SGA 4x12 Spoils of War
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zelempaI finished my nap!
Plot: John's Wraith buddy (finally christened "Todd" in this episode) had a tracking beacon which he had turned off, but it's been reactivated, giving the Atlantis crew his coordinates, and leading Rodney to surmise he is trying to communicate with them. John decides to go looking for him, but when they reach the ship where he's supposed to be, they find only dead Wraith--and the beacon lying on the floor, from where it's been cut out of Todd. With the help of a bumbling Nigel Bruce-meets-Frankenstein Ronon and Teyla (when John finally deigns to allow her to come on the mission) and her suspiciously megapowered Wraith DNA, Rodney gets the ship online, and learns from its database about a secret Wraith outpost which had helped them during the Ancient war.
Teyla flies the guys to the outpost where they find a massive honeycomb of Wraith fetus pod things. While there, the guys take time out of their busy freaking out schedule to rescue Todd, who informs them that the other Wraith took some ZPMs which he had stolen from the Replicator homeworld before it blew up, and are now using them to power this outpost. Rodney goes a little glassy-eyed. On the trail of the ZPMs, the boys are captured. The Wraith Queen tries to torture them but can't, because in the nick of time Teyla takes control of her mentally, and lets them go. The WQ begins to regain control, and Teyla manages to say through her, "John, help me," so John unleashes a round into her gut. Symbolism?
Just as another hive ship comes to cause trouble, Todd escapes via dart, and the good guys escape via jumper; before they leave, they destroy the cloning facility by pulling a 9/11 and crashing the stolen hive into it.
Of Note:
Plot: John's Wraith buddy (finally christened "Todd" in this episode) had a tracking beacon which he had turned off, but it's been reactivated, giving the Atlantis crew his coordinates, and leading Rodney to surmise he is trying to communicate with them. John decides to go looking for him, but when they reach the ship where he's supposed to be, they find only dead Wraith--and the beacon lying on the floor, from where it's been cut out of Todd. With the help of a bumbling Nigel Bruce-meets-Frankenstein Ronon and Teyla (when John finally deigns to allow her to come on the mission) and her suspiciously megapowered Wraith DNA, Rodney gets the ship online, and learns from its database about a secret Wraith outpost which had helped them during the Ancient war.
Teyla flies the guys to the outpost where they find a massive honeycomb of Wraith fetus pod things. While there, the guys take time out of their busy freaking out schedule to rescue Todd, who informs them that the other Wraith took some ZPMs which he had stolen from the Replicator homeworld before it blew up, and are now using them to power this outpost. Rodney goes a little glassy-eyed. On the trail of the ZPMs, the boys are captured. The Wraith Queen tries to torture them but can't, because in the nick of time Teyla takes control of her mentally, and lets them go. The WQ begins to regain control, and Teyla manages to say through her, "John, help me," so John unleashes a round into her gut. Symbolism?
Just as another hive ship comes to cause trouble, Todd escapes via dart, and the good guys escape via jumper; before they leave, they destroy the cloning facility by pulling a 9/11 and crashing the stolen hive into it.
Of Note:
- JOHN (examining the map showing Todd's beacon): How far did you say he was from the nearest gate?
RODNEY: About an hour by jumper. (cottoning to John's train of thought) Wait. I know we've worked with this guy before and he has helped us in the past, but he's still a Wraith! We don't seriously feel like we owe him anything, do we?
JOHN (unnaturally high-voiced): No, no, of course not! But! (beat) Doesn't mean it's not worth checkin' out.
RODNEY: ...Hm.
I'm just saying. There is no explanation for this aside from John + Todd 4 Eva. - John condescendingly lectures to Teyla that her anger "isn't about your people missing, it's about the father of your child missing." What? Where does he get off presuming to know better than she does how she feels? He barely knows how he feels at any given time.
- "We didn't come all this way just to turn back" seems to justify a lot of reckless missionry. Welcome to Atlantis, where our credo is "Let's Throw Good Money After Bad!"
- John names Todd "Todd" because doesn't want Rodney to call the Wraith "our friend", saying, "It's weird." John comes up with the name all super fast (obviously having given it some thought), and off Rodney's look, he explains defensively, "Guy I knew in college. Very pale." Sure, John.
- "We've got ourselves a new ship!" John and Rodney grin adorkable grins at each other. No, no, boys, it's the same old ship.
- JOHN: Didn't you say you got lost in a garden maze once?
RODNEY: I was ten! Plus, I was running from a bee.
Rodney says this with such shame-free conviction, as though he is sure this will vindicate him in the eyes of Sheppard. <3 - John's forced to his knees (again!) in front of the Wraith Queen (again!) When he manages to resist the Queen by making a struggly-pained face, she of course decides to punish him by feeding on Rodney, who is conveniently on hand as he was being forced to watch as the Queen tried to mentally penetrate John. You can see how this show got it fangirlbase.
- Teyla + Wraith Queen = super gay
- Urg. Teyla tells John he was right to question her involvement, and she's all freaked out because the WQ could have killed her baby. She hugs John, who looks uncomfortable. And on that we fade to black. Can I get a resounding "blah" on the baby subplot?