stungunbilly | Love and Rockets

Thoughts on Misbegotten (SG:A 302)

Whoa, questionable ethics. I’m not going there for the moment. Character choices, execution of choices, semiotics, the whole shebang. I’m just. Not even delving into all of that.
Legolas planet! How sad am I they aren’t being left there for ~~fun-if-sometimes-terrible fan fiction~~ future plotlines?
The Daedalus Ex Machina. I love spaceships, but I am really, really sick of this as a plot element. I am sad to admit I was hoping it was stuck in the space between galaxies for AT LEAST A COUPLE OF EPS.
Woolsey(sp?) subplot: creepy at best and rather boring at worst. See my first point for more detailed opinion. Overarching opinion? Bureaucracy is BORING. Please stick to the fun, the fairytale, the science-fictiony, the creepy-dark-weird, and the shiny. Thank you.
Ooooh, the virus is capable of doing a wide range of things. Awesome for potential plotting.
Carson, such a soon-to-be-tortured woobie. I really wanted to protect him, the adorable terrifying lunatic.
Michael. Trineer brought the awesome. Michael is so sympathetic. I think I’m the only one on the planet who doesn’t think he is pretty as a human, but I think he has a pretty mind and I am totally captivated by his story arc and his character.
All the Wraith-humans. Such a sympathetic plight for the scariest bad guys on the show. I can see a freaking thousand plots for them all, and I just can’t really want them to be dead.
The Wraith have secret Pagan Orgies in the woods!
Rodney killing all those humans. So many repercussions. Please, TPTB, let him be more than a clown. Can we have character arc? Please? You did it in Season 1, come on. You can do it again.
John and Rodney’s scenes. The way they just always look right to each other for reactions to the things they say in conversation with other people. Or, try to, even if the other one is behind them. The pig-tail pulling. So cute.
Rodney shot all those people obediently to John’s order. Whoa.
I love Teyla flying the Hive ship. I want to see more stories involving Teyla's Wraith aspect. Man, that's gonna freak John out. Rodney will of course just see it as more evidence of Teyla's superiority over normal humans. How will Ronon deal? I'm thinking, denial.
Teyla's reactions during the conference with Elizabeth were subtle, but amusing. Mmm, Teyla. Oh, hey, Lorne does the same thing. Oops, now I'm craving Teyla/Lorne stories.
How much do I hate that they blew up the Hive ship they stole? An enormously big much of hating. Though I wish Rodney would rig some lights in those things so we could get prettier shots of Team Sheppard.
Ronon and Michael. How the heck did they talk him into this? Ronon, you amaze me. Why aren't you insane again? Stop distracting me from your fascinating personality with that outrageous sex appeal.
I personally found Teyla’s interactions with Michael awesome. She was almost shaking while she talked to him. She is clearly incapable of her usual clear-headed thinking about him, but she still tried. And failed. I want to see her fail more, I want to see her complexities.
I thought Teyla/Carson, Teyla/Chuck Tech, and Teyla/Michael all got a shot in the arm in the episode.
Rodney has a little crush on Elizabeth, doesn’t he?
It felt so good to see Team Sheppard back in the puddlejumper, with Carson looking woobie-fearful in the back.
I missed the Ronon/Rodney interaction a lot. Must re-watch 301.
Ronon is so yummy.
Ronon’s so unbalanced about Wraith, only the crazy, crazy Lanteans would send him to be one of their guards. Seriously, people. He was the one who provoked Michael’s breakout last time. He isn’t at all the right guy for that job. But Sheppard? Isn’t the right guy to supervise either, since he gave away the whole show by his obvious attitude.
Then again, my beloved Lanteans are all nutjobs, but I love them anyway. But would SO never submit to their rule. No, no, no.
The scene between John and Elizabeth was really cute, with his little Woolsey-fit and the hand placements that reinforce cesperanza’s point about The Flan’s hand-acting so perfectly.
Elizabeth is very WTF in this episode. But I loved the way she smiled at Team Sheppard, very much. And it's so cute that she tries to flirt with John, even though it makes him all weird and bumbly.
Colonel Caldwell isn't a bad guy. I just want him to go away. Sorry. Too much Daddy-come-to-rescue. Go home, Dad, the kids have got it. I like you, I do. Just not in my show.
Woolsey is a nutjob too. He may be part of a boring subplot, but he fits right in with the Lanteans. His "truth-ishness is better than actual truth" speech was very WTF, but it went well with Elizabeth's WTF stance on civilian oversight.

And I’d have much more to say, but I’m hungry.

In conclusion:

I hate waiting a week between episodes, but I love all the fiction fodder this one gave us.