I actually saw this ep about a week or so ago, when it was leaked, along with the final ep (but I won't say anything about that).
Your reactions were much the same as mine! I wondered about the music rights as well (I watch Supernatural and they have issues with music costs since they try to get lots of old songs and when they got "What Is and What Should Never Be" it was a HUGE deal, so listening to Cash and The Stones on SGA was cool, I think it may have not been such a big deal, cost wise, because they never have contemporary artists, so they probably had it in the budget) because I REALLY enjoyed all of their choices.
There definitely were CSI moments in there as well (though I liked the little discussion at the poker table about the mobster's dog biting his maid's pinky off) but if they hired Flanigan to do a show like this where he hunted aliens, I'd definitely watch it.
Rodney in this 'verse definitely had hints of 'Rod' and I noticed his wedding ring so I'm wondering who they had him married to (I really DON'T think it's Keller, for some reason, I mean, don't get me wrong, they said 'Hi' and I LOVED John making fun of her, but I don't think Rodney is married to her in this 'verse, I'm actually kind of thinking maybe Carter or Weir, who knows, maybe Cadman!).
And the ending? The reason it REALLY crushed me was because in our 'verse Rodney would have rushed in and saved John but they don't have that relationship there, so he ended up dying, alone in the desert, to Cash (and I happen to love Johnny Cash, so much, that the music alone almost made me cry).
(Oh, Rodney definitely said 'her' I double-checked and it's in the parking lot at around the 30 minute mark.)
Here's a little bit of what I said, right after I viewed it originally:
Joe Flanigan was just SEX on legs in this episode. Have you ever heard the song "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon? No? Go to mediafire/nemesina77 and download it. Yes. That is John Sheppard in this episode.
Do you guys watch Sanctuary? They used an effect in "Vegas" that they use in Sanctuary, one I'm not particularly fond of, one that I guess makes it seem like certain people (in this case, Detective Sheppard) have mad forensics skills, so they can like, imagine how the crime went down. It's kind of a CSI moment. I watch CSI, not religiously, but enough. It just seems sort of out of place in these shows, probably because we're not used to seeing it. John Sheppard shooting Wraith, flying Jumpers, seducing hot aliens? Yes. Visualizing "normal" crimes? Not really.
Enter Rodney, in a suit and slicked back hair. He looks like he belongs in the 1940s, like he did in Century Hotel. Actually, it kinda works on him. The suit looks hot (both literally and figuratively), it's a good look for him. And he trusts John, blindly. It's nice to know that their "thing" transcends universes. Ah... love...
And that's all that I can safely say, because the rest of my post was about 'Enemy at the Gate.' Argh...
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Date: 2009-01-04 01:05 am (UTC)Your reactions were much the same as mine! I wondered about the music rights as well (I watch Supernatural and they have issues with music costs since they try to get lots of old songs and when they got "What Is and What Should Never Be" it was a HUGE deal, so listening to Cash and The Stones on SGA was cool, I think it may have not been such a big deal, cost wise, because they never have contemporary artists, so they probably had it in the budget) because I REALLY enjoyed all of their choices.
There definitely were CSI moments in there as well (though I liked the little discussion at the poker table about the mobster's dog biting his maid's pinky off) but if they hired Flanigan to do a show like this where he hunted aliens, I'd definitely watch it.
Rodney in this 'verse definitely had hints of 'Rod' and I noticed his wedding ring so I'm wondering who they had him married to (I really DON'T think it's Keller, for some reason, I mean, don't get me wrong, they said 'Hi' and I LOVED John making fun of her, but I don't think Rodney is married to her in this 'verse, I'm actually kind of thinking maybe Carter or Weir, who knows, maybe Cadman!).
And the ending? The reason it REALLY crushed me was because in our 'verse Rodney would have rushed in and saved John but they don't have that relationship there, so he ended up dying, alone in the desert, to Cash (and I happen to love Johnny Cash, so much, that the music alone almost made me cry).
(Oh, Rodney definitely said 'her' I double-checked and it's in the parking lot at around the 30 minute mark.)
Here's a little bit of what I said, right after I viewed it originally:
Joe Flanigan was just SEX on legs in this episode. Have you ever heard the song "Sex on Fire" by Kings of Leon? No? Go to mediafire/nemesina77 and download it. Yes. That is John Sheppard in this episode.
Do you guys watch Sanctuary? They used an effect in "Vegas" that they use in Sanctuary, one I'm not particularly fond of, one that I guess makes it seem like certain people (in this case, Detective Sheppard) have mad forensics skills, so they can like, imagine how the crime went down. It's kind of a CSI moment. I watch CSI, not religiously, but enough. It just seems sort of out of place in these shows, probably because we're not used to seeing it. John Sheppard shooting Wraith, flying Jumpers, seducing hot aliens? Yes. Visualizing "normal" crimes? Not really.
Enter Rodney, in a suit and slicked back hair. He looks like he belongs in the 1940s, like he did in Century Hotel. Actually, it kinda works on him. The suit looks hot (both literally and figuratively), it's a good look for him. And he trusts John, blindly. It's nice to know that their "thing" transcends universes. Ah... love...
And that's all that I can safely say, because the rest of my post was about 'Enemy at the Gate.' Argh...