Sateda!

SGA's Sateda was watched and very much enjoyed! One of the best episodes this show has had so far, definitely. The action, the music, the settings, the story itself, the interaction between the characters... Awesome!

Oh my, Ronon kicked some serious ass in this ep. That was like one long action sequence. And how he was willing to die for his team! And then the little chat between Sheppard and Teyla in the mess hall, how he just couldn't squeeze the right words out and she kept finishing his sentences for him :) The whole "I would do anything for any one of you" thing was... oh my, I felt like squishing Sheppard silly. And then on Sateda, how he kept adding dead Wraith to his kills and Teyla always looked at him, hehe. Oh, and Rodney and Carson arguing about who is the bigger Rambo... XP

In the commentary, Robert C. Cooper and Brenton Spencer (the director/writer and the director of photography, respectively) talked about how much they enjoyed filming this episode and Cooper said that after Jason Momoa had read he script, he came to Cooper's office, hugged him tight and thanked him for this episode. And Jason did most of the stunts himself, even the fight in the dark - he and the stunt coordinator really did fight in a complete darkness. They also said that this episode just blew their budget, it was way, way over but they decided to do it anyway and then they were really happy about it because fans kept talking about the awesomeness of Sateda the whole season through.

Also, according to Brenton Spencer, Joe Flanigan has a nice sense of humor. He usually reacts in a very wry kind of way to things. And Robert Cooper said that Jason Momoa is nothing like his character, that when Cooper went for a dinner with him, Jason pulled his hair back, put his glasses on and dressed up and he turned out to be a really soft-spoken intellectual, so it's funny to see him play such a "savage".

And let's not forget some ( funny quotes... )

Of fics...

Did it ever happen to you that you were reading a fic and you thought "great, awesome" and then suddenly, the author introduced a character/plot twist and you suddenly literally screeched to a halt and totally lost interest in the fic?

I remember a fic like that in the Gundam Wing fandom, back then, in the old days ;P In the story, Duo was a banshee and I enjoyed it very much but then the author turned it into a Harry Potter Xover and I just couldn't read another frickin' line of that thing. My little me dislikes Harry Potter with the intensity of seven suns, you see X( *sigh* Oh, well...

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Fic recs!
Supernatural - I finally started reading the big bang fics! Go me ;P
GEN --> "weathercock snowfall (starlight cockcrow)" by kroki_refur. Dean's got three weeks to live, and Sam's acting like a freakin asshole. And hey, it's not like that's never happened before, but this is a little too much like history repeating for Dean's liking. Awesome! Words: 27.000.

Stargate Atlantis:
MCSHEP --> "That Pon Farr Thing" by chelle. John suffers from seizures and only Rodney's touch can make them stop. Yes, I do love to see Sheppard suffer, sue me XP. Words: 10.000+.