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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] Yes, this cliffhanger rocked. It was quite epic in feel, and while it suffered from a big dose of setup-itis, it certainly had everything going full steam into the unknown. Bravo! -Rodney's calling it the McKay-Carter intergalactic gate bridge: 34 gates spanning the void, half each of Milky Way and Pagasus gates. Strangely though, they specifically mentioned needing to harvest space-based stargates to make this work. Have they retrofitted Milky Way gates with Pegasus gate station keepers and power systems? A Milky Way gate is useless without a DHD (or naquadah generator, or bolt of lightning), so SOME physical modification had to be done. Perhaps they were short on spare gates? Why is the Midway space station right in the middle? Sheppard activates the Milky Way gate with the Pegasus-style DHD in the PJ, so SOME modification must have been done on the insides as well. -We were earlier wondering if they were limited only to puddle jumpers to get back and forth, which seemed to be the indication earlier - you'd slowly and tediously dial each gate as you go, popping in and out of sequential gates, and humping your way home. Now, we see that it's a true relay system, with only one stop in the middle as you transition from one gate system to another. -3,000,000 ly / 34 gates = 88235 ly/gate. We've never really known the upper range limitation of a standard gate, but this is the first indication. I'd say that the upper range is around 100 to 110,000 ly, as the Milky Way galaxy is about 100,000 ly wide at the most. -Note that the Large Magellanic cloud is about 160,000 ly away, and no one's been there yet. Nothing interesting in this galactic cluster closer to home? Hopefully one day, once this mess with the Ori is all over, they'll send the Daedalus, Odyssey, Apollo, or some other ship out there to see if there are at least gates there to bridge with this new system, so the SGC can explore them using more conventional methods. -Actual transit time is a little over half an hour; to the traveller it's a slightly longer transit than usual (we've heard said that it's near instantaneous - the cool tunnel effects are mostly for our benefit). -The Midway Station (provisional name, as it seems more a position than an actual name) is incomplete, so this first test is by puddle jumper. The actual structure is doubtless going to be pressurized so people can just walk from one gate to the next. The interior of what will eevntually be this final chamber looks like a big tunnel, with room for one PJ to comfortably stop after emerging from one gate without having to back up in order to get out of the way of the other gate's kawoosh. Note that this means that all you have to do is activate both systems at once and pass smoothly from one to the other with no need to stop in between. -Awesome new fog-laden look at Atlantis' exterior. We've not seen that one before, right? -HAH! Proof once and for all about where you can put a puddle jumper at the SGC! As I've posted before, there's 30+ levels of unused missile silo right above the gate room. Plenty of space to put a PJ or two with the right retrofitting. -I'm not good at relativity, but apparently it'll take a million years more for the Lantean warship to get to the Milky Way. So Midway is already past the halfway point? -We don't see what the Lantean ship Triia (sp) looks like, but the blur that goes by certainly looks like the Orion CG model. We don't hear about the Triia after the Daedalus evacuates the crew; presumably it's still sitting out there relatively close to Midway. -The Ancient dress code continues to change - it's always been this beige / off-white motif, but the crew of THIS ship has graduated to pleather. -What else does that control pedestal do? With one touch, Captain Helia (sp) deactivates all human tech in the gatrium and presumably the city. -Beckett was the first to tear up when under control of Lucius earlier this year. Now he's the first to tear up here. :) -Sheppard is a Sudoku fan. No surprise given that he's a math whiz, even though it's still a big fad here. -Teyla hasn't forgotten the headbutting greeting thing he first did with Shep in the premiere. But why didn't she headbutt anyone else of the team? -Career roundup, six weeks post-return: McKay is is a very large CGI lab at Area 51 (what IS the big rotating Borg thing behind him?). Zelenka was offered a professorship at a university back in the Czech Republic before he left, so presumably he went there. Beckett gets a job in surgery at the SGC, supposedly working alongside Dr. Lam, but has split with Lt. Cadman. Wier does nothing. -Most importantly, Sheppard is put in at least provisional command of SG-4. When his team comes back to Earth, it's not wearing any shoulder patches per Atlantis standard - I guess the costuming guy on the show hasn't been watching SG-1. Later, we see Shep wearing the standard green BDUs in use at the SGC, with a standard SGC patch on his left arm. However, later on he zats the hobbling Airman Wallace, and the poor guy is wearing an SG-4 patch on his right sleeve. -The Triia crew brought their ship's ZPM along with them, which at least allows the city's shield to work and for them to dial directly to Earth. Not that it helps any... -"I didn't bring my bloody cellphone with me - what's happening?!" - Beckett, when everyone ELSE's cell goes off. Then we find out he wasn't called in the first place. :D -Anti-Replicator Guns, or ARGs, are purely Carter inventions. They supposedly haven't had the need to work on them in almost two years now though... Are they really not that busy with the Ori threat to invent some spiffy new guns? -The WOW gag was great... Pop culture has never been a problem in this franchise. Chris Judge made a Def Jam Vendetta joke two years back, too, though in his case it's because he was also voicing the character. Dr. Lee's first name is Bill, which is also the actor's first name. -The guy in the PJ that Sheppard zats is Sgt. Siler. I think this is the first time in ages where he doesn't say anything in an episode. Speaking of this PJ, wouldn't the Ancients have asked to have it returned? -Ladon's brief appearance here is very telling of what else is going on with the Genii - they're not even slowing down since last year's coup, but despite being the most organized faction in Pegasus after the Lantean faction, they're still looking for outside expertise in the form or Teyla and Ronon. It's gonna be a long six months... Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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