Re: 4th Season Stargate Atlantis - The Last Man - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

"Bill Plenge" <B_Plenge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> George Avalos wrote:
>> "The Last Man"
>> 3-7-08 SGA
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>> 5 stars (Hicks)
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>> 0-1 stars (Burke)
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>> -George
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> 1 -- only because I can't give lower.
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> Loathed it -- need every player in the NFL to give it a sufficient
number 
> of thumbs down.
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> Why?
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> Everyone always gripes about time travel, magic beans and resets.  This 
> episode has them all.   Tthis whole episode was one big reset.  The
cliff 
> hanger was OK, but it's a season finale so it was expected -- nothing
new 
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> The plot was so ludicrous it could've been a comedy.  Rodney makes a
plan 
> to get Shepard back from 48,000 years in the future.  Come on -- Rodney 
> has well demonstrate his inability to do anything that doesn't screw up
in 
> a few years or sooner ...
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> The multigate trip between galaxies via a gate macro -- busted by the 
> wraith
> Reactivating the replicators code to attack the wraith -- that went
well, 
> they started eliminating the food source.
> His lockdown program that couldn't differentiate stellar activity from a

> biohazard.
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> And those are just examples from this season!
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> The one consistancy was his tendency to miss little details.  (Oh No,
the 
> sun will be a red giant 200 years before Shepard is out of Stasis!)  I'm

> sorry, those little things add up to make this plan unbelievable. 
Already 
> the planet was experiencing dust storms -- makes it kind of hard for
solar 
> energy to power the ****elds as planned when it's blocked by sand storms.

> During the "Dust Bowl" of the 30's in the US midwest the dust storms
were 
> so thick they were called black outs and they'd last for days -- these 
> were much less severe conditions then the red giant would have
produced.. 
> A volcano or meteor impact could kick enough dust up to block the sun
for 
> months, though it would only need to block it long enough for the
****elds 
> to fail for a few seconds, and even if the ****elds powered up again when

> the sun returned Shepard would revive in an Atlantis sans atmosphere. 
> Gee, maybe they should've put an evironmental suit on him before he went

> into stasis -- this way if the ****elds did fail he could still make it
to 
> the gate.  Though he might deplete the suit digging his way to the gate
it 
> seems a reasonable precaution.
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> Of course Shepard makes it back, and he has a magic bean!  Rodney told
him 
> where Teyla was found.  So off goes the Atlantis team to get her back 
> earlier then they did in the time line Rodney's hologram was in.  She's 
> not there and it's a trap -- big surprise.
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> If we look at this episode in terms of changes to civilization over
time. 
> 48,000 years ago there was no known civilization on our planet, almost
all 
> of the earths civilization evolved in the last 10-15,000 or so years. 
> Imagine what our civilaztion can accomplish in another 30,000 years if
it 
> doesn't destroy itself first.  There's a good reason the wraiths didn't 
> pillage the undefended Atlantis shown in the future of this episode --
it 
> was obsolete, the wraiths had surpassed it's abilities 20-30,000 years 
> prior.  They don't need the gate system, they've surpassed it.  Look at 
> just the last 300 years in long distance travel on our own planet, 1800 
> travel was the typical walking speed of a horse (or wind powered boat if

> you could travel by water), by 1900 trains, by 2000 jets were the norm.
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> I also think that Rodney's arogance would've had him program his
hologram 
> with a younger appearance.  He has shown signs of vanity in the past.
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> The one redeeming aspect I found in this episode was the oppurtunity to 
> give the cast noble deaths.

Agreed. Season 4 should be flushed down the toilet pan and forgotten. For
a 
minute I thought the writers were gonna do a Dallas and have Sheppard
waking 
up and seeing McKay come out of the shower or something.

A really pants episode. Why waste all that effort to tell us something
that 
now doesn't happen?