Collateral Damage
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ankhOver on OS I voted 'Good'. [changed vote from 'Excellent' This ep does no rewatch well]
BenB and the actor playing his father most impressed me but everyone did well. I found the story interesting though the 'lead guy gets the alien babe' made me groan - I guess it's one of those 'rite of passage' things all characters have to go through. Hopefully we won't have to see it again for a while. Like others have said, the guy playing Mitchell's dad was a perfect choice both for his acting as well as his
physical likeness to BenB. I'm hoping we see him again, as someone that's still alive and well rather than in flashbacks. Mitchell has needed some filling out as a character and this was a good story in which to shine. BenB get to show us a little of what he can do as an actor rather than the action hero. We got to see Mitchell's stubborn nature, where it came from (his dad's accident linking nicely to Mitchell's own accident pre-Avalon), that Mitchell won't take the easy and tempting path to save his own skin but would rather take a personal risk in order to find out the truth. I thought the others did a good job of making it clear they were there for him and I loved their total belief in his innocence despite the evidence saying otherwise.
Storywise, I liked that they didn't try to make the audience believe Mitchell had done the deed but instead made it about a fight to prove his innocence. I do feel the Emissary probably knew who really murdered the scientist and his 'shifty bugger' behaviour was due to that rather than any direct involvement in the murder. I do think he was the person behind the framing of Mitchell. I can easily imagine he was the person who found the ex-husband murderer and convinced him to plant the false memories for the good of the project. I like the fact it's a possibility but we don't know for sure, sometimes people do get away with Bad Things.
BenB and the actor playing his father most impressed me but everyone did well. I found the story interesting though the 'lead guy gets the alien babe' made me groan - I guess it's one of those 'rite of passage' things all characters have to go through. Hopefully we won't have to see it again for a while. Like others have said, the guy playing Mitchell's dad was a perfect choice both for his acting as well as his
physical likeness to BenB. I'm hoping we see him again, as someone that's still alive and well rather than in flashbacks. Mitchell has needed some filling out as a character and this was a good story in which to shine. BenB get to show us a little of what he can do as an actor rather than the action hero. We got to see Mitchell's stubborn nature, where it came from (his dad's accident linking nicely to Mitchell's own accident pre-Avalon), that Mitchell won't take the easy and tempting path to save his own skin but would rather take a personal risk in order to find out the truth. I thought the others did a good job of making it clear they were there for him and I loved their total belief in his innocence despite the evidence saying otherwise.
Storywise, I liked that they didn't try to make the audience believe Mitchell had done the deed but instead made it about a fight to prove his innocence. I do feel the Emissary probably knew who really murdered the scientist and his 'shifty bugger' behaviour was due to that rather than any direct involvement in the murder. I do think he was the person behind the framing of Mitchell. I can easily imagine he was the person who found the ex-husband murderer and convinced him to plant the false memories for the good of the project. I like the fact it's a possibility but we don't know for sure, sometimes people do get away with Bad Things.
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Date: 2006-01-17 12:24 am (UTC)I never thought of that. It never occurred to me that they'd allow anything like that to happen. I'm still living in Original BSG land. ;-) Oh, that would have been so evil! (OTOH, Daniel as Machello--er, Machello in Daniel's body--was very cute. *g* I don't know if I'd have liked him as much if he'd been *that* character all these years, though.)
If Landry had listened to SG-1's advice regarding Mitchell's wish to remain and find out the truth, then turned around and said 'No way, bring him home and let's make an alliance with these people' I would think considerably less of the character.
I would, too, although higher-ups could order that to happen. I was thinking that logically Landry would order them all home and then they'd decide what to do, if anything. I don't think it would be Landry's decision to make--whether they'd continue negotiations or not. Honestly, though, I wasn't thinking things through that far.
I didn't like it when Jack was seemingly unwilling to hear anything negative against the potential allies in The Other Side, and if Jack had turned a blind eye to what was going on in order to make an alliance and gain their technology I probably would have been turned off the character.
Me either and me too! ;-) I know I may view the episode differently from others, but I always felt that Jack was feeling a lot of pressure and that's why he didn't share it with Daniel or the rest of the team. He knew what he was doing was wrong. Jack's not stupid. He knew something was up right from the start. I think that when he got so upset with Daniel, it was because he was pointing out things that Jack already knew and Jack wanted to pretend it wasn't so. By Daniel saying it, Jack couldn't continue to ignore it and tell himself that nothing was wrong. Also, I think that Jack was really angry with himself and taking it out on Daniel.
But yeah, if he'd ignored the most blatant evidence, I would also have thought less of Jack. That's something that has always bugged me about the simplistic military vs. civilian argument. I never saw it that way on the show. In Enigma and Spirits and other episodes like that, Jack was spearheading "doing the right thing," and Daniel looked to him for that. I never thought their relationship was adversarial at all--not really. It was heated and intense and thus argumentative at times, but not adversarial at all. Maybe I'm just splitting hairs. hehe (I know, OT, but it's obviously on my mind from the convo at OS. *g*)
I liked the fact he was distraught over killing innocent people, even if it wasn't his fault. I like his persistence that the true killer needed to be found, even after his name was cleared (which told me it wasn't just about clearing himself),
I don't know... Maybe I'm looking at it wrong. It just seems that he made it all about him rather than about her.
OTOH, I'm with you on the Meridian. I also believe that Mitchell would be right in there trying to fight to prove Daniel's innocence.
As I said, I don't suddenly dislike Mitchell. I still like him very much--even love him. But I wonder what this means about how they view his character. OTOH, I know for sure that the writers don't view Daniel the way thatI do. ;-) So we'll see. :-)