SGA The Return pt. 2: SPOILERS
Nov. 22nd, 2006 08:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justalurkredited to add: I am informed that Brad Turner, not Brad Wright, directed "The Return, Part 2." Six of one, half dozen of the other, as far as I'm concerned. Sticklers for accuracy should mentally substitute "Turner" for "Wright" wherever applicable.
I thought a night's sleep might put a little perspective on the episode for me. My reaction was a little less than civil, after all. So, seven and a half hours of slumber later:
Lest everyone think I'm just pooh-poohing this episode because of one sucky line at the end of it (though, in the interests of full disclosure, that did put an unusually high patina of contempt on it for me,) allow me to at least partially list the warts:
1. Someone must've told Wright he had to include John/Rodney banter. Evil is his laugh and comprehensive is his revenge as he reduces them both to whining bitches in the most unpleasant way possible.
2. "The Ancients are all dead." Full stop. The race (or descendants thereof) who built the Stargates, Atlantis, the weapon at Dakara and, for crying in the night, the Replicators, went out like a Glade scented candle that's used all its oil. Lame. Like, there's no way they could have figured out a fallback position on their own? I'll bet if she'd been there, Carter coulda saved'm all with a singly bat of her doe-y little eyes!
3. Woolsey. It's like an embarassment of joke-butts with him and McKay in a Brad Wright episode. Was it necessary to make him that obnoxious?
4. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! The whole flashback to what really happened, hah hah!, could not possibly have been lamer. Oh, OK: maybe if they'd re-inserted Carter in holgraphic form, giving them the plan with words-of-one-syllable directions, which I'm sure crossed Wright's mind in the middle of a particularly fevered wank session, it could have been lamer, but probably not.
In conclusion? Brad Wright shouldn't be allowed to direct a promo spot for Atlantis, let alone an entire episode.
edited to add the proposed note:
Dear Bridge:
In case it had escaped your notice, Sci Fi DROPPED SG-1 and PICKED UP Atlantis. Do you really think an episode-length ode to how much better everything is with a little SG-1 is appropriate at this juncture? Next time, get someone who likes Atlantis to direct the show.
No love,
~C
I thought a night's sleep might put a little perspective on the episode for me. My reaction was a little less than civil, after all. So, seven and a half hours of slumber later:
Lest everyone think I'm just pooh-poohing this episode because of one sucky line at the end of it (though, in the interests of full disclosure, that did put an unusually high patina of contempt on it for me,) allow me to at least partially list the warts:
1. Someone must've told Wright he had to include John/Rodney banter. Evil is his laugh and comprehensive is his revenge as he reduces them both to whining bitches in the most unpleasant way possible.
2. "The Ancients are all dead." Full stop. The race (or descendants thereof) who built the Stargates, Atlantis, the weapon at Dakara and, for crying in the night, the Replicators, went out like a Glade scented candle that's used all its oil. Lame. Like, there's no way they could have figured out a fallback position on their own? I'll bet if she'd been there, Carter coulda saved'm all with a singly bat of her doe-y little eyes!
3. Woolsey. It's like an embarassment of joke-butts with him and McKay in a Brad Wright episode. Was it necessary to make him that obnoxious?
4. Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat! The whole flashback to what really happened, hah hah!, could not possibly have been lamer. Oh, OK: maybe if they'd re-inserted Carter in holgraphic form, giving them the plan with words-of-one-syllable directions, which I'm sure crossed Wright's mind in the middle of a particularly fevered wank session, it could have been lamer, but probably not.
In conclusion? Brad Wright shouldn't be allowed to direct a promo spot for Atlantis, let alone an entire episode.
edited to add the proposed note:
Dear Bridge:
In case it had escaped your notice, Sci Fi DROPPED SG-1 and PICKED UP Atlantis. Do you really think an episode-length ode to how much better everything is with a little SG-1 is appropriate at this juncture? Next time, get someone who likes Atlantis to direct the show.
No love,
~C
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Date: 2006-11-22 06:46 pm (UTC)That's kind of odd, considering how much they usually were saying how much better things are on Atlantis. But perhaps this is part of the "last hurrah" for SG-1.
Or maybe they got confused which show they were on? I didn't care for The Pegasus Project crossover all that much, because the SGA folks weren't themselves (SG-1 stopped resembling SG-1 a long time ago). Which really gives me the willies considering who're they're planning to have guest starring on Atlantis next season. I have a feeling the show might be renamed. Atlantis: Who's the Star Now?
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Date: 2006-11-22 06:52 pm (UTC)We saw last night that one half of the USS Sam'n'Jack doesn't even have to be there for the 'ship to sink the show.
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:17 am (UTC)If Sam's on Atlantis and so much as looks at anyone else, especially one of the regular cast, the S/J shippers will be aghast.
Surely they're not going to continue a one-sided ship from another galaxy? [looks at the writers] [sigh] Never. Mind. Knowing them, they'll talk RDA into guest appearences that accidentally-on-purpose happen to be in episodes with AT also appearing.
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Date: 2006-11-23 02:25 am (UTC)That was so very lame. We'll never know now why they were so all-fired up to get the humans out of their city so quickly.
Oh. Wait. Plot device. Never. Mind.
Hmmm... you'd think that since the Ancients created the Replicators and the device used to destroy them was created by Jack getting the info out of an Ancient device, that, ya know, the Ancients might know how to build one too.
[boom]
Sorry for the logic bomb. Hope it didn't kill any electrons in your journal. ;)
But no, nothing so logical. We humans are now Top Dog in two galaxies. Fear us.