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-: '''This Mortal Coil''' ''[[0207]] [[December 7]]''
+: '''This Mortal Coil''' ''[[2007]] [[December 7]]''
-A non-two-parter mid-season? &nbsp;What an oddity.
+(First watched 2007-12-07) &nbsp;A non-two-parter mid-season? &nbsp;What an oddity.
 The overall plot progressed... but the episode was a bit of a bust, methinks. &nbsp;It felt like another idea ripped from SG-1. &nbsp;How do they top robo-SG-1? &nbsp;With nanite-copied Atlantis team. &nbsp;We learn that the original Weir is dead, but I doubt that's really the case; they don't let major characters die off-screen like that. &nbsp;The copy team is left a loose string... I'm sure we'll see them again, too.
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 I'm embarrassed to note I didn't realize at the beginning they were using the old-style uniforms, though that should've been a dead giveaway that something was up.
+Kinda cheap that the big Atlantis-getting-destroyed prophecy was about a pseudo-Atlantis far away, though. &nbsp;Also, I suppose this is the method the inevitable return of Carson will use?
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+: '''Be All My Sins Remember'd''' ''[[2008]] [[January 4]]''
+(First watched 2008-01-12) &nbsp;Wow, a bit of a spectacle there. &nbsp;A coalition of Tau'ri, Wraith, and Travelers vs Pegasus Replicators? &nbsp;The way things always turn bad, I was expecting for the plan to fail at the end there and leave us with the threat of Franzilla in the future, but surprisingly it seems that plan actually worked out tidily. &nbsp;Then they go and surprise slap us with... some Weir or other in command of a ship planning on starting something up in the ruins of the Replicator planet? &nbsp;Whaaaaa?
+Also, Teyla's pregnancy is public now. &nbsp;The father is one of the disappeared people from her group? &nbsp;I guess that works, but it's a lot less interesting than if it had, say, turned out to be Lorne's or something.
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+: '''Spoils of War''' ''[[2008]] [[January 11]]''
+(First watched 2008-01-18) &nbsp;&quot;Todd&quot;. &nbsp;Sheppard sure has a way with Wraith names.
+So last episode they blew up the Replicator planet, and this episode they destroyed an important Wraith cloning facility that millennia ago helped them defeat the Ancients. &nbsp;Some impressive victories recently; I'm sure they're due for a whooping or setback soon.
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+: '''Quarantine''' ''[[2008]] [[January 18]]''
+(First watched 2008-01-18) &nbsp;&quot;Trapped together&quot; is certainly an old sitcom trick, but put in another galaxy and with death looming, it gains some freshness.
+Also, Zelenka saves the day!
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+: '''Harmony''' ''[[2008]] [[January 25]]''
+(First watched 2008-01-25) &nbsp;Ahahaha. &nbsp;'''Heron here.''' &nbsp;''What's your status?'' &nbsp;'''Good.''' &nbsp;''Elaborate.'' &nbsp;'''Real good.'''
+Ahahaha at that little queen's change of heart, and the painting featuring a gun-blasting Rodney and a cowering Sheppard.
+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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