I really liked Atlantis - it engaged me much more than the season opener of SG-1. I grow weary of the internal politics of the Goa'uld. My favorite episodes very rarely involve the bad guys.

I loved the way Atlantis looked. The sets were great and they made an effort to make the same old locations look interesting. I'm also weary of the pine forest (is it pine?)

I was also pleased that they addressed why Daniel wasn't going with them. Okay, I don't really buy the reason - surely Daniel would have raised all hell to be included - but at least they said something and showed how it was killing him not to go.

The one thing that Atlantis has accomplished is keeping me interested enough to actually watch both shows on Friday night.

(I'll have to rewatch the Daniel death show - I swear there was still a body.)

I figure it takes a minimum of six episodes for most SF shows to start hitting their strides -- sometimes it takes a whole season, because it takes a while for the creators to figure out what works and what doesn't, and refine the concepts that sounded spiffy when broken in story conference and tricky when actually acted out, plus the actors are still figuring out their characters and dealing with a world concept that may be changing every week.

I thought it really helped that Martin Wood directed these first two episodes, I hope he's goign to move over and be a major player on this show too. A lot of SG1's goodness is dependent on the corps of good directors who know the show like the back of their hands -- DS9 was another show that had a good set of directors.

I swear there was still a body.

There really wasn't: he turned into a glowing jellyfish and went through the gate. Same thing happened when Skaara died as well.

I wonder if the whole "The ancients are among us" explains O'Neal's advanced brain physiology that let him put that stuff in his head.

Jack is probably part ancient. Sheppard has even more in him. The doctor? A lot less.

She did state who her parent was, so maybe it is hereditary.

Yeah, that was my guess. (Amidala was elected! I'm sorry, that just still gives me the giggles.)

I guess I don't see the scene as a cliché. She's a diplomat by training and nature. Naturally the first instinct is divided between fight and flight. She just wanted to salvage what was left, regroup and assess. He was pointing out, in his sudden role as military lead, that there were other considerations.

Ultimately she considered his objections and agreed to the plan. Such is the perogative of a commander.

Basically I don't see the fact that Weir is a woman has so much to do with that scene.

Like I said, I'm really sensitive to this particular trope/archetype/whatever--have been ever since I first saw Top Gun when I was but a wee lass. The dynamic between the two of them may shake out in such a way that it doesn't bother me, and even if it keeps bothering me, that doesn't necessarily mean they're doing anything wrong. Just that every now and then I'll have to jump up and down on seething dislike of Sheppard.

I liked Atlantis, though I thought Free-Wheeling Pilot Guy accepted his role (getting talked into it by Gen. Jack) and situation of leaving, possibly forever, rather quickly. Unless of course there was a lot of off-screen soul searching on his part during that chopper flight.

And, is it me or does that life sign indicator gizmo FWPG used have worse graphix than Pong?

And, is it me or does that life sign indicator gizmo FWPG used have worse graphix than Pong?

I was waiting for the Pac-Man reference myself, but alas, no.

I wonder if the whole "The ancients are among us" explains O'Neal's advanced brain physiology that let him put that stuff in his head.

I would love to see them pick this up again in an episode of SG1. It would amuse me to see Carter and/or Daniel get all frustrated that Jack, and not they, could use some Ancient device, especially if Jack was more interested in seeing what cool noises the thing could make rather than find out what it was actually meant to do.

Unless of course there was a lot of off-screen soul searching on his part during that chopper flight.

There was that whole montage while Narim-lookalike watched the HDTV of Weir.

I bet the new warrior girl can use the gizmos. She had that sense thing about the wraiths going on.