{ SGA: 217, Coup d'Etat }

[delga]

Is it me or is that last scene between Sheppard and Weir COMPLETELY BRIMMING WITH UST?

"I say we call it a win."
"Who's spinning now?"
"Fine. Call it a night, then."
"Now that, we can do."

Yeah. Yeah, it is. (GODILOVEMYSHIP).

I love Genii (Gennii?) episodes, they always play out really well and this has got to have been the best episode this season. (Well, yes, okay, there was that episode with The Kiss OMG, the Weir-plus-gun OTP and Caldwell totally having the hots for Weir but on the not-shallow scale...) The double-fake totally caught me by surprise. Oh, have I mentioned how awesome Teyla and Ronon are? And how hilarious it is that Ronon is always "Me hit" and Teyla just, like, stands there sighing? BECAUSE IT TOTALLY IS. And thank god Lorne isn't dead because I nearly had a conniption when Sheppard said the tags were his. ("Way to be alive!" "Thanks, sir." HEE! Man, the dialogue was completely on, too).

In related news, I always figured my ship(s) for this show were solid (Sheppard/Weir, Ronon/Teyla, Carson/Rodney) but I have been reading Ronon/Liz and I want to see more Skinner Caldwell/Weir. Oh, wait. That's not my ships being unstable, that's me Alpha Femaling Weir. Heh.

Oh, look. It's Trip Tucker omg.

eta: I jumped three times during that episode, twice when Ronon was being alpha male over Teyla and once when Trip has that nightmare and sees the wraith in the mirror. Jeebus.

The thing I forgot about Coup d'Etat that I remembered in Michael was how unethical the SGA team is becoming. It's quite scary. First you have them going to steal the ZPM from the Gen(n)ii (dude, how do you spell that??) and then you have them experimenting on random test subjects. Actually, my deal with that wasn't so much that they were de-wraithing him as the fact they thought they were doing a good thing; like humans were the only way to go. BSG is better at the ethical stuff but still, this episode's fairly horrific on that level.

Ethics aside...am I the only person who thinks it was really stupid of them to have their FIRST test patient ON BASE wtf? Obvious security breach much? WHICH IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN YOU ARE STUPID, GUYS.

Anyway, other than that the writing had me edgy because I have no idea what happens at the end of the series, unlike most of what I've already seen. The fact that we knew something was up right from the very start was enough to keep me intrgued. I really liked it. Only two more left, meep.

Meanwhile, my CSI renaissance* carries on apace. Jorja Fox's outrageous prettiness aside, S2 was that glorious time when we didn't have to deal with fucked up camera filters. Everything's a little sharper, too, and there's, like, real daylight (even though they're the night shift, yo). Iconning the old-school is so awesome. Even if it is 2.30am. What? The Atlantis obsession refused to go to sleep.

* What do you mean I'm the only person to make Sports Night references anymore?

Comments

[muldy.livejournal.com]

Haha yes the whole Wraith on base thing was stupid - only Ronon seemed to have brains in that ep :P

(and is it just me or did TEyla totally fall in love with a Wraith??)

[delgaserasca.livejournal.com]

Yo, Teyla/Wraith. You know it's real.