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Mx. Coreo Jones ([personal profile] digitalemur) wrote2008-01-25 09:05 pm

This subject line has to involve the word Shiny!!!

Okay, so if I'd known Jewel Staite was playing a doctor on Stargate Atlantis I would have gotten around to watching it more frequently. But IMDB implies that at least one of the eps was in 2005, and I've seen all of the 2005 ones, so maybe I just forgot? No wait, I remember why I wasn't supposed to know about this. Right. Anyway, all of a sudden I'm willing to watch this show out of order, despite the pregnant major character and my hatred of...

...oh, and then there's Sam with the freakin' hair extensions of capitulation. *sigh* Goshdarn it Sam's not the same with long hair! At least she's hangin' with Zelenka; ooh, and she has more booty these days, how adorable! Okay, I might be convinced to trade that for the hair extensions.

Oh, and John is already bitching about how in this sort of situation the pregnant woman ALWAYS goes into labor. Either they'll kid about it and drop it, or it'll happen. I hope it's the former! I'll turn the TV off if you pull that shit, MARTIN DO YOU HEAR ME?!?

ANYWAY.

I haven't written an update since getting back from Texas. Basically, that's because I didn't want to come back from Texas. Some of it was being on vacation. Some of it was being among friends, doing goofy fun stuff. Some of it was feeling like I belonged, in multiple ways that were profound.

But on the bright side, I did survive 2 days of work and some important stuff, and today I took a sick day to sit on my ass and, well, process some stuff.

But hey! In lieu of a detailed vacation report, check out this SF0 task I did while I was in Texas! I'll have another one done soon, I think.

Now back to hiding in my living room with the computer and lots of yarn and food from my new slow cooker. And that, my friends, is shiny.

[identity profile] grnarmadillo.livejournal.com 2008-01-28 12:21 am (UTC)(link)
Carter is still US Military. The episode in which she becomes the expedition leader fails to offer much in the way of explanation as to why the IOC, which traditionally distrusts the US military, didn't have a problem with this. It also failed to offer any explanation as to why she isn't needed back on Earth with SG-1 to help fight Inara and/or the Ori. (Then again, I'm not sure when the forthcoming DVD is set relative to the current season of Atlantis, maybe it's beforehand and Carter's free to run around Pegasus because they already won that battle.) Said episode also has other flaws which I won't get into now because you haven't seen it yet. I would be significantly less happy about this, but the show has been very good since, so I've decided to just accept that the status quo happened without dwelling on the how. :)

P.S. Google says the actress who plays Teyla actually is pregnant in real life, so I guess they wrote it into the show after the fact.

[identity profile] digitalemur.livejournal.com 2008-01-28 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Then I can see political reasons for her to have her hair down and be out of uniform. Which kinda makes those things fit. I think some of that they owed to Tapping after all those years of her bitching about Sam's Black Widow reputation. She was sick of Sam's short hairstyles, for one thing.