The Wraith seem to be everywhere they go, so they suspect someone of tipping them off. Naturally, it can't be one of the Earth humans, so they try and find out if it's one of the Athosians.
Where did they get this Security guy, anyway? Not a very likeable character.
The Czeck guy showed up again, for a few seconds, while talking to McKay. They discovered the huge retractible roof over the jumper bay.
They discovered land on Atlantis' planet, a continent that's about 15 million square miles.
You know, I was wondering how they were going to get rid of the kids on Atlantis. The Athosians elected to go to the mainland, and now they're probably going to stay there.
Since the Asgard, Wraith, Goa'uld and probably others have "transporters", when is the Atlantis team going to find theirs? I'm not sure if that "elevator" from a couple of episodes ago was like a turbolift or a transport closet. In any case, I'm talking about long range, non-fixed ones, that would make travel from the base to the mainland easy.
B.J.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
One small thing that bugged me about this episode is the scene at the beginning where McKay gets shot in the face with a Wraith stun-gun. There were already shots being fired through the gate. Why did they come through and then just turn around and stare at the gate? McKay wasn't even armed, so it's not like he was going to shoot any pursuing Wraiths.
I realize they were trying to establish the effect of the stun-guns, so that we'd know about them when Sheppard used one on a Wraith later on. But, when they rely on the inexplicable stupidity of otherwise intelligent characters, it's a little annoying.
By the way, wasn't the jail cell seen at the end used before? I thought it might have been from the "SG-1" episode with that human-Goa'uld hybrid girl, but it's not. But I'm pretty sure I've seen it before.
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Zats > tasers.
Posted by Cartman (Member # 256) on :
"Why did they come through and then just turn around and stare at the gate?"
BECAUSE THEY THOUGHT THE GATE LOOKED PRETTY
(Actually that has irked me since, uh, the first time an SG-team came through the gate while under fire and didn't get out of harm's way right away. Even more so because staff weapon blasts > stun weapon blasts. But there you go.)
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Okay, I'm wondering... since we know that the SGC has adapted Goa'uld and other alien technology on a scale big enough to build their own spaceships, why hasn't anyone tried reverse-engineering a zat yet? Why are the Atlantis people still stuck scrounging around for alien handheld weaponry?
Aside from that nit, though, I loved this episode. I wasn't expecting the resolution they pulled off -- very clever!
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
The continued presence of zats instead of some generic energy weapon on SG1 indicates that they still have some way to go in miniturizing power sources enough to make handheld weapons practical. I'm sure that a LOT of the Prometheus systems are way bigger and less efficient than alien counterparts - and it's also got a Goa'uld hyperdrive AND Asgard shields. Humans seem to have a better knack at jury-rigging than actually building stuff.
The security guy was in the pilot episode as Sumner's #1 lackey before Sheppard as assigned. I'm liking this continuity of minor background characters who also have lines - there's Grodon and that Asian guy in the control room, and a number of the SFs have been constant since the premiere. I hope they can keep that up.
Now that they're slowly starting to explore this planet, I'm starting to get the feeling that this doesn't have to be the city's home for the suration of the series. If any when they find a ZPM and get access back to Earth, it follows that they'll be able to move the city if need be - to another planet, or even to deep space. When the Wraith eventually find out where they are, sticking around in one place won't make much sense.
Mark
Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :
Of course, zats aren't the only handheld stun weapons. Intars come to mind.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Which we saw... what? Twice?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
True, though the latter time was in SGC service. i guess they figured out how to make the ammo, at least.
Mark
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, but they were using them for training. Since they're the Goa'uld equivalent of paintballs, I doubt we'll be seeing them in any practical field use.