Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
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I agree with ita re:
Martha; I like her a lot and I feel like I know who she is and have a good idea of how she'll react to a situation. I could do with a little less of the pining myself, though I do think it's very understandable. It's interesting to me how much Rose's shadow is hanging over the whole season to date, which I hadn't expected.
I thought this episode was
really pretty silly, though some of that could have been redeemed with a better script. I think Ten is a lot more foolhardy than Nine was, with all the strutting about unarmed in front of the Daleks. I admire Ten's bravery, but I don't trust him like I trusted Nine.
Nine's reaction to being the only Time Lord left was sort of sociopathic, like he would kill anything just because. This season's Ten
seems, as mentioned, almost suicidal. It's not his morals that may have left him, like Nine, but his self-preservation instinct.
Re: Who 3X5
I can't believe a sun flare at midnight was what the Daleks were going to use to power their system. The DNA stuff was silly, but that's pretty darn absurd.
"Irresponsible", or whatever the title of this week's SGA is, irritates me so much that I tend to literally forget it exists. I don't think it's as bad an episode as "Critical Mass," but...yeah. You had to bring back Lucius? You had to waste Kolya? You had to completely fuck up your own canon on how the personal shield works?
In my head, the season goes from 312 (Echoes) straight into 314.
You had to completely fuck up your own canon on how the personal shield works?
Remind me of the previous canon, will you?
Re: Who 3X5 --
The whole conflating of a solar flare with a lightning storm had me flummoxed, but I just went with it.
It makes no sense that Lucius was able to have someone with the ATA gene activate the shield and then give it to him. Or that he was able to take it/turn it on and off. Or that he was able to EAT through it.
Oh, God. Lucius was irritating. But the thing that pissed me off the most was the complete waste of one of the most interesting villains in the SGA-verse. Kolyla deserved a better fate than this.
I figured if the could breathe through it, there was some sort of penetration loophole. In my head it was about the velocity/momentum of what was going through it, but I didn't give it much thought.
I paid more attention to this than I did to the baby fish whale which lost me early on, but I didn't get much out of it.
I guess the argument could be made that the person Lucious got to turn it on and a stronger gene that Rodney and so was able to use the power shield in ways that Rodney hadn't. And that if John had used the first one he could have eaten, etc. But I think that's pushing it.
The other thing that bothered me is Lucious "purusing" SGA records -- not Atlantis records, which I assume he could get to if he knew Ancinet, but actual SGA mission reports, etc. That's incredibly lax security on the part of Weir, Shepherd, etc.
