SG-1: Window of Opportunity
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superbadgirlI 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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Date: 2008-08-18 09:40 am (UTC)Ah, yes, then "THE kiss". God, how I hated what that said about Jack and how he looks at Carter - you're right it was lecherous and sneaky and not how I like to think of his relationship with a subordinate who works under his command.
However I have to add the extra layer here and that was my utter disappointment with Sam's reaction to it. No, Jack wasn't really acting himself, but that kind of "sweep her off her feet/dip and kiss" is only really romantic between two consenting/wanting partners.
I hated how Sam just "melted" into it as though it was everything the little girl had been pining for all her life. It just wasn't the strong woman and confident officer I always thought Sam was, the one who had a great working and personal friendly relationship with all her team.
*MY* Sam would have kneed the grabby bastard in the balls and phoned Janet to sedate him.
TPTB though just went with the "simpering little woman" swooning at "Sir" at long last noticing her.
I lost every bit of love and respect for Sam right there and then and I don't think I ever got over it - funny how I can sort of forgive lecherous Jack and not swooning Sam, I really don't know how that happened. :((
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Date: 2008-08-18 04:38 pm (UTC)It's not how I like to think of his relationship with ANYone.
I hated how Sam just "melted" into it as though it was everything the little girl had been pining for all her life. It just wasn't the strong woman and confident officer I always thought Sam was, the one who had a great working and personal friendly relationship with all her team.
I've never seen it that way, too overwhelmed with the wrongness of it all in the first place. I know I wouldn't be thinking, "Oh, at last, my tru wuv comes!" while he's accosting me in front of EVERYONE.