I think it was supposed to be stupid, though. You know, the Stargate equivalent of Xander and Harmony's chickfight.

Basically, this was Stargate Does Farce. You've just gotta relax and go with it--okay, fine, she can take down the entire crew but not Daniel; okay, fine, the head of SG-3 is squeamish about mouth-to-mouth on a boy; okay, fine, Walter is, like, a systems expert on the Prometheus. Etc.

I laughed my head off. Plus, Daniel will get to lord it over the rest of the team about how he didn't fall for the cute babe in distress.

I won't have time to watch Prometheus Unbound until tonight. But I did watch Gemini, and I have only this to say: "Bastards! You killed Carter's Brain!" In other words, that was so incredibly stupid, I cannot fathom it. And the ending! Boo hoo, I screwed up because I taught Fifth about betrayal. No, you moron, you screwed up because you WERE STUPID. *goes for a stick to beat Carter with* Good god, the President should be seriously questioning Jack's capabilities at this point, and he would be right to do so. They just took a pretty good situation and made it much much MUCH worse. Not to mention screwing over all the other people in this galaxy who didn't have access to the disruptor weapon to begin with...

I felt PU was Stargate does Lame. Farce, for me, needs to be broader. Or funny. Funny definitely helps. This struck me as a series of ineptitudes.

As for Gemini, I think that Carter was SO dumb that her dumbness washed over everyone else. They were blank in the face of its massive size. Teal'c kinda tried, but lamed out. Jack yelled some things from very far away, but might as well have been pissing in the wind. Which makes neither of them good at their job, but if I were giving awards, they wouldn't place simply because Carter tied herself twice for first.

Oh, well then:

Gemini:

Yeah, OK, the characters were all dumb doing dumb things, except Daniel, who wasn't around. Putting aside, you know, plot and all, I did think Amanda Tapping as actress did a stellar job making Replicator!Sam a totally different character from regular Sam, though. And, frankly, the smart one. But, I mean, the whole premise... yeah, let's trust the replicator because she looks like me, let her dig her replicator fingers into my brain and then into the schematics for the only weapon we have to defend ourselves, blah-bity-blah. Dumb.

Prometheus Unbound, can't watch until tonight.

PU: Come on. He squished her head on the monitor. How can you not give in to that?

Man, you're a stronger woman than I.

Gemini: You know, twinning/doppleganger is really treasure mine for psychological head-fucking. They could have totally found a way for the Repli-Carter to achieve her goal while making the story interesting. Like, Repli-Carter has Carter's memories, right? Why not land on earth sneakily, kidnap Carter and have Repli-Carter in her place, subtly manipulating her loved ones and messing with their heads until she got her way? Or like Katie said, have her interact with Daniel, who's known for seeking humanity in the alien, and have him clash with Carter, who herself is conflicted but knows what must be done? And WTF is with Jack 'humoring' Real-Carter in her misguided ways with Teal'c as the fucking watchdog? If you have that much reservation, pull the goddamned plug in the operation and have the courage to do it to Carter's face, BRIGADIER GENERAL.

I'm also afraid that they would use this to demote Carter and have Browder's character, who has the same rank, command the unit above her. Which would piss me off but I wouldn't be able to fault them for it because of how colossally stupid Carter was in this episode. Grrrr.

RE Gemini: Well, I don't see why Sam should have to be the only one who ever pays promotion-wise for being a moron. I don't think the show wants us to be quite as hard on her as we're being (though she totally deserves it, and at least she said so at the end).

I gotta give PU props to the squishing and the Mr. Olo. Otherwise, from the very moment Hammond took the chair, I was disengaged, and it just got worse. Why is Daniel the one running to wherever to access the controls from somewhere else? You couldn't find another way to have him left on the ship? And they went to rescue Aquarium with ~seven people?

Bah. Left me cold.

Also, I am a bad Farscape fan, because I didn't even catch the homage with the helmet coming off until someone mentioned it. In my defense, I didn't see the FS pilot until I'd been watching the show for years, so...

Oh, that homage did make me laugh too. I'm not quite all Prometheus grinchy. But I did wonder if it was homage or pandering. So I'm only mostly grinchy.