SGA: Lifeline review.
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icarusSo far, SGA has allayed most of my doubts about the new direction of the show. I'm still waiting to see how Carter integrates, but I like how she's not just plunked into Atlantis like a plug-and-play.
At first the cables hanging down in the jumper were annoying, but then I liked the touch of realism that, yes, a cobbled together tech solution would be in the way.
Joe was excellent in this episode. Not just in the emotional scenes with Elizabeth, but also in the jumper. Every time Elizabeth is mentioned -- the danger she represents, the danger she's in -- he looks somewhere between pissed off, scared, pissed, freaked, and pissed off. He carried the emotional undercurrent of "Adrift" into "Lifeline."
And he made Rodney be the one to pull the switch if need be. Nice bit of writing there. Subtle. Since Rodney ignored John's instructions and brought her back, he was the one who'd have to kill her. John's a bit vengeful.
The Elizabeth we saw in this episode was the one I've wanted to see from the beginning. She didn't underestimate Oberon for a minute. I normally don't like being tricked in an episode, but it played out very well.
Lastly, the splashdown.
Loved the complaints from the control room while John struggled to land a flying city.
Loved that the landing was iffy. (Like a leaf kissing the water, ha, Rodney.)
And loved that moment in the chair, where John just sat there ignoring the control room commentary, the play of emotions across his face evident: "Holy shit. I just landed a ship the size of a city."
Side note: Should I be able to hear the music from this kid's iPod across from me? Because if I can hear it, the noise is probably loud enough to fuse the atoms in his body into new compounds.
At first the cables hanging down in the jumper were annoying, but then I liked the touch of realism that, yes, a cobbled together tech solution would be in the way.
Joe was excellent in this episode. Not just in the emotional scenes with Elizabeth, but also in the jumper. Every time Elizabeth is mentioned -- the danger she represents, the danger she's in -- he looks somewhere between pissed off, scared, pissed, freaked, and pissed off. He carried the emotional undercurrent of "Adrift" into "Lifeline."
And he made Rodney be the one to pull the switch if need be. Nice bit of writing there. Subtle. Since Rodney ignored John's instructions and brought her back, he was the one who'd have to kill her. John's a bit vengeful.
The Elizabeth we saw in this episode was the one I've wanted to see from the beginning. She didn't underestimate Oberon for a minute. I normally don't like being tricked in an episode, but it played out very well.
Lastly, the splashdown.
Loved the complaints from the control room while John struggled to land a flying city.
Loved that the landing was iffy. (Like a leaf kissing the water, ha, Rodney.)
And loved that moment in the chair, where John just sat there ignoring the control room commentary, the play of emotions across his face evident: "Holy shit. I just landed a ship the size of a city."
Side note: Should I be able to hear the music from this kid's iPod across from me? Because if I can hear it, the noise is probably loud enough to fuse the atoms in his body into new compounds.
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Date: 2007-10-09 07:19 pm (UTC)And no, you shouldn't have to hear the music from that kid's iPod. That's one of the things I hate about all these new-fangled media cell phones. The newest fad over here is for teenaged kids to get on the train and then play some godawful rap or stuff for their friends like that punk with the ghetto blaster in Star Trek IV. The only difference being that their phones are a lot smaller and I can't do Spock's nifty neck pinch.