Tabula Rasa
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annundrielSGA - "Tabula Rasa"
For the most part, I really enjoyed tonight's episode. A nice change from their usual. And such a pretty show.
Let's see what I can remember...
- The teaser! The teaser was fantastic. Just the right amounts of intriguing and scary. Very horror movie.
- Zelenka! Oh, man. My love for Zelenka knows no bounds. Running around, evading Lorne and his team, hitting people with that pipe-thing. Sneaky and brilliant.
- Lorne! Even when he turned crazy I loved him. He was just doing his best and it got a little out of hand. And the crazy thing? His assumptions made sense. If he didn't know Teyla better than that.
- TEYLA. AND RONON. Massive love for both of them. I mean, wow. They both really took action here and it was amazing. This should happen more often.
- I've realized that my thing with Katie Brown is basically this: rewatching her bits of "Sunday" and seeing her here, I like her while she's on screen. As soon as the episode's over, though, and I get to thinking about things in general, I tend to dislike her. So while she's there, I'm fine. But when she's gone my little slasher heart goes, "no no no." She's just been a little lackluster for me. Although I did find her naming that phallic cactus-thing after Rodney hilarious.
I just don't know anymore. I do like seeing the slightly softer side of Rodney, though. It's endearingly awkward.
- I'm waiting for Ronon/Keller to happen, like, any day now.
- Rodney betting five bucks John loses his memories first. And John's weirdly high-pitched "Rodney" whine. And making him take his pills.
- Rodney taking notes on himself.
- Sam! I pretty much always like Sam, except in those SG-1 eps where they really pushed the O'Neill/Carter, and even then it was more a situation-thing than a character-thing. Anyway, I liked that she still had some leadership quality, but that she wasn't running their little "Find Teyla" operation. Because that was Rodney's mission. Plus, maybe on an instinctual level they'd recognize that it's really Rodney's city an not her's.
- I also liked that when stripped of their memories, Rodney was not at all distracted by any attraction for Sam.
- Everyone was competent! And smart!
- Teyla and Rodney and pi. And the bit about him being a scientist and "that's what makes you the type of person who's going to save us all" or whatever she said. Oh, team. Even if it's only half of it.
- Ronon shooting John. "That never gets old."
- John the commanding officer. Hehe. Oh! And you would totally expect Ronon to be better at tying knots. Sheesh.
- The end. I have mixed feelings about the ending. On the one hand, loved John and Ronon and Teyla. And John's immediate worry for Rodney when they mentioned casualties and Rodney wasn't there with them. On the other hand, we then cut to Rodney and Katie. Which made sense because we're seeing that Rodney is in fact still alive and we basically started the episode with them so it's only right that we return to see that play out more. However, it felt weird to me that we then didn't get a team follow up after that. I guess I just wanted more of the core four.
Meanwhile, Spongebob Squarepants has this whole Atlantis SquarePantis thing going on that's kind of cracking me up.
For the most part, I really enjoyed tonight's episode. A nice change from their usual. And such a pretty show.
Let's see what I can remember...
- The teaser! The teaser was fantastic. Just the right amounts of intriguing and scary. Very horror movie.
- Zelenka! Oh, man. My love for Zelenka knows no bounds. Running around, evading Lorne and his team, hitting people with that pipe-thing. Sneaky and brilliant.
- Lorne! Even when he turned crazy I loved him. He was just doing his best and it got a little out of hand. And the crazy thing? His assumptions made sense. If he didn't know Teyla better than that.
- TEYLA. AND RONON. Massive love for both of them. I mean, wow. They both really took action here and it was amazing. This should happen more often.
- I've realized that my thing with Katie Brown is basically this: rewatching her bits of "Sunday" and seeing her here, I like her while she's on screen. As soon as the episode's over, though, and I get to thinking about things in general, I tend to dislike her. So while she's there, I'm fine. But when she's gone my little slasher heart goes, "no no no." She's just been a little lackluster for me. Although I did find her naming that phallic cactus-thing after Rodney hilarious.
I just don't know anymore. I do like seeing the slightly softer side of Rodney, though. It's endearingly awkward.
- I'm waiting for Ronon/Keller to happen, like, any day now.
- Rodney betting five bucks John loses his memories first. And John's weirdly high-pitched "Rodney" whine. And making him take his pills.
- Rodney taking notes on himself.
- Sam! I pretty much always like Sam, except in those SG-1 eps where they really pushed the O'Neill/Carter, and even then it was more a situation-thing than a character-thing. Anyway, I liked that she still had some leadership quality, but that she wasn't running their little "Find Teyla" operation. Because that was Rodney's mission. Plus, maybe on an instinctual level they'd recognize that it's really Rodney's city an not her's.
- I also liked that when stripped of their memories, Rodney was not at all distracted by any attraction for Sam.
- Everyone was competent! And smart!
- Teyla and Rodney and pi. And the bit about him being a scientist and "that's what makes you the type of person who's going to save us all" or whatever she said. Oh, team. Even if it's only half of it.
- Ronon shooting John. "That never gets old."
- John the commanding officer. Hehe. Oh! And you would totally expect Ronon to be better at tying knots. Sheesh.
- The end. I have mixed feelings about the ending. On the one hand, loved John and Ronon and Teyla. And John's immediate worry for Rodney when they mentioned casualties and Rodney wasn't there with them. On the other hand, we then cut to Rodney and Katie. Which made sense because we're seeing that Rodney is in fact still alive and we basically started the episode with them so it's only right that we return to see that play out more. However, it felt weird to me that we then didn't get a team follow up after that. I guess I just wanted more of the core four.
Meanwhile, Spongebob Squarepants has this whole Atlantis SquarePantis thing going on that's kind of cracking me up.
