~Ocean Dreams into Starry Skies~

But also, she was absolutely fascinated with the majority of the expedition members and loved being bothered by any of them in her office and only pretended she wanted to focus on her duties most of the time. She didn’t want them to catch on that she wanted to be just as irresponsible as the rest of them and adored every bit of new information they wanted to share with her.

So then this guy shows up, and she says “Well, guess you’re better than a wall.” That is literally the bottom of the barrel, like maybe not Kavanaugh bad, but bad enough he’s basically the bare minimum.

And this dude heard that and absolutely thought “so I have a chance??? Yes!!”

I’m sure that Torri had to hold onto Joe during filming for safety reasons, but with the way her hand is wrapped over his shoulder and how her head is leaned onto the other shoulder for support, it gives the impression she subconsciously know he’s taking her to medbay or she’s just barely awake enough with her eyes closed to register what is happening.

It’s also interesting that John chose to carry Elizabeth down there from a story perspective and left the control room. He could have instead let a medical team member or another marine take her down.

So far for #12daysofchristmas, we've had drunk-John and semi-drunk-Elizabeth, snowed-in confessions, decorating Elizabeth's office for Christmas and lots of making out, and a cute little seed world appearance (don't you worry, I am coming back to that; I've already been drafting other ideas).

I've had a lot of fun writing all of these, coming up with ideas, and there's still more to come (my favorite pieces are coming up soon)! A little life stuff going on over here, so the post today will be up later than usual today. But it's still coming. In case you've missed any of my Stargate Atlantis #12daysofchristmas prompts, here are links to the ones up so far: Day 1 - Decorating Office/Making Out in a Blackout

Day 2 - Evergreen aka Pegasus Baby Groot

Day 3 - Snowed In aka Dealing with the Post-Phoebus & Thalan Fallout

When you know you messed up on the job and your lady boss is not happy with you...

And then it would make a mess of John’s angst about losing her- Can’t have him lusting after his work wife-mom in her sexual prime instead of pining about how he couldn’t save her.

And then it makes me lowkey mad they wrote in that random Ancient princess girl character in, what was that, season 4? The one with the Hallmark actress.

I always felt like that was weird traumatic filler that wasn’t necessary and didn’t make sense w/ the actress’s acting style, no offense to her. Just bad directing and writing with that arc that was there just to bring in extra ships for a big space battle later.

They could have written Elizabeth as a Replicator Mercenary for that character arc to utilize her character and wrap up her story cleaner. Then the forced chemistry between the two characters would have made more sense, and they could have confirmed if the romantic tension was there between them both without tying them into a committed relationship, and there wouldn’t be an Elizabeth out there floating in space for no reason wasting our screen time.

I'm watching Stargate Atlantis S 1 Ep 15 Before I sleep. And it's so damn terrible. Oooh, "Episode 1 isn't how it actually happened" "everyone actually died" "but this one person survived" "and they travelled through time" "and saved the day" "and now everyone survived"

This episode focuses on character development instead of action, which is often one of SGAs greatest strengths as a show.

The point of this episode was to remind the audience during season one just how high the stakes were when they came to the city and show the audience just how much Elizabeth would sacrifice for her crew.

That sacrifice becomes a poetic thread in the story when the audience notices that both versions of her are constantly spoken over the entire episode and are consistently unappreciated by those around her.

It probably reads differently watching it via streaming versus watching it as it aired, so that may have influenced my interpretation at the time.

There was a pretty large mid-season gap, and episodes aired weekly when the show was on, so this would have taken place during the second part of season 1 airing, a few episodes in.

So, there was plenty of time to forget about how the pilot version happened in that day and age of television.

And I am also Elizabeth Weir fan #1 so, I’m probably biased, I’ll own that.

🤍 the ultimate ships challenge: hugs [1/10]

reality: mary forgot to put away her ring before getting into character

I’m like giiiiirl who is your nail tech 💅