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Stargate Atlantis 2.15 The Tower
One of the most terrible episodes ever. John is chasing alien tail, Carson is useless waste of time, the villains are Star Trek Voyager extra rejects, Ronon plays Rambo in the middle of nowhere. And Rodney is left to his own devices in hostile environment with some random village dude.
On the other hand, ‘Irresistible’ is way worse.
Wait, this is the episode where they redecorate the Atlantis gateroom with extra props left over from low budget historical dramas and John gets molested by a princess and there’s a stupid inbred ginger prince? And Rodney fucks around underground and causes massive earthquakes by way of drones?
I actually kinda liked that episode. I had been wondering if they were going to bother dealing with the ramifications of genetic keys in a post-ancient galaxy in a more traditional sci-fi way and then they did. And, agreed, it was dumb. But it was also kinda cute. Like, baby’s first cultural divide.
Really though if only there had been a planned plot arc or something there could have been callbacks to the Carson bit in this episode… everyone is just so INCREDIBLY STUPID, oh, hey, let’s just introduce gene therapy to an entire galaxy of unprepared uneducated mooks who have been bred to be as cattle for the past frabjillion years. Surely, nothing can go wrong!
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McKAY: Their operating system is a mess. Thank goodness I remember DOS. (He touches a couple of buttons, then turns to Ronon.) Trust me, that was hilarious.
NGL, when Rodney made the joke I snorted with laughter and then when he told Ronon it was funny I was like “IT TOTALLY WAS!” and then I felt confused and slightly shameful.
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2.12 - Epiphany
john, your rubbish beard does nothing to disguise how secretly upset you are about not having access to hair product.
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Mizu's Miscellany: man why isn’t there an epic SGA fic wherein John gets bugified and... →
man why isn’t there an epic SGA fic wherein John gets bugified and stays that way (but is sane and all that stuff, just… blue, and has bugpowers) and Rodney stays semi-ascended so he has telekinesis (primarily for stealing other people’s donuts and also for rerouting crystals with his brain) and Teyla gets way Wraith-ier and increases her empath stuff due to some difficulty in reversing the whole fake wraith queen thing (or maybe it’s not so fake after all, idk) and Elizabeth comes back and is their friendly Replicator buddy (she would be like Data only emotional) and Ford finally shows up again and is like a whackadoodle chaotic-good space pirate with an eyepatch (once he finally gets off the druuuugs maaan) and THE ONLY NORMAL PERSON ON THE WHOLE TEAM IS RONON and obviously with their freakydeaky powers combined they save the galaxy.
I just want all of them to be freaks together.
I WANT THIS SHOW.
It’d never work as a show. As a fic, though, we could have McShep action, and John’s bugginess could be PROPERLY alien, and Elizabeth could investigate the essence of soul and self, and and and and blah. Somebody write iiit
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man why isn’t there an epic SGA fic wherein John gets bugified and stays that way (but is sane and all that stuff, just… blue, and has bugpowers) and Rodney stays semi-ascended so he has telekinesis (primarily for stealing other people’s donuts and also for rerouting crystals with his brain) and Teyla gets way Wraith-ier and increases her empath stuff due to some difficulty in reversing the whole fake wraith queen thing (or maybe it’s not so fake after all, idk) and Elizabeth comes back and is their friendly Replicator buddy (she would be like Data only emotional) and Ford finally shows up again and is like a whackadoodle chaotic-good space pirate with an eyepatch (once he finally gets off the druuuugs maaan) and THE ONLY NORMAL PERSON ON THE WHOLE TEAM IS RONON and obviously with their freakydeaky powers combined they save the galaxy.
I just want all of them to be freaks together.
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Awww lookit them all so happy! I just need to shop Ronon into the side and it’ll be the whole team!
so presh!
(via heckyeahjoeflanigan)
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“I used to be a brilliant scientist like you, then I took an arrow in the ass.”
perhaps McKay’s finest moment?
Props to Mr. Hewlett, because I particularly enjoyed how although he calls them “you but [with] messy hair… a pretty girl and a caveman” it’s still important to him that he find them; that his descriptions are not value judgments. A caveman, as McKay now knows, as well as a pretty girl, can be just as capable and important, and in this moment, entertaining, as anybody else.
(Source: alduin, via fuckyeahstargate)
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Rodney and John as ponies x3
I’m so weird.
OH NO.
now I have to go pshop all the Stargate characters as ponies. THIS IS SO DANGEROUS AAAAAAAAAAH
IDK that McKay’s cutiemark would be a planet. I think it would be something more fundamental to physics. Maybe an 11th dimensional hypercube? They’re purty. Although I can’t remember if they decided that string theory was applicable to stargates or not. Maybe just an ancient crystal, then. Or a FRUITCUP, hahaha~
I like that he has short hair though! Long flowing locks would just in the way of his doing Science! you know? Science! waits for nopony!
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i can tell that I’m winding down in my fervent absorption of as much SGA fic as humanly possible. and in retrospect, I have to say that in a way I’m glad the show got cancelled after 5 seasons.
Not because I wouldn’t have watched the hell out of two more and a movie, or that I suspect they wouldn’t have been the best the show had to offer. But because, seriously, truly, the only continued extension of the ideas put forth in the show would have been for Atlantis to secede from Earth. And I’m not just saying that because Victorsverse is burnt into my brain - every time I come across the concept in a fic it fits RIGHT into that little slot, every time some other feasible future for the city is proffered it feels twisted and wrong, every time it’s posited that things could just continue on as they are I want to groan under the weight of unexamined motivations, of writers shutting their eyes against glaring imperialist precedence.
And I know that the people who make Stargate could NEVER get away with such a story line on TV, or even in DVD movies. The stargate verse is, at its core, about Earth, and specifically about the US Air Force, and doing the show RIGHT, with a secession and a declaration and probably a war in which Earth is the enemy is completely unfeasible.
So thank god for fanfic, I suppose, and I guess I’m okay with the show’s early cancellation, because I’m not sure I would have been able to STAND two more seasons’ worth of episodic bullshit wherein Woolsey buys off the anger of a galaxy owed far too much with a goddamn pocket watch, only metaphorically the next 30 times it happens.
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positronicbrain replied to your post: When we watched Stargate Atlantis my BFF told me…i never got like SUPER into sga, but i watched it and loved zelenka and briefly totally shipped him with mckay.
Eeeeew Zelenka/McKay is like shipping INCEST. I will fight for your right to ship it but I will never ship it myself. Eeeewwww~
Zelenka is like McKay’s cooler chiller younger sibling who speaks his secret language but has different priorities (pigeons!) and different life goals and is quietly grateful that McKay is first for most things.
Maybe I identify really strongly with Zelenka this way? If McKay is my brother, then I guess I’m Zelenka? EPIPHANY~~~~
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hrmmmm I guess I can see the shippery, like, team!science! and everything, and there’s that whole character arc of McKay’s where he becomes vocally appreciative of Zelenka that’s super sweet and heartwarming, and if you’re operating on a bromance-only angle for McKay/Sheppard then you’re not going to automatically fall into the Zelenka/Lorne B-team homefront ship, and they DO finish each others’ sentences. But no. Nope, not feelin’ it. McKay’s too volatile, Zelenka deserves better.
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When we watched Stargate Atlantis my BFF told me Radek Zelenka would be my favorite character, and he was absolutely correct. He ALSO pointed and said loudly “Canadian Chuck!” the second he was on screen. I was like “huh?” and he said “look! it’s Canadian Chuck! He’s the new Walter. And he’s got the hots for Elizabeth.”
So, I admitted that Canadian Chuck was a cutie and accepted that there would be some cute interlude with Chuck gazing longingly or whatever at Elizabeth, but it never came. And when Elizabeth died, however many freaking times, no outpouring of emotion came, either. So I turned to him and was all “you lied! Canadian Chuck doesn’t have a thing for Elizabeth!” and he serenely informed me that it was all in Chuck’s background acting or something, and that he could just tell or whatever.
My BFF is not prone to declaring stuff like this; that’s FAR more in my area of expertise. He doesn’t, like, ship stuff, as a rule. So I was pretty weirded out.
And now I’m all reading the many years of backlogged SGA fanfic and fandom stuffand it turns out that everyone ELSE saw RADEK ZELENKA as the one who secretly was in love with Elizabeth in the background the whole time, and Canadian Chuck was some kind of black-market-go-to-guy and all-around ancient city bicycle. I have to tell you that this is pretty much the opposite of how I watched the show, although I never saw the Chuck/Elizabeth thing, I also never saw the Zelenka/Elizabeth thing and much prefer the idea of Radek being a super badass awesome dude who gets it whenever he wants it by way of his bohemian charms.
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4.14 - Harmony
reblobbin this for my BFF who was all like “wait for it…” “wait for it…” “wait for it…” this ENTIRE FREAKING EPISODE and then it got to this scene and he was all “ohmygodohmygodohmygod WAIT FOR IIIIT” and then he pretty much fell out of the chair laughing. Like, dude, I get it, hilarious to the extreme, but still. That was a bit much.
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McKAY: Explosives expert, huh?
CADMAN: High temperature and energetic materials technology. And I can tap dance, too.
Cadman was so badass. And delightful! And flippant and impulsive and competent and her pretty pretty strawberry hair oh my GAWD I loved her.
I wish she’d been on the team. Or something, dammit. She could have been there instead of Teyla. Screw Teyla, man, Teyla could have been a guest star or whatever, not the other way around. CAAADMAAAAN *shakes fist*
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SGA - deleted scene
(they were supposed to be watching Battlestar Galactica)
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HOW COULD THEY HAVE CUT THIS OUT OF THE EPISODE?
FUCKING BRILLIANT.
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