#stargate episode

[asemimir]

Stargate Atlantis : Saison 5, Épisode 2

C'est mon deuxième visionnage de SGA et je suis toujours estomaquée par cet épisode (Contamination/Seed). Je sais que ce n'est pas le cœur de l'épisode de s'attarder sur ces questions mais je ne peux m'empêcher de regretter que la série se soit arrêtée avant qu'on ait pu voir en image les probables "champs" de vaisseaux ruches Wraith.

Le fait que leurs vaisseaux soient organiques, avec leurs avantages (l'auto-réparation) et leurs défauts (l'obligation de faire des pauses entre leurs sauts hyper-espace à cause des radiations) était déjà une dinguerie mais en plus de savoir qu'ils les font pousser plutôt que de les construire ???

On sait, via un dialogue avec Todd, que le savoir des ingénieurs de vaisseaux s'est perdu au fil du temps et des cycles de sommeil et de guerres et je ne peux m'empêcher d'imaginer des ingénieur-fermiers qui cultivent différents "types" de vaisseau ruche en fonction de l'endroit où ils les plantent et ce dont ils se nourrissent pour se former. Dans l'épisode, si jamais ils n'avaient pas réussi à se débarrasser du virus dans le sang de Jennifer, le vaisseau ruche se serait formé autour de la structure d'Atlantis : autrement dit le vaisseau aurait eu un squelette interne fait de technologie Ancienne, un corps de vaisseau et un exosquelette Wraith. Ça aurait été INCROYABLE !!

Et puis il y a la voix. Est-ce juste une manifestation du cerveau contaminé du Dr Keller ? Ou bien une réelle entité consciente qui se développe en parasitant l'hôte ? Est-ce que cette voix reste, une fois le vaisseau achevé ? Après tout, on sait que les vaisseaux Wraiths sont vivants, au point qu'ils peuvent tomber malades. Est-ce qu'avec un esprit suffisamment fort, on pourrait entrer en "liaison" avec le vaisseau (un peu comme dans Spelljammer, DnD) ?

Tellement de questions sans réponse malheureusement. Mais c'est pour ce genre d'épisodes que j'aime cette série à ce point.

[autistic-danieljackson]

Not to be all 'back in my day' but I think the problem with TV today is that shows don't get 100-200 episodes anymore.

[scificrows]

“I was having an emotion, and I hate that. I’d rather have nice safe emotions about shows on the entertainment media; having them about things real-life humans said and did just led to stupid decisions.” ― Martha Wells, Exit Strategy

Title sequence designs inspired by the real-life shows Martha Wells based Murderbot's favorite shows on.

[spockvarietyhour]

Daniel: Well, my job is done here. Class of 87: but you didn't do anything. Daniel: Didn't I?

[donttouchtheneednoggle]

SHOW OF ALL TIME

[mylittleredgirl]

stumbling back to the safety of the castle (star trek fandom) covered in blood from the front lines (the wiki of any other fandom that doesn't separate on-screen canon from random shit that happened in a novel once)

[jackandhisspacemonkey]

DANIEL JACKSON in STARGATE SG-1 || THE FIFTH RACE

[sssssssim]

[anguishmacgyver]

eepy™

[fighting-naturalist]

"I beg of you to show mercy."

[samueltanders]

Elizabeth Weir in every episode: 2x03 Runner

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

im currently thinking about how sam is too scared to love jack, while jack is content to meet her where shes at as long as theyre side by side. how everyone from her dad to daniel and Teal'c to random aliens they met 3 hours ago all assume they either are already together or should just get their heads out of the sand and make out. how during the zatarc episode when jack was telling daniel about anise kissing him by simply saying "she made a pass on me" daniel immediately went "sam????". how in the nirrti episode with jonas sam felt like shit, was leaned perfectly comfortably against the bars, and completely shifted around to get jack cuddles. how in the memory stamp episode the stamp didnt stick with tealc at all, daniel held onto his morals and fascination of gate travel, sam held onto stuff like dhd, idc, gdo, and all jack held onto was his feelings for sam. how slowly over the seasons people (specifically her dad) noticed that sam wasnt happy, and that she WOULD be happy with jack. how jacobs dying wish was for sam to know she could have both her job AND her man. how, between the later seasons of sg1, atlantis, and sgu, the more proof for just how Married they were the further the distance between them grew (jack going to dc, sam going from commanding atlantis to commanding the hammond). how they were practically made for each other. how hammond probably knew when he met them in 1969 and had been waiting 28 years for them to meet. how jack "adored [her] already" their first gate trip together. how they literally, canonically, get together in every universe. how that fact constitutes them as soulmates.

[spockvarietyhour]

Stargate Atlantis "First Contact"

[autistic-danieljackson]

A girl needs a warning before seeing Sam Carter in a tank top I am only so strong 🥵

[dedkake]

been thinking too much about how good the team's doppelganger nightmares are!!!

teyla

i actually think teyla's nightmare is the most interesting because it is so packed full of things.

we're back to teyla before the expedition meets her. back on athos. and john is there. in her pre-john space. he's not supposed to be there. he's invading that space.

ronon assumes she and john are on a date and doesn't believe her when she says they're not. a fear of people misinterpreting her relationships AND a fear of not being believed, even by her friends.

rodney showing up and talking about strange readings. teyla's always doing her best to understand science and earth stuff, but she must fear being on the back foot in these areas. also she has a healthy fear of when rodney is afraid.

john starts menacing her and being intimidating, and later bugjohn is there and attacking her. she has some residual fear of the incident in the gym where pre-bug!john attacked and kissed her for sure. but also she has some fear that she can't trust john. that john will hurt and betray her.

john intimidates her by picking at another fear--that people don't trust her. that the atlantis crew doesn't trust her. and that they never have. (please see: season 1 and bates etc)

john specifically points out her connection to the wraith and the wraith queen and the fact that she's been contaminated by that connection, something she has feared since learning of her connection with the wraith.

then there is wraith culling happening outside. her people are being hurt. her father is dying again. she's trapped in the tent and can do nothing to help them. and she is also going to be killed by the wraith because

iratus john is going to feed on her.

also this is all very chaotic and overlapping and disorganized and she can't really keep up with it all.

it's just So Layered!!!

ronon

ronon's dream comes in stages and they're all So Good. first, he's on atlantis, but he's alone. everyone is gone, and he doesn't know why. they've abandoned him or they've been killed and both of those options are just as bad as the other because he's alone. ronon has a such a hard time trusting that he has a home and community and stability on atlantis and here it is. gone. he's been abandoned or he's the only survivor (again).

then he's running again. another fear. alone on a planet he doesn't know with nothing but his body and his instinct to survive. back where he was before meeting the atlantis crew.

and finally he meets john. who he's immediately relieved to see, because he trusts john. despite everything that's happened, john's given him that home and community and stability he has such a hard time trusting. john's the linchpin of it all for him. and then john betrays him. (and this coupled with the long goodbye time where possessed john gets ronon shot and leaves him after tricking him into trusting him aaaaahhh)

and he gets buried alive. something even ronon can't fight his way out of.

rodney

there are a few things happening simultaneously in rodney's nightmare. 1: he is physically uncomfortable. he's sitting in the rain with the wrong gear. it is cold and wet and gross. 2. he is alone. he's been removed from his home and his team. 3. he has an impossible physical task. he has to row a boat back to atlantis. away from the big scary whale that's probably going to eat him. rowing a boat isn't easy, even on calm waters. and the ocean is not that. and physical fitness is not rodney's forte. and it's not something he can use his brain to fix. 4: john is sitting there insulting him. someone he trusts--someone who's supposed to be helping him (which is especially bad because it's different than he expected. it's against the plan.)--is just sitting there watching him struggle and telling him he's not good enough. because rodney is good at solving problems, but physical discomfort and brute strength problems are not the problems he's good at solving.

and then a big scary whale eats him. he's not equipped to solve any of these problems. nature is out of his control actually.

later, when he's armed with the right science and the right knowledge, he has no problem and no fear entering john's nightmare. he challenges doppeljohn head on. fierce as can be. because this is now a problem he can solve.

john

i've posted about this before. but there are just so many little layers in his short pre- fistfight scenes. rodney's death is only the tip of the iceberg for him. rodney dies--and it's john's fault. he was on a mission trying to save a teammate and he failed. again.

and then THEN the whole team confront him about it in the hallway. and they all blame him. he can't get words out in response, even though he tries because they're right. failing one of them meant failing all of them. the team are angry about his failure and his relationships with them are about to be ruined.

and then sam, his boss, comes at him to tell him he's compromised by this and he's losing his job because of it too. his fear is not just losing rodney, it's losing everything because of his own failure.

it's just one mistake that sends his whole life into free fall.

and then! the fact that doppeljohn assumed his form in his military uniform. and he has to fight him. aaaaaahh. and he's losing to him. that john doesn't think that who he is at his core. his soft zippy shirt, no more friends, failure of a self. can actually beat what the military has turned him into. or who it has turned him into for others. this is about john's self image. and it is so!!!! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

(and the energy being chose this form. chose the military version of john. it's not wearing what he's wearing on the mission--leather jacket and tacvest. it's wearing john's standard military uniform. right from the start this is what it picked out of john's head as the most intimidating form)

idk there's just so much going on in the team dreams!!!!

[anguishmacgyver]