Allies

[lemonbella]

Wow, that was awesome, even though there were less explosions than Camelot

I've read plenty of negative reviews of this episode, but I think they must have been watching a different show entirely.

Or expecting a different show entirely. I really can't put my finger on it.

This was superb because it was all about the Atlanteans being backed into a corner. They really had no choice but to hope for the best, with the possibility that they could end up where they did end up.

It's what happens when you have to make decisions with no familiar context. With the Goa'uld, the SGC had an alien situation but a familiar (religious, feudal, slavery, moral right vrs wrong ) context in which to consider that situation. In Pegasus, we don't. The Atlanteans have tried to impose that same earth contextual framework, so that they could make sense of the situation. (Which is what you have to fall back on when you're isolated and staffed by people no one on earth wanted.) But when you do that in a place where those rules have no basis, your actions have not just unintended, but unpredictable consequences. (In microcosm, witness Mckay's attempt to transpose Earth's Physical context into an alien situation in Trinity - what does he get? Free particles he can't predict.)

The Atlanteans are constantly trying to make things better, trying to put right that horrific mistake at the begining (waking the Wraith or stepping through the Stragate, depending on your perspective) but each time they end up somewhere else entirely.

Add to that the complication of characters trying to put right their own personal mistakes, (either originating in Pegasus or originating long before the expedition began) and the consequences become even more unpredictable.

This is what I wrote at the end of last season - to explain why I loved SGA so much...

It seems much more human and fallible than other sci-fi scenarios, including SG1. Don’t get me wrong, I adore SG1 in a way I haven't ever adored any other show, it's just that with SG1 you're thinking "SG1 are going to save the world again, I wonder how incredibly cool they're going to look whilst they do it?" With Atlantis you're thinking "McKay and Sheppard have to save the world? Dear God, is there no one else who can do it? Send Bates instead, he seems quite competent."

In short, these people were all chosen for the expedition because they were the ones who were too desperate for recognition to say no, or too alone to have anyone to stop them. They were the people no one would actually miss all that much, and that makes them all try that little bit too hard.

... and it's still true now. I don't know any other show which has been that consistent for me.


Wow, that accidentally turned into meta. God forbid I ever start being that pretentious on a regualar basis.

In conclusion: SGA = Good. It was very funny, chocked full of plot and contained three spaceship.

(I'm totally ignoring indian_skimmer's suggestion that they're going to turn Rodney into a Wraith. I have to draw the line at something and I refuse to spend next season attracted to a Wraith.)

Comments

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

It would be a fabulous idea, and I'd like to see exactly how Rodney like Wraith!Rodney would be.... It's just I *know* I'd find wraith!Rodney attractive in some way, even when he was eating people, and really I disturb myself enough.

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

You should write fic and really disturb yourself.

[lemonbella.livejournal.com]

Okay, that's just mean. I'm not going to be able to get that idea out of my head now...

[sweet-exile.livejournal.com]

I know.