I confess, I hated that episode of SGA. It was sooooo slooooooow. There were lots of loooong awkward scenes with two people standing around pretending that their dialogue had any impact. Everything everybody said was exactly what they meant, and nobody lied or did a nice plot twist or or made a gigantic, pants-down, fast-talk panic-moment mistake. The "plot thickens" Act I ender? Happened at the end of Act II.

People, nothing blew up!!

I seriously think that episode was written at the last minute to cover the fact the show didn't have enough budget for an action sequence. That's me being nice, and assuming it wasn't intended to be that boring.

Go Wishful Cheapskates! Go!

It all counts for something. It's got to.

Yeah, I just assumed the "Ancients" were replicators. Maybe they're working together with the replicators who are attacking the city? Because if the SG folks had been there, they would have prepared much better for the attack, whereas the Ancients hardly did anything to defend themselves.

I don't think Replicators would be able to psychically activate Atlantis' systems as if they were Ancients. More likely, we just saw the latest in a long string of examples of the Ancients' amazing foresight and resourcefulness in dealing with their scientific experiments. t /sarcasm

Ah well, at least this likely solves the depleted ZPM problem for some time to come.

Yeah, they created the ZPM problem last week to solve it this week. At least they planted the Gate Chunnel earlier in the season (they've had pretty good continuity this season, it seems to me.)

I think TPTB think Carson is more a part of the team than the audience (or, at least, I) do.

I didn't mind the slow, but, then, I like character stuff.

Also, FIC-BAIT!!! 5 or 6 different kinds, and that's without the "completing the episode" thing. It's also canon now that John can quote Princess Bride (I can't place that line, though. Is it in the film version? If so, where?)

I loved that their civvies reflected their Atlantis uniform colors.

Yeah, SG1 was very LotR meets Indiana Jones (and, were this it, Angel). I called the "she has no powers" thing long before Daniel did, but good on him for listening to me and saying, "yes". I was saying, "push her off the bridge", too, though, but I guess that's not dramatic.

I understand that it's an effects shot, but she needed to throw the stones until they stuck at each turn. That is the prudent thing to do.

I was saying, "push her off the bridge", too, though, but I guess that's not dramatic.

Practical but not very chivalrous. Perhaps her mum could do that.

Haven't we seen that chick before?

She played a role on SG-1. Can't remember her name, but Something, Destroyer of Worlds. There was the older version of the character, played by someone else, and then on another show, she was en-youngened, and played by the lead, blonde Ancient from tonight's ep.

I was kind of meh on SG-1 tonight, but I liked SGA. Didn't find it boring - I enjoyed many of the character moments. And, of course, I love it when a team cowboys up and goes all rogue.

She played a role on SG-1. Can't remember her name, but Something, Destroyer of Worlds.

It was Ke'ra.

The actress, Megan Leitch, also played the sister of Fox Mulder (Samantha) on X-Files.

It's also canon now that John can quote Princess Bride (I can't place that line, though. Is it in the film version? If so, where?)

Heh. My immediate reaction to that line was, "Yay, Princess Br--hey, that line's not from the movie!" I definitely don't recognize it. Maybe it's a reference to the "Life is pain" line?

I rewatched the midnight showing of SGA, mostly so that I could see Ronon pick up John like a little kid again. Love!

My immediate reaction to that line was, "Yay, Princess Br--hey, that line's not from the movie!" I definitely don't recognize it. Maybe it's a reference to the "Life is pain" line?

What line? Maybe it's from the book.

On the other hand, maybe someone could have mentioned to them that the Atlantis team had been mucking around with the Replicators' programming.

Oh, indeed.

Maybe it's from the book.

Nah. The line is, IIRC, "Life is pain, princess. If anyone tells you life is fair, they're selling you something." Or words to that effect.

I thought it was pretty cheap to claim it was Princess Bride and get it wrong. But then I also thought it was pretty cheap to waste RDA on an episode in which he acted like a mannikin. ::sigh::