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the_other_sandy) wrote2008-11-14 09:19 pm
the_other_sandy) wrote2008-11-14 09:19 pm
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SGA Ep: Remnants
Umm, I'm just going to go squee quietly in my corner now.
Action!Shep and Shep-whumping are a few of my favorite things.
I'm glad Kolya was imaginary rather than still alive in some implausible way. But why are all the really awesome action scenes hallucinations? Remember the great escape from the Replicator homeworld that ended with Sheppard staying on Atlantis to manually hit the self-destruct in "Progeny?" Now, his really awesome takedown of the Genii turned out to be all in his head too. Hmm. Between "Progeny," "Remnants," and "Doppelganger," it looks like the inside of Sheppard's head is not a good place to be. Heck, Sheppard was doing such a spectacular number on himself that even the AI couldn't take it and called the whole thing off.
The kicker is that everything Sheppard went through felt totally real to him at the time, so even though the torture was imaginary, the emotional trauma was real. And yet you just know that Sheppard is never going to breathe a word of what happened other than that an alien attempted to contact him through an imaginary Kolya, so no one will ever know. It'll be just one more thing he bottles up inside to torture himself with.
There's one thing I want to know, though. If Vanessa was imaginary and only Woolsey could see her, how did she operate the transporter for him when his hands were full?
And on a completely different note, I'm really glad that Keller isn't my doctor. "Hmm, I can't figure out what's wrong with you. Here, have some sleeping pills." She doles those things out like Tic Tacs. I thought the days of solving everyone's problems with 'mother's little helper' went out with the '70s.
All in all, two good episodes in a row. If only the trend continues, but I don't have high hopes for next week's episode.
Action!Shep and Shep-whumping are a few of my favorite things.
I'm glad Kolya was imaginary rather than still alive in some implausible way. But why are all the really awesome action scenes hallucinations? Remember the great escape from the Replicator homeworld that ended with Sheppard staying on Atlantis to manually hit the self-destruct in "Progeny?" Now, his really awesome takedown of the Genii turned out to be all in his head too. Hmm. Between "Progeny," "Remnants," and "Doppelganger," it looks like the inside of Sheppard's head is not a good place to be. Heck, Sheppard was doing such a spectacular number on himself that even the AI couldn't take it and called the whole thing off.
The kicker is that everything Sheppard went through felt totally real to him at the time, so even though the torture was imaginary, the emotional trauma was real. And yet you just know that Sheppard is never going to breathe a word of what happened other than that an alien attempted to contact him through an imaginary Kolya, so no one will ever know. It'll be just one more thing he bottles up inside to torture himself with.
There's one thing I want to know, though. If Vanessa was imaginary and only Woolsey could see her, how did she operate the transporter for him when his hands were full?
And on a completely different note, I'm really glad that Keller isn't my doctor. "Hmm, I can't figure out what's wrong with you. Here, have some sleeping pills." She doles those things out like Tic Tacs. I thought the days of solving everyone's problems with 'mother's little helper' went out with the '70s.
All in all, two good episodes in a row. If only the trend continues, but I don't have high hopes for next week's episode.
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Possibly. But at what point did she stop? The transporter was supposed to take Woolsey from wherever the mess was to wherever his own quarters were, so if the AI handwaved it and only made Woolsey think he'd gone for a transporter ride, sooner or later Woolsey would have noticed that he wasn't where he thought he was on Atlantis.
I think it was actually Mallozzi who was handwaving it all.
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