Vengeance (319)

[AGateFan]

The Atlantis ep was OK but predictable.

At least they had something of a logical reason for the super soldiers but not sure how he expects to control them.

I still find Michael sympathetic considering how the SGA scrwed him over and over. Ronan was the only one who was ever honest.

I like how Teyla came up with the RIGHT course of action even if everyone else didnt want to follow it. Then Ronan came up with the RIGHT course of action that should have been followed to begin with (when the Michael experiment first failed). Rodney was suprisingly not as whiny as I would have expected considering the circumstances and the beginning of the ep was somehow appropriate. Maybe someday he will have some skills. Sheppard was solid as always and I liked how HE came up with the RIGHT PLAN and Ronan acknowledged it. Buy WHY didnt he just beam up Michael at the end so they could shoot him when he has no backup.....oh right, hes Dr Evil and they need him for future eps... my bad. (I did actually like that line)

I like how the super soliders were not all powerful and were actually vulnerable if you shoot them in the right place. That way you dont need the super special weapon like most stargate plots seem to require these days.

I didnt like how the marines were idiots... maybe a bit of a scatter when a wraith dart shows up would be appropiate. And I dont like that they made one call back with false information even though it should have been obvious he was doomed anyway. I think a good old "scrw you" would have been the words out of my mouth to Michael. Even if Atlantis already has.

Weir was good but her mistakes and that of her team are starting to catch up and weigh on her.

Ok, the more I think on it... I actually really like it.

[Jackie]

"Alien" rip off--cheesy creatures--predictable plot.

Loved Micheal, he made the episode. If Micheal wasn't behind it-- and the writer's made it some mutated bug...it would have been tooooooo cheesy.

[Sallygoround]

I thought the episode was excellent. Very well paced, and the moody lighting and camera teases were perfect. I'd like to see more episodes done this way. Loved the nod to Aliens, too.

I look forward to seeing Michael again in S4, because as Connor Trinneer said in his GW interview, the story has legs!

[the fifth man]

"Alien" rip off--cheesy creatures--predictable plot.

Loved Micheal, he made the episode. If Micheal wasn't behind it-- and the writer's made it some mutated bug...it would have been tooooooo cheesy.

I enjoyed the overall episode for the most part. I thought most of it was pretty well done.

I do have to agree though, Michael made it much better. I really like his character, and hope we get quite a bit more of him in Season 4.

[retiredat44]

Enough of the chest already.

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[expendable_crewman]

????

I think the comment was in reply to an early to mid-thread run on one character's biology and how the bug crawling on top of her showed that she had parts appropriate (if that's the right word) to her gender. I could go on, but it was a bit weird the first time.

I hope Michael comes back in season 4.

[Charles17]

when they returned to atlantis at the end of the ep... the operator gets shepherd's code, then the stargate opens, they come through, the stargate closes...

is that a mistake? doesnt the stargate need to be open first in order for a code to come through? or did i miss something???

[scifi_lemon]

when they returned to atlantis at the end of the ep... the operator gets shepherd's code, then the stargate opens, they come through, the stargate closes...

is that a mistake? doesnt the stargate need to be open first in order for a code to come through? or did i miss something???

Are you sure they didn't mean 'lower/open the shield'? Because there does have to be an open wormhole, but not a lowered shield for transmittions to come through.

[sparklegem]

Buy WHY didnt he just beam up Michael at the end so they could shoot him when he has no backup.....

My question exactly. Even my dad, who doesn't normally watch the show exclaimed, "Wait, why didn't he just suck up the bad guy when he had the chance?"

[Lorr]

My question exactly. Even my dad, who doesn't normally watch the show exclaimed, "Wait, why didn't he just suck up the bad guy when he had the chance?"

Sheppard may not be able to read the Wraith's HUD well enough yet to have known it was Michael. He may know the "signatures" of the humans well enough, but not the others. Also, when he was going to beam them out, not knowing what kind of weapon Michael had might have made it dangerous, especially if he has to beam them all out at once and it's possible any one or all of his team might be unconscious. These are details that take too long to explain in the available time.

Also, they determined that the super bugs had a very tough exoskeleton, but the underbelly was quite vulnerable.

I thought it was a 10/10 episode.

[dec55]

Lame = Ronan and his ******* stun/kill/stun/kill song and dance. Do us all a favour and set it to "no one gives a frak"

Frankly I want to see more of Ronan's song and dance...it makes the show
more fun. Do us a favor and put more of this in the show.


Ronan was the best part of this eppy...he saw that Michael should have been
killed in first place. Ronan knows his enemies the Wraith and definitely sees
the dangers before anyone else does.

BTW

Ronan has definite chemistry with Sheppard. They play off incredibly well. His comedic chemistry with
Rodney is hilarious...and visual chemistry with Teyla is incredible.

[MIZA]

Yeah i totally agree with you Sparklegem


i mean they could have picked him up too and interrogated him, what they hell !!!!!!!!, but oh well i guess it is just a way for Michael to come back

does anyone else agree with me that, that was one scary episode , i know when those giant bugs came out i jumped a few times , you didn't even see that one when it attacked Ronon , i was like WHOA WHAT THE !!!!!!!!!

[PG15]

Actually, I was expecting that. You could hear the music start to tense up, and the scene was starting to run long without any sudden movements, plot developments, or even any dialogue. They were preparing you for the sudden scare by calming you down with the lack of any forward motion in the story.

You know what I mean?

[AGateFan]

Actually, I was expecting that. You could hear the music start to tense up, and the scene was starting to run long without any sudden movements, plot developments, or even any dialogue. They were preparing you for the sudden scare by calming you down with the lack of any forward motion in the story.

You know what I mean?

Plus once you see the hatched cocoon, was there any doubt there was going to be some buggy thing jumping out at them. I liked Teyla's plan but she said it a little later then she should have, maybe she was waiting for Sheppard to come up with it. Once they saw all the dead people and only one life form reading on the detector, they should have stepped back and formed a new plan (or just A plan).

The good thing on Atlantis though is, unlike a lot of shows, they at least acknowledge that these people have seen these types of circumstances in movies. John’s recognition of the Alien air vent situation is much nicer then just some guy, whose supposed be from our time, just ignoring the possibility. Stargate has historically been pretty good at that.

[Falcon Horus]

Silence equals scare coming up.
Music rising means something is bound to happen, be that scary or not.

I guess it's one of those things they learn in tv-making-school.
I for one, find it only slightly annoying that I can pretty accurately guess what will happen by the way something is done.