Spoilers for SGA - Echoes
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ivyfic- Zelenka/Ronon. Uh huh. Between the camping and that smile at the end…? I’m totally with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
perian in believing Ronon volunteered to go with Zelenka so that he had the opportunity to hunt hit on him and gets all pissy when Zelenka works the whole time and doesn’t notice Ronon trying to hunt flirt. Plus, John treating Ronon like a giant puppy. In any other situation, saying someone just needs a warm bed and a meal could be seen as condescending.
- Ronon snoring while trying to meditate. Bwah! Teyla having a chance to actually show depth and character! Why’s she so stern in most episodes? She’s great when she’s playful.
- How much do I love that this episode acknowledged that last week’s (poorly written) episode dealt with the Ancients from Return Pt. 1 with one throw-away line saying they’re all dead? (I mean, how did the humans survive and not the Ancients? Wouldn’t the replicators have learned about Jack and friend when they probed the Ancients’ minds? *ignoring plot holes*) Not only did they bring up that all the Ancients were killed, but Heightmeyer actually uses the words “complicit in their murder.” *loves* For Teyla to be so fixated on them not only is a good red herring but makes perfect sense for her character. She’s from a culture that reveres the ancestors, and then when a few show up, she does nothing to protect them or warn them about the current dangers in the Pegasus galaxy. Of course she’d feel guilty over their deaths. And of course she would conclude that they were somehow half-ascended and she needed to help them move on. That would mean to her that they weren’t murdered, they had ascended, and she could assuage her guilt by helping them. I’m almost sad for her that that wasn’t the case and the Ancients really did die.
- Rodney spots a whale. What’s the first thing he does? Calls John. I love this whole bit. Weir asking Rodney if he’s doing this in his spare time and him saying he is – yeah, right. If by “spare time” he means all his time. Rodney naming the whale after Samantha Carter and John pitching a jealous fit. And can’t you just hear in Rodney’s whine of “Sam’s a boy’s name, too!” decades of saying, “Meredith’s a boy’s name, too”? That John’s first reaction is to fly a jumper as close to the whales as possible cause that’s a good plan.
- I need an icon that says "Did you say vales?" Seriously.
- Zelenka raced homing pigeons. And Rodney will stop in the middle of a crisis to make fun of him for it. You’d think that in racing homing pigeons most people would focus on breeding faster birds or training the birds, but not Radek. No. His contribution is to check the sun for solar flares to see if the magnetic field of the Earth is affected. Radek, you are such an astrophycisist.
- Caldwell wants to nuke the telepathic baby whales. Oh yeah.
I must say I was actually surprised by the plot. I caught on early that the visions were from the whales, but I thought it was going to be some stupid something about the Ancients, in their brief time there, capturing and experimenting on one of the whales and the other whales coming to rescue their comrade, etc. etc. It says something about my expectations about the quality of writing on the show that I really believed that. Instead I got telepathic whales with genetic memory trying to save themselves from mass extinction. And the writers come up with another contrived way for them to drain a ZPM. Can’t they hold onto these things for more than a week? Seriously.
The one gripe I have: in all the talk of the solar flare causing mass extinction and Weir pointing out that they could save Atlantis, nobody even mentions the Athosian settlement. There isn’t any attempt to evacuate them to the shielded city or to the Daedelus. It doesn’t even seem to enter into their analysis of the situation. I’m going to blame their not thinking clearly on everyone having a headache.
In conclusion, this episode is about John and Rodney adopting a telepathic baby whale.
perian in believing Ronon volunteered to go with Zelenka so that he had the opportunity to - Ronon snoring while trying to meditate. Bwah! Teyla having a chance to actually show depth and character! Why’s she so stern in most episodes? She’s great when she’s playful.
- How much do I love that this episode acknowledged that last week’s (poorly written) episode dealt with the Ancients from Return Pt. 1 with one throw-away line saying they’re all dead? (I mean, how did the humans survive and not the Ancients? Wouldn’t the replicators have learned about Jack and friend when they probed the Ancients’ minds? *ignoring plot holes*) Not only did they bring up that all the Ancients were killed, but Heightmeyer actually uses the words “complicit in their murder.” *loves* For Teyla to be so fixated on them not only is a good red herring but makes perfect sense for her character. She’s from a culture that reveres the ancestors, and then when a few show up, she does nothing to protect them or warn them about the current dangers in the Pegasus galaxy. Of course she’d feel guilty over their deaths. And of course she would conclude that they were somehow half-ascended and she needed to help them move on. That would mean to her that they weren’t murdered, they had ascended, and she could assuage her guilt by helping them. I’m almost sad for her that that wasn’t the case and the Ancients really did die.
- Rodney spots a whale. What’s the first thing he does? Calls John. I love this whole bit. Weir asking Rodney if he’s doing this in his spare time and him saying he is – yeah, right. If by “spare time” he means all his time. Rodney naming the whale after Samantha Carter and John pitching a jealous fit. And can’t you just hear in Rodney’s whine of “Sam’s a boy’s name, too!” decades of saying, “Meredith’s a boy’s name, too”? That John’s first reaction is to fly a jumper as close to the whales as possible cause that’s a good plan.
- I need an icon that says "Did you say vales?" Seriously.
- Zelenka raced homing pigeons. And Rodney will stop in the middle of a crisis to make fun of him for it. You’d think that in racing homing pigeons most people would focus on breeding faster birds or training the birds, but not Radek. No. His contribution is to check the sun for solar flares to see if the magnetic field of the Earth is affected. Radek, you are such an astrophycisist.
- Caldwell wants to nuke the telepathic baby whales. Oh yeah.
I must say I was actually surprised by the plot. I caught on early that the visions were from the whales, but I thought it was going to be some stupid something about the Ancients, in their brief time there, capturing and experimenting on one of the whales and the other whales coming to rescue their comrade, etc. etc. It says something about my expectations about the quality of writing on the show that I really believed that. Instead I got telepathic whales with genetic memory trying to save themselves from mass extinction. And the writers come up with another contrived way for them to drain a ZPM. Can’t they hold onto these things for more than a week? Seriously.
The one gripe I have: in all the talk of the solar flare causing mass extinction and Weir pointing out that they could save Atlantis, nobody even mentions the Athosian settlement. There isn’t any attempt to evacuate them to the shielded city or to the Daedelus. It doesn’t even seem to enter into their analysis of the situation. I’m going to blame their not thinking clearly on everyone having a headache.
In conclusion, this episode is about John and Rodney adopting a telepathic baby whale.
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Date: 2006-11-29 06:36 pm (UTC)Also, about the Athosian settlement - omg so true. Although, John did mention something about moving everyone to the Alpha site. Maybe he was thinking of them?