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tenayaMusings and spoilers to follow. Well, when I say spoilers, I'm talking about what's been aired. I've not read anything about future eps, except for some casting choices.
It's been a few weeks since I've seen any of this show and I'm trying to remember any details....
I remember Greer being both solid and strong and yet at other times, dangerously unbalanced. The actor seems good so I'm putting that down to bad writing.
Eli is somewhat likable. I don't care for how he's used for spying on everyone. And strangely, he seems to be popular with the passengers/crew (what do you call all those people on that ship anyway?) Past experience tells me he'd be universally despised. No one likes a snitch. Once thing I do strongly remember is the look on his face when Young comes back through the gate with a lame ass excuse for why Rush isn't with him. Eli knows that Young has murdered Rush and that scares the shit out of him because Young is in charge. Yep, scary times.
Camile is underused. I thought now that Bridge had an Asian lesbian to play with, they'd actually give a female character more to do. Nyet.
Can't stand Chloe. Her character is there for titillation. Oh look! She's taking a shower! Oh look! She's doing yoga. She's Bridge's perfect female--available for bedding by the hunk and standing around looking all dewy fresh and ripe.
Telford: Scum. Jack would never put up with someone like that at the Mountain.
Speaking of which, the SGC seems seedier now, nearly made static by politics. I suppose Bridge thinks this is more dramatic but I was watching SG1 and SGA for the good guys. I want people that are out in space to be heroic and know what is right and to strive for it even if they aren't always successful. I really am having to work at watching a group of petty whiners trying to survive.
And speaking of Earth, I really don't care for all the time they spend on Earth. I think that's way I don't really get that sense of trapped people or a good feel for the community on the ship. That's all B plot stuff and really, it should be the A plot. And of course I am horrified by the casual way the day pass bodies are used. Would I lend my body for a few hours to save hundreds of people? Yes. Would I lend my body to people who want to go party, have sex and get in fights? Hell no!!
And lastly Rush. The man that we were told again and again that he can't be trusted and everyone on the show takes that as a baseline. He's self serving and will sacrifice the few if it will save the many. The man that is brilliant enough to figure out the ship. See, I was never sold on how scummy he was; they never showed it to my satisfaction. Yeah, he can be a stinker but he's not nearly at the level of treachery that everyone keeps telling me he is.
And the kicker is that Young, the leader, the man that controls all and should be the hero once he steps up to the plate, beat up Rush and left him for dead because Rush was giving him a hard time. That is Young's way of dealing with difficult and valuable personnel? Talk about self-serving and untrustworthy! Young could have doomed everyone on board just to lay a can of whoop ass Alpha Male on Rush.
So I imagine Rush gets back to the ship, people will find out what happened and then everyone has to deal with a leader who is quite scarily dangerous. But will Rush be viewed in a different light? Will it be apparently to everyone that he brought that on himself? Because it sure wasn't to me. And will Young be stripped of rank and locked up? Hmmm... what are the odds?
I will probably see this through for the rest of the year. I didn't find anything that struck my interest in SGA until "Letters from Pegasus" and "The Storm."
It still cracks me up to read interviews by TBAB and see where they blame the audience for being too dim to understand their great art. It's never their problem!
It's been a few weeks since I've seen any of this show and I'm trying to remember any details....
I remember Greer being both solid and strong and yet at other times, dangerously unbalanced. The actor seems good so I'm putting that down to bad writing.
Eli is somewhat likable. I don't care for how he's used for spying on everyone. And strangely, he seems to be popular with the passengers/crew (what do you call all those people on that ship anyway?) Past experience tells me he'd be universally despised. No one likes a snitch. Once thing I do strongly remember is the look on his face when Young comes back through the gate with a lame ass excuse for why Rush isn't with him. Eli knows that Young has murdered Rush and that scares the shit out of him because Young is in charge. Yep, scary times.
Camile is underused. I thought now that Bridge had an Asian lesbian to play with, they'd actually give a female character more to do. Nyet.
Can't stand Chloe. Her character is there for titillation. Oh look! She's taking a shower! Oh look! She's doing yoga. She's Bridge's perfect female--available for bedding by the hunk and standing around looking all dewy fresh and ripe.
Telford: Scum. Jack would never put up with someone like that at the Mountain.
Speaking of which, the SGC seems seedier now, nearly made static by politics. I suppose Bridge thinks this is more dramatic but I was watching SG1 and SGA for the good guys. I want people that are out in space to be heroic and know what is right and to strive for it even if they aren't always successful. I really am having to work at watching a group of petty whiners trying to survive.
And speaking of Earth, I really don't care for all the time they spend on Earth. I think that's way I don't really get that sense of trapped people or a good feel for the community on the ship. That's all B plot stuff and really, it should be the A plot. And of course I am horrified by the casual way the day pass bodies are used. Would I lend my body for a few hours to save hundreds of people? Yes. Would I lend my body to people who want to go party, have sex and get in fights? Hell no!!
And lastly Rush. The man that we were told again and again that he can't be trusted and everyone on the show takes that as a baseline. He's self serving and will sacrifice the few if it will save the many. The man that is brilliant enough to figure out the ship. See, I was never sold on how scummy he was; they never showed it to my satisfaction. Yeah, he can be a stinker but he's not nearly at the level of treachery that everyone keeps telling me he is.
And the kicker is that Young, the leader, the man that controls all and should be the hero once he steps up to the plate, beat up Rush and left him for dead because Rush was giving him a hard time. That is Young's way of dealing with difficult and valuable personnel? Talk about self-serving and untrustworthy! Young could have doomed everyone on board just to lay a can of whoop ass Alpha Male on Rush.
So I imagine Rush gets back to the ship, people will find out what happened and then everyone has to deal with a leader who is quite scarily dangerous. But will Rush be viewed in a different light? Will it be apparently to everyone that he brought that on himself? Because it sure wasn't to me. And will Young be stripped of rank and locked up? Hmmm... what are the odds?
I will probably see this through for the rest of the year. I didn't find anything that struck my interest in SGA until "Letters from Pegasus" and "The Storm."
It still cracks me up to read interviews by TBAB and see where they blame the audience for being too dim to understand their great art. It's never their problem!
