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Nov. 19th, 2007

  • 9:16 AM
pepper: Pepperpot (Ahhh coffee)

It's raining with steady determination here at the moment (hardly a surprise, in November in the UK), and what I really, really feel like doing is taking my laptop and spending the day sat in a coffee shop. I'm going to see if I can take this Friday off, to do just that. I hope it's still raining by then. 

I'm also thinking about going ice skating. I love it (even though I sometimes end up with bruises when friends take me down with them, 

[profile] secretrebel ;-) ), but I very rarely go. A lot of great places open up ice rinks in the winter, here - so I could go skating outside the Tower of London, or the Natural History Museum, for example. 

I watched Solitudes last night, in preparation for [profile] redial_the_gate tomorrow. Damn I love that one (although I'm curious as to how much they broke science with Daniel and Siler's explanation of wormhole physics). I rewatched Enigma, too, belatedly. I like Omoc. He's very honest - and his disapproving expressions make me laugh. Narim, however, I find borderline repellant. I feel like he'd be very controlling, were Sam to actually get into a relationship with him - in a "Why don't you wear this? You'd look lovely in it," sort of way. Ugh. I'd like to know what someone else - Janet, Daniel, or Vala, maybe - would have made of his emotion recording device. And how accurate is it? Does it record every emotion? Will she get a mish-mash of 'Samanthalookslikeanangel/thiscathaslovelysoftfur/i'dlikeasandwich'? Or is it editable? Creepy. I would run a mile, I tell ya.

So, yeah - as you can probably tell, I haven't really got anything to say. I just felt like I'd not been posting in a while. :)

 

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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 01:41 pm (UTC)
I love good rainy days! Yay rain (and yay ice skating)

Narim is not too bad in some ways, and really creepy in others. The love-at-first-sight that is so one-sided is just full of creepy obsessiveness, but I think he is ultimately a good guy (though, yes, it probably would be a bad relationship - I think Sam knows that too). I still love Daniels "whoops!" when he runs in and find them kissing though :)
(and the emotion device is just weird)

Solitudes though....I love it so much! Totally the episode that pushed me over from "this show is okay" to "oh, wow, this show is great, can I have more" but then, "x people stuck together somewhere with injuries trying to survive" is one of my bulletproof kinks in stories.
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:45 pm (UTC)
Yeah, that's why I say borderline repellant: I don't think Narim is really a bad guy - I just find some of the things he does to be a little freaky, and would hate to have it done to me. :) When he's doing more ordinary stuff, he's fine.

And yay Solitudes! I don't know if I was just paying closer attention than normal or what, but I got very involved when watching it yesterday. Sam and Jack, thinking they're on an ice planet, laying down to die! And Daniel and Teal'c, desperately trying to find their friends before it's too late! *squishes the team*

I was also finding Cor-ai (I watched that, too - Teal'c cries!) and Enigma quite involving, so it was probably me concentrating more, so I'd have something to say for Redial. :)
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 02:58 pm (UTC)
I kinda wonder about Tollan courting methods and if Narim is just doing what is normal for his people and weird for us, or if he's weird for his people too.

I get very involved with Solitudes every time I watch it. I love, love Daniel and Teal'c not giving up (and Daniel waking up to find Teal'c looking at him and his leap of idea with the water glass). And I LOVE Sam and Jack in the cave and Sam splinting his leg and talking about Iran/Iraq and Sara and chipping out the DHD and everything so much.

(I meant to rewatch Cor-Ai for redial and didn't manage it. I still barely remember it...)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 05:09 pm (UTC)
See, my theory is that Narim knows he's being a bit weird, because he's a little embarrassed about using Sam's voice for his home ("I was hoping you wouldn't notice."). So, not necessarily a cultural thing. Then again, there's only a handful of Tollan left, so their culture may have been completely shaken up and skewed to the mores of just a few people.

I'd bet Omoc thought he was weird, though - chasing after some primitive, claiming she looked like an angel. :)

I was squeeing a lot about the mentions of Sara, this time around. And I'm with you; I love those 'stuck somewhere, injuries, trying to survive' stories, too. The Fifth Man has a similar feel. And, um, thingy - the one this icon is from. The name is escaping me. I love the pared-down storytelling. Mmm.
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[identity profile] abyssinia4077.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 06:55 pm (UTC)
Yeah, he probably never expected Sam to actually be in his home. But I wonder if early on he was being creepy by Tollan standards.

Oh, yeah, I'm SURE Omoc wanted to smack him.

SARA! yes.
("Death Knell" I believe)
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[identity profile] pepper-field.livejournal.com wrote:
Nov. 19th, 2007 08:03 pm (UTC)
That's the one. Death Knell. The name had vanished from my head. Early senility.

It's hard to tell, really, what the Tollan standards are - the only other ones we really meet are Omoc and Garwin, who do seem quite uptight. But that might just be them being Big Important Tollan Bods. :)

I wonder how many Tollan there were in the first place. There weren't many survivors, but I wonder if they lost a lot of people, or if they were already a tiny population? Hm.

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