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Mar. 19th, 2008 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
auntiemeeshI've been working my way through season one of Stargate SG-1. I keep coming across episodes and thinking, wow, I forgot that one was so early in the show history. Today was Tin Man and Solitudes. Both eps are fun, but I had a bit of a problem with the logistics/realism of Solitudes. Mostly because of two things. One is that Sam would climb out of the hole in the ice and see all the ice and snow around her and assume it's an entire ice planet. Now, I don't expect her to look around and say, hey, this must be Earth, Antarctica, or anything ridiculous like that, but she should have enough knowledge of the way planets work to understand that just because it's cold and glacial where she is, doesn't mean that's the way it is on the entire planet. Now, I can excuse it a little bit because she was extremely fatigued and emotionally frazzled, but it's still disappointing and kinda bugs me every time I see this episode.
The other thing that bugs me every time, is the timing of events at the end of the episode. We see Daniel figuring out what's happening while Sam is climbing around becoming disillusioned about the ice planet. Then, while she climbs/falls back down and lies down next to Jack, we see Daniel and Teal'c getting permission to head on out to Antarctica to join in the hunt for them. Then, when the team out from McMurdo finds Sam and Jack, Daniel and Teal'c are with them. So the search parties must have been out for the better part of a day looking before finding them, and as bad a shape as Jack was already in, I kinda doubt he would have lasted that much longer. It just sort of felt like Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond got beamed to Antarctica, long before they had the sort of tech to do that. Maybe I'm being nitpicky and the timing isn't really as off as it feels to me, but it *does* feel off to me, so there you go.
Otherwise I enjoyed the episodes, as I've been enjoying all of them as they come along. Stargate SG-1 is one of those shows that I like when I see it, for the most part, but I haven't ever been as fannish about it. It makes me laugh, because I've always been 'meh' about it, and when they started talking about the Atlantis spin-off I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever and doomed to be stupid, even if it didn't fail. And now here I am, loving SGA so much more than I ever loved SG-1. And may I say, loving SGA way more at the end of season four than I was at the end of seasons two and three.
Time for a guessing game: We have this guy at work, Jeff. He's one of the maintenance guys and the past couple of months he's made a habit of going around to the different rooms and quizzing the teachers with different things. Which two states are the only two to start with two consonants, stuff like that. Today it this: A man comes into town on Friday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday. How is this possible? Think you've got the answer? I'm screening comments until tomorrow - I'm betting this is a pretty easy one for all of you, but maybe Jeff will come up with something harder another time.
The other thing that bugs me every time, is the timing of events at the end of the episode. We see Daniel figuring out what's happening while Sam is climbing around becoming disillusioned about the ice planet. Then, while she climbs/falls back down and lies down next to Jack, we see Daniel and Teal'c getting permission to head on out to Antarctica to join in the hunt for them. Then, when the team out from McMurdo finds Sam and Jack, Daniel and Teal'c are with them. So the search parties must have been out for the better part of a day looking before finding them, and as bad a shape as Jack was already in, I kinda doubt he would have lasted that much longer. It just sort of felt like Daniel, Teal'c and Hammond got beamed to Antarctica, long before they had the sort of tech to do that. Maybe I'm being nitpicky and the timing isn't really as off as it feels to me, but it *does* feel off to me, so there you go.
Otherwise I enjoyed the episodes, as I've been enjoying all of them as they come along. Stargate SG-1 is one of those shows that I like when I see it, for the most part, but I haven't ever been as fannish about it. It makes me laugh, because I've always been 'meh' about it, and when they started talking about the Atlantis spin-off I thought it was the most ridiculous thing ever and doomed to be stupid, even if it didn't fail. And now here I am, loving SGA so much more than I ever loved SG-1. And may I say, loving SGA way more at the end of season four than I was at the end of seasons two and three.
Time for a guessing game: We have this guy at work, Jeff. He's one of the maintenance guys and the past couple of months he's made a habit of going around to the different rooms and quizzing the teachers with different things. Which two states are the only two to start with two consonants, stuff like that. Today it this: A man comes into town on Friday, stays three days, and leaves on Friday. How is this possible? Think you've got the answer? I'm screening comments until tomorrow - I'm betting this is a pretty easy one for all of you, but maybe Jeff will come up with something harder another time.
