New on Stargate Atlantis - three people in a hole

February 12th, 2008

Yeah there are spoilers ahead, I suppose, I mean it’s Stargate Atlantis so not too much will happen, maybe they’ll talk about missing socks in this episode?

Well we haven’t quite gotten to that stage in this wonderful looking but ultimately stale science fiction show.  Not yet but I can’t imagine it being far off.

In the latest episode (and I honestly can’t generate enough energy to look back at the title) we have two underused characters and one possibly overused one fall into a hole in a drop that would kill anyone.  I mean anyone falling that far is going to break something at the very least - that’s if you are stretching things.

Carter, Kaylee (or whatever her name is in this - she’s the replacement doctor) and McKay push crates around in a very Tomb Raider style sequence that involved stacking them to climb out of said hole until Carter falls off them and once again doesn’t actually hurt herself.

Third time is a charm with her falling once again but this time during a tremor and then she clean breaks her leg.  Oh man, I know this is science fiction but am I to believe that the first two times she fell from an impossible height that she just rolled properly?

There is a sequence though at the start that made me love Carter a little more than before, she reacted really well to a crisis and snapped a couple of orders at the doctor that were essentially the exact way to react in the given situation.  Very commanding and believable.

Of course this good work is undermined when she is so totally socially inept that she suggests two physicists in a game of who would you fool around with.  Apparently she is also a Clooney gal.  I always assumed she was a lesbian, she just gives off that vibe in my mind, I mean there’s nothing wrong with that she just doesn’t seem straight to me.  But I’m sure I’m wrong - no one else thinks it so it’s just me.

The other highlight is McKay trying to explain why he said Carter had a perfect body in what is once again a complete and utter balls up of his character.  The dude has been shot at, hell I think he has been shot, he knows how to deal with other people by now.

The actors are all great, don’t get me wrong!  They all work with what they got.

Thank god the writer’s strike may be coming to an end and maybe some other science fiction will come along and show SGA how to do it.

Sigh, Farscape how I miss you every single day.

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