Re SG-1: right. I'm glad to get that clarification, because SGU is so different from how you describe SG-1 that I would be bound to be disappointed without that knowledge. Although I have to say that I loved watching the episode with McKay, and that makes me want to watch more of him... I know that's SG-A, but anyway, something to look forward to. Also I loooooove Claudia Black!
Yeah, the 2000-years arc was... just, unexpectedly, heartbreaking. (I'd been spoiled, by reading FoD if by nothing else, that it occurred, but it was different to watch it...) (And HA Rush, who is so obviously sulking, as Volker points out, that they did it all without him! HEE.
...I wrote that a while back, and then I was thinking about it, and I wonder if what's also going on is that -- all the others' alternate selves have -- a legacy; even Brody, who didn't have kids, had a legacy in the nation he created. The alternate Rush, in contrast, was sterile; all he did was die with the ship, at least to the best of primary!Rush's knowledge. I mean, it's because of him that everyone else is still on the ship and not stranded at Novus, but that's a bit cold comfort, in a way...)
The loop scene where Young slowly and carefully disarms Rush might be one of my favorite moments in the book. There's no doubt that 'service' is one of my biggest kink buttons, and the flavor that gets me the hardest, is 'acute perceptiveness when partner is in extremis.' Also, trust. If you look back at the preceding section, Rush had laid out the whole, "I'll *never* trust you, and you'll *never* trust me," bylaw down just a few scenes before. Then the time loops happen in which Young isn't even experiencing the learning curve of, "How the fuck do I get him to trust me on very short notice??"......and yet they hit that point where Rush is worn down to the point where he has no veneer or defenses and can only ask, "please...." and Young gets up & puts on his boots & tells Rush & Greer that he trusts them both. Lovely.
This. THIS.
And OH Eli. I think what I love about Eli in FoD is that he really assumes the responsibilities (for both crew morale and science) that he's growing towards in canon, but only in those last two episodes does he really reach for it. ELI! LOVE!
So I will make a confession that I simply adored the first two seasons of BSG, and then I really thought it went off the rails -- I don't really do crack plots (Farscape? was not crack plot. Farscape was *brilliant* plot) and I am kind of allergic to TV-show-as-current-politics-commentary. (TV show as general meta commentary, sure! Some of DS9, for example, it's surprising to me that it aired so long ago because the episodes on government control, etc. were so relevant when I watched it several years ago...)
So my list of squee!love is something like 1 Firefly 2 Veronica Mars (I actually think it is much better than Firefly in execution, but not *nearly* as lovable) 3 DS9 (esp later seasons) 4 SGU 5 BSG (vaults up to 3 if I only consider the first two or three seasons) 6 Farscape
...I know. I KNOW. OBVIOUSLY Farscape belongs way up on that list in terms of awesomeness. And I loooove Claudia Black, as I've already said. And Broken!Crichton. And I ship them like crazy. And somehow it doesn't make me squee like the other shows do, and I have no idea why. (One reason, I suspect, is that I watched them on my computer, which tends to make me cranky -- I should watch them on an actual TV, or on my iPad, and see whether that changes my opinion. Weird, stupid things like that can have an effect on me!)
...I haven't seen Sarah Connor! I will put it on my list :) (though I think probably SG-1 and SG-A will be first :) ) (I haven't seen B5 either. I know I need to!)
hee. Yes, self-indulgent gushing for the win! Love it!
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Date: 2012-07-22 03:49 am (UTC)Yeah, the 2000-years arc was... just, unexpectedly, heartbreaking. (I'd been spoiled, by reading FoD if by nothing else, that it occurred, but it was different to watch it...) (And HA Rush, who is so obviously sulking, as Volker points out, that they did it all without him! HEE.
...I wrote that a while back, and then I was thinking about it, and I wonder if what's also going on is that -- all the others' alternate selves have -- a legacy; even Brody, who didn't have kids, had a legacy in the nation he created. The alternate Rush, in contrast, was sterile; all he did was die with the ship, at least to the best of primary!Rush's knowledge. I mean, it's because of him that everyone else is still on the ship and not stranded at Novus, but that's a bit cold comfort, in a way...)
The loop scene where Young slowly and carefully disarms Rush might be one of my favorite moments in the book. There's no doubt that 'service' is one of my biggest kink buttons, and the flavor that gets me the hardest, is 'acute perceptiveness when partner is in extremis.' Also, trust. If you look back at the preceding section, Rush had laid out the whole, "I'll *never* trust you, and you'll *never* trust me," bylaw down just a few scenes before. Then the time loops happen in which Young isn't even experiencing the learning curve of, "How the fuck do I get him to trust me on very short notice??"......and yet they hit that point where Rush is worn down to the point where he has no veneer or defenses and can only ask, "please...." and Young gets up & puts on his boots & tells Rush & Greer that he trusts them both. Lovely.
This. THIS.
And OH Eli. I think what I love about Eli in FoD is that he really assumes the responsibilities (for both crew morale and science) that he's growing towards in canon, but only in those last two episodes does he really reach for it. ELI! LOVE!
So I will make a confession that I simply adored the first two seasons of BSG, and then I really thought it went off the rails -- I don't really do crack plots (Farscape? was not crack plot. Farscape was *brilliant* plot) and I am kind of allergic to TV-show-as-current-politics-commentary. (TV show as general meta commentary, sure! Some of DS9, for example, it's surprising to me that it aired so long ago because the episodes on government control, etc. were so relevant when I watched it several years ago...)
So my list of squee!love is something like
1 Firefly
2 Veronica Mars (I actually think it is much better than Firefly in execution, but not *nearly* as lovable)
3 DS9 (esp later seasons)
4 SGU
5 BSG (vaults up to 3 if I only consider the first two or three seasons)
6 Farscape
...I know. I KNOW. OBVIOUSLY Farscape belongs way up on that list in terms of awesomeness. And I loooove Claudia Black, as I've already said. And Broken!Crichton. And I ship them like crazy. And somehow it doesn't make me squee like the other shows do, and I have no idea why. (One reason, I suspect, is that I watched them on my computer, which tends to make me cranky -- I should watch them on an actual TV, or on my iPad, and see whether that changes my opinion. Weird, stupid things like that can have an effect on me!)
...I haven't seen Sarah Connor! I will put it on my list :) (though I think probably SG-1 and SG-A will be first :) ) (I haven't seen B5 either. I know I need to!)
hee. Yes, self-indulgent gushing for the win! Love it!