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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Mish: Team -- Old Style (anim)[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 03:51 pm (UTC)
We had to pay extra for that audio but it has been worth it.

So true! It would be easier to believe these characters if the writers had a better understanding of characterization. *sigh* It frustrates me when they botch really obvious things.
[identity profile] juliabk.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 04:00 pm (UTC)
TELL me about it!

Just once I'd like to see a show like this have a person on staff who's ONLY job is to watch out for this sort of thing.

Oh, *and* have that individual be actually, y'know, *competent*.
Mish: Team -- Old Style (anim)[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 05:44 pm (UTC)
I think that would be too much. How could a show survive if all the geeky fans were passed out from the shock and couldn't press their Nielson (sp?) box remote buttons?
[identity profile] juliabk.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 06:45 pm (UTC)
Man, I wish I had one of those boxes. ;-)