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[mari4212]

Friday night, you know what that means.
SG-1

To be honest, this definitely isn't going in my top ten for the season. It had some good bits in it, like Cameron's reaction to hearing that there was nothing they could do to save his friend, but otherwise it didn't do much for me.

For all that I love Teal'c, he didn't really do much for me this episode. It felt overdone. We've already seen that he doesn't give in to torture easily, we know that the Jaffa nation has problems, it didn't have much power for me.

Although the last scene, with Teal'c comforting Mitchell in the locker room was well done. And the "knowing yourself" bit was powerfully done on both sides, first with Teal'c's statement and then with Mitchell's reaction to it.

Atlantis, "Grace Under Pressure"

Okay, this episode had the one thing that was sure to make me love it; lots of McKay. I've said it numerous times before, and I will again, David Hewlett can act. He carries it so well, and he really does make you feel what McKay is going through at any particular moment. You feel his annoyance with Griffith for being deliberately provoking. (I mean come on, doesn't everyone know that most educated people in Europe believed the world was round already? All Columbus was arguing was that it was a lot smaller than they thought, and guess what, he was wrong.) Yet when Griffith makes his sacrifice, you feel his shock and his anguish. McKay really doesn't want the people around him dying. And his desperation, his switches between panic and rational thought...So many other people would have messed that up, destroying the character by not making the transitions work. But with DH, it all flows from McKay's character itself, and it makes McKay even more human.

The scenes with Carter worked out very well also. They did bounce off of each other well, and I like how honest McKay is with himself. He's very well aware of his flaws, very aware of his shortcomings. He uses them very effectively as a shield against hurt, but I think he's also then aware of how much that shield cuts him off from people. To be honest, I think that's one of the main reasons why he obsesses with Carter. She's too perfect for him to ever achieve, so he knows going into it that he'll always be rejected. It doesn't hurt as much, to not get chosen when you know there's no chance of ever getting chosen in the first place. He's deliberately destroying any chance of romantic relationships with women that he's attracted to working by premptively destroying them. It's one of the reasons why I do think that he'll have to see any person that he ends up in a romantic relationship with first as a friend, and only later, after they've gotten through all his defenses, as someone that he can be attracted too. And now I'm going to stop before I go into a McKay/Weir essay on an episode without any interaction between the two at all.

Zelenka was great in this, Sheppard okay. Weir, well, it took the second viewing for me to start noticing all the moments from her that one could interpret as being McKay/Weir. However, she came across as very concerned for him, to the point of guilt-tripping Zelenka into helping.

Now for the actual real life things. I talked to the doctor today, and she's putting me back on anti-biotics, chewables, since I mentioned my problem with pills to her. Which means that I have to go out and get a perscription filled. I tried to call up the pharmacy listed on the perscription paper, but they weren't answering their phones today. If I can't get in touch with them by Monday, I'll go down to the student health center again and see if they can help with that.

The doctor and I actually had a nice chat. Her first comment to me, upon walking in the door, was, "I love your hair". We chatted about that while she was examining me, and she also commented on how it was noticable that I stayed out of the sun. She also loved the skirt that Mom and I had made. So basically, I got complimented six ways from Sunday by a nice doctor.

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[heylittleriver.livejournal.com]

*hugs* I hope the drugs work. And what a lovely lovely doctor. :) And good on ya for staying out of the sun! I've been getting a bit spotted lately from being outside a little bit.