Originally posted by queenselqet31
Overall: A Freakin' Awesome Episode!!! It was so good I had to watch it twice in a row. My random likes:
The pacing is note-perfect, quickly establishing the episode's tension and then just tightening the screws on you.
"That's life long pain."
Teyla finally hit Bates. He did have it coming. I kinda hope they get a chance to finish it; Telya would win, I think, but Bates would give pretty good. Might help them find a mutual respect.
Zero-G: Excelently done. I hope they put out a documentary or something about how they did it.
The Ancient Weapon Platform carved that hive ship like a Thanksgiving Turkey. Then the other two ships recovered, and punched it full of holes. The Wraith obviously have a whole lot of fire power at their disposal.
Bob's interrogation. No mercy for the merciless.
The Weapon platform set. Very functional looking, and very cool. This must be where all the money saved by reusing the "generic stone arcitecture set" went.
"We are at war, Elizabeth. In war, there are casualties."
And there's the fact that all this was just a set up for the true finale. That should be incredible.
I'd like to address the issue about Wraith hyperdrives, if I may. It's not unreasonable to think that their hyperdrives have limited range and/or speed, compared to the Asgard, or even the Goa'uld. Look where they are. The Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy is only 4,000 lightyears wide, tiny by galactic standards (the Milky Way is 100,000 lightyears across). They've never had a need to go further. They drove the Atlanteans under the water, where they appeared to stay for thousands of years. The Wraith obviously had no idea that there was food to be had in other galaxies, especially not one three million lightyears away. There was never a need to improve upon technology that did exactly what they required.
I'm thinking that future seasons will not only be about protecting Atlantis from the Wraith, but also about keeping one step ahead of them, foiling any other plans they develop to invade the Milky Way.
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