#sheppard (and everyone) hating his new team is my favourite thing asd;fkaj

[rodneymckays]

stargate episodes that should have been, part 51: [TEAL’C VOICE] AND NOW, THE CONCLUSION. sheppard and sg-1 are making their escape from ba’al’s prison. teal’c has a staff weapon and sheppard has a zat, and vala has taken her pin out of her hair again and is holding it like a knife. everyone else is unarmed. sheppard’s newbies are asking questions which draw the attention of two patrolling jaffa, who teal’c takes down mostly single-handedly (cam and sheppard both try to help but fail). yay, more weapons! teal’c gets a second staff weapon that he zip ties to the first staff weapon with some zip ties that happened to be in his pocket to create a double-sided staff weapon, cam gets the other staff weapon, sam and vala get zats, and sheppard’s newbies get told to keep quiet. vala pins her braid back up. it’s beginning to get quite messy. over to lorne. the jaffa who found his team are spies from the free jaffa. lorne quickly explains why they’re there and the jaffa agree to help them sneak into the prison. we see lorne’s team and the jaffa sneaking into the prison on one side… and then pan around to the other side of the prison and see sheppard and sg-1 sneaking out. lorne’s team makes it to the cells and finds an empty cell, door cracked open, with a bit of blood on the floor. they conclude that sg-1 and sheppard have escaped, when one of the free jaffa suddenly points his staff weapon at them and they are surrounded by ba’al’s jaffa. he was a spy, and lorne’s team along with the actually free jaffa are forced into the cell that sg-1 just vacated. later: nightfall. sg-1 and co are camping in the woods before heading for the gate. a jaffa runs up to them: the “free” jaffa from earlier. he informs them that lorne’s team, mckay, carson, and a few other free jaffa have been captured but he managed to escape, he thinks his cover is intact, and he can help them sneak back in to rescue them. cam is like 🤔 but sheppard and teal’c insist that they have to rescue mckay and the other free jaffa, respectively. they head back towards the prison. on the way, cam and vala have a quiet conversation about how the jaffa is suspicious; cam thinks so because he has trust issues and vala thinks so because he’s a hot jaffa and no one that attractive is honest. look at her, for example. cam rolls his eyes. meanwhile in the cell, mckay is fiddling with the panel that sam was fiddling with earlier. she was about five seconds from cracking the lock, so it takes mckay about five seconds to get the door open. they’re free! they start sneaking around and run into sg-1 and co, who have entered the prison and are also sneaking around. they see that the jaffa who betrayed them is with sg-1, and mckay immediately informs them of that fact by yelling “you!” the jaffa goes on the offensive and shoots one of sheppard’s newbies point blank with the staff weapon and hits sheppard really hard on the head with the blunt end. he also aims a zat at cadman, but she’s pushed out of the way by carson. the jaffa then takes off down the hallway. teal’c takes him down with his own staff weapon and carson, getting up after being zatted (ow) checks on the newbie. he’s dead. he checks on sheppard next, who is still conscious but is bleeding a little bit because ow, staff weapon to the head. carson bandages sheppard’s head and they get moving. unfortunately, all the firing of staff weapons attracted the attention of more jaffa and they have to run for it. they make it back to the gate with teal’c covering everyone with his double-sided staff weapon, and mckay dials earth really fast. they all run through the gate to see colonel reynolds standing in the gate room, just about to leave and come rescue them.

TEAL'C'S DOUBLE BARREL STAFF WEAPON omg 🤩🤩🤩 he might as well be carrying a tank into battle, in terms of comparative firepower 😂 do. not. mess.

i love how the respective teams are like ships passing in the night. and i also super love how the 'we gotta rescue them' scene highlights sheppard & teal'c's similarities in terms of sheer stubbornness (to the point of wilful blindness sometimes 😅) when it comes to helping their people. oh boys 🥺 and cam & vala's rapport ofc.

sam “loosening the jar” for mckay will never not be hilarious. and i may or may not have shouted CARSON out loud at the top of my lungs. what a hero 🥺

i wanna know McKay’s exact dialling speed, he’s got a lot of practice under fire by now. like in wpm except gate symbols per minute. im sure he's calculated 😂