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My technobabble innocence is gone! NOTHING IS SACRED!
Also, I finally saw the Stargate season finale, so my flatmate no longer has to descend steadily into madness for having no one to geek out/squeee with. Squeeeing occurred.
1. Along with the squeeeing, a bit of girly shrieking, because I was really afraid that they were going to kill The Man (known to people who are not me as Bra'tac).
2. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't been spoiled on the S/J scenes because I'd worked them up so much in my head that seeing them for real was almost a let-down... *almost*, because, DUDE, how could I POSSIBLY not love that!? All kinds of heart-fluttery goodness. Awkward!Sam is my favourite all the way from... whenever it was that Jack first asked her to go fishing.
3. I liked Kinsey a lot more when he was weilding a less blunt instrument of evil, but keenween pointed out that now he has power and this has always been right under the surface of his character, so, I get it.
4. I am a little Deep Space Nine/later-season-B5 snob and a half about space-battles and have never been impressed by those on Stargate, but the Antarctica scene was well done and hot. I love it when stuff blows up.
5. Less impressed by the flaming goldfish of righteous destruction, though.
6. I like Dr. Weir, but hated that she was a short-haired blonde because I kept getting her confused with Carter in crowd scenes (I remind you at this juncture that I am presently dumb as toast). Also, she reminded me of someone, and keenween suggested it was possibly Ellen DeGeneres. But I'm not sure that's it. (ooooh -- another candidate for The Generic Blonde Lookalike Contest!)
7. Papa General Hammond rules, as per usual.
8. I wanted Jacob in this episode, also as per usual.
9. I still covet Jack's sexy wood-themed open-plan house (but no, for those who thought otherwise, I do not have plans to make slow sweet love to the house).
10. I'm totally not freaked out by the cliffhanger. Jack in stasis indefinitely strikes me as a far less scary cliffhanger than Jack not in stasis about to die in a day and a half with no way to save him. I *am* freaked out by the possibility that they will go all X-Files on me and leave him there for longer than a one or two-part season premiere for dramatic tension... and that just would not do:
Dear Stargate, important people thereof:
Please do not make Sam weepy and desperate for very long. While I admit that it will be most fun, as always, to see her that way for brief moments at the beginning of next season, and in fact encourage this, I trust your judgement in not allowing this to proceed for too long. I have enclosed VHS tapes of Season 8 of The X-Files for your reference.
Also: If you intend to bring Anubis back, please bring him back in a form that does not resemble a walking hooded bathrobe infected by the Black Oil of Evil. I have spent the past season snickering every time he is on-screen, which I feel is detrimental to his image as the Big Bad that should cause me to fear for my beloved characters.
Ever true, Little Red.
-- Little Red, who may never look at technobabble the same way again