Stargate Atlantis: "Remnants" (Yes, spoilers)

[wraithfodder]

A little dissection of the episode. Full of spoilers, etc. etc.

Okey-doke.... "Remnants." I'd say that the Woolsey story was the main story, and I think I saw Teyla and Ronon. Ah yes, they were at breakfast, twice. Darn. Anyway, being a Shep whumper the Shep story was what I was fascinated by... loved Sheppard's "Lorne warned me about you" to Dr. Parrish (and I can only guess he took the trip to the mainland because he was interested in the female scientist who was babbling away about plants?

But the whump. I really sorta thought, being a bloodthirsty whumper *cough cough* that hey, you hack off a hand, and unless you superglued or plastic-wrapped the stump, there's going to be some bleedthrough. Ack! And while Kolya was using Sheppard's face as a punching bag, I heard from another part of the "oh, there goes a xygomoid (or whatever) bone". Ah, watching whump with an EMS worker is... interesting! ;) Then hearing about blood loss and shock.

Personally, I would have loved a lot more on Shep, and hey, the fans have nailed it on the head with Shep beating himself up. I can now hope to (please please please) wallow in some great fanfic to flesh out that part. I mean, the psychological repercussions should be there. Woolsey, well, he'll probably wonder who's he's talking to and if they're real, and the fact that Zelenka wasn't real was good. I hadn't really thought that!

Some of the editing was chopping. On Atlantis, a few seconds of Sheppard walkling and then back to the control room and it was like "whhaaa???"  I would have loved for this to have been a purely Shep episode, but well, guess beggar's can't be choosers.

Comments

[kimberlyfdr.livejournal.com]

I liked it, but I would have liked it more if I hadn't figured it all out ten minutes into the ep :/

[negolith2.livejournal.com]

My friends laughed at me when I saw that Mallozzi was one of the writer and said, "Oh, good - lots of plot holes to write tags to." =^.^=

If he wrote half as good as he thinks he does.... Ow. I think I dislocated an eyeball with that eye roll.

[the-other-sandy.livejournal.com]

No fair with the fakeout on the whumping. Don't they realize we only have 5 potential whumping episodes left before our supply is cut off? Priorities, people!

[mackenziesmomma.livejournal.com]

Oye, I had the fun of sitting there trying to explain back story to people while watching this(what I wouldn't give for some peace and freaking quiet!).

I wasn't overly impressed with the ep and in reality was just bleh.

I can't wait for next weeks with my awesome favorite guy on the planet in it!

[oxbastetxo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the whump just fell flat. You know me, research! I'm sitting there going...that bandage is WAAAAY to clean. Where's the blood???

Speaking of blood...I think you owe me story. ;-)

*whistles innocently*

It is driving me NUTS where have we seen that Australian chick before????


I have to say, the longer I see "Dick" the more I like him. :-) Xiox (Or how ever the closed captioning spelled her name) is evil, but we knew that. She's IOA. It is me or is the IOA getting stupider??? Or is it more stupid?

I think I'm one of the few in the fandom going...ohhh!!! McKay/Keller ep!!! Yay! I am, really. I think they are adorable.

and BILL NYE!!!! WHOO!

[ga-unicorn.livejournal.com]

SG1's Scorched Earth (anyone surprised that Mallozi/Mullie wrote it?) had unnatural sex with SGA's Phantoms (a far superior story written by Carl Binder) and we got Remnants.

I wish Mallozi/Mullie would admit they can't come up with a new storyline to save their lives, quit trying to write and stick to producing. But, no, according to JM's blog they're pitching stories for SGU. ::head-desk::

[berry-hearts.livejournal.com]

THE HAND!! GOD! I WAS SCREAMING!!!!
GAH GAH GAH

[melibabe.livejournal.com]

Since they used the "chop off the hand" bit in the trailer, I pretty much went into it thinking it was all a hallucination or a dream or whatnot. I thus caught all the little nuances with Zelenka too ("We should concentrate on the data"). It made it quite a different experience than I suppose JM wanted to give.

Did he really think any fan would be fooled by this?

And to add insult to injury, I am willing to flat out state that even the non-hallucinated players acted mostly out of character in this one. Le sigh.

[veronicasaether.livejournal.com]

You make several hundred episodes of a show, some ideas and storylines are bound to come up again. To be the original,positive and non snarky fan, I liked this one very much. Finally it wasn't about blowing things up, or Michael (again). It got me thinking 'what's actually going on here?' from the start, and kept me wondering until the end. I love it when they mess with my head a little, and make me ponder.

As for details like clean bandage making it more unreal; perhaps that was half the point, eh? ;)