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superbadgirl) wrote2008-08-17 03:06 pm
superbadgirl) wrote2008-08-17 03:06 pm
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SG-1: Window of Opportunity
I watched this last week, but I was stuck in a time loop and couldn't post about it ... ba-dum-bum.
I enjoy some aspects of this episode. Frankly, it does always puzzle me it makes the "fan favorites" list. It's cute, but it's not THAT cute, you know? More on this later.
The opening shot/painting/digital whatever is beautiful.
Ah, Daniel being all Daniel-y and getting shot for it. I always wondered if that was a shoot-to-kill shot or just a stunner. Jack's vague discomfort with the subject later in the infirmary does nothing to clear that up.
"Maybe he read your report?"
Poor Jack and Teal'c slowly going nuts while everyone else remains oblivious. I lol'd at the last briefing, when Jack sums it all up succintly and ends with an "I don't think we need to see the doc...". Hammond's sitting there with his mouth agape. And then they end up in the infirmary with a penlight in the eyes and a thermometer in the mouth.
The ending was poignant, and for a time I was always bothered by Jack being the one to relate to Malachi, when Malachi's sitch is more directly parallel to Daniel's. But then I grew up and realized Daniel's going into this cold, and Jack isn't.
The big things that bother me: Jack letting Daniel get plowed over. Ha-ha, funny! Except it really came across as mean-spirited to me. :(
And the kiss. Now, I'm not knee jerking from a "Sam/Jack is gross!" standpoint. Honestly, I'm not. I find it wholly inappropriate and stupid, but not because it was, at the time, a blatant play to the shippers. What bothers me intensely about the whole thing is Jack taking advantage of Sam. She's not going to remember that. He make physical overtures to a woman who would have no memory of it, simply because he could and that is ALL kinds of ooky. It's not precisely like a man giving a woman a roofie and having sex with her, her choice removed ... and yet it's precisely like that. I have no idea how none of the PTB saw it this way. If they were asked now, they probably still wouldn't. I find that disheartening to say the least.
The lecherous, sly look afterward and at the very end shot of the episode really didn't help, and left me feeling very confused about Jack as the hero of the story. *shudders*
It ruins the episode for me, and is ultimately why I could never vote it a favorite.
I enjoy some aspects of this episode. Frankly, it does always puzzle me it makes the "fan favorites" list. It's cute, but it's not THAT cute, you know? More on this later.
The opening shot/painting/digital whatever is beautiful.
Ah, Daniel being all Daniel-y and getting shot for it. I always wondered if that was a shoot-to-kill shot or just a stunner. Jack's vague discomfort with the subject later in the infirmary does nothing to clear that up.
"Maybe he read your report?"
Poor Jack and Teal'c slowly going nuts while everyone else remains oblivious. I lol'd at the last briefing, when Jack sums it all up succintly and ends with an "I don't think we need to see the doc...". Hammond's sitting there with his mouth agape. And then they end up in the infirmary with a penlight in the eyes and a thermometer in the mouth.
The ending was poignant, and for a time I was always bothered by Jack being the one to relate to Malachi, when Malachi's sitch is more directly parallel to Daniel's. But then I grew up and realized Daniel's going into this cold, and Jack isn't.
The big things that bother me: Jack letting Daniel get plowed over. Ha-ha, funny! Except it really came across as mean-spirited to me. :(
And the kiss. Now, I'm not knee jerking from a "Sam/Jack is gross!" standpoint. Honestly, I'm not. I find it wholly inappropriate and stupid, but not because it was, at the time, a blatant play to the shippers. What bothers me intensely about the whole thing is Jack taking advantage of Sam. She's not going to remember that. He make physical overtures to a woman who would have no memory of it, simply because he could and that is ALL kinds of ooky. It's not precisely like a man giving a woman a roofie and having sex with her, her choice removed ... and yet it's precisely like that. I have no idea how none of the PTB saw it this way. If they were asked now, they probably still wouldn't. I find that disheartening to say the least.
The lecherous, sly look afterward and at the very end shot of the episode really didn't help, and left me feeling very confused about Jack as the hero of the story. *shudders*
It ruins the episode for me, and is ultimately why I could never vote it a favorite.
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All of that is exactly what has always bothered me about that.
I also was not fond of Jack allowing Daniel to get knocked over multiple times. I never thought that was funny except maybe the first time I saw this episode and then only because it was one of the first episodes I saw, and I didn't really know all the characters well, so that whole thing sort of went over my head.
This episode has some great moments, but it actually became one of my least-liked episodes the more times I saw it.
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The idea Jack would let it happen over and over and over doesn't speak very well of him, if you ask me. :(
My dislike for the episode also grows each time I see it. I can appreciate the good moments - Daniel being all linguist-y, Sam being all whatever she is and in character. But then comes the ending and I get grossed out again.