So today's SGA was so funny I could die. It was proper old-school Stargate: team (in this case, just Sheppard and McKay) sent to a ridiculous medieval world to perform some purposeless task that is explained in the pre-credit-sequence scene, terrible expository dialogue delivered by attractive guest-actors who act largely through the school of "Look! Cleavage!" Bonus points for the unrealistic idea that although the alien society is in the Dark Ages (complete with candlelit castle and vague ye-olde-style costumes), they are trading partners with the post-nuclear-power Genii civilisation and have -- wait for it -- Swiss army knives. I am always filled with a combination of horror and adoration when the SGA people come up with shit like this. YOU ARE IN AN ALIEN GALAXY. Okay, there's an explanation for the aliens to be "human" and speak "English" and for the less developed civilisations to be similar to Earth cavemen, but when you have aliens looking at clocks with Roman numerals and using radios and revolvers and microscopes, OMG NO. Anyway, like I said: fucking Swiss army knife.

1. Generally I find TV-kids incredibly annoying, but because this one was a) purposefully annoying and b) hilarious I totally loved her. 13-year-old Princess! Ordering Rodney not to come between her and her Twu Wuv with Sheppard! Asking Sheppard why he doesn't beat McKay for his disobedience! (Which just reminded me of Captain Jack asking if "normal bosses" were allowed to beat their employees, a scene which was perfectly inappropriate yet brilliant.)

2. At the end, when they unveiled the hideous (I mean, uh, momentous) painting of McKay, Sheppard and mini-queen... Well, I have this theory. My theory is that one of the writers has a relative who is a fanartist, one of those terrible fanartists who paints, like, imaginary book-covers in oils with pictures of Kirk and Spock entwined in front of a desert sunset. That sort of thing. Anyway, my theory is that through nepotism, they have created several completely superfluous scenes throughout the series which require the work of such an artist. The Game, anyone, with Rodney's portrait hanging on every wall? That one where it turns out Ronon has a horrible painting of Conan-the-Barbarian-like dudes on his wall? I am so right.

3. I don't think I really need to look deeper into the love-triangle subtext here; one day after the show has aired and already everyone is all over it. LOL. Although, you know, Rodney really is bouncing back remarkably well from that breakup, isn't he? Unless it's one of those episodes where like three months happened since the last one. Although that would mean that Teyla would have popped, so maybe not.

Oh my god. Why did no one tell me about My So-Called Life? Where was it when I was twelve, and thirteen, and fifteen, and seventeen, when I needed it?

P.S. Sweeney Todd = great.