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auntiemeeshI bought a TV Guide the other day and learned that Claudia Black had a baby in December! Of course, the article then spoiled me for certain aspects of Stargate last night, but I didn't mind that so much. What it really did was point out how oblivious I am to all these little details. *sigh*
SG-1 was good last night. I always love the Vala episodes and Claudia was fantastic in this one. She was really able to move Vala beyond the original scope of the character and show all of the woman's fear and vulnerability, while still maintaining the essence of who Vala is, switching that manipulative lying on in a heartbeat to protect herself when things got too dangerous.
OMG, let me just say how much I loved Atlantis. I think it was a combination of having just bought season one DVDs and watching the first five or six episodes, and reading way too much slash fic. Between the two, the entire episode just hit all the right buttons for me. They've started the name game again. "We'll name it later," Shep says (which he must have said four times at least in the first few eps of season one). Sheppard's manipulation of Rodney, with Rodney knowing exactly what John was doing and allowing him to do it, was priceless, as was Rodney's wonderful fumbling in his attempts to think coherently around the girl. "I'd love to work under you sometime," she says, and his response? "First we have to get off. Um, off, off the ground. And then you can be under me..." oh god, you can hear him thinking to himself, stop talking! Stop talking now! (yes, I know, I didn't get the dialog exactly right, but it's close enough).
The plot itself was kind of silly, what with the supervolcano that they learn about just in time to be in deadly peril from it, etc, etc, but I really didn't care. It was a popcorn episode and that suited me just fine. Last week's ep was so dark and morally like jumping off a high dive into an empty pool that I was glad to see the lighter episode this week. Especially with the buildup coming for another wraith attack and the knowledge that things are only going to get murkier and more difficult going into season three.
I didn't watch more than the first ten or fifteen minutes of BSG. I'm not sure what's going on with me and BSG but I'm having a harder and harder time caring about what goes on in Galactica, and I had Atlantis DVDs calling my name, so I ended up watching them instead. I do think I'll try to catch the Monday night airing because I don't want to be too far out of the loop and I already missed the episode a couple of weeks ago with the Pegasus. And I loved last week's ep, getting the Cylon POV, learning more about the 'reincarnation' process and finding out that they are not a completely united front.
As I mentioned above, I finally broke down and bought myself season one of Stargate Atlantis for my birthday. I've been watching the show since the beginning, but it took a long time for the series to really catch me, so for a large part of season one, I watched pretty haphazardly. I didn't originally think a Stargate spinoff was a good idea and I was on guard against it, so I didn't immediately fall in love with the characters. And for me, the characters are what makes a show worth watching. So I'd start out with my full attention on the episode and then pretty soon I'd be playing on the computer with my back to the tv and only catch a few snatches. It wasn't until after the midseason hiatus that I really started getting into it. And now, it's become my newest obsession. *sigh* After reading a lot of fic that refers to season one episodes, I'm realizing how much I missed. Last night I started watching the DVDs and got through about five or six episodes, some of which I had only partially watched before and some that I really hadn't seen anything of, like 'Childhood's End'. Now all I want to do this weekend is watch more. *grin*
SG-1 was good last night. I always love the Vala episodes and Claudia was fantastic in this one. She was really able to move Vala beyond the original scope of the character and show all of the woman's fear and vulnerability, while still maintaining the essence of who Vala is, switching that manipulative lying on in a heartbeat to protect herself when things got too dangerous.
OMG, let me just say how much I loved Atlantis. I think it was a combination of having just bought season one DVDs and watching the first five or six episodes, and reading way too much slash fic. Between the two, the entire episode just hit all the right buttons for me. They've started the name game again. "We'll name it later," Shep says (which he must have said four times at least in the first few eps of season one). Sheppard's manipulation of Rodney, with Rodney knowing exactly what John was doing and allowing him to do it, was priceless, as was Rodney's wonderful fumbling in his attempts to think coherently around the girl. "I'd love to work under you sometime," she says, and his response? "First we have to get off. Um, off, off the ground. And then you can be under me..." oh god, you can hear him thinking to himself, stop talking! Stop talking now! (yes, I know, I didn't get the dialog exactly right, but it's close enough).
The plot itself was kind of silly, what with the supervolcano that they learn about just in time to be in deadly peril from it, etc, etc, but I really didn't care. It was a popcorn episode and that suited me just fine. Last week's ep was so dark and morally like jumping off a high dive into an empty pool that I was glad to see the lighter episode this week. Especially with the buildup coming for another wraith attack and the knowledge that things are only going to get murkier and more difficult going into season three.
I didn't watch more than the first ten or fifteen minutes of BSG. I'm not sure what's going on with me and BSG but I'm having a harder and harder time caring about what goes on in Galactica, and I had Atlantis DVDs calling my name, so I ended up watching them instead. I do think I'll try to catch the Monday night airing because I don't want to be too far out of the loop and I already missed the episode a couple of weeks ago with the Pegasus. And I loved last week's ep, getting the Cylon POV, learning more about the 'reincarnation' process and finding out that they are not a completely united front.
As I mentioned above, I finally broke down and bought myself season one of Stargate Atlantis for my birthday. I've been watching the show since the beginning, but it took a long time for the series to really catch me, so for a large part of season one, I watched pretty haphazardly. I didn't originally think a Stargate spinoff was a good idea and I was on guard against it, so I didn't immediately fall in love with the characters. And for me, the characters are what makes a show worth watching. So I'd start out with my full attention on the episode and then pretty soon I'd be playing on the computer with my back to the tv and only catch a few snatches. It wasn't until after the midseason hiatus that I really started getting into it. And now, it's become my newest obsession. *sigh* After reading a lot of fic that refers to season one episodes, I'm realizing how much I missed. Last night I started watching the DVDs and got through about five or six episodes, some of which I had only partially watched before and some that I really hadn't seen anything of, like 'Childhood's End'. Now all I want to do this weekend is watch more. *grin*
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Date: 2006-03-05 09:07 am (UTC)So, you knew Claudia Black was pregnant, right? Just not that she'd had the kidlet? whisky told me about the birth a little while ago -- boy, right?
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Date: 2006-03-05 09:27 am (UTC)I hadn't even known Claudia Black was pregnant! I am so completely out of the loop these days. *sigh*
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Date: 2006-03-05 09:30 am (UTC)omg! I feel that I have completely failed you as a fannish friend. I'm terrible with the phone-talking thing, but we should definitely talk more often.
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Date: 2006-03-05 01:04 pm (UTC)I didn't catch the very end of SGA but did find Rodney a hoot! Only thing was, where was the cute little Scottish doctor? Did I miss him or was he just not in this one?
I'm with you on BSG. My cousin (with whom I was having dinner early Friday) is a huge fan, and he was bouncing on his toes with anticipation of the show, was worried he wouldn't get home in time for it. I try to watch it, I really do. And I'm sure it IS one of the best on television. But it's so damned dePRESSING most of the time. And sometimes I just don't want to start my weekend off with deep, dark, apocolyptic stories on Friday night. Tug at the heartstrings, fine; just don't reach in and rip it out and stomp that sucker flat (apologies to Grizzard). ;-)
But then again, I'm a wuss and a romantic and downright sappy when the mood strikes me. And I DASN'T get started with another fandom. I do a right awful job of keeping up with the one I'm in now. *puffpuff*
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