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Well, this is it: Uninvited. The very last episode of SG-1 that I've never watched. I can't say I'm looking forward to it much (which may explain why I've dragged it out so long.) No Stargate; Landry; and an attempt at teamy goodness without the entire team. I, er, am not being very open about this, am I?
Okay, I'll try. Even Family Ties had a moment or two of squee. I hope to find some here.
I go into this knowing that the team-plus-Landry is at Jack's cabin for some bonding (minus Daniel) and that other-dimensional monsters mean that the SGC loses the convenience of invisibility a la the Sodan's devices. No real review here, just reactions as I watch. Onwards!
Barrett! Oh, last time we saw him, he was being brainwashed. Last decent guy at the NID gone. Does this mean we get him back, sort of?
Did we know Jack had a cabin other than the way with the lake in the back?
Okay, let me get this straight: Sam is in charge of the SGC in the absence of Reynolds. Er. What are SG team leaders (or not-leaders, in Sam's case) doing running a base?! I know we've discussed this before but really, writers, there are multiple commanders at military bases. You don't expect Hammond/Jack/Landry to be on duty 24/7. If Landry is taking off (and I like him better in this shirt he must've raided from Daniel's closet than I do in his uniform), then another base commander should be in charge, not Sam or Reynolds! Mind you, I like Reynolds. A lot. But the idea that the teams need to step up and run the SGC when the general isn't around is just plain stupid. I know, I know, it happens more than once in canon. But it's still stupid, sigh.
Landry is trying to make Cam relax so he orders him to have fun? Oh, Landry, why do you make it so hard to like you?
Oh, the colored filter view reminds me of Unas!vision. Good times.
I have so much love for alien skies. Such a gorgeous shortcut for "and now we are on another planet."
Reynolds, whee! Teal'c! ::squishes them::
Why is Reynolds wearing light-colored boots? Is that normal for camoflauge BDUs? The other SG-3 team members have 'em too; Teal'c is wearing regulation black.
Whoa. Major Sam hostility for Vala here. I don't remember ever seeing a reference to this. Sam was pretty cool to Vala at the beginning of S9, but this takes me aback. It'll be interesting to see if any friendship develops over the course of the ep.
If Sam is in charge till Reynolds gets back (and presumably takes over), it's a little odd to see her giving Reynolds a command about going back to the planet. I am... a little lost. OTOH, I do like to see Sam-in-command. She does it well, although I think she's happier when she's not in a command position. (Let someone else do the paperwork, so I have time to tinker with shiny things that blow up.)
Also, SG-25! Is that the highest team number we've ever seen?
Vala is supposed to be on probation to join the team. The bounty bargaining with Teal'c seems out of place.
Big honkin' laptops! Better than the days when they had bulky screens and Netscape browsers :D but still fun to see. If SG-1 would still be going on missions, we'd likely see ipads.
Landry says "SG-3 and 5" but Sam said "SG-3 and SG-25." Which one?
So if Cam finished his mission report an hour ago, what's he been doing? Writing fanfic? :)
I really do miss Teal'c running around with his staff weapon. Big honkin' guns just aren't the same.
Poor SG-25.
Why does SG-25 wear different camo? Odd. And silly Teal'c, wandering off on his own - you know better than that, Teal'c! But hee, love the way he practically lifts the wounded team guy off his feet while he carts him to safety.
I gotta say, I feel really sorry for Mitchell, stuck in that cabin with Landry.
For all you drinkers out there, what is "Red Snipe" exactly? Some kind of beer? Is it any good?
"I've learned that I can't handle any of this without the rest of SG-1." Oh, Cam, that's what a team is for.
"We either win, or we die." "I prefer winning, sir." Heh, yes. But this rings very false to me. Cam is giving up and Landry is giving him a pep talk? Where does this come from?
(Look, I know I'm inclined to see Landry in an unfavorable light. This has nothing to do with the actor -- I do not like the character. But I've seen nothing to suggest that Cam is depressed or feels he can't cut it, or any sign of Landry being someone to inspire his people. If anything, it's the other way around.)
Hee! I was waiting for Vala to bring on the innuendo. :) And may I say again how much I adore Vala with Teal'c? I love their chemistry. (Gennish, thank yew.)
Where's the injured guy that Teal'c was hauling to the Gate?
Power gone out with scary thunderstorm in cabin in the wilderness with something stalking them, dun dun dun! Not that there's any cliche here or anything, oh no.
Er, I do not believe that Jack keeps a couple of swords mounted and framed over the fireplace in his cabin.
"Phones are down" because it's a cordless without electricity, not nec'ly because the lines are down. Get your facts straight, people.
"I'll try not to shoot you before morning." "Thank you, sir. Same here." Hee hee hee.
Okay, I'm a little amused by Landry solemnly stating that he couldn't use a chopper for personal use and then adding, "Besides, I already checked. There isn't one." But only a little. Because it's kinda hypocritical. I'd take it from Jack but not from Landry, which may not be fair. (And I don't think George would ever do that. George had class.) But heh, poor Mitchell. His facial expression was great.
YAY to Vala using the healing device. With Sam it was always hit or miss, but Vala seems to know what she's doing with it. I'd love to do some meta on the healing device one day -- should it be used regularly, does it have any sarc connections, do people suffering off-world injuries have the right to off-world tech to help them recover? -- but it'll have to wait.
Yay for canon continuity with Sam's reference to Weir!
Isn't the point of this to make Landry likable? Forcing Cam to go duck-watching with him isn't the way I would've chosen, writers.
"Permission to leave, sir?" Before I burst out laughing? :)
Jogging! I didn't know we see Mitchell jogging before Unending.
Whee for competent women! I have a thing about competence at the SGC. And nice to see competence coming from Area 51, too.
Why, yes, Sam, I was making the same face.
Ugh. Yay Teal'c and a zat! "Thank you!" Gracious head nod. ::squishes Teal'c.::
S9-10 really is more gory than previous seasons, isn't it? Many of us were shocked that they actually showed Vala burning alive. I actually covered parts of the screen with my hand when I watched Talion. The dismembered dead here are really kinda yuck.
Aha. So the SG teams are bringing the DNA-mutating parasites with them. This is where vague foreknowledge does me a disservice, because I'm guessing the teams are using the Sodan invisibility gizmos and that is somehow dragging the otherdimensional parasites into this dimension. Or whatever the technobabble turns out to be. But yay for Sam and Vala and Teal'c doing detective work!
Did I mention how much I enjoy seeing Sam-in-command? I love that she had the smarts to recall all the cloaking thingies. And one is missing. presumably somewhere near Jack's cabin.
Huh. Talk about hanging a lantern on things, with Sam and Teal'c talking about how very much reduced the mere idea of the Goa'uld has become. I may have mentioned my dislike for that idea once or twice in the past. Not sure why Sam is surprised that Teal'c would use the "ironic" -- he's always had a good vocabulary, so maybe she means that he's so much less literal than he used to be? -- but that little smile of his makes my teamy goodness squee go up to 9. :)
Annnd there's our little sucker. Teal'c doesn't shoot it immediately because he needs to exchange dramatic looks with Sam first.
::headdesks:: Never, never mix real-life politics into television shows. It's outdated and anachronistic in less than five years, and it neatly alienates at least half your fan base. What for? If you want to draw parallels, at least keep it vague enough so that people can ignore it if they want, but this... ::sighs::
So what exactly is the rogue NID agent doing so coincidentally next to Jack's cabin? Kudos to Cam, though, for realizing it was a cloaking device -- I thought the guy was up in the tree.
Bechdel test, WHEE! Oh, I like this woman. I'm sorry we don't see more of her. "Ah, I meant the 'transition to our dimension' part."
Vala's effort to make the warning label a little less verbose made me grin.
Aha. So he was ordered to spy on Landry and Mitchell and the rest of SG-1 in the cabin, because you never know what those sneaky SGC types will do when they're out bird-watching... ::rolls eyes:: Tell me he was supposed to sneak into the SGC and got sidetracked. Please. OTOH, slightly amused at how cringy Bad Guy is at the sight of blood and how matter-of-fact Mitchell is about it.
"What are you talking about?" That. is. pathetic. Someone in the Trust who never even heard of the Goa'uld? Sheesh. Aha, and I just hit the pause button and he does know what a Goa'uld is. Also, the chewing gum is getting on my nerves. Almost nice to think that the Trust followers are just idiots and not deliberately Goa'uld-followers.
I really wish we could've had General Sam instead of General Landry. I love Sam-in-command. 'Course, I love her on the team, too, so that wouldn't work too well...
Alas, poor Sherriff Wade, we did not know you well.
When does Vala learn to be a team player? (I don't ask when she learns to respect rank, because she never does, heh.)
"Excuse me. Amateurs coming through." Hee! Go, Reynolds! :D
"We should be right on top of it." Or, er, right under it, maybe? Look up, Sam! This is a forest. With TREES.
...Or not.
This isn't a dislike Vala thing, but... why is Vala part of this? She's not part of a team yet. She's definitely not a team player. Aside from her sudden mysterious knowledge of tracking creatures (which has no basis in anything we know about her, and never appears again), this makes little sense.
"I'm not much of a gambler." "That is obvious." ::sporfles:: And the look on Sam's face! Ah, Sam, Teal'c is the ultimate poker-faced player.
Okay, this entire ep is worth of it for that Sam-and-Teal'c-staring-each-down moment. Squee!
"A hundred times the man has told me to relax." "Not that much." "...Yes, sir." Annnnd that's what I do. not. like. Landry.
Bottom line: glad to see the cloaking device taken out of the equation. Glad Barrett is okay. Glee for seeing Sam-in-command and Teal'c his usual awesome self. Other than that, though... meh, really.
::hugs SG-1 fiercely::
I think I will wander off and watch The Fifth Race some time today. But I do love the team, and the show. This is the first ever show where I can say I have watched every single episode. Ironic, that it turned out to be one of the longest running shows ever. :)
Okay, I'll try. Even Family Ties had a moment or two of squee. I hope to find some here.
I go into this knowing that the team-plus-Landry is at Jack's cabin for some bonding (minus Daniel) and that other-dimensional monsters mean that the SGC loses the convenience of invisibility a la the Sodan's devices. No real review here, just reactions as I watch. Onwards!
Barrett! Oh, last time we saw him, he was being brainwashed. Last decent guy at the NID gone. Does this mean we get him back, sort of?
Did we know Jack had a cabin other than the way with the lake in the back?
Okay, let me get this straight: Sam is in charge of the SGC in the absence of Reynolds. Er. What are SG team leaders (or not-leaders, in Sam's case) doing running a base?! I know we've discussed this before but really, writers, there are multiple commanders at military bases. You don't expect Hammond/Jack/Landry to be on duty 24/7. If Landry is taking off (and I like him better in this shirt he must've raided from Daniel's closet than I do in his uniform), then another base commander should be in charge, not Sam or Reynolds! Mind you, I like Reynolds. A lot. But the idea that the teams need to step up and run the SGC when the general isn't around is just plain stupid. I know, I know, it happens more than once in canon. But it's still stupid, sigh.
Landry is trying to make Cam relax so he orders him to have fun? Oh, Landry, why do you make it so hard to like you?
Oh, the colored filter view reminds me of Unas!vision. Good times.
I have so much love for alien skies. Such a gorgeous shortcut for "and now we are on another planet."
Reynolds, whee! Teal'c! ::squishes them::
Why is Reynolds wearing light-colored boots? Is that normal for camoflauge BDUs? The other SG-3 team members have 'em too; Teal'c is wearing regulation black.
Whoa. Major Sam hostility for Vala here. I don't remember ever seeing a reference to this. Sam was pretty cool to Vala at the beginning of S9, but this takes me aback. It'll be interesting to see if any friendship develops over the course of the ep.
If Sam is in charge till Reynolds gets back (and presumably takes over), it's a little odd to see her giving Reynolds a command about going back to the planet. I am... a little lost. OTOH, I do like to see Sam-in-command. She does it well, although I think she's happier when she's not in a command position. (Let someone else do the paperwork, so I have time to tinker with shiny things that blow up.)
Also, SG-25! Is that the highest team number we've ever seen?
Vala is supposed to be on probation to join the team. The bounty bargaining with Teal'c seems out of place.
Big honkin' laptops! Better than the days when they had bulky screens and Netscape browsers :D but still fun to see. If SG-1 would still be going on missions, we'd likely see ipads.
Landry says "SG-3 and 5" but Sam said "SG-3 and SG-25." Which one?
So if Cam finished his mission report an hour ago, what's he been doing? Writing fanfic? :)
I really do miss Teal'c running around with his staff weapon. Big honkin' guns just aren't the same.
Poor SG-25.
Why does SG-25 wear different camo? Odd. And silly Teal'c, wandering off on his own - you know better than that, Teal'c! But hee, love the way he practically lifts the wounded team guy off his feet while he carts him to safety.
I gotta say, I feel really sorry for Mitchell, stuck in that cabin with Landry.
For all you drinkers out there, what is "Red Snipe" exactly? Some kind of beer? Is it any good?
"I've learned that I can't handle any of this without the rest of SG-1." Oh, Cam, that's what a team is for.
"We either win, or we die." "I prefer winning, sir." Heh, yes. But this rings very false to me. Cam is giving up and Landry is giving him a pep talk? Where does this come from?
(Look, I know I'm inclined to see Landry in an unfavorable light. This has nothing to do with the actor -- I do not like the character. But I've seen nothing to suggest that Cam is depressed or feels he can't cut it, or any sign of Landry being someone to inspire his people. If anything, it's the other way around.)
Hee! I was waiting for Vala to bring on the innuendo. :) And may I say again how much I adore Vala with Teal'c? I love their chemistry. (Gennish, thank yew.)
Where's the injured guy that Teal'c was hauling to the Gate?
Power gone out with scary thunderstorm in cabin in the wilderness with something stalking them, dun dun dun! Not that there's any cliche here or anything, oh no.
Er, I do not believe that Jack keeps a couple of swords mounted and framed over the fireplace in his cabin.
"Phones are down" because it's a cordless without electricity, not nec'ly because the lines are down. Get your facts straight, people.
"I'll try not to shoot you before morning." "Thank you, sir. Same here." Hee hee hee.
Okay, I'm a little amused by Landry solemnly stating that he couldn't use a chopper for personal use and then adding, "Besides, I already checked. There isn't one." But only a little. Because it's kinda hypocritical. I'd take it from Jack but not from Landry, which may not be fair. (And I don't think George would ever do that. George had class.) But heh, poor Mitchell. His facial expression was great.
YAY to Vala using the healing device. With Sam it was always hit or miss, but Vala seems to know what she's doing with it. I'd love to do some meta on the healing device one day -- should it be used regularly, does it have any sarc connections, do people suffering off-world injuries have the right to off-world tech to help them recover? -- but it'll have to wait.
Yay for canon continuity with Sam's reference to Weir!
Isn't the point of this to make Landry likable? Forcing Cam to go duck-watching with him isn't the way I would've chosen, writers.
"Permission to leave, sir?" Before I burst out laughing? :)
Jogging! I didn't know we see Mitchell jogging before Unending.
Whee for competent women! I have a thing about competence at the SGC. And nice to see competence coming from Area 51, too.
Why, yes, Sam, I was making the same face.
Ugh. Yay Teal'c and a zat! "Thank you!" Gracious head nod. ::squishes Teal'c.::
S9-10 really is more gory than previous seasons, isn't it? Many of us were shocked that they actually showed Vala burning alive. I actually covered parts of the screen with my hand when I watched Talion. The dismembered dead here are really kinda yuck.
Aha. So the SG teams are bringing the DNA-mutating parasites with them. This is where vague foreknowledge does me a disservice, because I'm guessing the teams are using the Sodan invisibility gizmos and that is somehow dragging the otherdimensional parasites into this dimension. Or whatever the technobabble turns out to be. But yay for Sam and Vala and Teal'c doing detective work!
Did I mention how much I enjoy seeing Sam-in-command? I love that she had the smarts to recall all the cloaking thingies. And one is missing. presumably somewhere near Jack's cabin.
Huh. Talk about hanging a lantern on things, with Sam and Teal'c talking about how very much reduced the mere idea of the Goa'uld has become. I may have mentioned my dislike for that idea once or twice in the past. Not sure why Sam is surprised that Teal'c would use the "ironic" -- he's always had a good vocabulary, so maybe she means that he's so much less literal than he used to be? -- but that little smile of his makes my teamy goodness squee go up to 9. :)
Annnd there's our little sucker. Teal'c doesn't shoot it immediately because he needs to exchange dramatic looks with Sam first.
::headdesks:: Never, never mix real-life politics into television shows. It's outdated and anachronistic in less than five years, and it neatly alienates at least half your fan base. What for? If you want to draw parallels, at least keep it vague enough so that people can ignore it if they want, but this... ::sighs::
So what exactly is the rogue NID agent doing so coincidentally next to Jack's cabin? Kudos to Cam, though, for realizing it was a cloaking device -- I thought the guy was up in the tree.
Bechdel test, WHEE! Oh, I like this woman. I'm sorry we don't see more of her. "Ah, I meant the 'transition to our dimension' part."
Vala's effort to make the warning label a little less verbose made me grin.
Aha. So he was ordered to spy on Landry and Mitchell and the rest of SG-1 in the cabin, because you never know what those sneaky SGC types will do when they're out bird-watching... ::rolls eyes:: Tell me he was supposed to sneak into the SGC and got sidetracked. Please. OTOH, slightly amused at how cringy Bad Guy is at the sight of blood and how matter-of-fact Mitchell is about it.
"What are you talking about?" That. is. pathetic. Someone in the Trust who never even heard of the Goa'uld? Sheesh. Aha, and I just hit the pause button and he does know what a Goa'uld is. Also, the chewing gum is getting on my nerves. Almost nice to think that the Trust followers are just idiots and not deliberately Goa'uld-followers.
I really wish we could've had General Sam instead of General Landry. I love Sam-in-command. 'Course, I love her on the team, too, so that wouldn't work too well...
Alas, poor Sherriff Wade, we did not know you well.
When does Vala learn to be a team player? (I don't ask when she learns to respect rank, because she never does, heh.)
"Excuse me. Amateurs coming through." Hee! Go, Reynolds! :D
"We should be right on top of it." Or, er, right under it, maybe? Look up, Sam! This is a forest. With TREES.
...Or not.
This isn't a dislike Vala thing, but... why is Vala part of this? She's not part of a team yet. She's definitely not a team player. Aside from her sudden mysterious knowledge of tracking creatures (which has no basis in anything we know about her, and never appears again), this makes little sense.
"I'm not much of a gambler." "That is obvious." ::sporfles:: And the look on Sam's face! Ah, Sam, Teal'c is the ultimate poker-faced player.
Okay, this entire ep is worth of it for that Sam-and-Teal'c-staring-each-down moment. Squee!
"A hundred times the man has told me to relax." "Not that much." "...Yes, sir." Annnnd that's what I do. not. like. Landry.
Bottom line: glad to see the cloaking device taken out of the equation. Glad Barrett is okay. Glee for seeing Sam-in-command and Teal'c his usual awesome self. Other than that, though... meh, really.
::hugs SG-1 fiercely::
I think I will wander off and watch The Fifth Race some time today. But I do love the team, and the show. This is the first ever show where I can say I have watched every single episode. Ironic, that it turned out to be one of the longest running shows ever. :)
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The way they wrote Vala was ALL OVER THE MAP. I can't come up with a consistent Vala based solely on canon, so I stick with the Vala In My Head.
I believe they are talking about Red Stripe, not Red Snipe, unless they've changed the name of it to avoid mentioning a real brand name. But Red Stripe is a rather famous beer from Jamaica, which is okay if you like beer. A pretty good kind of cheap beer.
And I never warmed to Landry. At all. I tried. But I couldn't. Don't know if it was how Bridges played him, or the writing, or what. But I never did.
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Yes, and it's a huge problem. You can't give a character an arc if it doesn't follow a progression. First she's being sympathetic to the people getting killed, then she's interested in the bounty, then she's running for help, then she's trying to tell everyone what to do and insulting seasoned SGC personnel in the process... The only time I felt "this is Vala" was the scene when Teal'c knocked her down after tossing the grenade.
It probably was Red Stripe and not Red Snipe - I read it wrong on the screen.
I, too, never liked Landry. Ever. I've seen him written twice in a way to make him entertaining/likable, but that's about it. I'll stick to the George love, thank you!
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They just made him grumpy and useless, imho. He had very little personality of his own, to me.
I can't even compare him to Davis' George Hammond. Davis took that character and brought the real. ALL THE TIME. What a great performance and a great body of work. I love Hammond SO MUCH.
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YES and YES to the sheer amount of class that Don S. Davis gave to George Hammond. It was a huge part of what made SG-1 such a wonderful show.