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 It's worth pointing out that unless the seconds I missed at the beginning were full of this stuff, Sheppard and McKay were the only regular Atlantis things present in this episode. &nbsp;No Teyla, Ronon, or Carter. &nbsp;No Atlantis itself. &nbsp;Not quite Prometheus Unbound, but close.
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+: '''Outcast''' ''[[2008]] [[February 1]]''
+(First watched 2008-02-01) &nbsp;Ehhh. &nbsp;Another Atlantis on Earth episode. &nbsp;Another attempt at doing a Replicator story slightly differently, this time taking a bit of a Terminator 2 turn.
+Barely any McKay/Sam/Atlantis, and again no Teyla this week.
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+: '''Trio''' ''[[2008]] [[February 8]]''
+(First watched 2008-02-08) &nbsp;The cast juggling is really quite obvious. &nbsp;From a Sheppard-McKay episode to a Sheppard-Ronon episode to a McKay-Carter-Keller episode, with no Teyla in any presumably due to pregnancy/motherhood.
+&quot;Stuck and needing to find an escape&quot; can be fun to watch, but there wasn't much specifically standout about this one in particular. &nbsp;Though the &quot;Who would you rather&quot; games did get pretty fun, progressing on to physicists and eventually Carell and Colbert.
+Sad to hear that McKay's freakout reaction during the virus thing a few episodes prior seems to have been the death of his relationship with Katie Brown, though.
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+: '''Midway''' ''[[2008]] [[February 15]]''
+(First watched 2008-02-15) &nbsp;About all I could hope for in a Ronon/Teal'c meetup episode. &nbsp;Plausible reason for Teal'c being there, to try and help Ronon be presentable for the IOA. &nbsp;Plausible reason for Ronon to be upset, because he feels he's being babied and his buttons are being pushed by Teal'c as a test. &nbsp;Plausible that they'd spar for an hour and be evenly matched before Carter has to split them up. &nbsp;Plausible they'd be stuck together on Midway station for a while, then follow Wraith through to the SGC to stop them, during which Ronon gains a respect for Teal'c and impresses the IOA.
+Also... Midway gone! &nbsp;What a pain, but I like that they keep stuff like that happening to keep Atlantis from ''always'' having easy quick access to Earth (and vice-versa). &nbsp;And the destruction of the station due largely to the stupid actions of... Kavenagh, recurring character we grew to dislike in [[Stargate Atlantis Season 1|season 1]]!
+The shot of Teal'c and Ronon watching Three Stooges slapstick with their standard blank faces is great.
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+: '''The Kindred (Part 1)''' ''[[2008]] [[February 22]]''
+(First watched 2008-02-22) &nbsp;So the disappearance of Teyla's people finally comes back to the forefront, and both of our favorite Wraith(ish) characters are involved: Todd and Michael!
+The big surprise of course comes at the end. &nbsp;Dr. Beckett! &nbsp;I was sure his inevitable reappearance would be by way of Pegasus Replicators as happened with Weir, but being a prisoner of Michael's I'm less sure what the heck the case is. &nbsp;Is he a replicated Beckett? &nbsp;A clone Beckett? &nbsp;Or will they retcon things so the one who previously died was?
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+: '''The Kindred (Part 2)''' ''[[2008]] [[February 29]]''
+(First watched 2008-03-01) &nbsp;So he's a clone, created to be forced to help Michael. &nbsp;The original Carson is still dead. &nbsp;The clone isn't just a continuation, though, but divergent; he's cloned from the beginning of [[Stargate Atlantis Season 3|season 3]], so he's missing most of the original Beckett's last year of experiences, but has a couple more of his own as a captive. &nbsp;Since he's a (purposefully?) imperfect clone, though, he must go into stasis until they can fix him and want him for another guest spot.
+Other than episodes where he's just not present, this may be McKay's least smart-ass episode. &nbsp;It's kinda understandable considering he's dealing with the apparent return of one of his best friends from the dead.
+Also, Halling! &nbsp;Though without his beard or role of walking around Atlantis complaining, I didn't recognize him at first.
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+: '''The Last Man''' ''[[2008]] [[March 7]]''
+(First watched 2008-03-08) &nbsp;Another big reset button episode, this time taking us the farthest out in time we've seen in Stargate: circa 50,000 C.E. &nbsp;There's a bit of a Red Dwarf quality to it, in that Sheppard could potentially be the last human around, with only a hologram recreation of his dead buddy McKay as company.
+Of course the big fun of a reset button episode is we get to see quick bits of important happenings that then don't matter in canon. &nbsp;McKay and Keller marry, though she dies due to complications from repeated exposure to Michael's virus. &nbsp;Teyla is killed by Michael after she has her baby, which he uses to finish his hybrid program. &nbsp;Sam dies during ship-based guerilla actions against Michael's people, and is replaced by Woolsey (Ghost of season 5 yet to come.). &nbsp;And in what seemed particularly touching in a weird way given his history and feelings toward the Wraith, Ronon goes out fighting side-by-side with Todd. &nbsp;In non-death-related happenings, General Lorne is in command of the SGC.
+It kinda irks me that occasionally there'll be these episodes where we basically learn that the original group of people is completely screwed without a chance... except for extra knowledge/help from a failed future. &nbsp;It's happened a few times on both Atlantis and SG-1.
+A question, though: what was the deal with all the fancy science McKay had to do for years before setting up his hologram for John? &nbsp;I mean, even by the 1990s the SG program knew how the whole solar flare time travel thing worked, so it wouldn't be that. &nbsp;Was the problem with how to allow holo-McKay to predict an appropriate solar flare in advance? &nbsp;I recall the solution in the [[Stargate SG-1 Season 2|initial SG-1 episode on this]] had them stuck in the past with the date already given to them.
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