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SGA: Whispers
Oh, SGA. Why, why, why when we are counting down to your demise must you be made so wholly of FAIL?!
I will begin with the scant handful (it's like breadcrumbs!) of things I did like:
1. I liked the horror movie ambience--the camera angles and shots, the cuts between scenes, the lighting, the faux zombies. I almost thought I was watching an episode of SPN. Michael's creations were genuinely creepy and cool looking. I also like that the spooky mist had a natural, biological explanation.
2. All female team!
3. I like that Carson's the one running willy nilly through the woods, falling on his ass and needing to be rescued. That was the only nice bit of subversion in this episode.
And now for the dumbassery:
1. I adore Carson. Adore. I was so excited to have him again in an episode, and yet his appearance is so stupid. We get ten seconds of dialogue at the beginning letting us know he's leaving because of his guilt over the Hoffan drug (that's actually interesting and full of character development; why can't we get an episode with the expedition members angsting over the ramifications of their decisions; why is that thrown over for a lame one-off episode in which NOTHING WHATSOEVER OF CONSEQUENCE HAPPENS?) and then he's off again at the episode's end. Lame. Lame. Lame. They could have done a single episode with Carson in which he felt integrated into the story, in which his appearance had meaning, and which advanced the overall story arc of the show. But did not.
2. Crazy Exposition Dude who wanders out of the wood to begin rote recitation ofThe Tale of the Vampyres the evil that has befallen the village.
3. All female team! The one team member we've seen before bites the dust and another is every cliche of testosterone driven macho-ry TPTB could squeeze into a fifty minute script. How very nuanced and unexpected. And I'm sure we'll never see any of these surviving women again. Because that would involve, you know, character development.
4. WTF, John Sheppard?!? Why are you non-plussed at the all-female team? Don't you, as military commander of Atlantis, you know, SIGN OFF ON ALL THE TEAMS? Are we to believe you are sending people off world you've never met in any capacity? Or are we simply to conclude that you are a jackass? I like John Sheppard, I do. I really, really do. Sometimes he is awkward in a way I find uncomfortable rather than endearing (and that started in season 4 for me), but he has not pinged me as sexist until this episode. Sheppard's plan is stupid and Telby has legitimate concerns that he just overrides. Shut up, woman! Let's blow some shit up. *sigh* And what was up with that "prom queen and kid in wheelchairs" line? Is that some pop culture reference I missed out on because I wasn't allowed to watch TV in the 80s?
5. Finally, why does Carson run out into the fray like a dumbass? He's no shrinking violet but he's not a soldier and he has no reason to go out there. Is he trying to prove something to Alison? If so, what? That breeding with him is likely to produce children of epically stupid proportions? Way to pick a chick up there, C-Dawg.
In conclusion, SGA, please go back to not sucking.
I will begin with the scant handful (it's like breadcrumbs!) of things I did like:
1. I liked the horror movie ambience--the camera angles and shots, the cuts between scenes, the lighting, the faux zombies. I almost thought I was watching an episode of SPN. Michael's creations were genuinely creepy and cool looking. I also like that the spooky mist had a natural, biological explanation.
2. All female team!
3. I like that Carson's the one running willy nilly through the woods, falling on his ass and needing to be rescued. That was the only nice bit of subversion in this episode.
And now for the dumbassery:
1. I adore Carson. Adore. I was so excited to have him again in an episode, and yet his appearance is so stupid. We get ten seconds of dialogue at the beginning letting us know he's leaving because of his guilt over the Hoffan drug (that's actually interesting and full of character development; why can't we get an episode with the expedition members angsting over the ramifications of their decisions; why is that thrown over for a lame one-off episode in which NOTHING WHATSOEVER OF CONSEQUENCE HAPPENS?) and then he's off again at the episode's end. Lame. Lame. Lame. They could have done a single episode with Carson in which he felt integrated into the story, in which his appearance had meaning, and which advanced the overall story arc of the show. But did not.
2. Crazy Exposition Dude who wanders out of the wood to begin rote recitation of
3. All female team! The one team member we've seen before bites the dust and another is every cliche of testosterone driven macho-ry TPTB could squeeze into a fifty minute script. How very nuanced and unexpected. And I'm sure we'll never see any of these surviving women again. Because that would involve, you know, character development.
4. WTF, John Sheppard?!? Why are you non-plussed at the all-female team? Don't you, as military commander of Atlantis, you know, SIGN OFF ON ALL THE TEAMS? Are we to believe you are sending people off world you've never met in any capacity? Or are we simply to conclude that you are a jackass? I like John Sheppard, I do. I really, really do. Sometimes he is awkward in a way I find uncomfortable rather than endearing (and that started in season 4 for me), but he has not pinged me as sexist until this episode. Sheppard's plan is stupid and Telby has legitimate concerns that he just overrides. Shut up, woman! Let's blow some shit up. *sigh* And what was up with that "prom queen and kid in wheelchairs" line? Is that some pop culture reference I missed out on because I wasn't allowed to watch TV in the 80s?
5. Finally, why does Carson run out into the fray like a dumbass? He's no shrinking violet but he's not a soldier and he has no reason to go out there. Is he trying to prove something to Alison? If so, what? That breeding with him is likely to produce children of epically stupid proportions? Way to pick a chick up there, C-Dawg.
In conclusion, SGA, please go back to not sucking.
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Carson didn't even figure in. He was totally lame. The Spouse said something insightful--he said that the actor wasn't even playing him as Carson, but as Carson's clone. I'm completely willing to buy that, because everything I disliked about Carson was ramped up to the max, and everything that I liked about him was missing here....
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To be perfectly honest, I almost always enjoy SGA. In almost five complete seasons of viewing there's only been one or two previous episodes I just thought were so lame that I'd never want to watch them again. The eps are almost always entertaining (to me) and quite often really, really well done. Whispers has become the new "Conversion" and at least I could *laugh* at that episode.
Ooooh, insightful Spouse. I can actually see why PG might want to play it that way. *muses*