20 April 2007 @ 11:29 pm
SG-1 10.12: Line in the Sand  
This is more of an insta-reaction than a thoughtful response

Watching the warriors massacre crouching villagers was particularly painful given the events of this week. I was surprised by the severity of the gut-punch that delivered. I mean, I know that nobody died and it was just flashes from off screen but I was quite the strength of my reaction was unexpected. I wish we'd seen this back when the Brits did rather than now. :(

Stupid premise -- how in the world did they think that the Ori wouldn't notice the missing village? So, assuming I can get past that idiocy, I think the episode was reasonably good. I was glad for once to see a grievously injured character actually suffer. I know that sounds weird but I'm tired of seeing the equivalent of the Monty Python Flesh Wound still fighting. It gave Amanda a cool part to play and it gave us a lot of really nice character beats between Sam and Cam.

I just hope Sam doesn't fall for Cam because he's Teal'c's man and I'd hate to see her lose the colonel again like she did Jack to Daniel. ;-)
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[identity profile] selmak.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 03:05 pm (UTC)
my entire problem with this story was the fact that the Ori were wiping out one little village.

One little village - are you telling me that the ENTIRE planet just has one little village. that's the entire population?



Mish: Stargate -- Ancient[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 03:40 pm (UTC)
Absolutely. The writers are amazingly lazy when it comes to creating alien planets/people/etc. I wish they'd sat down a long time ago and made up a cheat sheet for believable planet building but, alas, they didn't.

Even a throw away line like, "The goa'uld already killed off most of us. I won't stand by while you let the Ori kill the few who remain!" or some equally overdramatic statement would have been nice. If that's the entire population of the planet? They're already doomed due to genetic bottlenecking.