*rocking back and forth repeating myself that Diomedes does eventually get a happy ending Diomedes gets a happy ending Diomedes gets a happy ending Dio-
I would say that I have a theory that the inventor is Troy’s dad but I feel the far superior theory is that Troy’s dad and the inventor are old men yaoi
edit: I watched like five more minutes of the episode and it is very clear they are different people. New theory is enemies to lovers.
changes to the troy saga and the cyclops saga that i noticed immediately and am losing my mind over
the new reverb and deepness when zeus sings in the horse and the infant
the new sound of the lotus eaters
THE LOTUS EATERS SAY NOM NOM NOM
AND SCARY CAVE
athena maintaining her clear tune the first time her and odysseus sing “warrior of the mind” together and then joining odysseus in embellishing it the second time
Me, after realizing Mike made a deal to Swap places with someone in season 1 and really just got lucky he lived but now everything is coming full circle and Max's song is about making a deal to swap places something we see Mike do in season 1 and might see again in season 5-
DS9's "Second Skin" once again shaming the Stargate Atlantis writing team by doing an episode they wrote but over 10 years earlier and 50 times better. I went on a rant about "Sunday" vs "Lessons" a couple years ago, but watching "Second Skin" is like seeing what "Michael" could have been if written by people who understood drama instead of only being acted by people who did. There are definitely differences, like we start out having a relationship with Kira which we don't with Lt Kenmore, but with the whole fake identity plot having the person's actual parent there makes it sooooooo much more emotional. (This is what I wanted from "Michael"!! Not just handing him a stock photo that literally looks like it came with the frame and telling him "These are your parents." But an actual emotional connection, any tie for him to cling to to believe your bullshit and not just Teyla being quietly agreeable like whoring her out is the only way you can sell your lies. Because, here in DS9 as well, the lies are so obviously bullshit.) But making it a double blind also, where you lied to the parent as well to make sure you manipulated that honest emotional connection into existing, fantastic, exquisite, Stargate wishes. And in the end the point of the episode is different, as Lt Kenmore is the focus of his episode and Kira is really just the excuse to expose the Legate by having him try to protect his "daughter," but (and as much as I love "Michael") the emotional content here is so much deeper and sweeter. Maybe SGA writers are allergic to honest emotions, or maybe the writers were trying to hedge their bets with not portraying their main cast as being as evil as the Obsidian Order... though if you're going to go with the war crimes go whole hog with the war crimes come on.