The Defiant One (112)

[Gothann]

Just a comment on handguns.

I'm an expert shot with a rifle (not being self important, I have the certificates to prove it). I have trouble hitting the board side of a barn with a handgun and I know how to shoot them. They are hard weapons to be accurate with and require a fair bit of training to understand. Even when you do know where your hand goes and that you are supposed to pull a trigger.

Question. Did anyone see Greg flip a safety? Was this thing supposedly stored with the safety off?

I'm pretty sure he must have knocked the safety off when he threw it down (he grabbed it, but when he threw it down he might have flipped it)

If not, well... The handguns aren't made for "safety" when in hostile territory. If they pull out their sidearms, it's probably because they NEED to, due to the P90 being empty of broken. So they need quick reaction time (every split second counts against the Wraith)

[tfalls1]

Did anyone else notice that the Wraith found the shield button in the Puddle Jumper something that has never been shown before and at the very end there was hardly any mention made of it ???? Hope they come back in another episode and sort out the eventual exploration of the giant weapons platform!

[Gothann]

Umm, Sheppard says at the end "You can drive", "assuming you can lower the shield."

The shield wasn't lowered during all of that time..

[aAnubiSs]

Must be a small solar system. 15h with a PJ, and I believe they said that the planet was on the other side of the solar system. so the solar system must be around 7.5 lighthours in radius... "big"

[Blueicus]

Where was it established that Puddle Jumpers travel at light speed when they are not passing through a stargate? I'm not always great at picking up minute details.

[aschen]

I'm getting really sick of my threads constantly being closed down.

I'll be watching this episode tonight.

On a scale of 1-10 how good was it?

[Shipperahoy]

Good episode. Poor Nyan. I too wish it could have really been Nyan. It would have been a nice way of clearing up what he's been doing since season 3. Then there's Rasta Wraith (nice dreadlocks buddy). I like Shep and McKay's interaction. Those two play well off of each other. Oh and Ford looks nice in the no sleeves t-shirt. I wasn't expecting the Prodigy bugs and I kept expecting them to start turning pyscho. I liked the energy bar scene a lot. They were like pigeons at the park. I love Shep's "You've got to be kidding me" after Rasta Wraith got back up after being practically blown up.

[veneticuss]

Good episode, i dont understand though, how come all the things didnt kill him
As we've seen, sometimes hlaf of p90 is enough, well for this time i dont get it

[Wass]

Because he had something to eat before he got shot therefore he’s body regenerated quickly now you know what ancients were up against.

[aAnubiSs]

Where was it established that Puddle Jumpers travel at light speed when they are not passing through a stargate? I'm not always great at picking up minute details.

My fault, if the galaxy is 15h wide, then it should be 7.5 lighthours at most. 0.5c is about max you can do without frelling up the time-relativity.

[veneticuss]

Because he had something to eat before he got shot therefore he’s body regenerated quickly now you know what ancients were up against.

Yeah, but i had a feeling he was quiet tired though

[aAnubiSs]

I don't think the Ancients problem were the Wraiths regenerative powers, I doubt the Ancients did much ground combat. Most of it was probably in space.

[PlaZ]

great ep. could've had more infos on that satelite thingy. gotta love huge floating advanced weapon stations in space.

had the feeling the producers were trying to underline kay's and shep's ability to kick ass and keep their cool if the situation affords it, considering we just had the two parter which was pretty much about the same thing.

but cool very cool (even better with more ancient techy stuff)

[Teal'c]

OK, firstly I want to state this, and I'll bold it to make sure people do see it

The bugs were not the same ones from Prodigy

A) They were clearly smaller.
B) You could see a fly-like centre in their glow.
C) They exerted no properties the same as the Prodigy bugs, save floating and glowing.

Our Wraith, "Greg" (I prefere Clive ), was able to crush them. Prodigy beings would have went through his hand.

Also, I loved when Nyan shot himself... I hope that doesn't sound odd. The way it was shot, and McKay's reaction. It just reaffirmed my belief that David Hewlett is the greatest actor of all time.

[Positively Kanyon]

Also, I loved when Nyan shot himself... I hope that doesn't sound odd. The way it was shot, and McKay's reaction. It just reaffirmed my belief that David Hewlett is the greatest actor of all time.

I agree with you there, Sheppard and McKay did an absolutely fantastic job this episode. I think the team is starting to gel together very well in the first season. This episode would have to be one of my favourites so far this year.