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3rd Season Stargate Atlantis - Misbegotten - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !
21 Jul 2006 18:35:48 -0700
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georgeavalos...
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"Misbegotten"
7-21-06 SGA
pv+usenet...
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Huh. I ask the question last week, and I actually got the answer this
week - try to nuke them, fail, try to shoot them from space, and maybe
succeed. The end(?)
3.0. Fun to watch for just for Wolsey's hating everything everyone says,
right up the point where he agrees with it. The political maneuvering on
both shows has been very entertaining. *
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5 stars (Eugene O'Neill, 1967)
0-1 stars (Eugene O'Neill, 1947)
Anim8rFSK...
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tired of them finding a shiny new ship and blowing it up
Ken from Chicago...
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Who didn't know that was coming?
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acteon...
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The wraith ships are over 40,000 years old, hardly new.
They did screw up again with Michael, they could have let him as is and
have him as an ally. When it was feeding time, they could have turned
him human to feed him he may even be able to eat human foods in his
current state.
David Chapman...
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That doesn't follow. The Atlantis team planned to leave the captive on the
planet in full human form. In fact, the episode directly implies that the
reverse is true - after all, the whole dilemma was whether or not the Wraith
would revert and start eating each other. That means even partial revertees
can't eat human food, or they would.
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Tim Bruening...
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But turning him human would have wiped his memory, leading to the problems
we saw when he first showed up.
acteon...
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Except instead of lying to him, they could tell him the truth. Perhaps
a weaker dose wouldn't wipe his memory either.
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not nearly enough Picardo
Ken from Chicago...
instead of Weir finally proving she really should run the place, they
phony up a report to keep her in charge? What a missed opportunity.
Ken from Chicago...
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What does Woolsey REALLY want?
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so what HAPPENED at the end? Did the other Wraith ship send scouts
down? Can Wraith hive ships just beam people up from the surface?
jayembee...
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Don't know if the hive ships can, but the darts certainly can, as we've
seen countless times in the show all the way back to the pilot.
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Shouldn't the cloaked scout have some idea if the Wraith hive did
anything to rescue people from the surface? I mean, either it did, and
they better be worried, or it didn't, and they should be relieved
(although they still should have had Skinner nuke the site from orbit,
just to be sure).
Ken from Chicago...
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All these questions and more will be answered next time on SOAPGATE:
ATLANTIS. Seriously the ep ended without getting into those details, tho I'm
sure we'll find out, prolly next ep.
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Tim Bruening...
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When the team from Atlantis arrive on that Wraith ship, and came down to the
planet why didn't they spray the De-Wraithing retrovirus at everyone they
saw.
Anim8rFSK...
If the answer to the above is "They didn't bring any retrovirus", I will ask
"Why didn't they bring any retrovirus so that they could convert the Wraith
David Chapman...
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How about, because their resources are not unlimited? They quite possibly
don't have any retrovirus gas left.
Tim Bruening...
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Why didn't we hear any dialogue to that effect ("Oh blast, we used up all the
retrovirus gas on that hive ship we captured!")
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back into humans?".
Anim8rFSK...
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Yeah. Flying in on a wraith ship to rescue wraith from another wraith
ship really does call for carrying anti wraith weapons, doesn't it?
tsbrueni...
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Make that "Flying in to rescue De-Wraithed humans who will revert if
not given more retrovirus".
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not nearly enough Picardo (I wanted to see him meet the Asgard!)
They call in a favor from the Asgard just to rush Weir back to Atlantis?
I mean, why? Let her take the cargo run.
Ken from Chicago...
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More importantly, why the frell did they tell the DOCTOR about the nuke?
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Tim Bruening...
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I assume that the IOA wanted Weir to be back in charge ASAP.
Anim8rFSK...
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But why? First they drag her back, knowing it will take weeks to return
her, then they put her in charge temporarily, then they rush her back.
Seems pretty wasteful.
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Why wasn't the Ori crisis mentioned?
Anim8rFSK...
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Hunter Rose...
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Politics. The IOC needed Weir back on site so she could take
the fall for any disasters that occured.
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Tim Bruening...
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Using which ship? Earth's space fleet has just been destroyed by the
Ori!
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Tim Bruening...
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Who is Eugene, and what did he do in 1947 and 1967?
Anim8rFSK...
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Playright. 1947 is "A Moon for the Misbegotten" which seems self
explanatory. 1967 is the posthemous production of Stately Mansions, but
I admit that one has me stumped.
Ken from Chicago...
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Maybe the latter is a veiled reference to the OP's opinion of the
post-humous performance.
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Andrew Venor...
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Eugene O'Neill was the Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning American
Anim8rFSK...
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ooo. I like that. I'm not convinced the writers thought of it, but I
like it. :-)
pv+usenet...
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That was the entire point of the Wolsey storyline, so yeah, I think the
writers thought of it. *
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Ken from Chicago...
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They said as much last episode when the IOC delayed in making a decision
about the incoming Wraith.
The real question is what does Woolsey really want? He has motives, ulterior
ones. I know it.
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playwright.
He died in 1953, so couldn't have done anything in 1967. Unless that's
a reference to the posthumous first production of his play More Stately
Mansions.
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