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With a group of Wraith hive ships on the way to Atlantis, the team searches for a place to flee and a way to destroy the city. McKay leads a team to try and activate the Ancients' orbital weapons platform.
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Director:
Martin Wood
Writer:
Martin Gero
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Broadcast: 2005-03-18
Production No.: 119
Episode Overall No.: 19
Episode Type: Regular Episode
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Episode Notes -  |
This episode was originally aired in Australia on the 7 Network along with the Seige Part 2 on the 25th of August 2005
According to "The Siege (1)" Podcast (which you can download from Scifi's Stargate Atlantis Site), there were plans to show the T-Rex come through the gate, the planning went all the way to budgeting the visual effect, but the plans were scrapped because the producers couldn't afford it. If they had done it, they would have had to scrap all of the other visual effects.
Excerpts written by Martin Gero ("The Brotherhood").
Canada's The Movie Network original showing on: Jan 24, 2005, at 8pm(E)
Quotes:
McKay: If it seems like we can't fix it, we'll just turn round and come back. Now I realise I am invaluable everywhere ...
Zelenka: You know what? Forget about it. I take it back.
McKay: Sorry...
Zelenka: No!
McKay: You can't take it back because you've just admitted that I am smarter than you are!
Zelenka: I admitted no such thing!
McKay: It was hard for you to say but the truth shone through and you were compelled to speak!
Zelenka: You are a miserable little man!
McKay: Hey-hey-hey-hey-hey, let's not ruin the moment here, eh?
Zelenka: This is a simulation I've put together. It shows how the city will be destroyed once we trigger the self destruct.
(The city breaks into large pieces which sink down into the ocean)
Weir: So glad you felt I needed to see this! I was just thinking all my nightmares needed to be more vivid!
Zelenka: Yes, well, that would certainly help – but I'm more concerned about the Ancient database – its ability to back up data. It's incredibly redundant.
Weir: ‘Incredibly redundant'.
Zelenka: Yeah, that one never gets old. But seriously...
Sheppard: What about M1K-439?
Ford: Which one's that?
Sheppard: The one with, um, all the waterfalls.
Ford: The waterfalls. See, now, why don't we just call it 'Planet Waterfall'?
Grodin: If we can do that, it will arm.
McKay: See, now, your masterful grip on the blatantly obvious continues to impress me, Peter!
Grodin: Thank you.
McKay: This is bad! Very bad! I'm not sure I can fix this.
Grodin: You can fix anything.
McKay: Who told you that?
Grodin: You did, on several occasions.
McKay: Well, you're right. It's probably a good thing I drew the short straw.
Grodin: That's more like it!
Grodin: Rodney? Rodney, did you make it?
McKay: Haven't quite left the rear of the Jumper yet.
Grodin: Do I need to remind you of the time?
McKay: Yes, please do – remind me. Are we on a tight schedule?
Grodin: Just 'pointing out the obvious'.
McKay: Okay, thank you.
Sheppard(to a Wraith): You got a name? Okay, we'll go with 'Bob'. Bob, I'm gonna need to know what you've been doing here for the past two weeks, and I'm gonna need to know now.
Miller: You're the best qualified to fix it anyway, sir.
McKay: Mmm. Flight of the dead man. Good.
Trivia:
Even using McKay's impressive data compression algorithm (see episode 117, "Letters from Pegasus"), Dr. Weir is told by Dr. Zelenka that only 7 to 8% of the Ancients' data can be backed up using all the available SGA hard drives.
Sgt. Stackhouse is mentioned, but not seen in this episode. He is off leading a team to find a suitable Alpha Site before the Wraith ships arrive.
We learn Dr. Zelenka's first name is Radek.
Gate planets named as rejected for the Alpha Site:
MA5393 (Ridiculously hot in the daytime)
M4H212 (Genii spies)
Other gate planet named:
M1K439 (Lots of waterfalls)
Goofs:
McKay said the two other Hive ships were probably re-thinking their strategy, if that's true then why did Weir anounce that their last plan failed, the Wraith could hear that message and would tell this to the other Wraiths, who would then know that this was all they had, and could just proceed as planned, just with one ship less.
Teyla says that she began to sense the presence of the Wraith continually "precisely when" the Dart exploded in The Brotherhood. However, she was on Dagan at the time and did not return to Atlantis until several hours later.
Dr. Zeneka stated that even a small bit of the Atlantian memory modules would have all the data they needed. It would be unnecessary to download the data to a PC since a single module would apparently contain it all.
The Wraith did not kill (drain the life totally from) Sgt. Bates. Surely he knew that Bates would be discovered. He should have had a good meal to complete his plan and perhaps Sheppard would have had to reload his pistol to kill the Wraith, giving it time to retaliate or escape.
The low-gravity scenes in this episode were well done, with one exception. When McKay drifts into the satellite, he is towing a Naquadah generator behind him. When he comes to a stop, the Naquadah generator should continue to drift in the same direction until something stops it.
After retreating to Atlantis from the planet where they were chased by a "T-Rex," Sheppard fires his gun back "through" the stargate after arriving in Atlantis' gate room. Two-way travel through a stargate's wormhole is impossible. Most likely his bullets would be absorbed into the event-horizon (puddle) and then disintegrated without ever being transmitted through. Sheppard probably wasn't trying to fire back through the wormhole, but as a defense against the T-Rex if it poked his head through the event horizon, in order to delay it there while they shut down the Gate. The actor was probably just firing at the gate for effect.
Allusions:
Spider-Man
Sheppard said, "You know that for a fact, Sergeant, or is your spidey sense just tingling?" He was referring to Spider-Man and his legendary spider-sense, which detects danger. |
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