Stargate Atlantis Season 5
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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501: Search and Rescue 2008 July 11
(First watched 2008-07-13) FORD! I trust they didn't contract him for only 5 seconds, so I suppose we'll finally get back to him sometime this season.
So Sam called back partially because of the Tok'ra finding the last Baal clone and wanting SG-1 around. I suppose that's the Stargate: Continuum-related reason for her to be going that was talked about. Though, what with the IOA ripping her from command when she arrived back at the SGC, the net effect I suppose is preventing some tearful farewell scene on Atlantis.
So Teyla's back, her son is born, Michael apparently stopped, but as we know from experience if someone doesn't die on screen it didn't really happen. And even sometimes then.
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(First watched 2008-07-18) Frankly, my full attention wasn't on the episode, since there was (good-intentioned) frequent interruption from someone nearby. So a lot of moments I'm sure I missed altogether.
Carson... looked different. I know that's the reality of actors not being statues, but considering he was just supposed to have come out of stasis it seemed especially off. I'm not sure if it was just the different hairstyle causing things to seem off, or if his face really was puffy.
I wish I'd gotten to pay more attention to Woolsey's scenes, but what was there was interesting. Due to extraordinary circumstances he was forced to bend the rules, but at the end of the day rather than being glad that rule-breaking allowed everything to turn out alright, it's put him in a kind of crisis of faith. We've seen characters married to their beliefs or worried about meeting their personal standards before, but it's something different and both sad and funny to see Woolsey's being about whether he can really make it in a place where following the rules isn't always the correct solution.
Considering his predecessors were so well-liked, I'm surprised there wasn't more apparent backlash to Woolsey's presence in place of someone better-suited to the position.
The concept of a plant taking over the base while a new commander is trying to settle in reminded me of SG-1's Zero Hour.
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(First watched 2008-07-26) A good old-fashioned role reversal. Not exactly a unique thing, but it does create an interesting situation for Ronon. His old friends turned "traitor"... well, he learned how little control they had over the situation. And Ronon himself is made out to be less than perfect, which is probably a Good Thing. I believe it was sometime in SG-1 Season 10 that Teal'c was thought to have been turned pro-Goa'uld by fancy torture techniques, but of course he was too perfect and just used his newfound unchainedness to attack those who tried. The only time I recall him "going bad" was when he was brainwashed.
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