SGU, "Seizure" (spoilers)
So, for the record, I don't like this show, for a variety of reasons. I watched the first several episodes and largely gave up, and the random ep here and there that I tried to watch after that just confirmed that decision; I stopped even looking for SG-1 characters showing up in it, and it went completely off my radar.
Today,![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ladysorka put up a highly abridged version of the latest ep, with just the guest stars, and I couldn't resist.
Fair warning: My reaction to the show hasn't changed.
So I start watching, and there's Woolsey! And bonus surprise Victor Garber, which, wow. And then McKay, yay! So I'm watching happily along, all "yay McKay!" and "yay Woolsey!" (and "yay spydaddy!") and then halfway through, it manages to skeeve me out all over again, and so I stop to post about it.
After one three-minute attempt to convince the ambassador of another planet that his people should let the SGC try something on his world that has blown up two planets already -- which the ambassador very reasonably didn't want to risk! -- the SGC decides to sidestep the whole pesky "getting permission" thing by sending Woolsey over to the other planet with Ancient communicator stones so that people on board the Destiny can take over two key people and let the SGC in to do whatever they want.
This would be where I got the shudders and hit stop and sat here wondering why I'd even bothered to dl the video, because EW OMG EW.
Seriously, what is with this show and shoving people into other people's bodies? This is SO CREEPY.
I could almost, almost understand it if these people were the SGC's sworn enemies and they were infiltrating to stop an invasion or something, but they're not. It's Langara, which is Jonas's planet (which, hey, appears to have survived the Ori, sort of unexpectedly). And granted, Jack doesn't love the Langarans, but these people are not our enemies. There's no invasion plan here, no battle to win. Why is the SGC suborning their command structure, and turning its administrator into a traitor? He's never going to be able to explain that he had no part in this.
SO CREEPED OUT. God, I hate this show, and I hate what it does to the SG universe. Jack wouldn't do this. And jesus, neither would Woolsey! WTF, that man is made of honor and integrity! Not to mention, y'know, actual negotiating chops, and the ability to re-open talks with stubborn people after one solitary attempt had failed to produce results.
These people are vile. Ugh. How is this any different than the Goa'uld, taking people over and doing what they please? Except here, there's not even the slightest chance of fighting back.
*forces self to watch more*
Oh, hey, look - the Langarans turn out not to be our enemies, and in fact to be loyal friends holding firm in the face of our actual enemies, who simply choose to put their world's welfare a half-inch above the SGC's request to be allowed to potentially blow up their planet.
GO FIGURE.
At least that poor administrator isn't going to spend his life in jail for treason, since the SGC got caught out. Here's hoping he and the guard captain didn't have a complete freaking breakdown from suddenly being in a different body in a spaceship a bazillion light years from home with no way back, surrounded by strangers cheerily saying "oh don't worry, we just stole your body and are wreaking havoc (and probably treason) with it!"
And meanwhile, the SGC has given Langara every reason to ally with the Lucian Alliance against the SGC. Well done, there, all.
Gah.
More cheerily, I keep getting spam for "ReplicaCartier watches", and reading it as "RepliCarter watches". Heh.
Today,
ladysorka put up a highly abridged version of the latest ep, with just the guest stars, and I couldn't resist. Fair warning: My reaction to the show hasn't changed.
So I start watching, and there's Woolsey! And bonus surprise Victor Garber, which, wow. And then McKay, yay! So I'm watching happily along, all "yay McKay!" and "yay Woolsey!" (and "yay spydaddy!") and then halfway through, it manages to skeeve me out all over again, and so I stop to post about it.
After one three-minute attempt to convince the ambassador of another planet that his people should let the SGC try something on his world that has blown up two planets already -- which the ambassador very reasonably didn't want to risk! -- the SGC decides to sidestep the whole pesky "getting permission" thing by sending Woolsey over to the other planet with Ancient communicator stones so that people on board the Destiny can take over two key people and let the SGC in to do whatever they want.
This would be where I got the shudders and hit stop and sat here wondering why I'd even bothered to dl the video, because EW OMG EW.
Seriously, what is with this show and shoving people into other people's bodies? This is SO CREEPY.
I could almost, almost understand it if these people were the SGC's sworn enemies and they were infiltrating to stop an invasion or something, but they're not. It's Langara, which is Jonas's planet (which, hey, appears to have survived the Ori, sort of unexpectedly). And granted, Jack doesn't love the Langarans, but these people are not our enemies. There's no invasion plan here, no battle to win. Why is the SGC suborning their command structure, and turning its administrator into a traitor? He's never going to be able to explain that he had no part in this.
SO CREEPED OUT. God, I hate this show, and I hate what it does to the SG universe. Jack wouldn't do this. And jesus, neither would Woolsey! WTF, that man is made of honor and integrity! Not to mention, y'know, actual negotiating chops, and the ability to re-open talks with stubborn people after one solitary attempt had failed to produce results.
These people are vile. Ugh. How is this any different than the Goa'uld, taking people over and doing what they please? Except here, there's not even the slightest chance of fighting back.
*forces self to watch more*
Oh, hey, look - the Langarans turn out not to be our enemies, and in fact to be loyal friends holding firm in the face of our actual enemies, who simply choose to put their world's welfare a half-inch above the SGC's request to be allowed to potentially blow up their planet.
GO FIGURE.
At least that poor administrator isn't going to spend his life in jail for treason, since the SGC got caught out. Here's hoping he and the guard captain didn't have a complete freaking breakdown from suddenly being in a different body in a spaceship a bazillion light years from home with no way back, surrounded by strangers cheerily saying "oh don't worry, we just stole your body and are wreaking havoc (and probably treason) with it!"
And meanwhile, the SGC has given Langara every reason to ally with the Lucian Alliance against the SGC. Well done, there, all.
Gah.
More cheerily, I keep getting spam for "ReplicaCartier watches", and reading it as "RepliCarter watches". Heh.
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what position does Woolsey have now? Do they say exactly? *hungry for canon tidbits*
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But alas, this is not my SG - I wouldn't even watch any eps with Jack in them after the first one or two I saw, because that is not my Jack. Woe.
As far as I can remember, Woolsey was just being called "Mr. Woolsey"; no idea about his exact position. But weirdly, the meeting with the Langaran ambassador appears to have taken place in Washington, instead of at the SGC - idek.