Yep, still watching Stargate...
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deird_lj...and it's just as strange as ever.
I was extremely upset to discover that the opening credits haven't changed since season 1. I like my opening credits to change as often as possible - yet another reason why I love Battlestar Galactica.
The Serpent's Lair was a reasonably good way of resolving last season's cliffhanger. However, I did get sort of... puzzled.
You see, the Earth people had launched an awesome attack against the Goa'uld ships, which had failed utterly. And they were worried about it. Very worried. So worried that they were sending colonists to another planet in an attempt to preserve the human race, and talking about "dying honourably" and so forth. And they didn't actually have a clue what SG1 were up to. And then, one of them picked up the phone and mentioned that there were "reports all over the world about a huge fireball in the sky".
Leaving aside the question of how they're getting all of these round-the-world reports, I think if I knew that a huge alien warship was orbiting the planet, my first thought re "huge fireballs in the sky" would be "Aargh! We're being attacked!" followed by lots of screaming.
The Stargate people did not scream. They cheered. Somehow, "huge fireball" quite obviously meant "the SG1 team has done it again!" rather than anything more ominous...
In other news, I have decided that the sight of Teal'c raising one eyebrow is just about the coolest thing in the history of mankind.
Next episode was The Line of Duty - and I have decided that Sam Carter suffers from a chronic case of Main Character Invulnerability. You cannot harm the woman! Even if she gets taken over by a Go'uld, it all ends well - because she's Sam Carter. And no-one wants to see her get hurt.
This is kinda helpful - after all, given the amount of peril they end up in, they'd probably end up dying pretty much every week - but is also just a little bit annoying.
The whole idea of nice Goa'uld was sort of interesting, though.
Then there's Prisoners. An episode in which they learn how to create nuclear fusion by pouring water onto plants, and once again demonstrate a very weird understanding of electricity. I don't expect perfect physics knowledge from my tv shows, but for the record? Wrapping coils of wire (or, in this case, ferns) around an object, and then putting electric currents through the coils, should not be enough to activate a Stargate.
And of course there was the whole setting-the-really-evil-chick-loose-and- giving-her-cool-technology-to-assist-her-mission-of-doom thing. Which was understandable, really. But honestly, if someone sees the mysterious woman who is in prison for life, and his first reaction is to freak out and run away, you should find out why! Or, you know, just assume she's lovely and help her to break out of jail. Your call...
The Gamekeeper was pretty boring, really. And I have nothing much to say about it.
I am, however, extremely proud of myself for realising that they were still inside the simulation the moment they "woke up". I think this comes of watching far too much Lois & Clark...
After that, we have Need. And I really love Daniel when he starts going crazy. And also when he's paranoid, violent, or just scared. He suddenly gets really fun.
And finally?
I was extremely thrilled.
Because the ridiculous way they rescued Teal'c actually came back to haunt them. Yay!
Thor's Chariot is of course a follow up to Thor's Hammer - and suddenly all the Cimmerians realise that SG1 destroyed their only defense, and start getting annoyed with them. Which is fair enough, because the Goa'uld have wiped out half their planet.
I did wonder why the Goa'uld came over to check out the planet, given that they were all incredibly afraid of it last time we checked - but maybe they had some sort of detection rays. At any rate - consequences! SG1 are not perfect! I was very happy.
For some reason, Thor seems to think that
1) helping people to cross bridges, and
2) fingerpainting in sand
are the two marks of civilised people. I'm not entirely sure why...
At any rate, it's still pretty entertaining. As long as I don't think about it too much.
The Serpent's Lair was a reasonably good way of resolving last season's cliffhanger. However, I did get sort of... puzzled.
You see, the Earth people had launched an awesome attack against the Goa'uld ships, which had failed utterly. And they were worried about it. Very worried. So worried that they were sending colonists to another planet in an attempt to preserve the human race, and talking about "dying honourably" and so forth. And they didn't actually have a clue what SG1 were up to. And then, one of them picked up the phone and mentioned that there were "reports all over the world about a huge fireball in the sky".
Leaving aside the question of how they're getting all of these round-the-world reports, I think if I knew that a huge alien warship was orbiting the planet, my first thought re "huge fireballs in the sky" would be "Aargh! We're being attacked!" followed by lots of screaming.
The Stargate people did not scream. They cheered. Somehow, "huge fireball" quite obviously meant "the SG1 team has done it again!" rather than anything more ominous...
In other news, I have decided that the sight of Teal'c raising one eyebrow is just about the coolest thing in the history of mankind.
Next episode was The Line of Duty - and I have decided that Sam Carter suffers from a chronic case of Main Character Invulnerability. You cannot harm the woman! Even if she gets taken over by a Go'uld, it all ends well - because she's Sam Carter. And no-one wants to see her get hurt.
This is kinda helpful - after all, given the amount of peril they end up in, they'd probably end up dying pretty much every week - but is also just a little bit annoying.
The whole idea of nice Goa'uld was sort of interesting, though.
Then there's Prisoners. An episode in which they learn how to create nuclear fusion by pouring water onto plants, and once again demonstrate a very weird understanding of electricity. I don't expect perfect physics knowledge from my tv shows, but for the record? Wrapping coils of wire (or, in this case, ferns) around an object, and then putting electric currents through the coils, should not be enough to activate a Stargate.
And of course there was the whole setting-the-really-evil-chick-loose-and- giving-her-cool-technology-to-assist-her-mission-of-doom thing. Which was understandable, really. But honestly, if someone sees the mysterious woman who is in prison for life, and his first reaction is to freak out and run away, you should find out why! Or, you know, just assume she's lovely and help her to break out of jail. Your call...
The Gamekeeper was pretty boring, really. And I have nothing much to say about it.
I am, however, extremely proud of myself for realising that they were still inside the simulation the moment they "woke up". I think this comes of watching far too much Lois & Clark...
After that, we have Need. And I really love Daniel when he starts going crazy. And also when he's paranoid, violent, or just scared. He suddenly gets really fun.
And finally?
I was extremely thrilled.
Because the ridiculous way they rescued Teal'c actually came back to haunt them. Yay!
Thor's Chariot is of course a follow up to Thor's Hammer - and suddenly all the Cimmerians realise that SG1 destroyed their only defense, and start getting annoyed with them. Which is fair enough, because the Goa'uld have wiped out half their planet.
I did wonder why the Goa'uld came over to check out the planet, given that they were all incredibly afraid of it last time we checked - but maybe they had some sort of detection rays. At any rate - consequences! SG1 are not perfect! I was very happy.
For some reason, Thor seems to think that
1) helping people to cross bridges, and
2) fingerpainting in sand
are the two marks of civilised people. I'm not entirely sure why...
At any rate, it's still pretty entertaining. As long as I don't think about it too much.
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Date: 2008-08-03 06:00 am (UTC)Totally agreed. However, given the amount of "ancient astronaut" technology in the show, some of it is inevitably going to be inexplicably easy to use--I don't quite understand why, but that's how it works. Also I seem to remember that this episode aired a fairly short time after the real-life "cold fusion" mixup, so perhaps that had something to do with it.
Because the ridiculous way they rescued Teal'c actually came back to haunt them. Yay!
There is actually quite a bit of this in the show--Earth humans, even if they're the best hope the galaxy has at the moment, are far far away from perfect. That seems to be an important premise of the show.
For some reason, Thor seems to think that
1) helping people to cross bridges, and
2) fingerpainting in sand
are the two marks of civilised people. I'm not entirely sure why...
Hehehe...I'm pretty sure that these were supposed to work out to "bravery and self-sacrifice for others" and "a basic level of mathematical knowledge". Personally I'd want a little more before popping up in my true form to people I've been fooling into thinking I was a god for centuries, but I guess it's Thor's call, and he does have the bad example of the Goa'uld to surpass....
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Date: 2008-08-04 08:32 am (UTC)Oh good! I like shows that believe in consequences.
Actually, my opinion of Stargate started improving the most Sam Carter was Goa'uld infected and the characters actually remembered an episode that happened a season earlier. Shows that remember past events and build on them are SO much fun...
Personally I'd want a little more before popping up in my true form to people I've been fooling into thinking I was a god for centuries
Yeah. Think I would too.