battlestar Galactica. I liked last week's ep, especially Adama and Roslin, but I'm mostly up in the air concerning Apollo and Starbuck. Starbuck's great, but Apollo has lately been not much more than a pretty face. Dualla and Anders should hook up just to spite them.
Tonight's episode made me bawl. I was a weeping mess. There's hardly an episode that goes by that doesn't leave me wanting to cry at least a little. I think it's because it's a lot more intense than the other shows I watch. Or, at least, it's pretty much unrelenting in its intensity. So most of an ep will go by and it will be action action action danger danger danger and then it climaxes and I'm left tearing up just from relief that they've all made it. Or, and this is a little embarrassing, tear up with love and pride for these (fictional) people that continually (for the most part) do amazing things.
I don't think I've ever cried as much over any other show, including the ones that have ended and the ones that killed my favorite characters. Except for maybe Farscape. The emotional reaction has never reached the level of crying that watching the last five minutes of that series finale. That show will kill you, even with the mini-series.
Anyway. BSG. I couldn't believe they actually killed Kat. I didn't think they were going to go that far, but I really appreciate the fact that they did.
We're getting closer and closer to the five other human-form Cylons, I feel. Or at least we're starting to get a little more information. I am really excited about this as it's something I've been intrigued by since, oh, forever on the show. A few weeks ago I even had a dream about it.
Earlier I also watched the last episode of SGA.
SGA - "Irresponsible"
I wasn't expecting much from this one when I spoiled myself with people's general reactions of disappointment. I'm pretty easy to entertain and don't really ask a lot from the things I watch, but even I was disappointed with this one. Practically from the start.
I went in thinking that, okay, so people had been disappointed, it certainly couldn't be all bad. And then within the first, oh, couple of minutes I realize, no, it really could be. And it wasn't even something glaring. Rodney entered for the first time and said something that just felt so off character-wise I immediately knew someone not Gero or the other competent SGA writers had done the script. The line about the autograph book wasn't even necessarily out of character, it just felt wrong somehow. And I don't think it was DH's acting.
Should probably just drop that right there or I'll circle it forever wondering about it. Don't know what it was about the line, about the delivery, about the whole thing, but whatever it was felt off and wrong to me and I didn't like it. From then on I pretty much expected things to be bumpy.
Y'know, it's kind of hard for me to really admit displeasure over an episode because I love the characters so damn much.
And that's not touching on the biggest disappointment of the episode. They could have stretched the Kolya-thing for another year at least. He was fantastically creepy and cruel and clever. (Yea, alliteration.) And now he's dead. And not even the kind of questionable dead that comes from situations where you never see the body. We saw him get shot. We saw him go down. Unless he's a zombie (which, hey, that could be a little cool) he is not coming back.
(Now I'm going to be thinking about zombies in Atlantis. I don't need that!)
They could have done something seriously amazing with the end of the Sheppard-McKay-Kolya arch, but they didn't. They tagged it onto an episode that was mostly ridiculous. It should have had depth and emotion and resonated. Instead we're left with Lucius's screams of pain as he realizes, hey, little kids kicking shins can really hurt.
I feel a little cheated.
But because I don't want to be entirely negative here, there were a few things that weren't completely awful that I at least found vaguely amusing or not complete crap.
- Ronon. In general. He's really grown on me this season, mostly due to his interactions with the other characters.
- John's childhood hero being Eval Knieval. Until I heard about the mother of my aunt's hairdresser and how she used to own an antiques shop in Montana and Eval Knieval would come in drunk sometimes and break things. Now my view of him is kind of colored and while no one is perfect, I will now always think of John's hero as breaking delicate antiques while drunk off his ass.
- Rodney's hero is Batman. Makes sense to me. Except I kind of wanted to argue with John that, hey, Batman is human. He doesn't even technically have superpowers. I bet John and Rodney have argued this.
- Everyone in this episode was hot. Although some of them could be hotter if they removed their jackets once in awhile.
- I love Teyla being human and super bored during Lucius's story hour. And love that she's the voice of reason around the trigger-happy boys.
- Rodney's face watching Ronon eat.
- Rodney's super fluffy hair.
- "We're the good guys!" With added pointing in case they still don't get it.
- Rodney in general, basically, despite my weirdness over his first line.
- TEYLA: We were concerned for the safety of the village.
RONON: Now we don't care.
McKAY: Okay, just pretend he didn't say that and then let us out of here.
- KOLYA: I have to give Colonel Sheppard credit. No opponents ever caused me this much trouble. Unfortunately, I am going to have to kill him.
McKAY: Funny, he says the same thing about you.
I will happily pretend that John and Rodney discuss things outside of the team. They are, after all, the two of the four that have been through the most together. And the Kolya thing connects them. And we have proof that they do stuff together anyway.
- Kolya going straight for Rodney when he started threatening John's team. He's already got a more personal antagonistic relationship with Rodney. Plus, I don't know if I'm too blinded by slash and fandom and things, I think he'd be able to pick up on how close the two are and how that adds to Rodney's overall importance.
- The whole team stepping in front of the gun for Rodney. And then Rodney kind of protesting that. I'm going to read that as major team love and just leave it like that.
One final not so positive thing: Why did Carson go? I love you, Carson, but you're kind of superfluous. I could understand the writers wanting to get him into situations outside of the infirmary where he's doing something other than his doctor-things, but not randomly and without reason. Did he just decide it would be fun to get away from the smell of antiseptic? Who knows.
Also, I thought that the personal shields imprinted on the wearer? Are the writers just being stupid again?
Holy crap, it's almost one in the morning! How'd that happen?
