"The Seed" and Recs
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lunabee34SPOILERS FOR THE SEED
1. Kanaan and some of the other hybrids were rescued from Michael's cruiser. Yay! I am so interested in where the show will go with this development because clearly, they are not going to show Teyla marrying and having a relationship with him. For now, they're off the hook because Woolsey isn't ready to reintegrate them into Atlantean society, but eventually the show will have make another decision. I wonder if ultimately they'll have the treatment fail and the former hybrids die. (Is anybody else really bummed out that nobody has mentioned even once what happened to Jinto? I mean, clearly he's dead, but I really wanted Halling to say so last season.)
2. Girls! Being friends and talking to each other! Teyla and Jennifer miss Sam, awwwwwwwwwww. Teyla and Jennifer's friendship is also very well done here.
3. Rodney visiting Carson in his stasis chamber is so freaking sweet I don't think I have words for it. Actually, Rodney is stellar this entire episode. Remember, he's been around for a lot longer than John and Teyla and Ronon. He knows Woolsey from back in the day and his reluctance to stand when Woolsey beams over, the faces of absolute I AM KILLING YOU WITH MY BRAIN that he makes at Woolsey during the briefing--perfect.
4. The new little bit of score this episode is really awesome.
5. Jennifer's comment about it being harder to change the future than maybe they had thought was a particularly chilling and interesting one. (It makes absolute sense to me that John didn't tell anyone about Rodney and Keller getting together. You'd tell just enough about the future in order to keep the really bad stuff from happening and then let everything else work itself out. If you did tell about weddings and breakups and children and etc, then you'd perhaps jinx the possibility of it happening. Just like, if John had known that Lorne would die of old age in his bed at 79, that's not a thing he'd have told either. You couldn't live with that hanging over your head, even if it is better than 38 at the hands of a Wraith.)
6. What I love more than anything about Woolsey's character is that he's a good guy. Even on SG-1, he's a good guy. He's pompous and arrogant (although much less so in his appearances on SGA) and he thinks he knows better and he often misses the trees for the forest. But he wants to do the right thing. And his calls at the conference, while understandably grating to Team Shep, aren't wrong. When he tells Keller to shit or get off the pot, he's not wrong. The end sequence where he talks about the rules being important for a reason and then admits that he's completely lost--man. John actually smiles, for real smiles (and the difference in his expressions when they're genuine and when they're forced is so well done) at this and I like that bit of acceptance there.
7. The little tech touch with the light sensor as Keller is going to bed is nice.
8. Carson is going back to Earth! *waaaaaah* Of course, this leaves open the possibility for his reappearance at any time.
9. Nice bit of continuity when Woolsey mentions that Sam is also quarantined. As soon as Carson said that everyone who'd been in that lab had contracted the contagion, my first thought was, "Bet they'll forget about Sam." *is pleasantly surprised*
10. I think the idea that hive ships or darts or any kind of large Wraith tech is grown from the bodies of humans is SUPER AWESOME AND FREAKY. I wonder if this is true of Wraith in general or of Michael in particular because he doesn't have access to the materials that Wraith usually use to build these items.
11. I love that the Marines just take orders from Teyla. That she's not jockeying for power or position among the Atlanteans.
12. Hentai is canon!!!
13. I love John's little Buffy moment: Been there; done that.
14. I love that everybody volunteers to go save Keller.
15. I also love that John is prepared to shoot Keller, because even though it galls him, Woolsey is right. At a certain point, everyone else's safety supercedes Keller's life.
Dr. Horrible
Check-up by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lily22; Billy/Penny
This is a fix-it fic, but particularly unique for Billy's divided internal monologue. Short and interesting.
Dr. Horrible, Act 3 byamaliedageek; Billy/Penny
Another fix-it, in which Penny has not been all that she seems. The dialogue here is laugh out loud funny.
SPN
Honey Flower, Apple and Lime byveronamay; Jared/Jensen AU; Adult
This is Jared and Jensen in Victorian England and it is exquisite. Simply exquisite. With very few tiny, tiny (single word choice) exceptions, the dialogue here is spectacularly in keeping with the period. There is an Oscar Wildean kind of humor and wit in the conversations and the careful attention to details of class and propriety is very well done. I enjoy particularly the conversation that Jared and Jensen have through flowers.
Halfway Home bylemmealone; Jared/Jensen AU; Adult
The basic premise is that Jared and Jensen meet in a mental institution. This fic manages to be incredibly funny and very heartbreaking all at the same time. I also really enjoyed the puzzle of what exactly happened to Jensen to make him lose it.
1. Kanaan and some of the other hybrids were rescued from Michael's cruiser. Yay! I am so interested in where the show will go with this development because clearly, they are not going to show Teyla marrying and having a relationship with him. For now, they're off the hook because Woolsey isn't ready to reintegrate them into Atlantean society, but eventually the show will have make another decision. I wonder if ultimately they'll have the treatment fail and the former hybrids die. (Is anybody else really bummed out that nobody has mentioned even once what happened to Jinto? I mean, clearly he's dead, but I really wanted Halling to say so last season.)
2. Girls! Being friends and talking to each other! Teyla and Jennifer miss Sam, awwwwwwwwwww. Teyla and Jennifer's friendship is also very well done here.
3. Rodney visiting Carson in his stasis chamber is so freaking sweet I don't think I have words for it. Actually, Rodney is stellar this entire episode. Remember, he's been around for a lot longer than John and Teyla and Ronon. He knows Woolsey from back in the day and his reluctance to stand when Woolsey beams over, the faces of absolute I AM KILLING YOU WITH MY BRAIN that he makes at Woolsey during the briefing--perfect.
4. The new little bit of score this episode is really awesome.
5. Jennifer's comment about it being harder to change the future than maybe they had thought was a particularly chilling and interesting one. (It makes absolute sense to me that John didn't tell anyone about Rodney and Keller getting together. You'd tell just enough about the future in order to keep the really bad stuff from happening and then let everything else work itself out. If you did tell about weddings and breakups and children and etc, then you'd perhaps jinx the possibility of it happening. Just like, if John had known that Lorne would die of old age in his bed at 79, that's not a thing he'd have told either. You couldn't live with that hanging over your head, even if it is better than 38 at the hands of a Wraith.)
6. What I love more than anything about Woolsey's character is that he's a good guy. Even on SG-1, he's a good guy. He's pompous and arrogant (although much less so in his appearances on SGA) and he thinks he knows better and he often misses the trees for the forest. But he wants to do the right thing. And his calls at the conference, while understandably grating to Team Shep, aren't wrong. When he tells Keller to shit or get off the pot, he's not wrong. The end sequence where he talks about the rules being important for a reason and then admits that he's completely lost--man. John actually smiles, for real smiles (and the difference in his expressions when they're genuine and when they're forced is so well done) at this and I like that bit of acceptance there.
7. The little tech touch with the light sensor as Keller is going to bed is nice.
8. Carson is going back to Earth! *waaaaaah* Of course, this leaves open the possibility for his reappearance at any time.
9. Nice bit of continuity when Woolsey mentions that Sam is also quarantined. As soon as Carson said that everyone who'd been in that lab had contracted the contagion, my first thought was, "Bet they'll forget about Sam." *is pleasantly surprised*
10. I think the idea that hive ships or darts or any kind of large Wraith tech is grown from the bodies of humans is SUPER AWESOME AND FREAKY. I wonder if this is true of Wraith in general or of Michael in particular because he doesn't have access to the materials that Wraith usually use to build these items.
11. I love that the Marines just take orders from Teyla. That she's not jockeying for power or position among the Atlanteans.
12. Hentai is canon!!!
13. I love John's little Buffy moment: Been there; done that.
14. I love that everybody volunteers to go save Keller.
15. I also love that John is prepared to shoot Keller, because even though it galls him, Woolsey is right. At a certain point, everyone else's safety supercedes Keller's life.
Dr. Horrible
Check-up by
lily22; Billy/PennyThis is a fix-it fic, but particularly unique for Billy's divided internal monologue. Short and interesting.
Dr. Horrible, Act 3 by
amaliedageek; Billy/PennyAnother fix-it, in which Penny has not been all that she seems. The dialogue here is laugh out loud funny.
SPN
Honey Flower, Apple and Lime by
veronamay; Jared/Jensen AU; AdultThis is Jared and Jensen in Victorian England and it is exquisite. Simply exquisite. With very few tiny, tiny (single word choice) exceptions, the dialogue here is spectacularly in keeping with the period. There is an Oscar Wildean kind of humor and wit in the conversations and the careful attention to details of class and propriety is very well done. I enjoy particularly the conversation that Jared and Jensen have through flowers.
Halfway Home by
lemmealone; Jared/Jensen AU; AdultThe basic premise is that Jared and Jensen meet in a mental institution. This fic manages to be incredibly funny and very heartbreaking all at the same time. I also really enjoyed the puzzle of what exactly happened to Jensen to make him lose it.
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Date: 2008-07-23 02:31 pm (UTC)Try these.
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Date: 2008-07-24 05:36 pm (UTC)I need help...
Date: 2008-07-24 11:53 am (UTC)It was shown in Act 2 that Captain Hammer watched Dr Horrible's blog, yes? So what if he saw the last frames of Billy's post 'i own't feel a thng' and h/c endues.... argh!
Or if Billy uses the blog in future to get into Hammer's head...
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Date: 2008-07-24 05:34 pm (UTC)