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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[identity profile] hsapiens.livejournal.com on April 21st, 2007 05:53 pm (UTC)
I paid extra for my t.v. and I'm very certain that she said the password was, "fizzing." *nods*

I don't ever want to see them write a particular ship, honestly. First off, it messes up somebody else's fun and second off, they totally suck at writing relationships. Leave it as subtext or up to the actors to put in. Everybody gets to play with subtext, nobody gets pitted against others, and those who don't want romance at all can also be happy. :)

I thought Tomin's change was a little too sudden -- and I still don't understand how he isn't a burnt cinder after confronting the prior that way. I'm glad to see the character's conversion but the Short Attention Span Theater given to us by the writers mean that things we should see happening in a number of scenes spread out over several episodes gets all mushed up into one 20 minute part of a single episode. I'd be cheering so much more if I still had the emotional investment in Tomin that I did back when I first met him.

However, yeah, it would be nice to see him continue to develop. I imagine they plan to use him in the defeat of the Ori because now we have two agents in the enemy camp, even if one of them is a True Believer.