Continuum Q&A

[sid]

Some of my questions/reactions and some sort-of answers to questions/reactions I found in other people's journals.

I've seen pretty much universal hatred for the "Oh, just another extraction ceremony" opening that josses canon so bizarrely.  Don't take things too seriously, folks.  Taken together with its matching WTF bookend near the conclusion of the show movie, it's pretty much a break-down-the-fourth-wall, inside joke, Episode 200-ish piece of nonsense.  Hate it for that, if you will.

Questions about why Vala and Teal'c disappear first?  I read a very reasonable explanation: we only see Ba'al aboard the Achilles, we don't see what mischief he's been up to in other places/other times.  Would have been nice if this seeming discrepancy had been touched on in some way via dialogue, yes?

And Cam's only alive because he was in the wormhole when the timeline changed, according to Sam.  But I kept thinking, hey, the timeline has been changed, the Stargate won't reach its destination, this is before they enter the wormhole, whyfore is Cam still there?  Well, I guess it's because his grandfather hadn't/hasn't died yet (even though his grandfather had/will now died/die 70 years ago).  OKAY, in the MOVIE timeline, his grandfather's not quite dead yet.  *handwaves furiously*

Lots of complaints about Jack dying from a stab wound to the shoulder.  Did you see the length of that needle??  And Ba'al stabs with a downward motion.  The entry wound may be in the shoulder, but Jack got it right in the heart.  *weeps*

First word out of Sam's mouth is "Sir!"  Need I comment?  *eg*

Daniel is there with an anguished, "Jack," and Cam has to drag both of them away.

Next thing you know, Cam is having to snap unprofessional!Sam out of her grief.  Many, many people have a problem with this.  The writers are to blame, of course.  Daniel is carrying on stoically, but Sam's a woman, and she has a sekrit love, and she must take a moment to mourn her loss.

Well, of course she's heartbroken!  Teal'c vanished RIGHT BEFORE HER EYES!!!

*pauses for dramatic effect*

And now back to our movie. *g*

Oh, I have to comment on the handy gangplank that Ba'al left behind.  How silly is that?  The one and only time we see a gangplank come first through a wormhole is the one and only time one is necessary.  And it just happens to land just right, and not slide off the corner of a crate sending Jaffa tumbling like Olympic gymnasts.  LOL

Skipping ahead a bit: Daniel swears!  He's pretty much entitled, under the circumstances.

A bit more: some people maybe missed the line where Daniel says he's so pumped full of drugs that he thinks he might even be hallucinating Sam and Cam's re-appearance.  Because a lot of folks thought he was awfully calm about probably losing a limb.  I thought MS did a good job there.  He totally looked high to me, glassy eyes and all.  Yet even drugged, Daniel has examined his feelings and is counting his blessings, which just served to reinforce the peacefulness brought on by the drugs.

Hee!  And the faces Daniel makes after O'Neill comes into the room and Sam launches into her explanation of event horizons and alternate timelines.  He's back to wondering if he's hallucinating!

I liked what RDA did with alt!Jack.  Undeniably Jack, yet very different than the Jack we've come to know.

My one problem with alt!Jack?  

HELLO, dead astronaut here!  Might want to consider the possibility of maybe examining the idea of potentially LISTENING to what she's telling you!

Such a closed mind in the face of the inexplicable just seems so wrong.

And then we don't see him again.  :-(  I would have liked to see him come around.  :-(

Oh, well.

SG-1 sent to opposite corners of the country and forbidden to communicate with each other.  *sob*  Unrealistic?  They would have been locked up tight?  Well, my only explanation is that the government wants to keep them sweet so that they'll be willing to cooperate fully when the Stargate project gets up and running.  The carrot rather than the stick.

Did Claudia Black not rock?  I knew Qetesh was up to no good right away.  And yet, the third time I watched the movie, examining CB's facial reactions and body movements, it was all so subtle that it could mean nothing at all.

I loved the moment where she sliced Ba'al open and began stalking after Teal'c, hand device held high, bloody sword in her other hand.  *shivers*

Oh, yes.  Teal'c has Ba'al's little dial-the-gate device, I nearly forgot.  This fixes a problem that stretches all the way back to Children of the Gods!  Apophis and his minions came through the Stargate to Cheyenne Mountain, grabbed a woman, shot the place up and stepped back through the wormhole.  (So maybe the writers hadn't decided yet that matter can only travel in one direction through a wormhole.)  They obviously hadn't gone up to the control room and figured out how to operate the computer to dial the gate, so how did they Do It?

Now we know.  *g*

Oh, Super!Sam.  "It'll just take me a minute to figure out exactly how this time machine works."  *rolls eyes*

Poor Cam, all alone in the past, mission accomplished, gosh, what will he... aaaand we're back at the Extraction Ceremony.  *blink, blink*

Aaaand, if it's not a rude question, just WHO does Cam think that fellow standing next to his grandfather in the photograph IS?

Lunch is on Jack!  w00t!

I'm easy to please.  :-)

Comments

[princessofg.livejournal.com]

I would have burst into tears, too. And I loved the scene in the hull where they decide they can either blow up or freeze to death. Go team.

[sid]

Decisions, decisions. *g*