739
edits
Stargate Atlantis Season 4: Difference between revisions
→top: Categorization
JoshuaJSlone (talk | contribs) No edit summary |
(→top: Categorization) |
||
| (4 intermediate revisions by one other user not shown) | |||
| Line 156: | Line 156: | ||
--- | --- | ||
416: '''Trio''' ''[[2008]] [[February 8]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-02-08) The cast juggling is really quite obvious. 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. | (First watched 2008-02-08) The cast juggling is really quite obvious. 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. | ||
| Line 166: | Line 166: | ||
--- | --- | ||
417: '''Midway''' ''[[2008]] [[February 15]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-02-15) About all I could hope for in a Ronon/Teal'c meetup episode. Plausible reason for Teal'c being there, to try and help Ronon be presentable for the IOA. 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. Plausible that they'd spar for an hour and be evenly matched before Carter has to split them up. 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. | (First watched 2008-02-15) About all I could hope for in a Ronon/Teal'c meetup episode. Plausible reason for Teal'c being there, to try and help Ronon be presentable for the IOA. 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. Plausible that they'd spar for an hour and be evenly matched before Carter has to split them up. 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. | ||
| Line 176: | Line 176: | ||
--- | --- | ||
418: '''The Kindred (Part 1)''' ''[[2008]] [[February 22]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-02-22) 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! | (First watched 2008-02-22) 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! | ||
| Line 184: | Line 184: | ||
--- | --- | ||
419: '''The Kindred (Part 2)''' ''[[2008]] [[February 29]]'' | |||
(First watched 2008-03-01) So he's a clone, created to be forced to help Michael. The original Carson is still dead. 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. 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. | (First watched 2008-03-01) So he's a clone, created to be forced to help Michael. The original Carson is still dead. 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. 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. | ||
| Line 194: | Line 194: | ||
--- | --- | ||
420: '''The Last Man''' ''[[2008]] [[March 7]]'' | |||
--- | (First watched 2008-03-08) Another big reset button episode, this time taking us the farthest out in time we've seen in Stargate: circa 50,000 C.E. 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. McKay and Keller marry, though she dies due to complications from repeated exposure to Michael's virus. Teyla is killed by Michael after she has her baby, which he uses to finish his hybrid program. Sam dies during ship-based guerilla actions against Michael's people, and is replaced by Woolsey (Ghost of season 5 yet to come.). 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. 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. 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? 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. Was the problem with how to allow holo-McKay to predict an appropriate solar flare in advance? 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. | |||
--- | --- | ||
[[Stargate Atlantis Season 5]] | [[Stargate Atlantis Season 5]] | ||
[[Category:Stargate Atlantis Seasons]] | |||