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

Tim Bruening wrote:

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> Andrew Venor wrote:
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>>Anim8rFSK wrote:
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>>>In article <fqtuu3$2gd$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, "Bill Plenge" <B_Plenge@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>wrote:
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>>>>George Avalos wrote:
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>>>>>"The Last Man"
>>>>>3-7-08 SGA
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>>>>>5 stars (Hicks)
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>>>>>0-1 stars (Burke)
>>>>>
>>>>>-George
>>>>
>>>>1 -- only because I can't give lower.
>>>>
>>>>Loathed it -- need every player in the NFL to give it a sufficient
number of
>>>>thumbs down.
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>>>>Why?
>>>>
>>>>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
>>>>there.
>>>>
>>>>More details on this episode after spoiler space.
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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 ...
>>>>
>>>>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!
>>>>
>>>>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
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>>>I didn't folow that at all.  Wasn't it "odds are it might take that
long
>>>to get just the right flare" meaning it might be tomorrow and it might
>>>not ever happen?  And then these figures aren't affected at ALL by the
>>>fact the sun is turning into a red giant?
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>>After he was activated and took some readings of the star I would assume
>>that the Rodney AI would have adjusted his calculations for that
>>variable. For all we know the red giant may have the right type of flare
>>every week instead of every 700 years.
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>>>>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.
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>>I didn't think the solar panels were powering the ****eld alone.  I
>>though they were using them to take some of the load off of the naquadah
>>generator so they could extend its' life by about 100 years.
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>>>And Shepard runs out in to the dust storm because he's impatient.  What
>>>was the rush to get him into stasis, just because he's hungry?  And
>>>since when don't they carry candy bars any more?
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>>I guess Shepard ate them while he was on the other planet waiting for
>>his Genii contact.
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>>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>And as long as you're in the stasis room, how about asking 'whatever
>>>happened to Carson Beckett?'?  (I thought he might still be there, heh)
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>>As for why Shepard didn't ask about Beckett, I guess the writers didn't
>>want to drop any spoilers for next season.  So maybe the Doctor was
>>there, or in another stasis room.  Or maybe the SGC took his frozen body
>>back to Earth when they abandoned the city.
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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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>>>And the trap is to drop a Wraith cruiser and COLLAPSE ONE BUILDING.
>>>Don't these people have nukes?
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>>We haven't seen the Wraith use nukes up to this point in the series.
>>For all we know only the Earthers and the Genii are the only races that
>>use fission weapons in the Pegasus galaxy.
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> The Wraith are far more technologically advanced than pre-Stargate
program Earth,
> so shouldn't they have bombs more powerful than our nukes (such as
antimatter
> bombs)?
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I assume the reason is that the Wraith like to eat their humans fresh 
instead of cooked.

They can't eat va****ised humans.

ALV