Carson - yes, I remember that as being such a pleasant surprise in the pilot. I adored him. I always liked Rodney's character, so that was easy. Actually took me a while to warm up to Shep (though I have now). Teyla on the other hand... very late in S1 before I started to warm to the character (nothing against the actress; just didn't groove on the character).

Teyla was badly handled by the writing staff, I think, for most of the season: she comes across as a bizarre mixture of Zhaan (zen serene alien) and Worf (exotic alien warrior) and Seven of 9 (beautiful alien female confused by humanity). But they gave her some meat at the end of the season, and I liked what she got to do in ep 201, even if it jossed my cool story. Them's the breaks.

I do think she's remarkably pretty, and I was shocked to see Rachel Luttrell actually has very dark hair naturally, in the pictures from Comic-Con. Is she in a wig during shooting, then?

Oh, speaking of Comic-Con, the pictures of Amanda Tapping? She looks gorgeous and about ten years younger. Pregnancy has been very good to her. Bless.

So, just watched 2nd episode, with Rodney being Invulnerable. Feeling the Rodney love here. Still liking John much more than I expected to, though - he's so not-bullshitty. And generally not patronising to kids, which is good.

...I do wish that the Athosians were all the same physical type. It's just bugging me that they're clearly NOT the same race of people, when within the context of their story they pretty much should all be mixed-race, surely? If you've got such a limited gene pool you're all going to be related and you're all going to thus look kinda samey. Or am I missing something?

...I do wish that the Athosians were all the same physical type. It's just bugging me that they're clearly NOT the same race of people, when within the context of their story they pretty much should all be mixed-race, surely? If you've got such a limited gene pool you're all going to be related and you're all going to thus look kinda samey. Or am I missing something?

Nope. Welcome to Stargate.

Start limbering up your wrist now, for, lo, the handwaving required to survive Gate logic is mighty. Wouldn't want you getting a sprain.

The good news is, it gets easier and easier. Or, I'm getting more and more... let's call it tolerant.

I love that episode so much. So much pissing and moaning from Rodney, and then the reluctant heroics... sigh

You know, he kind of reminds me of Xander - except much, much smarter. And hotter.

Start limbering up your wrist now, for, lo, the handwaving required to survive Gate logic is mighty. Wouldn't want you getting a sprain.

nods

I always knew it was this kind of show, though. SG1 is not Firefly. Or Alias.

BSG is more Firefly, in that it's got characters I believe and it's a lot less silly. But SG is still a lot of fun, in a Dr Who kind of way, and it has snark. And I'm shallow. So that's good.

Aw, I don't know if Rodney is hotter than Xander. Xander could be pretty damned hot, imho. But Rodney's a grownup. And, yes, very, very lickable.

Thus far, incidentally, I'm not getting the slashy vibe. But I am loving Rodney, with his whole 'We have to hit on the Athosian babes now, before they realise we aren't cool' thing to Carson.

And I'm loving Carson.

Also, I'm rather sorry for Peter that it seems his character doesn't get developed more - I mean, he's not on any of the promo pictures, so I guess he gets to stay a supporting character, and then in Season 2 they bring in Hottie McHairBraidGuy, and Not!Skinner, so I'm guessing that he still doesn't get lots of screen time. Which is a pity.

Did I mention the Rodney love? Which, yes, very much there. But John is just charming me to death.

SG is still a lot of fun

Oh, totally. My love for it knows no bounds. And there's some good dramatic stuff in there sometimes, too.

The biggest ship vibe I picked up in S1 was John/Elizabeth, and I think it was completely unintentional on the part of the writers - it was just there sometimes. In S2, they seem to be teasing it a bit, but I don't think that's where they're headed. Could be wrong.

I like reading McKay/Sheppard because there's a metric load of brilliant fic about these two out there -- seriously, the sheer amount of awesome fic in this young fandom is verging on ridiculous -- but I don't find they are all, "OMG enough slashy tension to wake the dead" on the show in the manner of, say, Clark/Lex, at least to my eyes. Granted, I usually need to be bludgeoned about in the head with the threat of an imminent blowjob on screen to see slashy subtexts.

I've noticed *some* Sheppard/Weir subtext though, especially in the first two episodes of S2. Or maybe that's because my default shippy inclination is het. Hmmm.

I'm not sure anyone had ever seen anything quite like Clark/Lex, in the early days of Smallville.