UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Stargate Atlantis Season 1 Episode 12 "The Defiant One" REACTION!
Added 2022-01-23 19:03:35 +0000 UTCWhat it dooski! Here's my UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Stargate Atlantis Season 1 Episode 12 "The Defiant One" REACTION!
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Like SG1, SGA kind of introduced the main enemy and then let them fade somewhat into the background. After Children of the Gods giving a rundown of the goa'uld and Enemy Within establishing the threat of infiltration, a lot of the S1 episodes either only had the goa'uld as an obstacle and not the main point of the episode, or absent altogether. Emancipation, Broca Divide, First Commandment, Cold Lazarus, Torment of Tantalus, Fire and Water, Enigma, Solitudes and Tinman really didn't feature goa'uld or jaffa much at all beyond some backstory in a few cases. Even The Nox, Thor's Hammer, Bloodlines, Cor'ai and Singularity were much more focused on their individual stories than building up the goa'uld mythos. Pretty much only Hathor and the few eps leading up to the end of season 1 had the goa'uld as the main focus. SGA is kind of doing the same. Even though the overall wraith threat is driving a lot of what's going on in 38 Minutes, Poisoning the Well, Childhood's End and Underground, the focus is very much elsewhere. Really only Rising and Suspicion(arguably even this one might not be) have been heavily wraith focused till now. Otherwise it's been genii and general Pegasus galaxy shenanigans. Another similarity between the shows(a lot of shows do this) is that the enemies tend to get weaker over time. Jaffa used to take a fair bit of artillery to bring down, then all of a sudden a couple rounds of 9mm do the trick. On Buffy the vampires were far more intimidating early on. The borg and jem'hadar in star trek got heavily nerfed after a while. And where in the pilot we see wraith arms seemingly living while separated from the rest of the body and the wraith keeper/queen/whatever almost instantly recovering from bullets, we quickly got to a short P90 burst taking down wraith permanently. This episode is good for reinforcing that there are circumstances where wraith can still be extremely durable, so the threat of their soldiers isn't completely diluted early on. At least now they have a (hopefully) abandoned wraith ship and an ancient satellite to study. They need all the help they can get. Fun little behind the scenes nugget, most of the major wraith in the show are given deceptively innocuous names, both on screen and by the production staff. The wraith commander in Rising who took Sumner to be interrogated was known as Jimmy, of couse Sheppard named their prisoner Steve, and the staff referred to the wraith in this episode as "Mister Hooper". Also yeah when Ford is inbound with the jumper and the wraith is shooting at Sheppard he fires what sounded like 27 shots or more. Obviously the Barretta only holds 15. Overall, good episode to remind us that the wraith shouldn't be taken lightly. Shame about Gall and Abrams, but I do like the teamwork between McKay and Sheppard here. Also there a nice but subtle bit of continuity with Weir saying Markham could use more piloting experience, as he was flying the jumper in 38 Minutes and was having a hard time lining up with the gate.
Timothy Nikiforovs
2022-01-25 00:40:02 +0000 UTCmore specifically it's a point where opposing gravitational pulls cancel each other out
Timothy Nikiforovs
2022-01-24 23:56:22 +0000 UTCYou might have missed the dialog at the beginning, but they were talking about how they found a Sattelite at a Lagrange point in their own solar system, where Atlantis is., so that's what they went to investigate. They didn't travel through the gate or anything, they are inside their own solar system, exploring the planets and stuff close to them. You can google what a Lagrange Point is, but it's basically a place in space where gravity isn't pulling on something, and things can stay in a position without help, usually far enough out from a planet so it's literally in the dead of space where the planets or moons gravity doesn't affect it. And so what they found was a defunct Ancients Sattalite out there, a weapons platform used to defend Atlantis, no longer functioning. But then, they discovered the distress call from the nearest planet to it in the solar system, again all within the same solar system. Just wanted to make sure that was all clear. I loved this episode cause we got to see how tough the Wraith really can be, even just one, especially if it has fed recently. The fact that it could even last 10,000 years without something like a Sarcophegous the Goa'uld use is impressive. This episode shows how hard it can be to take them down.
Brent Justice
2022-01-24 21:14:42 +0000 UTC
