deep and powerful, in a shallow sense

[stungunbilly]

Saw Allies, at last.

What can I say?  I love my show! I love my stupid, wonderful, morally-ambiguous Atlanteans!

I’m going to number list this, because I love lists.

Things that were fabulous about Allies

 

1. Rodney and Ronon and the wraith ship hall moment. You all know what I mean.
2. John and Rodney Present: Our Plan.
3. Beckett’s moral defense of the virus. So cute, and yet such a looney mad scientist.
4. Everything, no really. <3
5. John went AWOL to bring back his boyfriend and his pal!
6. Zelenka and the rolly-chairs of play.
7. John carrying the drinks tray into the lab. So much fanon, until now.
8. Elizabeth was in charge, in spite of a martial crisis. No one even bothered to discuss it, that we saw.
9. The cliff-hanger which leaves lots for fan fiction writers to do while we wait. SO excited to see what folks come up with.
10. Teyla’s doubt expressed to John. Go Teyla, with the discernment and stuff.
11. Ronon’s asking Rodney if he was okay.
12. Hermiod dishing a little of the mental superiority business to Rodney. Hee!
13. The funny, funny Wraith outfits. The eighties meet the sex dungeons of the nineties for that special look.
14. Michael is back, and he is wearing funny clothes and taking names. He’s right, you know.
15. Rodney in the grey t-shirt with the happiness and John watching him with barely-concealed appreciation.
16. Ronon, in general. Yum!
17. The scene where the Wraith snacks on the other Wraith, and the ‘Lanteans have to face what they are doing.
18. See number 4. Seriously, loved this one.

 

Things that Were Not So Fabulous  in Allies
 

1. People. You didn’t remove the Earth coordinates before connecting the Wraith download to the main databases? Please.
2. Why didn’t they keep the Wraith info off the main networked computers? It makes no sense at all.
3. Also, why the heck didn’t they do a backup?
4. Rodney should not have been allowed to go. No way. John totally knew better, too, or he wouldn’t have sent Ronon.
5. Ronon wasn’t stripped before he went into his little cocoon.

  And that’s my knee-jerk reaction set, folks. I will analyze more carefully later.