I've been re-flooring my condo. Sue me. But this is a great cloak and dagger episode, with a whole lot of triple crossing going on. It proves that the Genii, in whatever form, are still a force to be reckoned with.
-So we start off with a "we could get a SECOND Zed-PM at last" sort of episode. All's they gotta do is grant sanctuary to a Genii defector... Or is that all? But it's the ZPM they originally got from the Brotherhood last year and lost back to them the same time.
-Apparently Colm Meaney's character Cowen has been made power crazy, and wants to unite the Galaxy against the Wraith... Under his rule. All our defector wants are some conventional weapons and help to execute a coup d'etat against the Genii regime.
-Cowen's got a new uniform that fits the cut of his jib a little better...
-Oh, it wasn't the Brotherhood ZPM. It's a de-powered one, at the least.
-Assuming the Genii knew about the new jumpers from "The Tower", Atlantis has ten of them.
-The lack of the Daedalus on some missions is a certain disadvantage in some situations, like this one...
-We get to see what happens when a nuke goes off and some of it gets through a gate... A nuke has been chucked at the SCG gate at least once while its iris was up, which really just shook the room. Here, we see a bright light accompanying it.
Mark
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Am I imagining things, or have the "jen-EYE" suddenly become the "JEN-eye"?
Posted by Topher (Member # 71) on :
Hasn't it always been the latter?
Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
It depends on who you ask. Sorta like "go-ah-OOLD" versus "GOOLD". The franchise has more than a few actors who don't read the pronunciation guides... Heck, this year we've even had a guy talking about Teal'c and his "yah-FAH".
Additional notes: McKay says that the city probably wouldn't be able to fly without all three ZPMs. The Genii have known that Atlantis has survived for quite some time. And where's Zelenka these days?
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Perhaps still recuperating from his underwater adventure?
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
I just love these double-triple-cross episodes. You know somebody's gonna come out on top, but you never exactly who's holding the final trump card.
The main part I'm left wondering about is how honest Leydon was being about Cowen turning into a monomaniacal power-hungry nutjob. If he was being truthful, we might get to look forward to meeting a slightly friendlier, cuddlier Genii.
Jumper Count: I seem to recall we had six or seven jumpers in the pilot episode, and we probably got six or seven more from "The Tower"... we've lost three so far (one in "The Brotherhood", one in "Grace Under Pressure", and one in "Condemned"). This, of course, assumes that the Genii have accurate intelligence. This is possible, though... I'm not sure how they can know how many jumpers were lost.
EDIT: Oh, and is anyone else incredibly disturbed and excited by the news that Kolya has gone missing?
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But this is a great cloak and dagger episode, with a whole lot of triple crossing going on. It proves that the Genii, in whatever form, are still a force to be reckoned with.![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)