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[Stargate Atlantis Rewatch] 1x05 Suspicion
The gate team keeps running into the Wraith when they go offworld. Something's got to give.
Weir suspects there is a spy. They immediately assume it's Athosian.
In Babylon 5 the main races were a thinly veiled expies of nations. Minbari=Japanese, Centauri=Medieval Middle Europeans, Narn=Africans, and humans=Americans. I kind of lost a lot my enthusiasm about the show when I realised that. I wonder, who are the Athosians based on?
Teyla will stay on the gate team, but how will she get over the treatment her people face in this episode?
I can't watch the interrogation in disguise -scene. This is scifi. How can this be so backwards?
The discussion Teyla and Halling have, about the 'measures' taken to 'protect' the city. According to what Halling says, Teyla, who is their leader, is unbelievably naïve. And she is more or less siding with the humans, even when she too is being treated with suspicion. It's like the writers of this episode thought that Weir's actions are completely reasonable, and the behaviour and opinions exhibited by Teyla here are meant to make her more relatable to the audience. I'm repeating myself, but this is scifi. Progressive thinking and openness to new ideas are in the core of the genre.
It's kinda hard to get exited about Ford being adorable puppy in the middle of this mess of an episode.
Really, Weir, really? You are surprised that the Athosians are considering leaving the city?
How convenient that they should discover that a) the jumper bay roof opens, b) there is land, and c) the Athosians want to go explore it. If the point of this episode was to get the Athosians away from the city, there would have been a lot of better ways to write it.
Up until this episode Weir was awesome. Here she suddenly jumps on the 'humans first and to hell with everybody else' -train. -> Stargate wiki: Mallozzi and Mullie [1] wrote this episode. That explains everything.
Lol, Sheppard is doing O'Neill. Pretending to not understand or care about such trivialities as anthropology or linguistics.
The stargates need a ridiculous amount of energy to 'open'. How are they all powered, without maintenance even, in these primitive worlds?
I get that the drones would have a self-destruct device, but the white-haired dudes too? Why?
And here we go with Sheppard taunting a Wraith again. These are one my favourite scenes of this show. Sheppard isn't fearless the same way Sumner was, stoic in the face of mortal danger, dedicated to protecting his people no matter the cost to him personally. No, Sheppard is almost gleeful, carefree like it's not even in the realm of a possibility that it might be dangerous to taunt a being that can suck your life out of you by the palm of his hand. Obviously he knows the Wraith are dangerous, but he does it anyway, it's like he likes to play with danger.
[1] They are the showrunners. They and Brad Wright are the ones who decided to stop making SGA in favour of the grimdark crap of a show SGU that was nothing like either SG-1 or SGA, but what they thought they could sell to the audience they already had. That we would just automatically like it because it was named Stargate. It was so far removed from what the other Stagate shows were, it would have probably been better received if it hadn't been called Stargate.
Weir suspects there is a spy. They immediately assume it's Athosian.
In Babylon 5 the main races were a thinly veiled expies of nations. Minbari=Japanese, Centauri=Medieval Middle Europeans, Narn=Africans, and humans=Americans. I kind of lost a lot my enthusiasm about the show when I realised that. I wonder, who are the Athosians based on?
Teyla will stay on the gate team, but how will she get over the treatment her people face in this episode?
I can't watch the interrogation in disguise -scene. This is scifi. How can this be so backwards?
The discussion Teyla and Halling have, about the 'measures' taken to 'protect' the city. According to what Halling says, Teyla, who is their leader, is unbelievably naïve. And she is more or less siding with the humans, even when she too is being treated with suspicion. It's like the writers of this episode thought that Weir's actions are completely reasonable, and the behaviour and opinions exhibited by Teyla here are meant to make her more relatable to the audience. I'm repeating myself, but this is scifi. Progressive thinking and openness to new ideas are in the core of the genre.
It's kinda hard to get exited about Ford being adorable puppy in the middle of this mess of an episode.
Really, Weir, really? You are surprised that the Athosians are considering leaving the city?
How convenient that they should discover that a) the jumper bay roof opens, b) there is land, and c) the Athosians want to go explore it. If the point of this episode was to get the Athosians away from the city, there would have been a lot of better ways to write it.
Up until this episode Weir was awesome. Here she suddenly jumps on the 'humans first and to hell with everybody else' -train. -> Stargate wiki: Mallozzi and Mullie [1] wrote this episode. That explains everything.
Lol, Sheppard is doing O'Neill. Pretending to not understand or care about such trivialities as anthropology or linguistics.
The stargates need a ridiculous amount of energy to 'open'. How are they all powered, without maintenance even, in these primitive worlds?
I get that the drones would have a self-destruct device, but the white-haired dudes too? Why?
And here we go with Sheppard taunting a Wraith again. These are one my favourite scenes of this show. Sheppard isn't fearless the same way Sumner was, stoic in the face of mortal danger, dedicated to protecting his people no matter the cost to him personally. No, Sheppard is almost gleeful, carefree like it's not even in the realm of a possibility that it might be dangerous to taunt a being that can suck your life out of you by the palm of his hand. Obviously he knows the Wraith are dangerous, but he does it anyway, it's like he likes to play with danger.
[1] They are the showrunners. They and Brad Wright are the ones who decided to stop making SGA in favour of the grimdark crap of a show SGU that was nothing like either SG-1 or SGA, but what they thought they could sell to the audience they already had. That we would just automatically like it because it was named Stargate. It was so far removed from what the other Stagate shows were, it would have probably been better received if it hadn't been called Stargate.
