So... I love Ronon as much as the next girl, but I've noticed a rather annoying plot contrivance that follows him around, well, ALL THE TIME. Through the course of several episodes, Ronon will have his super-duper-fancy-stunner-plus-killer-gun confiscated by someone, and yet by the end of the episodes he manages to locate his EXACT weapon again. Wonderful, convenient, if it happens like ONCE. So I'm dedicating this thread to tallying up all the times he's actually had his gun taken away and gotten it back again.
1. Runner - First episode he's ever in, and he loses his gun to the SGA team. Ok, getting this one back is a gimmie.
2. Condemned - Gets captured by the extras from Waterworld, takes his gun back from the leader at the end of the episode?
3. Lost Boys - Ford and his team overpower SGA team, Ronon gets his gun back from them only after agreeing to be a part of their "Duuude, wouldn't it be rad if we blew up a hive!" plan.
4. The Hive - SGA team and the little lost lambs are overpowered, weapons confiscated and taken into the murky depths of a wraith ship. Mystically found and returned by Ford. How wonderful for us the Wraith keep an ammo dump right next to the prisioner's quarters, and not, you know, on the other side of a ship that's the size of a CITY.
5. Allies/No Man's Land - Stranded on a wraith ship again, captured and imprisoned... Thank god there's no Geneva conventions in the Pegasus galaxy or they might not have even had half an ally.
6. Sateda - Back to square one, but his team recovers his weapon from the carnage left by the (*gasp!*shock!*) lying wraith and get to return it to him in a daring rescue!
7. Progeny - Ok I'll be honest, I really can't remember if Ronon is even ON this mission, but if he is, then his weapon is surely taken and returned before the city blows up...
Well hallelujah... scanning through the rest of Season 3 I couldn't remember any more episodes with this particular little plot convenience. Maybe the writers realized that it seems ludicrously unlikely that he'd lose and recover his precious weapon seven times in not even two full seasons of shows? At least Teal'c's excuse is that there's plenty of Jaffa staffs laying around all over the Milky Way galaxy...
If I've remembered any details wrong, or are forgetting some episodes, please chime in and I'll correct the list! I'm too tired to watch all SGA tonight...
1. Runner - First episode he's ever in, and he loses his gun to the SGA team. Ok, getting this one back is a gimmie.
2. Condemned - Gets captured by the extras from Waterworld, takes his gun back from the leader at the end of the episode?
3. Lost Boys - Ford and his team overpower SGA team, Ronon gets his gun back from them only after agreeing to be a part of their "Duuude, wouldn't it be rad if we blew up a hive!" plan.
4. The Hive - SGA team and the little lost lambs are overpowered, weapons confiscated and taken into the murky depths of a wraith ship. Mystically found and returned by Ford. How wonderful for us the Wraith keep an ammo dump right next to the prisioner's quarters, and not, you know, on the other side of a ship that's the size of a CITY.
5. Allies/No Man's Land - Stranded on a wraith ship again, captured and imprisoned... Thank god there's no Geneva conventions in the Pegasus galaxy or they might not have even had half an ally.
6. Sateda - Back to square one, but his team recovers his weapon from the carnage left by the (*gasp!*shock!*) lying wraith and get to return it to him in a daring rescue!
7. Progeny - Ok I'll be honest, I really can't remember if Ronon is even ON this mission, but if he is, then his weapon is surely taken and returned before the city blows up...
Well hallelujah... scanning through the rest of Season 3 I couldn't remember any more episodes with this particular little plot convenience. Maybe the writers realized that it seems ludicrously unlikely that he'd lose and recover his precious weapon seven times in not even two full seasons of shows? At least Teal'c's excuse is that there's plenty of Jaffa staffs laying around all over the Milky Way galaxy...
If I've remembered any details wrong, or are forgetting some episodes, please chime in and I'll correct the list! I'm too tired to watch all SGA tonight...
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