Dial the Gate: Prometheus

I am going to admit up-front that I'm going into this one with a slight anti-ep bias. As I have often implied (or stated outright), I am very much not a fan of Earth gaining large hyperspace-capable ships. There are two reasons for this: first, it largely detracts from the big stone doughnut hiding in NORAD's basement, to the point where there are large segments of S8 where the Stargate is barely even mentioned, much less featured. Second, one of the things I like most about SG-1 is that alien tech notwithstanding, the show has always very much been grounded in here and now. Yes, we get to play with naquadah reactors and back-engineered X-301s and 2s, but it's always been reasonably extrapolated (for the sci-fi definition of "reasonable," anyway) and relatively rare. But with the onset of Prometheus, it's the beginning of what I personally see as a downward spiral to a season ending that took place entirely on a ship instead of, y'know, something to do with the series' actual NAME.

So while I'll happily debate/discuss the matter with those of you who do love ships (rather than shipping, heh) in the comments, I'm warning you all to take any less-than-enthusiastic responses with a grain of naquadah.

So. Prometheus. I go into this one knowing that Earth gets its first ship (articifical gravity yet?), we meet the reporter that drives aurora_novarum crazy (although I didn't mind her much myself in subsequent eps), and there's another hostage situation and annoying NID interference of some sort. As always, live-blogging of reaction without real episode discussion. Onwards!

( Prometheus )

Short-cut to ship tech is explained, but I still vastly prefer storylines that include the big stone doughnut in the basement. Sigh. I give this ep high marks for lots of Paul Davis and Sam being marvelous and most of the Jonas scenes being good ones, but there was way too little Teal'c and Jack (although what there was, was fantastic!) and yeah - too much shippiness. If you want to call it that. ;)