Review of SGA 5x15 'Remnants' Part 2, and some Supernatural musings

[rodneyscat]

Watched the rest of SGA 5x15 'Remnants' yesterday, because Mr. RC was there to hold my hand through it...

I'd watched the first 15 minutes alone, but seeing John tied up, at the mercy of Kolya, who was making good use of the fact, kind of freaked me out. So I decided to not watch the episode alone, and that worked.

I really liked this episode actually. It's tough to see how fucked up John is (also in his attitude towards women by the way), but I liked how he couldn't quite shrug it off by the end, when the alien said she was sorry he'd had to go through this.

Woolsey, how are you so awesome? And this applies to the actor who plays him too.

Will Rodney ever learn that if he treats his colleagues with a little more respect, it'll pay off? His sub-conscience seems to know.

I got these 'Phantoms' vibes quite early on, so some of the hallucinations weren't really a surprise. I really didn't see it coming that Radek had been a hallucination all along also! I thought 'Hee! Good one!' at first, and then felt weirdly disappointed, because I like Radek, and I would have liked him to be real.

Joe Mallozzi has done a write-up for this episode in his blog, and even if you don't usually like reading his blog, this is an interesting and fun read. Like this:

So, since Zelenka is really only a manifestation of McKay’s mind, he shouldn’t be noticed by anyone else except Rodney. I have to laugh every time I watch this scene because the tech wheeling in the device goes to great lengths to make this point VERY clear. (YouTube clip of the scene) (or Imeem). I hadn't noticed that!

Oh, and while I'm at it: The following scene is something everyone sees coming, but I have to lol anyway: 'You have found nothing' (YouTube) (or Imeem).

So, in conclusion: not the most original episode ever, no big revelations about the characters, but quite enjoyable and some really nice performances (Kolya is the meanest bastard ever, but Robert Davi plays him so brilliantly!)



And I've started torrenting Supernatural again. The last episode I've seen was 'Monster Movie', but then I stopped, because I didn't like where I thought they were going. I'm still not sure, but I've seen comments here and there that make me feel like I could give it a try, because at least some of my concerns are dealt with in a way I can deal with. Probably.

On a (sga related) side note, I don't think I'll be using my 'john kinda likes taking orders'-icon for a while...

Comments

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

I figured it was a hallucination, too, but it was still creepy. I couldn't shrug off the AI's "sorry" at the end, either--what she did to Sheppard was very, very, very icky torture. The episode I kept thinking of, once Rodney figured out the device, was Scorched Earth, and I was a little surprised the IOA didn't have some sort of guideline for the situation. The silicon people's situation pretty much == the Gadmeer's, except even better because they weren't trying to not!terraform an inhabited planet.

As far as John and women, I know TPTB were trying to say John was hitting on a young scientist chick, but I totally read it as he and Rodney had had a little tiff that John was taking harder, and he took annoying!scientist taxi duty just to get away and cool off for a while. (Loved the Lorne/Parish shoutout, too. :-)

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

In fanon I absolutely see John the way you do, but I find it increasingly hard to not let canon spoil it for me, because John can be a complete ass when it comes to women. I don't so much mind John hitting on a woman, but him being so obviously bored by everything she says, completely uninterested in what she does, and still wanting to get her in the sack. Basically having a 'please just shut up and spread your legs' kind of attitude, and sulking when he doesn't get his way.

*cough*

It uhm, bugged me...

[green-grrl.livejournal.com]

Huh, really? If I put on my canon goggles, I kind of see John as inept and not really putting himself out there--mostly aggressive women go after him and he really doesn't see it coming. I vaguely remember him as normal and sweet with Chaya. If I read Remnants as him thinking young science chick was cute, I interpret it as he took the taxi run to get to know her. Unfortunately it turns out she's a complete geek about stuff he has NO interest in and he's stuck nodding along and being polite. Then Parrish geeks out even more and John wants to run away. He makes one last attempt to see whether she might possibly find him to be more interesting than some stupid flower, but nope. (He might understand if it was Ancient tech, but a flower?!) So never mind, he's not even going to try asking her on a date.

[iolanthe-rosa.livejournal.com]

Popping in here off-topic to tell you how delighted I am that you are Twittering! However, my active Twitter feed is under my real name: twitter.com/robinwinning. Follow me there, and I'll follow you to the ends of the earth.

[rodneyscat.livejournal.com]

Hey! Following you now :D

I need to see into this Twitter thing though: I made an account because David and Kate Hewlett are on it, but I'm not really doing anything there (yet).