SGA 502: The Seed

[bluflamingo]

1. Okay, much as I liked this episode, which is really a lot, I like my sci-fi without tentacle monsters *shudder*

2. That said, I loved Keller with the tentacle monster, especially the way she looks like she's seconds from bursting into tears when they just turn out the lights and leave her there. Would a reassuring, 'we'll be back for you,' have killed them? Or even putting her back into a coma so she didn't know what was going on?

3. Teyla and Keller, and baby Torrin. So, so much love for Teyla in this episode, being all reassuring and rescuing Zelenka and giving orders to the marines. Someone's got a screen cap of her looking over her shoulder at Keller and smiling right before she leaves with Torrin, right? Because that is a *very* pretty shot.

3. Random comment: for a city that's always trying to conserve power, and which has a very small population, what the hell's with every light in the city being on all the time? They can't possibly live that far out from the central tower, not when there's only a few hundred people living there.

4. Yay for explanations of where people have gone - Kanaan and the hybrids are being cured! Carson is fixed (and going back to Earth, please God never to be seen again)! People miss Sam! Lorne... okay, Lorne is busy being turned into a tentacle monster, which must be additionally fun with a broken leg. Him and Sheppard - not off to a good start this season.

5. I know I said this last week, but someone wrap Sheppard in a blanket and put him to bed - he looks *exhausted*. And two stomach wounds within a month cannot be good; neither can crashing a jumper into a wall, and, need we remind you, Sheppard, that Carson's last untested retrovirus was responsible for you turning into a bug?? Not that I didn't love his face when Carson said this one might kill him - like, stop trying to reassure me, cos it's not working. Also his face when he found Keller, kind of stunned and creeped out and... yeah, that's how I'd be looking in his place.

6. We'll just skip over where Teyla disappeared to in the second half of the episode (seriously, one of her best friends is being injected with a potentially deadly virus and she's, what, taking a nap?!) in favour of pointing out how much I love Ronon and the way he paces about when Sheppard flatlines, like he wants to do *something* anything, and knows he can't. Also how blase he is about restraining Sheppard - more than we needed to know about the two of them, I think :)

7. Reserving judgement on Woolsey, though I will say that he totally knows Sheppard and how to manipulate him. And I have to say, Sheppard wouldn't be my first choice for someone to reassure me about having to break the rules - it's what he *does*.

8. I know this is immensely shallow but, what's up with the multitude of different uniform colours? Have there always been green ones? Not that they aren't pretty, of course. On the subject of which - much as I like the sudden proliferation of female characters, could we maybe give them names as they're introduced.

9. So far, very much liking this season, though if this could be the last of the tentacle monsters, that'd be nice.

Comments

[carta.livejournal.com]

for a city that's always trying to conserve power, and which has a very small population, what the hell's with every light in the city being on all the time?
YES EXACTLY. Good grief, people. turn off some lights.

Have there always been green ones?
Yeah, I don't remember green ones either. I noticed those last week and was confused. I remain confused.

I know I said this last week, but someone wrap Sheppard in a blanket and put him to bed - he looks *exhausted*.
Aw, remember last season when Flanigan had a cold, and Sheppard wheezed and throaty-voiced his way through something like five episodes? Poor guy, he does not seem to do well coming back from hiatus.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Good grief, people. turn off some lights

I know! I remember hand-waving it once as them not having figured out how to do it, but now they have light switches in canon... although I suppose going around and turning off every light would be quite time-consuming...

[domtheknight.livejournal.com]

The tentacles were gross, but I think the concept was really cool. All in all, I liked this episode, too. But, I can't remember about the green uniforms; red is command, blue is science, yellow is medical, so what's left? (To be honest, I can't even remember who was wearing green this last time around. Maybe if I watch it some more times I'll remember to pay attention and figure it out...)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

But, I can't remember about the green uniforms; red is command, blue is science, yellow is medical, so what's left?

Both the gate techs were wearing green, but I was sure they used to wear grey, like the military people. I mean, isn't Chuck a sergeant?

[domtheknight.livejournal.com]

But isn't Chuck from another military, not American? I thought he was Canadian. Maybe that's just fanon.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I don't think they ever say where he's from; I always figured everyone got colour-coded by department regardless of where they came from. Like maybe that was the point of the colour-coding, in a way?

[domtheknight.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll admit I didn't know where I was going with that... you're right, if he's just military, it shouldn't matter, so he must have some other job designation.

Now this is going to drive me nuts. Off to search the internets. if I find anything I'll come back and let you know.

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

Chuck's always had a green one. I would suspect it's probably worn by the support people who make the city actually work but aren't really scientists. There's got to be a few of them, because god knows the PhDs are going to rapidly become less thrilled about performing basic maintenance after, oh, a day. Of course, Chuck throws that off a bit by being a sergeant and yet not wearing the military grey, but maybe that's just for combat personnel. Or maybe he's a Mountie. Who knows.

Also, I'm going to second that hurrah for explanations about what's happening to people. It's a nice change from forgetting everything as usually happens, and they even remember that Lorne and Sam would also be turning into horrible tentacle monsters. It was a nice touch.

Woolsey... well, he's always been a nice-ish guy underneath, and since he didn't quite panic this time around he seems okay. Let's hope he stays that way.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

Chuck's always had a green one.

Really? I always thought he was wearing military black/grey. Now I have to go watch some old eps to check - not that I don't believe you, just that I want to see how I managed to mis-see green as grey!

[slybrarian.livejournal.com]

Yep. I didn't really notice myself until going through some caps for iconage purposes. It is a fairly dark green, to be fair. Click here (http://i55.photobucket.com/albums/g132/slybrarian/chuck_1.jpg) for an example.

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

*squee with you* I got my grubby paws on eps 1 & 2 yesterday. And watched them immediately.

I am pretty much with you on this episode all the way through. I'll see if I can get a screen cap of that moment you're referring to. :)

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I'll see if I can get a screen cap of that moment you're referring to. :)

You would earn my undying gratitude :) I try, but I always end up with the top right hand corner only, for some reason.

[lyonza.livejournal.com]

I'll of course have to figure out how to DO screen caps - never done them to date.

But how awesome was the episode with lots of Jennifer?

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

But how awesome was the episode with lots of Jennifer?

I know! I'm so glad she's been added to the main cast :)

[bruinsfan.livejournal.com]

We'll just skip over where Teyla disappeared to in the second half of the episode (seriously, one of her best friends is being injected with a potentially deadly virus and she's, what, taking a nap?!)

I can actually see her priority #1 becoming getting Torrin out of the city once it was revealed that dangerous prehensile tentacles were sprouting out of the walls all over a section of Atlantis.

[bluflamingo.livejournal.com]

I can actually see her priority #1 becoming getting Torrin out of the city once it was revealed that dangerous prehensile tentacles were sprouting out of the walls all over a section of Atlantis.

That makes a lot of sense - I just wish they'd *say*, you know, instead of having people just randomly disappear. Like with Sam last season - I know there were reasons why the actor couldn't do every episode, but a simple, oh, Sam's, whatever, off world meeting our trading partners/visiting Earth/over at Midway would have been nice! Else it seems like they're just hoping we won't notice the magical disappearance of whoever.