SGA 4x11 Be All My Sins Remember'd
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zelempaGahhh, two episodes of SGA.
Plot: It's another one of those complicated plotty episodes. Rodney and Wraith Guy struggle with a Replicator shutdown program while Caldwell and Ellis lead attacks on Replicator ships with the Daedalus and Apollo. After the ridiculously long period of a week of this, the Replicators regroup, and Rodney's program is needed, but it's not done.
Then Rodney bubbles forth with a technobabblicious idea which he thinks will shut down the Replicators, but which John thinks may create a Godzillalike superReplicator. Oh, this is going to be good. In order for it to work, though, Rodney needs to (a) create a protoReplicator using the Ancient blueprints as a delivery mechanism and (b) destroy all Replicator ships guarding the homeworld. Two ships against thirty? John and Rodney take all of one exchanged glance to simultaneously come up with the idea of asking the Wraith for help. Wraith Guy promises to get hive ships to help, but says he needs to go personally to other Wraith to ask for them.
John, Teyla, and Ronon bring the Wraith to a hive ship, where they are allowed to dock, but as soon as they open the pod bay doors, a bunch of Wraith warriors shoot them down. A short time later, the Wraith revives John and hands him his pistol. The team is still in the jumper, now in space. The Wraith says he scored seven hives for the battle, and they're already en route. John is like, ...okay. That was odd, and I feel like we haven't seen the last of what happened while they were out.
They get underway, but run into another ship. It's Laren and her band of misfit space pirates! Oh, lord. Every damn thing is in this episode. Laren ties up John to question him. He looks down her shirt. She agrees to help them anyway.
Rodney and Zelenka try to build a fake nonfunctioning Replicator in the shape of a simple cube. It doesn't work out. Later, when Zelenka comes back from a power supply emergency, he is shocked to discover that McKay had abandoned the simple cube idea and decided to go closer to the Ancients' plans. He built a woman.
When John, Ronon and Teyla get back to Atlantis, Teyla finally admits she's pregnant. John gets all bent out of shape that she let him put her in the field.
John gets to get mad again, this time at Rodney, when he finds out he's built a girl. (He says it's about a security risk, but we know.) Sam points out that it's sort of unethical to build a self-aware creature just to sacrifice it to kill all its kind. Rodney's like, whatever. Sam's like, okay.
The replicator girl--dubbed "Fran" for "Friendly Replicator Android"--goes over Rodney's calculations and informs him his plan won't work--John's Godzilla hypothesis was correct. She comes up with a solution: overloading the ZPMs on the Replicator homeworld to explode the Godzila before it Godzils (taking the entire planet with it, as McKay's best plans always involve blowing up a planet). Fran can be trusted, it seems, as she is all Stepfordy and wants to "fulfill her purpose" (sacrifice herself). This should be great for Rodney, but it begins to disturb him. That's weird if they don't intend to do anything with it later.
Space battle. Lots of explosions. Ronon and some Marines bring Rodney to plug some programming into somewhere. (I don't know.) Meanwhile Fran fulfills her purpose, as the Replicators sort of fly apart into bits toward her, and they all meld into a giant blob. There's some problems and some solutions, but everything ends up going according to plan, and everyone gets away before the planet explodes.
Wrap-up. John awkwardly tries to ask Laren for her number, but she's all, I'll call you. End the episode with John and Rodney banter. Rodney says the Wraith are back to being enemies, and the Replicators don't exist anymore, but of course we get a final OH NO! shot of a Replicator ship examining the debris. Inside, the captain is Elizabeth.
Highlights:
Okay, I need a break.
Plot: It's another one of those complicated plotty episodes. Rodney and Wraith Guy struggle with a Replicator shutdown program while Caldwell and Ellis lead attacks on Replicator ships with the Daedalus and Apollo. After the ridiculously long period of a week of this, the Replicators regroup, and Rodney's program is needed, but it's not done.
Then Rodney bubbles forth with a technobabblicious idea which he thinks will shut down the Replicators, but which John thinks may create a Godzillalike superReplicator. Oh, this is going to be good. In order for it to work, though, Rodney needs to (a) create a protoReplicator using the Ancient blueprints as a delivery mechanism and (b) destroy all Replicator ships guarding the homeworld. Two ships against thirty? John and Rodney take all of one exchanged glance to simultaneously come up with the idea of asking the Wraith for help. Wraith Guy promises to get hive ships to help, but says he needs to go personally to other Wraith to ask for them.
John, Teyla, and Ronon bring the Wraith to a hive ship, where they are allowed to dock, but as soon as they open the pod bay doors, a bunch of Wraith warriors shoot them down. A short time later, the Wraith revives John and hands him his pistol. The team is still in the jumper, now in space. The Wraith says he scored seven hives for the battle, and they're already en route. John is like, ...okay. That was odd, and I feel like we haven't seen the last of what happened while they were out.
They get underway, but run into another ship. It's Laren and her band of misfit space pirates! Oh, lord. Every damn thing is in this episode. Laren ties up John to question him. He looks down her shirt. She agrees to help them anyway.
Rodney and Zelenka try to build a fake nonfunctioning Replicator in the shape of a simple cube. It doesn't work out. Later, when Zelenka comes back from a power supply emergency, he is shocked to discover that McKay had abandoned the simple cube idea and decided to go closer to the Ancients' plans. He built a woman.
When John, Ronon and Teyla get back to Atlantis, Teyla finally admits she's pregnant. John gets all bent out of shape that she let him put her in the field.
John gets to get mad again, this time at Rodney, when he finds out he's built a girl. (He says it's about a security risk, but we know.) Sam points out that it's sort of unethical to build a self-aware creature just to sacrifice it to kill all its kind. Rodney's like, whatever. Sam's like, okay.
The replicator girl--dubbed "Fran" for "Friendly Replicator Android"--goes over Rodney's calculations and informs him his plan won't work--John's Godzilla hypothesis was correct. She comes up with a solution: overloading the ZPMs on the Replicator homeworld to explode the Godzila before it Godzils (taking the entire planet with it, as McKay's best plans always involve blowing up a planet). Fran can be trusted, it seems, as she is all Stepfordy and wants to "fulfill her purpose" (sacrifice herself). This should be great for Rodney, but it begins to disturb him. That's weird if they don't intend to do anything with it later.
Space battle. Lots of explosions. Ronon and some Marines bring Rodney to plug some programming into somewhere. (I don't know.) Meanwhile Fran fulfills her purpose, as the Replicators sort of fly apart into bits toward her, and they all meld into a giant blob. There's some problems and some solutions, but everything ends up going according to plan, and everyone gets away before the planet explodes.
Wrap-up. John awkwardly tries to ask Laren for her number, but she's all, I'll call you. End the episode with John and Rodney banter. Rodney says the Wraith are back to being enemies, and the Replicators don't exist anymore, but of course we get a final OH NO! shot of a Replicator ship examining the debris. Inside, the captain is Elizabeth.
Highlights:
- Sam, John, Caldwell and Ellis greet each other with an interminable series of nods and "Colonel"s. Rodney says, "Seriously??"
- At a meeting, John attempts to rein in an increasingly irate Rodney with a simple, gentle "Rodney" (which doesn't really work) and, a little later, a harsh "Rodney!" (which does). Actually, I'm pretty sure his only lines in the entire meeting are "Rodney" in various tones of voice, each of which McKay acknowledges and responds to as though he's said an entire sentence.
- Zelenka goads McKay about his recent mental dry spell.
- Upon seeing the Wraith, Laren orders her men to shoot it. John immediately steps in front of the Wraith to protect him; Ronon immediately dives out of the way to give them a clear shot.
- After John snaps at Teyla and huffs off, Ronon says "Congratulations," smiles, correctly guesses the identity of the father, promises to help her find him, and takes her hand to lead her to the infirmary. Awwwww.
- Laren asks John to control the chair in her ship: "We have a lot of drones, but none of my guys can fire them quite like you can." Sam raises her eyebrows. John looks uncomfortable, smiles weakly, "There's no place I'd rather be," and sends her what looks like it's supposed to be a flirty look, but it's just awkward and painful.
- John is disturbed when Rodney refers to the replicator girl as "Fran": "I didn't realize we were naming things!" John is so possessive about his naming.
- John and Rodney's entire final conversation is great.
JOHN: Hm. Wraith back to being enemies, Replicators don't exist anymore, you out of your dry spell...
RODNEY: Hey!
JOHN (smirking): All is right with the world. What are you working on anyway?
RODNEY: You'll be surprised to hear that removing a planet from the database is actually a lot of work.
JOHN: I thought you'd be pretty good at that by now.
OUCH JOHN. OUCH. Rodney deletes the planet, and John enthusiastically agrees ("Absolutely!") to go with him to a late dinner.
Okay, I need a break.
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on 2008-01-12 11:49 pm (UTC)