SGA Vegas, no spoilers.

[icarus]

Stargate Atlantis "Vegas" ep.

Wow.

Does anyone know the music in this ep?

I recognized Johnny Cash's cover of "Solitary Man," but the others, wow, kick-ass music. I'm so watching Enemy at the Gate again when it's out in January. The leaked version doesn't have the finished special effects, and this show is a special effects bonanza.

Comments

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

Heh, we just watched it: The Rolling Stones "Sympathy for the Devil" was used, as was (ha!) Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People".

Not bad, eh? But I think Pru already wrote it.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Great songs. There's one with red hot guitar licks that I didn't recognize at all....

I'm not putting any spoilers in this post, but was this AU a gift to slashers or what?

Not bad, eh? But I think Pru already wrote it.

Did she? Which one? I've fallen behind on her stuff since she left LJ.

[tty63.livejournal.com]

I have no idea which story it is, but Pru's back on LJ now, at least for a while. If you haven't read Drastically Redefining Protocol (http://rageprufrock.livejournal.com/tag/drastically+redefining+protocol) already, I thoroughly recommend it. It's a Merlin WIP and it's awesome.

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I'll check it out. I followed a rec to one of her Merlin fics, and I wasn't as into it as her SGA stuff, I can't explain why. It could have been just that story.

[teenygozer.livejournal.com]

At what point/how many minutes in did the hot guitar licks show up? I think both songs I mentioned have hot guitar licks at some point or another so it might be part of one of those two songs I mentioned.

I don't want to get into spoilers, but it had this strong feeling of the style of one of her AUs over the AUs of any other writer. I kept identifying bits and pieces here and there from various stories. It just felt like something she'd write. And hell, yeah, quite a gift to the slashers!

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I don't think it was either of those two (I'm familiar with both, though they're those songs where I have a name for them that isn't the actual title of the song). I'll have to watch again to say it in minutes because I'm keeping this post spoiler free.

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

If the aspect the OP is referring to is John-as-detective, the story is probably "Hindsight" (http://glitterati.talkoncorners.net/fiction/hindsight.php).

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Oh, riiiight. Good story.

[dayse.livejournal.com]

I loooove this episode! This season, on a whole, has been kind of disappointing for me but oh man, Vegas was like ... a big ol'Christmas gift, hehe.

John ;_;

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Your icon. I think that's one of, if not my very favorite, John piece.

[inkscribe.livejournal.com]

Yes, I applaud this episode in so many ways: camera work, sound (both fx and music tracks), dialogue. I liked it enough I imposed it upon a non-SF fan family member (who watches another genre that the ep was clearly modeled on) and it was enjoyed immensely, no matter the SF elements.

I call that a huge win.

The guitar licks ... reminded me a bit of the fabulous guitar throughout the cheesy but very fun John Woo film Broken Arrow, which I was using as my background housecleaning film just last week, ironically. *g*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the camera work! That too!

[seekergeek.livejournal.com]

I agree. Wow. Although while I was watching it I was saying to myself, "I've read this fanfic!" and "I've seen this fanvid!".

Enemy at the Gate was really action-packed and a good note for the show to go out on. *sticks fingers in ears and ignores Rodney's last line, LALALALALALA*

[icarusancalion.livejournal.com]

I just rolled my eyes on that last line. It wasn't just the content. It was trite. But that's okay, because the rest of it wasn't.

Vegas is one I want to see again. Fanfiction goes where the writers don't think canon will go. So cool when it does.

[mad_maudlin]

I'm just giggly over the fact that, after five years, we finally get to see (a) John listening to Johnny Cash. And OF COURSE Wraith listen to Marilyn Manson. ::flails::

::waits for "Enemy at the Gates"::