SGA 5:02 ~ Broken Ties

[liresius]

Oh poor, geneless Woolsey - Atlantis' doors don't work for him! Hee! Great Ronon ep ~ loved the torture, emotional angst and his final de-tox scene - I liked both detox scenes but that's probably due to the score which made them both pretty dark, plus ♥ ♥ ♥ for John and Rodney team tag sitting through the de-tox with him and then we get the fluffy Christmas-y classical music of a family everyone safely at home at last! Very schmaltzy, but I did love it!

Loved all the bath stuff - baths are canon! w00t! Oh! Rodney, what a dedicated team member you are - pacing, snacking, bathing - how very touchy feely "multiple intelligences" of you! Sloppy enunciation on the word "reveleeetion" though - I'm going to put that down to his sleepless night, his self-consciousness about jacking off in the bath to fantasies of John though, or maybe the bad, bad editors who let that make it through to the final cut.

You're all gonna think I'm crazy and yes it was before I found out Woolsey was sneakily pressuring John about a replacement for Teyla, but I got a fleeting hint of a "Big Guy" Skinner-ish moment with Woolsey, at 13:15 ~ you can call me mad and put it down to the music and the bald dome *g* but he had this Skinnerish-care about him that kinda hit me out of the blue - Hmm, might be the heat here too and my brain being slightly fried!

I'm glad Teyla and Ronon both had a major story-line but happy too we got John/Rodney interaction ... John touching Rodney's arm which of course we all know is a sekkrit lover's last connection as he was taken off for interrogation! I thought it was a good ep in that way - for the little subtext touches. I like it when the seasonbegins to settle in after the plotty-action of cross season arc.

But I have big questions - like why did John so easily abandon Tyre, when he'd identified with his need to rescue a captured comrade (to Woolsey) and why didn't he try to break up that humungous fight between Ronon and Tyre because they were both on the same side weren't they? Ronon had cut off the wraith's hand so he must have weathered the mental effects of the repeated feedings to some extent - sure maybe Ronon had only retained enough memory of his loyalties to remember John (and not Tyre), but John should've tried to bring them together. John must have known about Tyre not being a triple-crosser because of the detour to get something he'd forgotten (the detonator I surmise, which he appeared to pull out of Joh's BDUs pants pocket, plus Tyre must have disposed of the wraith guard and released Rodney and Co at the same time) so why didn't John show more fight to save Tyre? What didn't I get?

All in all, I really enjoyed it though

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[liresius.livejournal.com]

Me too! I thought he was genuine at all times after his de-tox.

Yeah, most stories have been told! I think there's about 7 or so basic sci-fi plots and everything else is just variations on a theme *g* It's fun to watch how our characters deal with those variations though.