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I've started rewatching Stargate Atlantis with Emma, and I am struck all over again by how much I love this show. Probably because it's a spin-off of an already established series, SGA starts really strong and just continues to get better. I've only seen most of the early season episodes one time, and so watching them a second time is revealing all over again all sorts of little nuances. For instance, I made my SGA fic debut with a series of fics featuring Bates/Kavanagh; I know the show portrays both characters pretty negatively. We're supposed to think Bates is a hard liner, that he's more interested in military goals than the civilian pursuit of peace, that he dislikes John merely because Sumner had done so, that he's racist and xenophobic because he suspects the Athosians of selling them out to the Wraith. And yet, his objections aren't unreasonable. Somehow the Wraith are being alerted to their presence when they go through the Gate, and as much as the Atlantis expedition might want to trust the Athosians, like any group of people, the Athosians must contain some some examples of moral turpitude. Regarding Kavanagh, as much as I love Elizabeth (and lord do I love that woman, hard hard hard hard, the love it knows no bounds), she's totally out of line in the way she treats him in "Thirty-Eight Minutes," his debut episode. Kavanagh suggests that in trying to save the stuck jumper, they risk blowing up the gate and killing everyone on Atlantis. To me, this is a reasonable objection to make. Possibly they could begin evacuating personnel to the mainland or to space in the jumpers or even to the outer extremities of the city to try to minimize casualties. But Elizabeth treats him as if he's making the suggestion only in the interests of self-preservation. Also, her threat to just chuck him through the gate to an uninhabited world, while clearly one she would never follow through with, is extremely inappropriate.

I also caught a little bit of the SPN episode "Playthings" earlier today and was reminded of how good the early seasons of SPN were. The show used to be legitimately scary. I miss those days. :( I forgot to watch the last two episodes of this season's SPN, and I don't have a pressing desire to catch up.

Josh and I watched Super 8 last night. Very enjoyable movie with a great cast of kids. I like that the movie is situated in time very clearly but very subtly. There's no heavy reliance on period specific music or an over-abundance of powder blue eye shadow; in fact, the main clue that we're in the 80s comes from the fact that all the kids are allowed to roam around unsupervised for hours. The girl in this movie is a doppelganger for a young Ginny Weasley. I kept waiting for a British accent to slip out. LOL I would definitely recommend this movie.

Speaking of JJ Abrams' movies, I'm pretty stoked that he's going to direct the next Star Wars movie. I know that many fans question having him at the helm, but at the very least, there's no way he can screw up the franchise any worse than Lucas himself did with the prequels.