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23 Jul 06
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10.02 Morpheus review by Mel
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Mel episode rating: fair |
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Okaaaayyyy... Um... Not a great
episode. Not the worst -- at
least in the sense of continuing
the search for Merlin's weapon.
There were elements that gave me
fond remembrances of things that
made this show great and
elements that made me sigh in
disappointment.
It was FANTASTIC to see Daniel
in puzzle-solving mode--one of
my favorite things about my
favorite archaelogist! One of my
other favorite things is
Philologist!Daniel. Still
another is Sleepy!Daniel. :D
Vala is her charming self. I
loved watching her dutifully
pass each book to Daniel in the
briefing room with the general
as he explained how he found the
gate address. However, I have
issues with Vala's reaction when
Landry told her she wasn't
going. With her daughter out
there, I expected some strong
maternally charged argument. At
least a "That's my daughter out
there! I have to save her!" They
missed the boat by not allowing
that to play out.
Further, I would think, during
psychological testing, Dr.
Hutcheson might have asked about
her daughter. If they're trying
to assess Vala's motives or
fitness to serve, wouldn't they
consider certain facts such as
a) she's postpartum and probably
rather hormonal, and b) she's
the mother of the leader of the
Ori invasion. Wouldn't these be
important to explore
psychologically? Too heady and
deep for M&M, I suppose. With
the potential for emotion and
intense dialogue, I'm guessing
it's easier to ignore it or make
a joke of it instead.
Whatever.
While we're dealing in humor
OTOH...
I did enjoy the Woolsey B-story.
Re-introducing him as possibly
returning to his sneaky ways in
this episode was a good touch.
At the end, when Vala mentioned
Woolsey's "sexual advances", and
a flustered Woolsey protested
and followed the general out of
the gateroom, it looked like MS
broke character. He was
genuinely trying to stifle
laughter there! It was just too
real a moment to be in
character. Loved that!
Teal'c was wonderful. I have to
say he is consistently a quiet,
enduring strength even after all
this time. He is a rock of
integrity, experience, wisdom
and goodness. He doesn't get the
airtime he deserves, but still
has a significant presence even
when his story is not front and
center. His brave insistence to
carry Mitchell when he himself
could barely make it any further
was very Teal'c. Nice moment.
Nice team moment for Teal'c and
Mitchell too. :-)
Mitchell did well this time,
too. His "Wasn't he one of the
Knights who say 'Ni'?" comment
in reference to Sir Gawain made
me LOL. I'm glad to see his
character looking more grounded,
rather than those distracting
and unappealing bouts of bad
judgement and near mania last
season.
Look! Up in the sky! It's
astrophysicist! It's a medical
examiner! It's SUPer!Sammy!
Crap. Here we go again.
Once again, Sam performs an
autopsy. Did the doctor pull out
the parasite from the brain
matter? Nope. Sammy did. I guess
the doctor assisted her. Gotta
wonder when, during her doctoral
studies in astrophysics and
flight training, Sammy managed
to acquire a medical doctorate
in forensic science as well. I
don't even know what to say
about the heart attack scene.
Guess there wasn't enough tech-y
stuff for Sam to do or say, so
this nonsensical crap gave her
some purpose and allowed us to
be dazzled by her ability to use
a defibrillator as if she does
that sort of thing everyday.
Lord.
Weird team moment in the lab
near the end. Completely apart
from it being rather obvious how
the cure came about, I thought
the explanation of it was
tragically stilted and
ridiculous in its timing. I
mean, wouldn't logic dictate --
considering his team was sitting
there in the lab drinking coffee
and kibbitzing -- that Landry
would have already been apprised
of the development of the cure
at the time it was being
administered to the comatose SG1
in the infirmary? I think a
"Thank God Teal'c captured that
lizard!" would have been a much
better dialogue choice over the
gratuitous gotta- remind-' em- how- very- smart- Sam- is
medical babble as Sam explains
to all the circumstances that
led to their being alive and
able to sit, drink coffee, and kibbitz about it. I guess Sam
can never NOT have the answers.
Too bad. I thought we'd seen the
back of Super!Sam in S8.
Not M&M's best work by a
longshot.
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