Heh. I'm a tiny bit over-proud of my subject title, but... check it out! It rhymes!! :D

Back in the wonderful, wonderful world of DVRs, I know I'm behind the times here, but I enjoyed "V" :D It's no "Battlestar Galactica" from what I've seen. It's more a fun than thoughtful retelling of the original miniseries. But fun can be good! I liked all the main characters from the get-go, and I adore the main villain. I shall be tuning in for the foreseeable.

(I'm really disconnected from the buzz, is this "V" a miniseries as well? Or are they going to try and get a full on series out of it?)


And then there was SGU. Nothing fun about this one folks. My dad wandered through the room at one point and remarked, "No one likes each other, do they?" Unfortunately, the answer is yeah, no one likes, trusts, or cares for each other. As even a brief glimpse will tell you. ( Dipping into spoiler country here. )

I think we're going to stick around for a few more episodes (mainly for train-wreck curiosity..."how bad will it get?"), but I won't be surprised if we end up dropping SGU in the not too distant.

On the sunny side, this almost makes me glad SGA got canceled when it did. How horrible if they'd taken season six down this depressing path!

I've been away from the computer visiting with family (which was so, so awesome! it's been so long since I've seen so much of my family with such consistency), so this post is probably not quite as au courant as I'd have liked. But it's been lingering in my "post" file for a while, so I'm doing it. :) (Plus, this is the internet. Conversations never die, they just fade in and out and in and out and... *g*)

There was a meme going around recently a little while ago entitled, Fuck You, She's Awesome, which asked people to list the top ten female characters they loved and were tired of defending. A very cool meme, and I was all set to do it. Eagerly pulling up pictures of Scully to find the perfect image to capture the awesomeness of the very first female character I recalled being bashed in an otherwise entertaining fic. But then I started thinking about female characters I actually don't like. Female characters I knew other people liked quite a lot. Female characters I knew would make someone's list, if not mine.

( It was a sort of self-check... (warning: this gets a bit long) )

This was supposed to be written in 38 minutes (get it? just like the name of the episode! *g*), but I'm utterly incapable of that sort of speed. Dangerously though, I'd gotten an idea and I didn't want to let it go. So here it is. :)

Title: Plays Well With Others
Author: Horridporrid
Fandom: Stargate:Atlantis
Episode Tag: Thirty Eight Minutes (1x04)
Rating: G (gen)
Warnings: none
Word Count: ~1300
Summery: Teyla has some ‘McKay’ issues...


( Teyla breathed in the fragrant steam rising from her mug and stared out at the morning sun slowly swelling up over the ocean. )

Greetings from lovely, lovely Colorado! Where every single view is pretty much breath-taking (hence my stealing from French Kiss for my subject line *g*). I'm having the best time in the whole world visiting with my two sisters. It reminds me so strongly of our childhood summers in Canada, nature and family and long laugh-filled chats around the dinner table. The other day, after putting my little niece to bed, my sister broke out some ice cream treats. Which confirms it!! Every time the adults sent us to bed it meant they were up to something fun and cool and guaranteed to give us joy. Grownups do suck. ;P

Here's an irony: I expected no internet connecting issues at my tech-loving sister's house. ( But there's no wireless! )

And now it's time for cute pet stories! Otherwise known as ( Bandit the Cat meets Fanny the Bulldog )

Next up, ( cute niece stories! :D )

Another irony: When we visited Seattle they had a record breaking sunny-streak. Here in "sunny Colorado" they're getting an unusual amount of rain. It's the greenest I've ever seen it. Frankly, I'm loving it. :)

And now to answer those Top Five Meme questions you all asked (I apologize for the delay):

( Top 5 things you would say to a specific fictional character if you could. )


( Top five things you really liked in SGA... )


( ...and the top five you would have seriously changed/done differently in SGA. )


( YOUR top five Top Gear moments! :-D )


( top five moments reading fic and going guh! How is that hot? I didn't know that was hot. )


( Top Five things you can DO to fictional character (different characters please but otherwise yes, you can interpret it as broadly as you like ;) )


( Top five favorite minor SGA characters. )

The packing has begun in earnest! We've gotten a storage area, got a call in for someone to move the piano, and bought (and filled) our first set of boxes. Yay, us!

I made a monumental decision: I'm packing up all my Stargate:Atlantis DVDs. :( It's just... we're going to be busy these next several days, then we're going to be on the road, then we're going to be living with my dad for a little (hopefully!) while. There's not going to be time for me to watch any episodes. Certainly there's not going to be time for me to do the intense watching I do for an episode review.

Which means I'm going to be putting the reviews on hold for at least a couple of months. I realize I kind of have already, but that was unexpected life-busying. This is a lot more deliberate. However! I very much intend to get back to it once we're semi-settled. At the very least I want to finish out season two, especially as I've only five more to go.

I shall miss my Atlantis-fix though. (Thank goodness for Hulu! And headphones. *g*)

The Tower (2x15)
written by Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie
directed by Andy Mikita

Oh, Stargate:Atlantis... ( curse your sudden yet inevitable episode drop )

I've been feeling a lack of Stargate:Atlantis love and it's gotten me down. But! I refuse to go gently into that dark night! I will misquote poetry if I have too! Or... I could just write about something I love about SGA. Probably less painful that way...

Here's something I adore: The soldier/scientist relationship. They didn't invent it (now I'm wondering who did?), but boy they do it well. Currently there are two episode openers that are vying for my "most favorite episode opener ever!" spot. Unsurprisingly, they both illustrate the interplay between the soldier character and the scientist character and all the loveliness that relationship has to offer. ( all the lovely details to follow )

I don't want to write this. I don't want to pull my thoughts together on the last episode ever. Because than it'll really, truly be over. And I don't want it to be!! D: But, I'm an adult, and I shall persevere (though I won't guarantee this will be organized). ( spoiling spoilers that spoil to follow )

Oh, I'm going to miss this show!!! Also, Joe Flanigan is hot like burning and I really, really hope he's in something I'll be able to tune into in the not too distant future. (Honestly I hope that about all the cast. Best case scenario (a.k.a. the impossible dream)? They all troop over to another show en masse; an AU SGA if you will. I know, I know, they'd be bored, we'd be bored, change is good, etc.)

On a totally related topic: "Vegas" rocked like a rocking thing. ( entering spoiler land, gentle reader )

*A semi-related link: This vid, by nellhowell, makes excellent use of Cash's "Solitary Man" and I thought of it as soon as the song started playing. (No "Vegas" spoilers.)

I liked it! ( Spoilers to follow )

So I was skimming the comments on xparrot's poll post, and I was surprised to realize I stand pretty much alone on an issue: I've enjoyed the burgeoning romance between Rodney and Jennifer and I think it's been well handled. ( Seriously...it'll only give you heartburn )

Someday, I'll learn how to spell "colleagues". (It has a ridiculous amount of vowels, you've got to admit.)

So, "Infection"... I have to say, my initial reaction was sort of "meh". But it's hard for me to pin point exactly why it didn't quite work for me. Part of it may have been exhaustion on my part (retail during the holidays...also the reason I'm posting so late *g*). And there's the expected ep-drop following a "best episode evah!" experience. ( Entering spoiler land )

Home from work. Dead on my feet. Still grinning about yesterday's episode. I loved this one, guys. Truly, madly, deeply loved this one.

( spoilers to follow )

Epiphany (2x12)
story by: Brad Wright and Joe Flanigan
directed by: Neil Fearnley

The episode Joe wrote! And then didn’t write. And then backed away from so fast ( he left skid marks. )

Initial reaction? ( Because we're diving right into spoilers on this one )


( and spoilers for Sanctuary )

Okay, fair warning, I'm going on very little sleep here (the down side of this whole "working" thing *g*) so the sense may be of the "little" variety. But! How much sense do you have to have to say, "That was so totally AWESOME!" So lovely and teamy and... ::sigh:: ( oh, hell yeah, there's spoilers )

This post has been bubbling away in the back of my mind for a while now. Pretty much since the moment I tried to explain my new-found love for Stargate:Atlantis to a friend of mine... and failed utterly. :D Seriously, I stumbled and stuttered and it all ended in a lot of mutual blinking and a quick change of topic. Because, to be perfectly frank, I had no idea why I loved SGA so. I just knew I did. Of course I wasn't content to leave my SGA-love as the great mystery we will never speak of again. So I thought deep thoughts. ( These are them )


Even more importantly.... Happy Birthday to seductivedark and xparrot!! Boy, did you guys pick a significant day to be born! :D

I started off squirmy. I'm not a general fan of these sort of shows, ( episode spoilers to follow )