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.
It's called a blaster, Will, a word that tends to discourage experimentation. Now, if it were called the Orgasmater, I'd be the first to try your basic button press approach.
Xander ,'Get It Done'
Boxed Set, Vol. IV: It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that.
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§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 5:00:26 am PDT #913 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
ColinG - Apr 30, 2007 5:32:14 am PDT #914 of 10001
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.
Dana - Apr 30, 2007 5:57:03 am PDT #915 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
"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.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 5:58:46 am PDT #916 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
You had to completely fuck up your own canon on how the personal shield works?
Remind me of the previous canon, will you?
Jon B. - Apr 30, 2007 6:01:33 am PDT #917 of 10001
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Re: Who 3X5 -- The whole conflating of a solar flare with a lightning storm had me flummoxed, but I just went with it.
Dana - Apr 30, 2007 6:01:45 am PDT #918 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
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.
Vonnie K - Apr 30, 2007 6:07:35 am PDT #919 of 10001
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
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.
§ ita § - Apr 30, 2007 6:09:17 am PDT #920 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
askye - Apr 30, 2007 6:15:55 am PDT #921 of 10001
Thrive to spite them
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.
Dana - Apr 30, 2007 6:17:14 am PDT #922 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I figured if the could breathe through it, there was some sort of penetration loophole.
Rodney could breathe through it, but he couldn't eat or drink through it. Nor could he reach through the shield to physically turn it off. There was a mental component, and Lucius doesn't have the fucking ATA gene.
This is clearly one of those places where the senses of humor of the SG staff (men) diverge from a large part of their viewing audience. I have the same kind of severe mental disconnect I had when I was listening to the commentary for "Critical Mass", and Andy Mikita referred to the episode, in all seriousness, as "a fan favorite."