I just had a little what if scenario about the show's final season that might have helped the ending be a little more climactic. Drop "Vegas" or move it earlier and drop some other episode you dislike. For Episode 19, revisit the Asuran storyline. To those who watched SG-1's final season, remember how Adria and Ba'al had a smackdown in the penultimate episode just before the series finale? Well, what if Atlantis could have had such an episode? Imagine Sheppard leading a team via Puddle Jumper through the stargate to retrieve the Asuran copy of Elizabeth Weir, but only her. The others are left to continue drifting in space. Weir shifts back to Torri Higginson (assuming she could be sold on the script), but she decides to remain Asuran since it's just her. We finally learn the fate of Elizabeth Weir once and for all. Her original self was killed for screwing around with Asuran code, but her nanites are allowed to replicate into an Asuran copy of Elizabeth Weir. The rebellion cloned Elizabeth Weir along with Sheppard's team, but they were all killed in "This Mortal Coil." Knowing she is merely a copy of her self, she elects to remain true to herself as an Asuran copy, a mechanism that appears to be an organism. She's willing to unleash the full might and fury of Atlantis upon the Wraith once and for all. This leads into "Enemy at the Gate" where Todd contacts Atlantis about his underling taking his ZPM-powered super-hive on a direct coarse for Earth. When Earth's ships fail to stop it with the Odyssey out of contact (along with SG-1, minus Carter), Atlantis must take flight toward Earth and save the day one last time. The end of the episode would more or less play out the same, but I'd have the Wraith hive ultimately destroyed by Elizabeth Weir, sacrificing herself to save the Earth below. Sheppard and the expedition have a quiet moment as they realize the essence or perhaps soul of their lost friend had survived through her Asuran copy.
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