Stargate Atlantis: "Brain Storm" spoiler ridden, complaint-ridden review

[wraithfodder]

Gah! Here are my comments on "Brain Storm," one of the last Stargate Atlantis episodes to air, and damn, what a waste of an hour...

Where do I begin?

Okay, at the beginning. The Shep and Ronon going off camping/surfing - why could we have NOT seen that plot instead? Anyway, once they're out of frame, it goes downhill.

First, I don't mind McKeller - if it's done well, but this episode looked like it was written by someone in high school, and that is to say, ti's Marty Sue fanfic. I can only envision that Gero lives vicariously through McKay to get the girl.

The medicine, or lack thereof, in this episode sucked. First a guy is half flash-frozen. Oh, he's in bad shape, declares Keller, who promptly spends the rest of the episode not doing a damned thing for the guy, who, at best, has severe frostbite. Revoke her license (no, revoke the writer's license!, no, his paycheck!). Secondly, Keller is hypothermic, then Rodney finds her in frigid water, ohmygod, not breathing, no pulse, let's do chest compressions, which in the time-honored tradition of bad TV writing, snaps her out of it immediately and despite the fact she's hypothermic, she's not shivering, she seems fine, and in fact, is so fine she smiles and kisses McKay.

Why could the security guards not rescue Keller? Why did McKay have to? (Wait, Marty Sue to the rescue!)

Why were McKay and Keller flown back in private jet in wet clothes? Did Tunny not have any spare clothing anywhere? That, I can't believe since if you'r ein such an isolated facility, you keep spare stuff around. And after hypothermia, chest compressions, Jennifer's frisky enough to suggest sex???

Rodney signs a 200 page document without reading it, even skimming it? To another scientist whom he doesn't like? Puh-lease. Rodney, you've signed away your first born, a kidney, the rights to your life in a movie and all future patents. Tsk ;)

I like Stargate Atlantis because it is in outer space. WHen they go back to Earth, it loses something, and in this case, it fell into a sinkhole.

I sooooooooo hope there will be some fanfic of Shep and Ronon out camping (not slash, but gen, preferably whump) to make up for this episode.


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Comments

[ga-unicorn.livejournal.com]

I've tried to like Keller. I've tried to be neutral and wait for the McKay/Keller "thing" to play out (still waiting for some chemistry though) and hoped that it would be handled in a mature manner (oh, what was I thinking! these writers are helpless and believable romance.). I've tried to keep an open mind about all of this because - DAMN IT! - I want to like the show; I want it to be the show I fell in love with, the show that nudged me back into active fandom.

But tonight ruined all my good intentions. I won't list everything that irked the hell out of me because you did such a good job of it. Let me just add: we're supposed to believe Keller loves McKay? Then why did she spend the whole episode telling him to be someone he's not? Why did she never once stand up to all the McKay-bashers (and God, I hate the rag-on-McKay episodes!) and tell them to go do something anatomically improbable to themselves? I'm not sure about the rest of the world, but where we come from we usually try to be supportive of the people we love.

I think I need a strong drink to wash this bad taste out of my mouth.

[d_odyssey.livejournal.com]

Word! Of the many, many, many things that bugged me tonight, the fact that Keller basically nagged and ragged on Rodney all night about being nice and humble and everything he's not just irked the heck out of me. I was yelling "Hello, Keller have you met Rodney McKay?" Gah, she is trying to change his basic personality. Let him go back to Sheppard and the team who love him for who he is.

[syble4.livejournal.com]

I agree 110%. You don't go into a relationship with the goal of changing someone. You don't belittle them and nag them into being someone there are not. No I'm feeling very sorry for Rodney. If he stays with Keller he's going to be miserable.

[wraithfodder.livejournal.com]

I suppose the good thing about no more SGA show is that we won't see a repeat of this, unless the writers decide they need to infuse McKeller luv/lust into the movie (oh please, no no no, cuz these guys CANNOT write romance).