Saturday (belated) Stargate blogging:

I really wanted to girl to pull the sword from the stone and then off the bad knight herself, but at least the town recognized her coolness and applauded her deed. Not that I would wish for Cam’s heroics to be ignored: clearly, the girl was at least egged on to pull the sword out in the first place by Cam’s questioning about what she wanted for herself. It’s good to know that Cam isn’t bothered, like some Tau’ri men are, by gals getting in on the cool stuff, like this:

Go, Sam.

So, was that the American ship -- what, the Odyssey? -- that was destroyed? It was, wasn’t it? But Cam and Daniel were on the Russian ship, so they’re okay, right? And this Lucian Alliance, they’re like the Mafia, right?

Of course I can’t wait to find out who lives and who dies, etc., come July, but I’m also excited to see what the show does with this very dynamic galatic society that has sprung into being now that the Goa’uld are gone. The galaxy has been Balkanized, which means all sorts of monkey fun for everyone.

The gang on Atlantis throws in their lot with some new “Allies”:

Goa’uld takeover? Stuff and nonsense! Never felt better in my life! Good bit of shouting from the command chair of his own starship, that’s all a real man need to bounce back from the most intense psychological trauma of his life!

I kid Skinner, but seriously: Doesn’t anyone on Atlantis have any, you know, emotions?

Ronan, for instance. Michael taunts him over his lack of self-determination: Ronan wants to shoot the Wraith, but he can’t because he’s under orders not to. Does Ronan resent this at all? How does he feel about these strangers coming from another freakin’ galaxy and telling him what to do? Tayla, too. Why does everyone just bend over for the Earth humans? Who Ascended and left them in charge, anyway?

Not that any of it matters. Part of why this episode sucked more than it should have is because this is not Michael:

Well, not Connor Trinneer, anyway. He was unable to return for whatever reason, and so the producers just poured the makeup on some other actor and reduced Michael’s role in the episode.

But perhaps it was too much to hope that even Trinneer could save this show. How stupid do Weir et al have to be not to have known that the Wraith couldn’t be trusted? They’re Bad Guys on a crappy SF show that has no concept of subtext, subtlety, or shades of gray: of course they couldn’t be trusted. What did they think, that they were back at the SGC, where the unexpected actually does happen once in a while?

Till July...

(Stargate resources: GateWorld, Atlantica, and StargateCaps.com)