Okay. Is this legit? Because I know they tend to downplay those kind of news -- and it's not like they found a permanent cure, after all -- but this is still pretty big, and it's the first time I've heard of it. I did a rapid search on Google news and got nothing, but the website appears to be true, so... *shrug*
New drug blocks HIV from entering cells
- What the hell happened to Rodney's hair? Last week it was all... fluffy, and now it's just. Bad. And wrong. And not as pretty as before.
- The Earth flashbacks were nice, but it would have been better to get a whole episode about it rather than just this, IMO. I understand they want to keep the action up, but they could very well have done half of an episode on Earth -- with everything we saw plus some more bits (Rodney!) -- and the other half on Atlantis with, I don't know, the search for Ford, Zelenka's discoveries, the big, unsupervised party post-victory, maybe? Even making sure all the Wraith inside the city were dead and not sending more intel to the others, if they wanted to include a few fights.
- So last week it was BB aging five years in six months, and now it's Colonel Skinner aging ten years. Seriously, how long has it been since The X-Files ended? It can't be that many years.
- "Erm erm." "What was that?" and "Is he supposed to be naked?" Hee! Asgard guy and people's reactions to him crack me up. Can't we keep him? He could come to Atlantis and replace Peter, right?
- "Air person. Don't be there." Eee! Just for that, Rodney, I forgive you the hair. *loves*
- Poor Carson and his under-qualifications. Though this begs the question: how were the original team members chosen? Rodney is the very best with Carter, and Elizabeth was head of SGC so those two make sense, but if there really are so many doctors more qualified than Beckett, why did he get the job? I understand that he had to be part of the expedition because he was one of the few who had the gene, but surely they didn't have to put him in charge to get him to go? And I realize all of the scientists are probably the best in their respective fields, but what about the "Air force persons" and the, I don't know, cooks, nurses, etc... Though all those "little jobs" are probably done by Air Force guys, I suppose, but even so, how were they chosen? Did they just ask all the people at SGC who had no kids?
- If all the senior staff was gone, who was in charge of Atlantis? I know they probably had no pressing matters with the Wraith gone, but still. Is Bates still there? What was Teyla's role?
- The plot itself wasn't very original, and I wasn't on the edge of my seat wondering how it was going to end, but the McKay/Sheppard stuff more than made up for it. The look they shared when they were wondering why they weren't dead was absolutely priceless, as was the banter in the space-shuttle-thingy. (That certainly has a proper name -- F something or other, right? -- but I can barely remember the Daedalus' name.)
- And talking about the banter, did we ever have any indication that Rodney's claustrophobic, or is it just that he's afraid to run out of air? Because that certainly turns up a lot (here and in The Siege I, at the very least, and I know there are others).
Still haven't watched SG1, but I re-watched Letter From Pegasus, and it led me to think about Sheppard's family, which I always believed from Rising and on that he had none of. So many stories use the 'big fight with parents' background, though, that I was starting to wonder if I'd missed something, but the "Not all of us do" in his message to Sumner's family really indicated to me that he was one of those people. And do we know for certain that his father was in the military? Because I have yet to see one fic in which he isn't, and I can't for the life of me remember when/if that was ever mentioned.
New drug blocks HIV from entering cells
- What the hell happened to Rodney's hair? Last week it was all... fluffy, and now it's just. Bad. And wrong. And not as pretty as before.
- The Earth flashbacks were nice, but it would have been better to get a whole episode about it rather than just this, IMO. I understand they want to keep the action up, but they could very well have done half of an episode on Earth -- with everything we saw plus some more bits (Rodney!) -- and the other half on Atlantis with, I don't know, the search for Ford, Zelenka's discoveries, the big, unsupervised party post-victory, maybe? Even making sure all the Wraith inside the city were dead and not sending more intel to the others, if they wanted to include a few fights.
- So last week it was BB aging five years in six months, and now it's Colonel Skinner aging ten years. Seriously, how long has it been since The X-Files ended? It can't be that many years.
- "Erm erm." "What was that?" and "Is he supposed to be naked?" Hee! Asgard guy and people's reactions to him crack me up. Can't we keep him? He could come to Atlantis and replace Peter, right?
- "Air person. Don't be there." Eee! Just for that, Rodney, I forgive you the hair. *loves*
- Poor Carson and his under-qualifications. Though this begs the question: how were the original team members chosen? Rodney is the very best with Carter, and Elizabeth was head of SGC so those two make sense, but if there really are so many doctors more qualified than Beckett, why did he get the job? I understand that he had to be part of the expedition because he was one of the few who had the gene, but surely they didn't have to put him in charge to get him to go? And I realize all of the scientists are probably the best in their respective fields, but what about the "Air force persons" and the, I don't know, cooks, nurses, etc... Though all those "little jobs" are probably done by Air Force guys, I suppose, but even so, how were they chosen? Did they just ask all the people at SGC who had no kids?
- If all the senior staff was gone, who was in charge of Atlantis? I know they probably had no pressing matters with the Wraith gone, but still. Is Bates still there? What was Teyla's role?
- The plot itself wasn't very original, and I wasn't on the edge of my seat wondering how it was going to end, but the McKay/Sheppard stuff more than made up for it. The look they shared when they were wondering why they weren't dead was absolutely priceless, as was the banter in the space-shuttle-thingy. (That certainly has a proper name -- F something or other, right? -- but I can barely remember the Daedalus' name.)
- And talking about the banter, did we ever have any indication that Rodney's claustrophobic, or is it just that he's afraid to run out of air? Because that certainly turns up a lot (here and in The Siege I, at the very least, and I know there are others).
Still haven't watched SG1, but I re-watched Letter From Pegasus, and it led me to think about Sheppard's family, which I always believed from Rising and on that he had none of. So many stories use the 'big fight with parents' background, though, that I was starting to wonder if I'd missed something, but the "Not all of us do" in his message to Sumner's family really indicated to me that he was one of those people. And do we know for certain that his father was in the military? Because I have yet to see one fic in which he isn't, and I can't for the life of me remember when/if that was ever mentioned.