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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.  :-)

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
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I wish I could, but I don't have blinders blind enough.

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 03:07 am (UTC)
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Much as I try to see her as she should have been, I can't seem to erase canon as easily as others. I'd have to completely rewrite her canon to make the character palatable again... which I might do, some day. It would likely be easier if Jack had ever shown any interest in her Doe-Eyes of Death, but since he never did, the subtext makes her out to be not a particularly healthy person.

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 03:58 am (UTC)
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The worst of it is that it puts a whole new spin on the Jonas debacle. Early on, when she revealed she'd been engaged and then dumped him when she figured out what a loser he was, I was cheering. People make mistakes and all that. But then, when she KEEPS making commitments and then breaking them; when she KEEPS misreading the men in her life, she just comes across as immature and childish at best, which is deeply in conflict with her supposed career. Contrary to popular belief, people who are a mess in their private lives tend to also be a mess in their work lives, too (and vice versa). It's not nearly as separate as folks would like to believe. Doesn't mean universal happiness or sadness, but we make decisions in both from the same place and based on the same experience set. There's no *consistency* in her characterization. She's supposed to be this strong, competent Air Force officer with a keen mind and great leadership skills, but she spends half her time whining and wailing and delusional about her love life... and can't make up her mind to save her soul. I'm surprised she hasn't been hand wringing or laid up with the vapors.

For those who watch NCIS, Gibbs ("The second 'B' is for 'bastard'.") is an excellent example of what I'm talking about. He's got four marriages under his belt (three of which ended in divorce). He's married to his job, the job he took right after his first wife died. He's a bastard on the job and a bastard at home and that's why his marriages don't work out, but also why he's so damned good at what he does. He's written consistently... and I have a feeling he figured every single one of those latter marriages would fail, he's just the marrying kind, (though he may be getting a clue of late. I can't remember if we've seen the last of Lt. Col. Mann or not :-).

It's just infuriating because there's no reason for her to have been written so badly except that the Boyz from Bridge are, apparently, clueless adolescents with one and a half brain cells between them.

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 04:48 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com
Well, I figure Tony's been taking up a lot of slack. :-) I've got to write that little ficlet that came to mind one day, but I have a feeling it'll cause a ruckus given how few people seem to think Gibbs would *ever* consider bottoming. ;-)

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 05:00 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com
I had one line come to me, but I've been resisting. "Tony had known pushy bottoms before, but Gibbs was in a class by himself." :-):-)

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 05:43 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] tejas.livejournal.com
I'm fighting the urge. If I start writing in another fandom, I'm really in trouble.

On the other hand, I suppose if I don't write it, it'll keep nagging at me. :-)

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 06:27 am (UTC)
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I'm far too in love with the potential for feedback to ever NOT post something. ;-)

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Date: Aug. 17th, 2008 06:34 am (UTC)
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LOL! Like me being a feedback slut is some kind of huge secret. :-);-)

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