sga 5.06 The Shrine

[lobelia321]

I saw, I agogged, I writhed!

cesperanza has basically said it all already. There remains for me only to add my few eurocents.

Yes, it is fanfic come alive! Eerie, really. And this is the series' swan song? How... interesting.

There is a squiggly, Ridley-Scott-alienish thing in this episode. The thing is called 'the parasite'. I am sure it is sentient. I am sanguine that it is slashable. It must be slashed with the wraith-ancestor parasite that threatens to kill John in '38 Minutes', yes!! Parasite/parasite slash!!

"He's mine, you know. Bugger off."
"I was here first. Go and inhabit somebody else's body."
"Hm, I can see a body I'd like to inhabit. Bend over, baby."
"Coil yourself around me, big boy."

Anyway, where was I? Oh yes. Wraith! Why did wraith not burst through the curtain of waterfall doom to fall all over their lust-object Sheppard? Were they frightened by the sound of brain-drilling? (Honestly, that was pure horror. That is the most extreme and angsty SGA I've seen.)

Oh, and of course I loved the beer. Pure fannibalism. In fact, cross-fandom fannibalisation, as beer drinking, in my world, occurs most frequently on piers in Lord of the Rings rps. The pier-beer moment was totally a Viggo/Karl moment!

And of course I loved the whole 'John John' angst, and the stumbling into each other's bedroom in the middle of the night, and the clever jumbling up of chronological narration.

It tried to resist the lure of the parasite. But when the moist tentacles writhed their way around the insectoid-symbiote's torsal sac, resistance proved futile. Flesh squelched against flesh as parasites became one.



And what is to become of Hewlett and Flanigan and company now that they have been laid off??? Will they be hanging out at the unemployment office, Full-Monty style??

Comments

[viva-gloria.livejournal.com]

is a bad parasite. In the early stages, victims become heterosexual. Flee, flee!

Please write parasite / parasite slash. Nobody else will.

hey, I wrote Choose Your Own Adventure p0rn! It was a Challenging Narrative Technique!

[cupidsbow.livejournal.com]

I second the call for teh parasite slash!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

As I said: I need teh visual inspiration.

Yo, 'site, I say.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I need a picture of the parasite. So far, googling has thrown up nothing! People upload stills of all sorts of scenes from that episode but do they upload the parasite?

NO!

*shakes head and tsks*

I guess I'll have to do the whole clipping thing from the video myself then. *rolls eyes*

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Pure fannibalism.

Pure, 100% fannibalism. This is obviously why it had to be cancelled - it's a plot to stop fangirls having too much power. Or fun.

You and yer parasites... ;)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Fangrls are 2 evol for Canadian sitcom producers.

Oh, whoops. Did I just call SGA a sitcom? Silly old me.

And speaking of your icon: Whatever happened to Zelenka in season 5??

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

Whatever happened to Zelenka in season 5?

I know, it's all a bit sad. I thought at least he'd have wanted a moment or two with Rodney during the events of The Shrine! :(

[wolfine.livejournal.com]

Parasite/parasite slash!!

You? Are a sick, sick woman. Likeable, but sick.

lust-object Sheppard?

Thank you, that made me LOL.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Sick? Woman? It is totally obvious! The parasite was the one new character in this episode! The parasite SHONE!

And Sheppard is so a lust-object.

For wraith.

Also, speaking of sick: who came up with the idea for a script wherein a character's head gets drilled open with a power tool???? *clutches temples*

[wolfine.livejournal.com]

The parasite SHONE!

You are right about that! Do you suppose it has an agent? If they write it back into the show and give it a cool persona, it could totally save SGA!
Kinda of like Fonzie from "Happy Days." (and as hard to watch, I'd wager) It needs a catchy stage name, tho.

Yeah, those Wraith can't resist sucking on Sheppard a while, can they? Must be the hair.

As for the idea for the "surgery" some writer probably got a set of Skil tools for his birthday and wanted to show them off.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

O m'Gawd! Fonzie the parasite!

*boggles and wallows in mud with sheer o-my-gawdness*

With a quiff!! The parafonz!