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- 0:25Speaker 1: Get in Agate episode two hundred and eighty one. We are
- 0:28Speaker 1: talking some Stargate Atlantis in particular season four episode number eleven,
- 0:36Speaker 1: And from what Maddie told me last week was the
- 0:38Speaker 1: season mid season.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Well back return.
- 0:44Speaker 3: It wasn't a two PARTA like he's always been a
- 0:45Speaker 3: two PARTA in the past. There was the Storm in
- 0:47Speaker 3: the I, then in season two there was the Hive
- 0:51Speaker 3: and the Lost Boys with old mate Ford, and then
- 0:54Speaker 3: season three was obviously the return.
- 0:57Speaker 2: And this one, yeah, it wasn't really a two.
- 0:59Speaker 3: Part The only sort of overflow from last episode to
- 1:04Speaker 3: this one is, like I was saying last week, how
- 1:07Speaker 3: it was all set up, like the whole season leading
- 1:09Speaker 3: up to this point was all set up for this payoff.
- 1:11Speaker 3: Is at the end of last week's episode we got
- 1:15Speaker 3: the big giant flash drive that then you know they
- 1:20Speaker 3: had the end because we can now track all the
- 1:24Speaker 3: all the Aurora class ships in the Pegasus galaxy, and
- 1:29Speaker 3: obviously that is part of the plan for what we
- 1:32Speaker 3: see in this episode.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Yeah, though like not that I knew it at the time,
- 1:36Speaker 1: it made sense with that sort of tease, but yeah,
- 1:38Speaker 1: very very much connected. And look, we'll get into the synopsis,
- 1:43Speaker 1: but I mean the way that you said it was
- 1:44Speaker 1: all payoff and I watched this, I'm like, oh shit, Yeah,
- 1:47Speaker 1: there was some like big stuff going on, like massive
- 1:49Speaker 1: battles and stuff, and I probably didn't even appreciate it
- 1:51Speaker 1: while it was happening. It was probably a couple of
- 1:53Speaker 1: minutes in. I'm like, hang on, no, this is a
- 1:54Speaker 1: big This is actually a big thing that's happening right now. Yeah,
- 1:57Speaker 1: there's a lot of work that's gonet. There's a lot
- 1:58Speaker 1: of money that's gone into this. I should probably pay
- 2:01Speaker 1: pay some more respect to it, all right, be all
- 2:03Speaker 1: my sins. Remembered as Taylor and Ronan evacuate humans from
- 2:06Speaker 1: advancing replicator forces. McKay partners with a Wraith scientist to
- 2:10Speaker 1: try to create a program to shut down the replicators.
- 2:16Speaker 1: Writer Flood, Guero, director and him Keta.
- 2:19Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, fun facts.
- 2:23Speaker 3: Obviously we spoke about a couple of weeks ago about
- 2:27Speaker 3: the wraith with a four letter name.
- 2:30Speaker 2: You can say it now, well, no, because guess what,
- 2:33Speaker 2: what wasn't him?
- 2:36Speaker 1: So what wasn't him?
- 2:37Speaker 2: That wraith was not?
- 2:39Speaker 1: What doesn't matter you've named him, whether or not it
- 2:41Speaker 1: is him.
- 2:42Speaker 3: The man under all that Latex and prosthetics in this episode.
- 2:47Speaker 3: In this episode, was not Hauling. Was not Christopher Hydol
- 2:51Speaker 3: who has played that same Wraith since we met him
- 2:54Speaker 3: in Common Ground, so playing the same character obviously, and
- 3:00Speaker 3: Christopher hile Heidel then came in and did all the adr.
- 3:03Speaker 1: Right very much saw him obviously in the in the
- 3:06Speaker 1: in the credits.
- 3:07Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So he was unavailable while this episode was filming,
- 3:11Speaker 3: so they got another guy named Brendan Penny who did
- 3:17Speaker 3: all of this except for the scenes on the hive
- 3:20Speaker 3: during the battle, because that's actually episodes from that's actually
- 3:23Speaker 3: scenes from next week's episode where they flashed back to it.
- 3:26Speaker 3: So every scene of the four letter named Wraith in
- 3:31Speaker 3: this episode on Atlantis, all that kind of star of it,
- 3:34Speaker 3: not not Hauling, not Christopher Hyde all was that kind
- 3:38Speaker 3: of like what they did with Michael remember when old
- 3:40Speaker 3: Mate he wasn't available for that one episode.
- 3:42Speaker 1: I feel like with this one though, they got brave
- 3:44Speaker 1: then because there were a lot of very still very
- 3:47Speaker 1: close shot. I was looking and to be honest, this
- 3:50Speaker 1: is I knew that, no, but like I'm looking at
- 3:53Speaker 1: him and there was just something about the shape of
- 3:54Speaker 1: his face that I thought, oh, you know, I probably
- 3:56Speaker 1: never realized. They don't give him much chance for him
- 3:59Speaker 1: to sit still. And I know what, Christopher Highadol Hidol,
- 4:05Speaker 1: you know what his face looks like. This guy just
- 4:08Speaker 1: looked like a little bit round.
- 4:09Speaker 2: It, like around around the lips maybe and stuff like that.
- 4:14Speaker 1: That's just the prosthetics.
- 4:16Speaker 2: Yeah. I never picked up. Apparently not a lot of
- 4:18Speaker 2: people picked it up in the episode.
- 4:19Speaker 3: Wasn't until kind of after after it aired, in a
- 4:22Speaker 3: long time after it aired, that they sort of brought
- 4:24Speaker 3: that up and people were like, oh my god, So
- 4:25Speaker 3: they did.
- 4:26Speaker 2: A really really good job.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Yeah, got cha.
- 4:28Speaker 3: And they did praise the Brendan Penny guy because something
- 4:33Speaker 3: very important for him is obviously he's he had to
- 4:34Speaker 3: give the performance like he was Christopher Hydol, so he
- 4:37Speaker 3: had to work on the the pacing of the words
- 4:40Speaker 3: and the right pause stuff, and they said he did
- 4:43Speaker 3: that sort of pitch perfect. So that then when Christoph
- 4:46Speaker 3: Heidel came in later after the performance had already been
- 4:49Speaker 3: committed to film, he then did a d R in
- 4:52Speaker 3: his voice over the top of it.
- 4:54Speaker 1: Yeah, I pretty impressed. I didn't know that. If you
- 4:57Speaker 1: would have said, oh, what was the one big thing
- 4:58Speaker 1: about this episod? I never would have say, yeah, I
- 5:00Speaker 1: don't think so they come across.
- 5:03Speaker 2: Yeah, but obviously we need to find out one thing first.
- 5:06Speaker 1: What do you think?
- 5:07Speaker 2: What what do you think?
- 5:09Speaker 1: Hmmm? Nice in short this week? Yeah, no, like it
- 5:13Speaker 1: was a good follow on from last week. Didn't see
- 5:16Speaker 1: the team up happening like it was weird enough a
- 5:21Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago to bring the Wraith to Earth.
- 5:25Speaker 1: I was like, I don't know, this seems a bit
- 5:29Speaker 1: like I can understand why that they would do it.
- 5:30Speaker 1: I don't mean like I don't think this was a
- 5:32Speaker 1: good narrative choice. I'm just like within the story, and
- 5:35Speaker 1: then for this to be like you know what we
- 5:36Speaker 1: need to do. We need to like go right into
- 5:38Speaker 1: like the middle of a giant squadron and go in
- 5:43Speaker 1: and talk to all them, reunite old mate with his
- 5:47Speaker 1: friends and his allies, and just hope that they attempted
- 5:51Speaker 1: enough with what we're offering that they don't just immediately
- 5:55Speaker 1: come at us. Because and then I was getting a
- 5:57Speaker 1: bit like oh, because then we're going to reveal that
- 5:59Speaker 1: we're actually alive, And I'm like, no, that was like
- 6:01Speaker 1: we're trying to get away from I mean, obviously we
- 6:03Speaker 1: don't want the rape to know where we are, but
- 6:06Speaker 1: you know from that sort of in the past and
- 6:08Speaker 1: past and then with the replicators obviously trying to destroy
- 6:11Speaker 1: us at the end of last season, like everybody knows
- 6:13Speaker 1: we're fine, like people people know we're there, and we're
- 6:16Speaker 1: out there, and then on top of someone else that
- 6:18Speaker 1: already knows is my beloved Laren and she shows back
- 6:23Speaker 1: up to Now, mind you, that was one second where
- 6:26Speaker 1: I like had my eyes diverted a little bit, but
- 6:28Speaker 1: then when they pop out and they just start receiving it.
- 6:31Speaker 2: When what popped out, mate, it was all above board.
- 6:33Speaker 1: And inside the pants and he hears female voice, I'm like,
- 6:38Speaker 1: am I supposed to know who that is? And you
- 6:40Speaker 1: see a shepherd like Laren and I'm like, oh shit, yeah,
- 6:44Speaker 1: And then she pops up on the screen. I'm like, hello, yeah,
- 6:49Speaker 1: she still got that Like it's not like the first
- 6:51Speaker 1: time I saw her. It was just like this sort
- 6:53Speaker 1: of like I don't know, oozing sort of style and
- 6:56Speaker 1: sexiness or anything. But you know, she's still she's still
- 6:59Speaker 1: got the power over shep but that's a lot. Yeah,
- 7:00Speaker 1: it was.
- 7:01Speaker 3: It was a little overt when she was like, oh, no,
- 7:03Speaker 3: one can find my drones quite like you, John, And
- 7:05Speaker 3: I was like, oh, come on, you know.
- 7:07Speaker 1: We do when double one tundras out here, sorry not singles.
- 7:10Speaker 3: You don't know you have to work that hard, like
- 7:12Speaker 3: when when you look like that, you don't have to
- 7:14Speaker 3: try that hard.
- 7:15Speaker 2: To get a man's attend.
- 7:16Speaker 1: Maybe that's part of the game, making them feel like
- 7:18Speaker 1: she still has to.
- 7:20Speaker 3: I suppose Varlet does the same thing, doesn't she. That's true,
- 7:23Speaker 3: Varlett doesn't need to try as hard as she does,
- 7:25Speaker 3: but yeah, no fair cal uh. Fun fact on Laren though,
- 7:29Speaker 3: is her little offsider crewman lieutenant guy that was kind
- 7:33Speaker 3: of like watching the door and was with her, not
- 7:36Speaker 3: the two that were holding up the guns. He was
- 7:38Speaker 3: kind of cut out. But that guy played young Daniel
- 7:42Speaker 3: in two hundred, where they did like the the young
- 7:45Speaker 3: edgy version of s G One where where Varla was like,
- 7:49Speaker 3: I'm pregnant and there was.
- 7:50Speaker 2: The dude in the do rag and stuff like that.
- 7:52Speaker 1: He was in this.
- 7:53Speaker 3: He was one of the traveler species travel erase, which
- 7:56Speaker 3: I thought was a bit of a fun.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I know, especially especially being Daniel, Like it's
- 8:02Speaker 1: a bit different, and I know it wasn't. It's not
- 8:04Speaker 1: like Michael Shanks showing back up. But yeah, when you
- 8:06Speaker 1: when you when you split. I mean in Finnis, I
- 8:09Speaker 1: wasn't you know if she was if he was near
- 8:11Speaker 1: Lara and I wasn't looking at.
- 8:12Speaker 2: Him, Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it sounded like a pig.
- 8:14Speaker 3: No matter where Daniel goes, you can't avoid like Varla
- 8:16Speaker 3: or Lara and the two just most aggressively aggressive sexual
- 8:19Speaker 3: women in both universes. Yeah, I wonder what would happen
- 8:23Speaker 3: if those two men. I wonder if they'd be instant
- 8:25Speaker 3: enemies or instant besties. I feel like they'd be besties.
- 8:28Speaker 2: I feel like they were just yeah, would.
- 8:32Speaker 1: She kill Val? Really? One thing I feel like in hindsight,
- 8:37Speaker 1: getting to the end of the episode, or towards the end,
- 8:40Speaker 1: I realized I didn't pay enough attention to was them
- 8:43Speaker 1: talking about, you know, the their little liquid replicator stuff
- 8:49Speaker 1: going on.
- 8:50Speaker 3: Hey, well, that they became friends, yes, friend yeah.
- 8:53Speaker 1: And I'm like, I don't understand that the science mumbo
- 8:57Speaker 1: jumbo and they're sitting there and they're they're reshaping it.
- 9:00Speaker 1: I just don't I don't know why you do it.
- 9:02Speaker 1: I don't care. And then at the end where Zelenka
- 9:05Speaker 1: well he's like, hey, look, you know, no, no, Rodney
- 9:08Speaker 1: brought them in? Who brought who in?
- 9:10Speaker 2: Sorry, Rodney brought the link.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Zelinka had to go away when the cube was failing,
- 9:16Speaker 3: Zelenka was called the way to help with something else, right,
- 9:18Speaker 3: and then when he came back, by then Rodney had
- 9:20Speaker 3: already created friend.
- 9:21Speaker 2: And she's in the same way.
- 9:23Speaker 3: We talk about a lot of the things where it's
- 9:25Speaker 3: like certain ways characters in this show have said things
- 9:29Speaker 3: that we continue and add into our real lives. Yeah, yeah,
- 9:33Speaker 3: friends saying hello. Yeah, that's a vocal stym for me.
- 9:38Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, especially at the end where you know,
- 9:42Speaker 1: I guess some of the main characters are going to
- 9:44Speaker 1: be worried that she's going to get into the realm
- 9:47Speaker 1: of the replicators and go assimilate and just become one
- 9:51Speaker 1: of them. But when she walks in, she's surrounded by them,
- 9:53Speaker 1: they don't detect anything bad coming from her because she's,
- 9:56Speaker 1: you know, technically one of them, and she's just looking
- 9:59Speaker 1: at them hello, And I'm like, oh, that's cold. Yeah,
- 10:02Speaker 1: you're so cold. Yeah. But then I feel like I'm
- 10:05Speaker 1: jumping ahead to talk about it, so I really I
- 10:06Speaker 1: really shouldn't, but you know, once. Yeah, Rodney brought them
- 10:09Speaker 1: back in and was like, look, you're not gonna like it,
- 10:12Speaker 1: but you just have to listen to why I did this.
- 10:14Speaker 1: It was only where I could go and there's this
- 10:15Speaker 1: woman sitting there and I'm like, yes, oh shit, okay,
- 10:21Speaker 1: this is this is different than just building a cube,
- 10:24Speaker 1: and it is.
- 10:24Speaker 3: It does kind of throw back to what we were
- 10:26Speaker 3: talking about last week in that, you know, Carter had
- 10:30Speaker 3: that moment where she was very uncomfortable. She's like she
- 10:33Speaker 3: talks about having an element of sensions and that kind
- 10:36Speaker 3: of thing, and it kind of throws back to us, like, yeah,
- 10:39Speaker 3: like Carter was concerned but was okay with a small
- 10:42Speaker 3: block of cells, but the second it had human form
- 10:45Speaker 3: and self awareness, yeah, she was a little a little
- 10:49Speaker 3: more hesitant. And then Rodney had the line of it
- 10:50Speaker 3: it's like, well you don't feel sorry for your bullets,
- 10:52Speaker 3: like and all that kind of thing.
- 10:53Speaker 2: Yeah.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I mean, and like we were saying
- 10:56Speaker 1: last week, you think about the difference between how we
- 10:59Speaker 1: felt about the replicators when they were just little spider
- 11:02Speaker 1: machines to them, when you had the human replicators or
- 11:04Speaker 1: on SG one and when you know, all of a
- 11:06Speaker 1: sudden you've got her face and what you know, six whatever?
- 11:08Speaker 1: That what was the bloke that fifth sixth? I'm actually
- 11:15Speaker 1: embarrassed by that. I'm very sorry fifth, and you know,
- 11:19Speaker 1: them just having a little bit more like oh, but
- 11:22Speaker 1: he seems like maybe he's not lying, and that he's sympathetic,
- 11:26Speaker 1: and that the other guy at the head of the
- 11:29Speaker 1: table he was the evil one because again they look human,
- 11:32Speaker 1: and this guy was a softer looking man than the
- 11:35Speaker 1: guy that was in charge shitting at the head of
- 11:37Speaker 1: the table.
- 11:37Speaker 2: He was older in British and whites.
- 11:38Speaker 1: Yes, of course he's evil. They played great bad guys.
- 11:41Speaker 1: And then you get in this one. You get this young,
- 11:44Speaker 1: youthful looking woman with big eyes, friendly smile, and you're like, oh, yeah,
- 11:48Speaker 1: well she's she's fine. It's like, what about she's literally
- 11:53Speaker 1: the same as those other people, Like there's just as
- 11:54Speaker 1: much damage. If it's a human, you've got to kind
- 11:57Speaker 1: of brainwash them. This like is programming. You could do
- 11:59Speaker 1: that in half a second, and she's going to turn,
- 12:01Speaker 1: you know, terminator. She was already a T one thousand,
- 12:03Speaker 1: for Christ's sake, liquid liquid metal. But yeah, I realized, oh,
- 12:08Speaker 1: this is completely different than where I thought maybe this
- 12:10Speaker 1: was going and then holy god, like where she walked
- 12:14Speaker 1: in that room and hallo and just starts destroying it, right, okay,
- 12:19Speaker 1: well she starts sucking them off your words, not mine,
- 12:23Speaker 1: emitting some kind of frequency or whatever, and they start
- 12:26Speaker 1: like getting dusted like thanos, but it's like, oh no,
- 12:29Speaker 1: they're actually becoming part of her.
- 12:32Speaker 3: And then and that was part of her idea, Like
- 12:35Speaker 3: remember she was at one point she was helping Rodney saying,
- 12:38Speaker 3: I think you've underestimated what's going to happen. Yeah, it's
- 12:40Speaker 3: going to happen at this time, and where he had
- 12:42Speaker 3: to come up with the idea to detonate all those
- 12:43Speaker 3: these EPMs.
- 12:44Speaker 1: Yeah yah yeah, And then it looked like it was
- 12:48Speaker 1: starting to form something over her, Like if if she
- 12:52Speaker 1: was not what it was, I would have went, oh,
- 12:55Speaker 1: it's forming like a suit of armor. It was essentially
- 12:57Speaker 1: just an extension of herself. But then like that was
- 13:00Speaker 1: last we see of her. When that when that when
- 13:01Speaker 1: that liquid seems to start covering her again, but it
- 13:04Speaker 1: keeps continuing. And then when it has that wide shot
- 13:07Speaker 1: from the from the sky and you're just seeing all
- 13:10Speaker 1: this like the dusting happening being you know I was
- 13:14Speaker 1: gonna say suck, but transferred from one building or multiple
- 13:17Speaker 1: other buildings into where she was in the central tower,
- 13:20Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh my god, And obviously I'm going
- 13:22Speaker 1: to sound like x men. I'm like, she's becoming Omega.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Level replicator the Godzilla references, like, we're back to Godzilla
- 13:31Speaker 3: if it starts being able to.
- 13:32Speaker 2: Control its form.
- 13:33Speaker 3: Yeah, there's that moment there where when Rodney couldn't detonate
- 13:37Speaker 3: the zz pms and it's like the tentacle started like coming.
- 13:41Speaker 2: Out of of the big blob and like it was
- 13:43Speaker 2: starting to regain some kind of control.
- 13:46Speaker 1: She's so it is so heavy now, the waight is
- 13:49Speaker 1: the mass is so great. It's actually starting to sink into.
- 13:54Speaker 2: The core of the planet.
- 13:55Speaker 1: Oh my god. Anybody just this giant, giant city size mass,
- 14:00Speaker 1: like it just wow flubber from hell.
- 14:03Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, yeah.
- 14:04Speaker 1: And then for it to have to stop the way
- 14:06Speaker 1: that it did, and then the bombs and all that
- 14:07Speaker 1: sort of suff I'm like, even that, the frantic I
- 14:10Speaker 1: don't think we've ever seen Rodney in such a and
- 14:13Speaker 1: such a panic of trying to fix the situation in
- 14:17Speaker 1: like a moment's notice, he said, was it this week
- 14:19Speaker 1: or last week, how we threw and last week No
- 14:24Speaker 1: thrives under pressure, drives underressure of the race, Like well, how
- 14:27Speaker 1: about I threatened to eat you? Yeah, you're not joking.
- 14:31Speaker 1: And yet in this there was such pressure and yeah
- 14:34Speaker 1: he did thrive, but I've never seen him so panicked,
- 14:37Speaker 1: I don't think before then this going, Oh, all of
- 14:40Speaker 1: this is going the way that we thought it would,
- 14:42Speaker 1: just not as big as we thought it would or
- 14:44Speaker 1: as dangerous as whatever it might have been. It was
- 14:46Speaker 1: just that was crazy. And then all you know, it
- 14:49Speaker 1: was kind of a bit like you know, the you know,
- 14:52Speaker 1: prequel Star Wars, where there was just three big things
- 14:55Speaker 1: happening at once, and we're going from that thing happening
- 14:57Speaker 1: down there into the control room where Rodney's trying to
- 15:00Speaker 1: fixed shit back up into space and we've got this
- 15:02Speaker 1: huge battle going on, and then what's happening inside one
- 15:04Speaker 1: of the ships. It was just shit happening all over
- 15:07Speaker 1: the place. Like it's kind of insane that you like
- 15:09Speaker 1: you said, oh, it wasn't the mid season finale. They
- 15:11Speaker 1: saved it all so that it could be the beginning
- 15:13Speaker 1: of the second half of the season. I'm like, Okay,
- 15:16Speaker 1: that's It's one thing for me to watch. I do
- 15:18Speaker 1: get to watch an episode next week. But I wonder
- 15:20Speaker 1: whether if you had to wait, you know, the two
- 15:23Speaker 1: months or whatever it might have been to watch this
- 15:24Speaker 1: episode when it's happening live to get this. What do
- 15:28Speaker 1: you think is that the rest of the season is
- 15:30Speaker 1: going to be.
- 15:31Speaker 3: Yeah, given that it wasn't really a to be continued
- 15:33Speaker 3: last week, it was just the it was fun with
- 15:36Speaker 3: the first time we've kind of had the talking over
- 15:38Speaker 3: the black of.
- 15:39Speaker 2: The QBBB people, Oh we are a screw? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 15:42Speaker 2: Do you have any idea what kind of a security threat?
- 15:44Speaker 1: This says, it's not as bad as you think.
- 15:46Speaker 4: I stripped down its programming as much as I possibly
- 15:47Speaker 4: could without sacrificing basic viability. It can walk, it can talk,
- 15:51Speaker 4: but it can't replicate or change its form or anything.
- 15:54Speaker 2: Does she know why she was created? Of course, wasn't
- 15:58Speaker 2: She has a certain amount of self awareness.
- 16:00Speaker 1: Yeah, so so.
- 16:02Speaker 2: Honestly, I'm not sure how comfortable I am sending her
- 16:04Speaker 2: to her death death.
- 16:07Speaker 4: It can't die, it's not alive, and it's a program.
- 16:10Speaker 4: I mean, consciousness is just a bunch of ones and
- 16:12Speaker 4: zeros and you can call it she all you want,
- 16:15Speaker 4: but it's still just a thing. It's a it's a prop,
- 16:16Speaker 4: it's a it's a really advanced radio control weapon. I mean,
- 16:19Speaker 4: you don'teel sure if your bullets do any of your bombs.
- 16:22Speaker 1: All right, It's still.
- 16:24Speaker 2: It's weird, you know.
- 16:27Speaker 3: I feel like that scene also didn't age very well
- 16:29Speaker 3: in the fact that Carter openly misgendered Fran several times there, you.
- 16:33Speaker 1: Know, even just that isolated line where he's like, you
- 16:35Speaker 1: can call it a she all you want, it is
- 16:37Speaker 1: still an it. It is still a thing. I'm like, ooh,
- 16:40Speaker 1: it's funny.
- 16:40Speaker 3: I remember when sort of that conversation became much more
- 16:44Speaker 3: prevalent in society. It's and I was always like, what
- 16:47Speaker 3: is wrong with it? As opposed to like, you know,
- 16:49Speaker 3: they then being the preferred the preferred tone.
- 16:52Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, yeah, there is a there is
- 16:53Speaker 2: a stigma against you know.
- 16:55Speaker 3: Because a lot of the you know, it's gone to
- 16:57Speaker 3: woke and stuff, are you know, still on the all
- 16:59Speaker 3: though thems plural, you know, and it is the singular,
- 17:03Speaker 3: and to a degree, it's like I get that, but yeah,
- 17:05Speaker 3: I do feel like it has been saved for something
- 17:07Speaker 3: that's not human not yeah, and that's the negative connotation
- 17:13Speaker 3: to it. Why why someone who's you know, a non
- 17:15Speaker 3: binary or anything like that doesn't feel comfortable using it?
- 17:18Speaker 3: And why and they had to become a more prominent
- 17:22Speaker 3: to our pronoun.
- 17:23Speaker 1: I see why people when they are like they like
- 17:26Speaker 1: they refer to proprior to it becoming, like you said,
- 17:28Speaker 1: a much more used term pronoun whatever that you know.
- 17:33Speaker 1: They oh, so it was a group of people, it's
- 17:35Speaker 1: two or more people, they them that group over there,
- 17:38Speaker 1: whatever it might be. So then it gets it's that word.
- 17:42Speaker 1: Those words get not repurposed entirely, but by a lot
- 17:47Speaker 1: of people to represent something because there is no other
- 17:50Speaker 1: word that exists. It's like, I think for the fairness
- 17:52Speaker 1: of those people that use it, those terms, they do
- 17:55Speaker 1: need their own word because then people don't use it
- 17:58Speaker 1: to get You can't some that's newly created. You can't
- 18:01Speaker 1: go well, hang on, you stole that, you've repurposed that
- 18:03Speaker 1: because no, no, hey, you're upset, you're offended that we use
- 18:07Speaker 1: they them as not a group, but for an individual
- 18:09Speaker 1: that doesn't you know, identify where then created our own word.
- 18:13Speaker 1: You can't get angry. They will get angry because people
- 18:15Speaker 1: get angry.
- 18:15Speaker 3: We've got no problem calling ice cube ice cube or
- 18:18Speaker 3: iced tea iced tea, or Stephanie German or the Lady Gaga.
- 18:21Speaker 3: But it's like you can't make up words like Z
- 18:24Speaker 3: and Z.
- 18:25Speaker 2: We're not going to use.
- 18:25Speaker 1: Them, you know. Yeah, it's weird. It's weird.
- 18:29Speaker 3: But a great thing that someone explained it to me is,
- 18:31Speaker 3: you know, if you have trouble with the day, then
- 18:33Speaker 3: pronoun it's well, because they're both, they're both and there neither,
- 18:36Speaker 3: so it's you know, it's they're both a he and
- 18:39Speaker 3: a she.
- 18:40Speaker 2: Hence they that so it is a group.
- 18:42Speaker 1: I mean that that would assume that there are only
- 18:44Speaker 1: two to be correct, So I'll go I won't necessarily
- 18:50Speaker 1: jump into that, but yeah, but I agree with it,
- 18:53Speaker 1: like it. I think people use that as a as
- 18:55Speaker 1: a derogatory, yes offensive thing to go, oh, well you're
- 18:58Speaker 1: not identify you're you're an It's like now couples settled down. Mate.
- 19:02Speaker 1: Having said that, when you know you're having a baby
- 19:07Speaker 1: and you don't know what it is it, you know,
- 19:10Speaker 1: is the reference that you have to.
- 19:12Speaker 2: A it's a boy, yeah, a girl?
- 19:16Speaker 1: Yeah? Rather because you don't get around talking about well
- 19:19Speaker 1: maybe you do, so the baby I don't know. Like
- 19:20Speaker 1: I've had four kids, but I can't actually remember what
- 19:22Speaker 1: happened only the first two. So it's been at least
- 19:25Speaker 1: ten and a half years since I've had I've had
- 19:30Speaker 1: a baby growing. My wife's been pregnant where we didn't
- 19:34Speaker 1: know what what the bub was going to be, and
- 19:37Speaker 1: I can't remember how we referred to it. It would have
- 19:38Speaker 1: probably been it's thrown around. But it's almost like, well,
- 19:42Speaker 1: that's just a it doesn't apply. It's not offensive when
- 19:44Speaker 1: it's a baby that we don't know, because.
- 19:47Speaker 2: There's also it's not really a human yet either it's
- 19:49Speaker 2: a fetus.
- 19:50Speaker 1: Well, I mean we can speak an abortion all so
- 19:56Speaker 1: I yeah, and exactly, I know that that brings up
- 19:58Speaker 1: a whole other obversation. It's like, well, yeah, is it
- 20:01Speaker 1: or isn't it?
- 20:02Speaker 3: And you know, I saw I saw a real like
- 20:06Speaker 3: snotty TikTok that was Hilarious's this girl just like doing
- 20:09Speaker 3: her makeup? And she's like, uh, if a phoenix is
- 20:13Speaker 3: a baby, then why doesn't child supports start at conception?
- 20:16Speaker 3: If Phoenis is a baby, why if you if you
- 20:19Speaker 3: hit a woman who's pregnant.
- 20:20Speaker 2: Why isn't it child abuse?
- 20:21Speaker 3: It just went through just these massive lists and wrong,
- 20:25Speaker 3: oh mic dropping.
- 20:26Speaker 2: Not wrong, It was so good.
- 20:28Speaker 1: Yeah. Or they've been people like you know, you've had
- 20:31Speaker 1: comedians in the past and whatever, just people that make
- 20:34Speaker 1: make comment and they say, well, if you're you're against
- 20:37Speaker 1: the idea of you know, birth control, abortion rights and all
- 20:41Speaker 1: that sort of stuff, because you're like, that is a child,
- 20:43Speaker 1: it's like cool, they care about the baby until it's born.
- 20:47Speaker 1: It's like on your own, give it up for adoption. Okay, well,
- 20:50Speaker 1: who's an adopted not my problem anymore, chuck it into
- 20:53Speaker 1: the system. The fact that the.
- 20:54Speaker 3: United States has those like stop drop and roll like
- 20:59Speaker 3: doors in fire stations where there's there's literally that thing
- 21:02Speaker 3: where you can just like drop down this door and
- 21:04Speaker 3: just put your baby in like a in like.
- 21:06Speaker 2: A post it's like a post office door thing. If
- 21:09Speaker 2: you want to abandon your childhood.
- 21:10Speaker 1: There are worse things that people in a very very
- 21:13Speaker 1: desperate and confused state, scared, frightened position have been post berth.
- 21:18Speaker 1: You know, things happen, but.
- 21:21Speaker 3: So at least that service or that it does help
- 21:24Speaker 3: with that does exist, Like if that person was allowed
- 21:26Speaker 3: to get you know, the kind of medical treatment they
- 21:28Speaker 3: needed prior.
- 21:29Speaker 2: If they wanted it, at least have it available.
- 21:32Speaker 1: Oh, she's recovering some areas and be all my sins remembered.
- 21:36Speaker 2: But let's lighten the mood a little bit, so boarships.
- 21:40Speaker 1: At the same time, this is the first.
- 21:42Speaker 4: It was the first time we've needed them, well since
- 21:47Speaker 4: I've been here.
- 21:53Speaker 2: Colonel, Colonel, colonels colonel.
- 21:58Speaker 1: Seriously, just like, yeah, how long is this going to
- 22:02Speaker 1: keep on going? Yeah? So good And it was so great,
- 22:06Speaker 1: just like and that was probably where the it being
- 22:10Speaker 1: a mid season return pays off, because you're getting welcome
- 22:13Speaker 1: back to all these characters that you know consistently there
- 22:16Speaker 1: are in every episode, and then all of a sudden,
- 22:18Speaker 1: Ellis and Corbell show up together. Yeah, oh ship. The
- 22:22Speaker 1: full band is terrified.
- 22:23Speaker 3: With that being that you beam in and there's this
- 22:25Speaker 3: another man just standing like a foot from your face,
- 22:28Speaker 3: dead eye contact with each other.
- 22:30Speaker 1: Yeah, like it would have been within your right saying
- 22:32Speaker 1: oh they come from the same place. They were just
- 22:33Speaker 1: in the middle of a talk. It's like no, no, no,
- 22:35Speaker 1: they were just as surprise to see each other as
- 22:37Speaker 1: we were to see them.
- 22:38Speaker 3: Well done to both their ships for beaming him in
- 22:40Speaker 3: at the exact same point as.
- 22:41Speaker 1: Well, perfect perfect timing too, Like so the VVX didn't
- 22:45Speaker 1: even have to like, you know, double up the layers
- 22:47Speaker 1: of it. It's so helpful, so helpful, and you know,
- 22:51Speaker 1: some great conversations had between them all. And I know
- 22:53Speaker 1: Ellis is sitting there just getting you know, he's giving
- 22:56Speaker 1: Rodney an absolute server the.
- 22:59Speaker 3: Toxicity of just the line, the the like a man.
- 23:03Speaker 3: You couldn't come here and tell us like a man.
- 23:05Speaker 3: I was like, oh, that is the most military thing
- 23:07Speaker 3: I've ever heard in my entire life.
- 23:09Speaker 1: And I then like to then I get it. He's
- 23:13Speaker 1: in the like, Okay, Rodney is, but he's still got that,
- 23:16Speaker 1: you know, like I know he's a military scientist or whatever,
- 23:18Speaker 1: but I still see him as being a little bit
- 23:20Speaker 1: Daniel Jackson esquare. He's civilian, he is, but he's still civilian.
- 23:24Speaker 1: And so I get the understanding that, you know, a
- 23:27Speaker 1: colonel may be pissed off with him like Ellis and
- 23:29Speaker 1: then look at another colonel like Carter and go, oh god,
- 23:32Speaker 1: how annoying is that piece of shit? And she really
- 23:36Speaker 1: didn't think the same way.
- 23:37Speaker 2: Oh god, it's so good. I don't understand how you
- 23:40Speaker 2: guys put up. If you ever talk like that to
- 23:42Speaker 2: someone under my command again, you will not be welcome
- 23:44Speaker 2: on this base.
- 23:44Speaker 3: Colonel.
- 23:45Speaker 1: Is that clear? Yes, that is good.
- 23:52Speaker 2: We're done here.
- 23:54Speaker 1: Thank you now. Being a bigger parent, but I have
- 23:58Speaker 1: seen that, like when my kids have been rude and
- 24:00Speaker 1: I give them a what for that Like ellis the
- 24:04Speaker 1: way that he sort of looked up to her and
- 24:06Speaker 1: was like, oh, I've upset, But the way that he
- 24:09Speaker 1: answered her without really moving his mouth. So when she said,
- 24:12Speaker 1: do you understand it? Yes, I do. And I've seen
- 24:15Speaker 1: my kids do that. You know, if they've been rude
- 24:18Speaker 1: to their mom or something like that, you know they've
- 24:20Speaker 1: hit each other. The boys are rude to their little sister,
- 24:24Speaker 1: just a little little triggering things that happened to the house,
- 24:26Speaker 1: and I give him a what for. Just they're just
- 24:28Speaker 1: looking at me like, yeah, I've messed up. I'm just
- 24:31Speaker 1: going to talk and I'm not going to move my
- 24:33Speaker 1: face because that night fishure an man do that in
- 24:37Speaker 1: this show, which.
- 24:38Speaker 2: Is brilliant because she got quiet and direct. There wasn't
- 24:42Speaker 2: a yell the like can you imagine freaking General Landry
- 24:49Speaker 2: like he would have just you know, he would have
- 24:51Speaker 2: taken his leather jacket off before you know, and just.
- 24:53Speaker 1: He would have been brought on a heart attack.
- 24:54Speaker 2: Yeah, he would have done the Henry Cavill double pump
- 24:56Speaker 2: and then he would have started in on Ellie.
- 24:58Speaker 1: I would love to see Bob bumps, but I didn't
- 25:03Speaker 1: see that in my head. And he's still got his
- 25:05Speaker 1: long shirt tucked in with the tie on. Yeah, yeah,
- 25:08Speaker 1: it's amazing.
- 25:09Speaker 2: Yeah. But yeah, just the fact that Carter got so
- 25:12Speaker 2: quiet and like that's when you know you've done. Like
- 25:15Speaker 2: it's just it's just yeah, it was. It was so good.
- 25:17Speaker 2: I the the.
- 25:18Speaker 3: I'm evil Homer part of me really wishes Brennan was
- 25:21Speaker 3: here just to find out.
- 25:23Speaker 2: I feel like he would have loved that moment.
- 25:25Speaker 3: But had that been with weird moment, oh well, actually
- 25:29Speaker 3: my reproductive organs on the inside instead of the outside of.
- 25:33Speaker 1: The woman talking to a colonel or a colonel and
- 25:36Speaker 1: you know what, he'd be right because she isn't a colonel,
- 25:43Speaker 1: just like Carter. No, she's even better.
- 25:48Speaker 2: Number five.
- 25:49Speaker 1: Oh, you've actually got a thing for that.
- 25:51Speaker 2: Yeah, Aaron Tola was correct.
- 25:52Speaker 1: The planet has been completely destroyed. Can you detect any
- 25:55Speaker 1: trace replicatorselves.
- 25:57Speaker 2: Negative, they've been completely wiped down.
- 26:01Speaker 1: Good.
- 26:02Speaker 4: I can finally get to work without having to look
- 26:04Speaker 4: over our shoulders.
- 26:08Speaker 2: It's time to begin.
- 26:16Speaker 1: I mean, you know absolutely can had a little bit
- 26:21Speaker 1: of a cliche line that last one. That's not her
- 26:23Speaker 1: fault but zero yeah, yeah, sure absolutely, but yeah, okay,
- 26:27Speaker 1: so that I don't think it would be a while
- 26:31Speaker 1: since something as I think some monumentally it doesn't change anything,
- 26:36Speaker 1: but like a big question mark like that has been
- 26:41Speaker 1: certainly me first time a big question has been asked
- 26:44Speaker 1: like that in such a short amount of time. Like again,
- 26:46Speaker 1: I thought we're ending with the scene previous and it
- 26:48Speaker 1: goes back. Did it cut to black baby? Then pop
- 26:51Speaker 1: back up and there you're looking at the scattered remains?
- 26:52Speaker 3: Yes, So he Rodney deleted the planet out of the
- 26:55Speaker 3: system and we kind of went into the screen and
- 26:58Speaker 3: it dissolved and the pixels became the de from.
- 27:00Speaker 1: And as soon as you see the debreed, I'm like, oh, okay,
- 27:02Speaker 1: so something's alive. Okay, great, here we go. We go
- 27:04Speaker 1: through and then you eventually see this ship and the
- 27:06Speaker 1: ominous tone that pops up, and I'm like, was that
- 27:09Speaker 1: did they some of them become that like, you know,
- 27:11Speaker 1: what where? What are we about to look for? And
- 27:13Speaker 1: then none of these other characters did I recognize? And
- 27:15Speaker 1: then you're seeing this body that's but the head is
- 27:17Speaker 1: being hidden. I'm like, Okay, who's going to be in
- 27:19Speaker 1: charge here? Did not expect Elizabeth? Yeah, so like you can't,
- 27:23Speaker 1: well you can. I'm sure you could give me one
- 27:26Speaker 1: answer if it's if it's the case. If it's a
- 27:29Speaker 1: different answer, I'll say. If it's no, you could be
- 27:31Speaker 1: like nah, But if it's a yes, you could be
- 27:33Speaker 1: like I couldn't possibly say, We'll have to find out.
- 27:36Speaker 1: But I'm looking at that guy like is this original Weir?
- 27:41Speaker 1: Is this original half replicator Weir? Or is this just
- 27:44Speaker 1: another copy? Or is this what last week's Weir that
- 27:49Speaker 1: didn't sacrifice herself? Was she evil the whole time? Was
- 27:52Speaker 1: she repurposed? Like I don't know. There was just so
- 27:54Speaker 1: much going on and it was in like twelve seconds.
- 27:57Speaker 3: Yeah, and then cut to black and then you get
- 28:00Speaker 3: and special appearance by Tory Higginson Like that even saved
- 28:02Speaker 3: her credit till after the appearance, so didn't go away.
- 28:05Speaker 2: But it's a blink and you'll miss it. But if
- 28:07Speaker 2: you look very closely at what she's wearing. She's wearing
- 28:11Speaker 2: the new Atlantis uniform that she never got I've obviously
- 28:15Speaker 2: got in we might see in the video here. I've
- 28:16Speaker 2: got my little Elizabeth season one Elizabeth figurine that I
- 28:19Speaker 2: brought in last week as well.
- 28:21Speaker 3: She only ever wore that uniform. The new one with
- 28:24Speaker 3: the colors just on the shoulders was for season four.
- 28:28Speaker 3: So if you look very close to what she's wearing,
- 28:30Speaker 3: she's wearing a leather version of the new uniform and
- 28:34Speaker 3: has the red command pieces, so she's wearing like an
- 28:38Speaker 3: updated She's basically wearing a black leather version of Taylor's jacket.
- 28:42Speaker 1: So as the first time, it would be far safer
- 28:45Speaker 1: and far more accurate to assume that it is last
- 28:49Speaker 1: week's like copy, because she's the only one that's come
- 28:54Speaker 1: across those new uniforms. What is from what I know
- 28:57Speaker 1: so far.
- 28:58Speaker 3: I.
- 29:00Speaker 2: Would like to save it.
- 29:02Speaker 3: And this will be somewhat of a spoiler, but I
- 29:06Speaker 3: feel like this is the most appropriate time to address
- 29:10Speaker 3: it is that this is the final appearance of Tory
- 29:16Speaker 3: Higginson in Stargates. It may not necessarily be the end
- 29:23Speaker 3: of Elizabeth weird storyline, right, but this is the last
- 29:29Speaker 3: appearance of Tory Higginson in stargame.
- 29:32Speaker 1: Certainly some answers there.
- 29:34Speaker 2: Yes, I do have a couple of things that I
- 29:37Speaker 2: can read.
- 29:38Speaker 1: Like part of me really wants to be pissed off
- 29:40Speaker 1: that you said that, but I'm so shocked by it
- 29:42Speaker 1: that I actually I'm not angry at all.
- 29:44Speaker 3: Just because we don't in any of those questions you
- 29:48Speaker 3: just asked me. I don't believe we ever get an answer,
- 29:52Speaker 3: and that's why I kind of wanted to say it
- 29:54Speaker 3: to you that way.
- 29:55Speaker 1: Well, so she's almost like a puppet master for the
- 29:58Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future. That's why Elizabeth continued.
- 30:02Speaker 3: I would say, else, we don't get a resolution to
- 30:07Speaker 3: those questions you asked in terms of who was that?
- 30:14Speaker 3: Who was that that we saw? Was that the Elizabeth
- 30:17Speaker 3: from last week? Is it our original Elizabeth? Is it
- 30:19Speaker 3: a complete replicator Elizabeth? I don't believe we get an
- 30:25Speaker 3: answer to those questions. So I'll get into some stuff
- 30:32Speaker 3: that I've got here for you.
- 30:34Speaker 1: That is.
- 30:35Speaker 3: It is spoiler free in regards. It doesn't ruin anything
- 30:38Speaker 3: for the show going forward, but it provides a little
- 30:41Speaker 3: bit of context in terms of the behind the scenes
- 30:43Speaker 3: and Tory and all that kind of stuff, And yeah,
- 30:46Speaker 3: I just feel like this is the best time to
- 30:47Speaker 3: address because I almost feel like, because of what happened
- 30:49Speaker 3: behind the scenes, this storyline is kind of dropped and
- 30:53Speaker 3: abandoned in a way, because I think the production was
- 30:57Speaker 3: counting on Tory, because much like when Ford was written
- 31:01Speaker 3: out of the show at the end of season one,
- 31:03Speaker 3: his contract for season two was, you're a recurring character
- 31:05Speaker 3: and we're giving you four episodes. So we did the
- 31:08Speaker 3: first episode he did Runner, and then did the two parter.
- 31:11Speaker 3: Tory got the same deal, so she finished up at
- 31:14Speaker 3: the end of season three. She was given four episodes
- 31:19Speaker 3: for this season. She did the first two episodes of
- 31:24Speaker 3: the season and then she did this Mortal Coil and
- 31:27Speaker 3: be all my six So contractually she's done.
- 31:32Speaker 2: So I'll read you some of the stuff.
- 31:34Speaker 3: This is from a Joseph Malatzi blog post in two
- 31:40Speaker 3: thousand and eight.
- 31:41Speaker 1: Geez, you've done some research.
- 31:42Speaker 3: I certainly have. I hate it, but I went in
- 31:45Speaker 3: too Reddit and I found it. Weir's role was actually
- 31:49Speaker 3: I can't read it.
- 31:50Speaker 2: We need it. We need a little bit of mood music.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Can you played on a six please? Mitch?
- 31:57Speaker 1: Okay, piece off.
- 32:03Speaker 2: You just just play it lightly.
- 32:07Speaker 1: Where do I know this from?
- 32:09Speaker 2: This is where would be Sarah McLaughlin.
- 32:12Speaker 1: Yeah, I just feel like I've seen it, you know,
- 32:15Speaker 1: used for this reason in a movie or TV. So
- 32:17Speaker 1: I'm just trying to think of what the most mainstream
- 32:19Speaker 1: thing might be.
- 32:20Speaker 2: I don't know anyway.
- 32:22Speaker 3: Weir's role was originally envisioned as a parallel to the
- 32:25Speaker 3: Hammond role in SG one, and so unlike the team,
- 32:27Speaker 3: it was an intended that she head off World every episode,
- 32:30Speaker 3: like it or not, the character of Weir was indented
- 32:32Speaker 3: to play a supporting role to that to that of
- 32:35Speaker 3: the team. Still, while Brad was running Atlantis, he was
- 32:38Speaker 3: very supportive and protective of the character, working hard to
- 32:41Speaker 3: make sure she got her fair share of stories and
- 32:43Speaker 3: to suggest otherwise it's not only disingenuous, but a slap
- 32:46Speaker 3: in the face of the guy who was the driving
- 32:47Speaker 3: force behind episodes like Before I Sleep, the Real World
- 32:50Speaker 3: and Long Goodbye.
- 32:54Speaker 2: Tory was always trying to bring more to Weird.
- 32:56Speaker 3: During those pauses, she was frustrated on how Weir was
- 32:59Speaker 3: being written and she wasn't being active instead was passive,
- 33:03Speaker 3: So how could she be a leader in an interview
- 33:06Speaker 3: with gate World, Tory, Higginson said, I think that my
- 33:09Speaker 3: character we never found a place for her. I think
- 33:11Speaker 3: that everybody can take a bit of a responsibility for that,
- 33:14Speaker 3: obviously myself included. So yeah, I imagine that was it.
- 33:17Speaker 3: They thought, here's this woman character that we're not really
- 33:20Speaker 3: able to explore to her full right. So many of
- 33:23Speaker 3: the episodes I was just there in the background, which
- 33:25Speaker 3: was challenging, which wasn't challenging for me, And they were going,
- 33:28Speaker 3: why are we paying this chick when she's only in
- 33:30Speaker 3: it for a couple of scenes, you know what I mean?
- 33:33Speaker 2: It made a lot of sense.
- 33:34Speaker 3: I thought, that's how I hypothesized it. So it made
- 33:36Speaker 3: a lot of sense to me. And this is where
- 33:40Speaker 3: it gets a little bit gross.
- 33:43Speaker 2: Ah.
- 33:43Speaker 3: A decision came down following season three, coinciding with Wright's
- 33:47Speaker 3: own role in the series diminishing to reduce Weir's character dramatically. Originally,
- 33:51Speaker 3: producers wanted to make We're a recurring character, but Higginson
- 33:54Speaker 3: instead chose to leave the show. In a live chat
- 33:57Speaker 3: in the two thousand and eighth Thing, Higginson record the
- 34:00Speaker 3: story I found out because I kept going to them.
- 34:04Speaker 3: I kept going to them saying, I have a feeling
- 34:06Speaker 3: my character. You're not doing anything with me, and you
- 34:08Speaker 3: guys have me for six years. So they all signed
- 34:11Speaker 3: a six year contract when.
- 34:12Speaker 1: This show started.
- 34:13Speaker 3: WHOA, And I don't want to, you know, be here
- 34:17Speaker 3: not doing anything. Let me know what's going on. And
- 34:20Speaker 3: they kept saying no, no, no, it's great. We love you,
- 34:22Speaker 3: we love you. Things can be great. And I said, well,
- 34:25Speaker 3: if that's the case, can we do something with her?
- 34:27Speaker 3: And they kept reassuring me that nothing. The very last
- 34:31Speaker 3: day of filming Season three, as I finished filming the
- 34:35Speaker 3: last scene on the day, I was called up to
- 34:38Speaker 3: the office and was told my character was going to
- 34:41Speaker 3: be to become recurring if I chose to be.
- 34:45Speaker 2: So I thought that was not.
- 34:46Speaker 3: Very dignified way to deal with it, and I was
- 34:50Speaker 3: a bit surprised. So my reaction was one of yeah,
- 34:54Speaker 3: I was a little bit surprised.
- 34:55Speaker 2: I was a little bit upset by how it was dealt.
- 34:57Speaker 3: With because I wasn't upset at the decision because I
- 35:00Speaker 3: understood it. I kept going to them and saying, I
- 35:02Speaker 3: get it, I get what's going to happen. Just give
- 35:04Speaker 3: me some notice so I can pack my apartment and
- 35:07Speaker 3: move back to LA. So I wasn't upset with the decision.
- 35:10Speaker 3: I was upset with how it was handled. Um wow,
- 35:15Speaker 3: I talk for the whole song.
- 35:16Speaker 1: Here we Go. I thought I'd bring it back.
- 35:20Speaker 2: Um.
- 35:21Speaker 3: So that was in two thousand and seven, then in
- 35:25Speaker 3: two thousand and eight. This is transcribed from an interview
- 35:28Speaker 3: she did in late January two thousand and eight. Ummm.
- 35:33Speaker 3: The interviewer asks, do you miss her? So this is
- 35:35Speaker 3: after she's done all this stuff. Do you miss her
- 35:39Speaker 3: as a character now that you haven't played her for
- 35:41Speaker 3: a while. Is she someone you think about or is
- 35:43Speaker 3: it just another role that you've moved on from? And
- 35:45Speaker 3: Tory said no, I definitely think about her. I mean,
- 35:48Speaker 3: and I think especially because this last year it's been
- 35:50Speaker 3: so strange.
- 35:51Speaker 2: I haven't known if I'm coming back or not. There's
- 35:55Speaker 2: been no.
- 35:55Speaker 3: Clarity as far as where her story goes, so that's
- 35:58Speaker 3: been really hard to put to. Yeah, she crosses my
- 36:01Speaker 3: mind a lot, and I wish her well. For all
- 36:03Speaker 3: I know, she'll be back again next year with a
- 36:05Speaker 3: redhaired actress playing her, the joke being that she started
- 36:08Speaker 3: out blonde, yeah, and then to it yeah. The interviewer
- 36:11Speaker 3: then asks, have you heard any more about whether you're
- 36:13Speaker 3: going to be asked back, and Tori says, honestly, well, actually,
- 36:17Speaker 3: I'll just come in. I'll just come out in the
- 36:20Speaker 3: open now, I think I can say it. I'm not
- 36:23Speaker 3: coming back. They did come to me and asked me
- 36:26Speaker 3: to come back this year, meaning season five, but it
- 36:29Speaker 3: was very unclear as to what it was going to be.
- 36:32Speaker 3: They were going to well, what they were going to
- 36:34Speaker 3: ask me to do. It was unclear as to if
- 36:37Speaker 3: it was going to be tidying up her or if
- 36:41Speaker 3: it was going to continue to be a.
- 36:42Speaker 2: Vague is she there? Is she not?
- 36:45Speaker 3: And so that mixed with other contractual things, I chose
- 36:48Speaker 3: not to do it. And it was sort of tough
- 36:50Speaker 3: because I felt a sense of responsibility and mostly towards
- 36:53Speaker 3: the fans. I wanted to give them a sense of closure,
- 36:55Speaker 3: and I felt that I was sort of being betraying
- 36:58Speaker 3: not by saying no to do it, but I didn't
- 37:01Speaker 3: feel it was going.
- 37:02Speaker 2: To be closure.
- 37:03Speaker 3: I wasn't convinced it was going to be tiding her up.
- 37:06Speaker 3: So I felt, well, then if you're just going to
- 37:08Speaker 3: continue this sort of vague dragging on every year, and
- 37:12Speaker 3: I wanted clarity and I thought at the end of
- 37:14Speaker 3: the day, however much fans might be disappointed and not
- 37:17Speaker 3: to have her in it for another episode, I think
- 37:19Speaker 3: they would appreciate my reasons.
- 37:20Speaker 1: Why, I hope so hmm.
- 37:25Speaker 3: Yeah, So that's why I think, in answer to the
- 37:28Speaker 3: questions you had, the reason we don't get a resolution
- 37:33Speaker 3: to that is because I don't think the production were
- 37:36Speaker 3: able to tell the story they wanted to in what
- 37:39Speaker 3: they set up in this cliffhanger, because yeah, there's no
- 37:45Speaker 3: mention of this in the rest of this season. It
- 37:46Speaker 3: was always going to be their plan to do something
- 37:48Speaker 3: for next season, and they asked Tory back, and Tory declined.
- 37:53Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, at that point, it's like she's got
- 37:55Speaker 1: the power. But because she's played the character for long
- 37:58Speaker 1: enough that you can't just recast, you can certainly do
- 38:02Speaker 1: something with iman. The fact that, again we'll look at
- 38:06Speaker 1: that and go, she's a replicator, a replicator issue or
- 38:09Speaker 1: Jason whatever that she could turn into somebody else. But
- 38:12Speaker 1: surely that image, the Tory Higginson image of Elizabeth Weir,
- 38:17Speaker 1: is the power that she can have over If that
- 38:20Speaker 1: was if that was the intent to have the power
- 38:22Speaker 1: over the SGA team, we.
- 38:24Speaker 3: Had to have the previous leader of the mission suddenly
- 38:27Speaker 3: potentially be I mean, we don't really know what she
- 38:30Speaker 3: was about to begin on her Aurora class. We don't
- 38:36Speaker 3: know like what the plan was, whether it was going
- 38:39Speaker 3: to be whether she was going to rebuild the replicators
- 38:41Speaker 3: or if you know what the plan was, whether she
- 38:44Speaker 3: was going to be an adversaria kind of she sounded
- 38:47Speaker 3: very sinister, yes, you know, but that was.
- 38:49Speaker 1: That all on the delivery because she's like, this is
- 38:51Speaker 1: my final line, because I'll never see you again.
- 38:55Speaker 3: Yeah, and obviously we haven't seen Oberroth in a while,
- 38:57Speaker 3: and presumably Oberoth was destroyed when the planet was destroyed,
- 39:00Speaker 3: and there's there's no way to get him back now,
- 39:02Speaker 3: like you know, every replicator has been destroyed.
- 39:05Speaker 1: Yeah, so yeah, yeah, wow, oh yeah, like even just
- 39:10Speaker 1: you know, the Omega style of like I said, you know,
- 39:13Speaker 1: just dusting all those replicators on the planet. But then
- 39:16Speaker 1: when they actually all started to like come from the ships,
- 39:20Speaker 1: holy shit, they're done. Like that's that's seemingly like that's.
- 39:23Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that was it. They they kind of wrapped
- 39:26Speaker 2: up the replica the Azurin Replicator storyline, I.
- 39:29Speaker 1: Mean, thank god, Yeah.
- 39:31Speaker 2: Very quick. If you think about it. We're only introduced
- 39:32Speaker 2: at the beginning of season two, so it has felt longer.
- 39:37Speaker 2: Though I think that is.
- 39:38Speaker 1: A long It's two and a half seasons, not consistently obviously,
- 39:42Speaker 1: but can.
- 39:42Speaker 3: You imagine, if you know, the end what the middle
- 39:46Speaker 3: of season four? Actually, no, I think it was probably
- 39:49Speaker 3: season five was by the time we never saw a
- 39:51Speaker 3: p office again, now, you know. But he died several
- 39:54Speaker 3: times and came back and came back with the face
- 39:56Speaker 3: plate and all that.
- 39:57Speaker 1: And he was like one there from the start, and
- 39:59Speaker 1: we love Tim and all that as oppose the replicators going,
- 40:02Speaker 1: aren't you just like a kind of a copy of
- 40:05Speaker 1: something that we didn't like on the other show?
- 40:07Speaker 2: Yeah?
- 40:07Speaker 1: So wow, okay, well, yeah, that that flaws me, to
- 40:12Speaker 1: be honest.
- 40:12Speaker 2: Yeah, And that's why I wanted to talk about it
- 40:14Speaker 2: here rather than you know, any other episode where there
- 40:17Speaker 2: may be some kind of allusions to this. I thought, well,
- 40:20Speaker 2: you know, given that.
- 40:21Speaker 1: You could have had me on a string mate, right, dangled.
- 40:24Speaker 3: Little carrot, just it's the series finale, Tory's back.
- 40:27Speaker 2: Wow.
- 40:29Speaker 3: But yeah, I just I wanted to address it here
- 40:31Speaker 3: because it's yeah, like I said, like I said last week,
- 40:33Speaker 3: you know, we're is my favorite Atlanta's character, and Tory
- 40:37Speaker 3: is the main reason of that.
- 40:39Speaker 1: So and narratively speaking for the characters, I guess the
- 40:41Speaker 1: last time they saw even the face of Weir and
- 40:45Speaker 1: not there Weir, they knew that, but we're making a
- 40:48Speaker 1: sacrifice play for them. Yeah, like that's their last time
- 40:51Speaker 1: they'll ever see it. And like you said, so okay,
- 40:55Speaker 1: and you said, oh, we the Elizabeth Weird story continues,
- 40:58Speaker 1: but not Tory Higgins. You just mean, like obviously that
- 41:00Speaker 1: character just exists out there or there's.
- 41:03Speaker 2: There are references to Elizabeth Weir.
- 41:06Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, next season, Oh well, I'll cover it then.
- 41:09Speaker 1: I guess. I guess what I can say with I
- 41:11Speaker 1: guess some type of certainty is that, yeah, that's the
- 41:15Speaker 1: last without Toy being there, that's the last time that
- 41:18Speaker 1: they'll have seen her, and that she did not which
- 41:21Speaker 1: I didn't mention it last week, I don't think. But
- 41:24Speaker 1: while we said the idea of these these clones or
- 41:29Speaker 1: copies or cyborgs, whatever it might be in any movies
- 41:33Speaker 1: and TV shoe like they are these people and then
- 41:35Speaker 1: all of a sudden they just have to accept it.
- 41:37Speaker 1: They these guys kind of accepted it pretty quick like
- 41:40Speaker 1: they sort of said, Okay, it's a shame that they
- 41:42Speaker 1: get to go back to their lives in Atlantis and
- 41:43Speaker 1: we remember all of that, but they're like, okay, well
- 41:46Speaker 1: let's just jump on in and like it was a conversation.
- 41:49Speaker 1: We didn't really see a lot of we didn't have
- 41:51Speaker 1: any heroics at a final moment for them to sort
- 41:54Speaker 1: of farewell even the episode, let alone their place in
- 41:58Speaker 1: the story, in that fictional world, and for that now
- 42:02Speaker 1: to in hindsight go, well, that was the last time
- 42:04Speaker 1: we see Tory Higginson as a weir that our characters
- 42:10Speaker 1: like respect like and acknowledge.
- 42:12Speaker 3: Yeah, well they kind of in a way, Like especially
- 42:17Speaker 3: I feel like Rodney and John they kind of got
- 42:20Speaker 3: to say goodbye to Elizabeth in last week's episode. They
- 42:23Speaker 3: kind of you know, I think at one point Rodney
- 42:25Speaker 3: kind of apologizes or John apologizes for not rescuing her
- 42:28Speaker 3: and she's been like, well that didn't happen.
- 42:31Speaker 1: And then Rodney at the end, Like Rodney has certainly
- 42:33Speaker 1: shown he can be emotional and he does actually care
- 42:35Speaker 1: for people, but when he's getting snappy, it's just go
- 42:39Speaker 1: continue to going back to last week, you know, having
- 42:42Speaker 1: a having a cry to Zelenka and yeah, saying this
- 42:48Speaker 1: is back it all over again. Yeah, and you're like,
- 42:52Speaker 1: oh shit, man, that really affected you, Like we know
- 42:54Speaker 1: that it did, but it really did. And then now
- 42:57Speaker 1: you're going, this is just like that, and then where
- 42:59Speaker 1: he did take another step towards being a better human.
- 43:03Speaker 1: When's link is all right, I'm just gonna leave, then
- 43:06Speaker 1: he's like, hey, hey, look, thank you, thank you for
- 43:09Speaker 1: offering to try and help, and thank you for accepting
- 43:11Speaker 1: me being an ass. It's not you, it's me and
- 43:14Speaker 1: Selinka going hey, you know, you're welcome. It's fine, Like
- 43:16Speaker 1: we've all got our own, you know. On top of
- 43:18Speaker 1: his link is saying to him, You're not the only
- 43:21Speaker 1: one that misses them. It's like, yeah, it's like, don't
- 43:23Speaker 1: forget about us, but I do respect that you may
- 43:26Speaker 1: have had more to do with certain people or that
- 43:28Speaker 1: you had a relationship. You're not me, I'm not you,
- 43:30Speaker 1: so I can't possibly understand how you handle grief lots
- 43:33Speaker 1: of this stuff. So oh shit, wow, you're blame my
- 43:36Speaker 1: god damn mind. Then wow, because like you know, here
- 43:39Speaker 1: we've referenced a bunch of times like you and I.
- 43:42Speaker 1: We got to interview her at a super and over
- 43:45Speaker 1: one year.
- 43:46Speaker 3: Do you know that's what we need, Alban If you're
- 43:48Speaker 3: still out there listening, what I would love is the
- 43:51Speaker 3: Sarah mon Glaughlin I will remember you just to a
- 43:54Speaker 3: montage of photos of Tory Higginson and the last one
- 43:58Speaker 3: being the photo of you me to no, it's with you,
- 44:00Speaker 3: Tory and Lincoln and I'm taking the photo yeah and that,
- 44:03Speaker 3: and then it just fades to black.
- 44:05Speaker 1: And I'm in a King of the North.
- 44:07Speaker 2: Yeah, you're just as King of the North.
- 44:08Speaker 3: Essentially, Lincoln's in one of the tightest white shirts he owns.
- 44:12Speaker 1: Look great.
- 44:12Speaker 2: Tory looks very flustered with him, and I've taken.
- 44:16Speaker 1: She looks stunning that though she did so, I don't
- 44:19Speaker 1: know how much I would have allowed myself to actually
- 44:21Speaker 1: ask her about Stargate, because I knew that I hadn't
- 44:23Speaker 1: seen Atlanta. Yeah, but I probably would have been, like
- 44:27Speaker 1: you most love being a part of this franchise, like, well, yeah,
- 44:30Speaker 1: she's been taken to Australia to get paid by people
- 44:32Speaker 1: to get autographs and photos were there because she's a
- 44:34Speaker 1: part of this franchise and we'll be able to do
- 44:37Speaker 1: so for another twenty years. But I didn't know there was,
- 44:41Speaker 1: you know, some sour milk.
- 44:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, yes, that's unfortunate. Yes it is, and
- 44:49Speaker 2: in honor given that she was in and Hoorah last
- 44:53Speaker 2: ship and given that hoororh was a Gilmore Girl's episode.
- 44:58Speaker 2: I'm wearing my dosies like a T shirt.
- 45:00Speaker 1: Oh is that what that is?
- 45:01Speaker 2: Yeah? That's that's the supermarket in the Gilmore Girls town.
- 45:04Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. I mean there's some niche you know, I
- 45:07Speaker 1: love niche merch but that, yeah, Dosi's Market. That is
- 45:11Speaker 1: something that is something else.
- 45:12Speaker 2: Love it.
- 45:13Speaker 3: There's another one that Kim's Antiques, which is the antique
- 45:16Speaker 3: shop in the story.
- 45:16Speaker 1: Oh my god. Well when you say I'm going to
- 45:19Speaker 1: get it, this is stuff that's a vailable. You're not
- 45:21Speaker 1: making this up yourself?
- 45:22Speaker 2: No, no, no, just buy it online from the placing
- 45:24Speaker 2: my T shirts.
- 45:25Speaker 1: Right, I mean, I'm judging it. But I wish that
- 45:27Speaker 1: other like franchises would also do that. Yeah, I do em.
- 45:33Speaker 1: Did we ever make you a stark industry shirt? Did that?
- 45:36Speaker 1: Way back?
- 45:37Speaker 2: The colored one that's a little starch industry.
- 45:38Speaker 1: I embroidered that, like I had to get my you know,
- 45:40Speaker 1: to give the logo to my our digital guy here
- 45:44Speaker 1: at work way back when I say can you put
- 45:45Speaker 1: this into a particular file type so that I can
- 45:47Speaker 1: take it to an embroidery shop and then show up
- 45:49Speaker 1: there with a bunch of blank polos and said can
- 45:51Speaker 1: you please put it over the chest? Please, right over
- 45:53Speaker 1: the heart. And I still wear that when I'm mowing,
- 45:55Speaker 1: like it's bleached and dirty and ripped, and and I'm like, no, no, no,
- 45:58Speaker 1: it's my working shirt.
- 46:00Speaker 3: The only ones I've had custom made was the Team
- 46:02Speaker 3: Stark Team Rogers ones we had done for Wow, the
- 46:05Speaker 3: Civil War.
- 46:05Speaker 2: Yeah, but every other one that I've got is I
- 46:07Speaker 2: can buy it online.
- 46:08Speaker 1: I wore that shirt to death too, my Team Rogers.
- 46:10Speaker 1: Yeah we're Team Rogers, Okay, we all love onman, but
- 46:14Speaker 1: Civil were team we were a team cap. And that
- 46:17Speaker 1: print started to come off in you know, the wash
- 46:19Speaker 1: and then the would be dryer and stuff. I kept
- 46:22Speaker 1: that until the last like scary skin piece of the
- 46:26Speaker 1: white print fell off. And I still might have the
- 46:29Speaker 1: blue shirt that I just wear at home kicking about
- 46:31Speaker 1: the house. So yeah, niche niche merch from Stargate, send
- 46:34Speaker 1: in your suggestions absolutely.
- 46:36Speaker 3: Quick, little rapid fire of some little bits of trivia
- 46:39Speaker 3: for you. Like you said before, with the with all
- 46:41Speaker 3: the battle stuff, this episode has the highest CGI budget
- 46:44Speaker 3: for a single episode of Stargate ever.
- 46:46Speaker 1: Wow.
- 46:48Speaker 2: There was a deleted scene.
- 46:49Speaker 3: Where Carter and Caldwell discussed the fact that Hermiod is
- 46:52Speaker 3: no longer aboard the Daedalus was obviously Hermiad would have
- 46:56Speaker 3: gone back to the home world in un Ending and
- 46:58Speaker 3: he is no longer with us and called Well disclosed
- 47:01Speaker 3: that he's actually divorced. In the audio comment Charry, they
- 47:05Speaker 3: talk about how Arc of Truth is about to come
- 47:07Speaker 3: out on DVD, which led into what I alluded to
- 47:11Speaker 3: last week. So the reason Amanda wasn't available, especially for
- 47:13Speaker 3: these last couple of episodes, is because she was off
- 47:15Speaker 3: filming Arc of Truth and Continuum. All these episodes were
- 47:19Speaker 3: being filmed. Even though Ark of Truth is obviously set
- 47:22Speaker 3: before this and Continue was set after this season, she
- 47:25Speaker 3: only had two days available on set to do this episode.
- 47:27Speaker 3: So all the stuff you see with Carter in this episode,
- 47:29Speaker 3: she didn't never know. This might have been the first
- 47:32Speaker 3: time you've heard the name Kanaan is, who Taylor references
- 47:37Speaker 3: as the father of her baby.
- 47:39Speaker 1: Yes, right, right right, yeah, yeah, And what I'm like
- 47:42Speaker 1: that she sort of mentioned it, and then like Shepherd
- 47:45Speaker 1: just goes off and says to card, yeah, taking her
- 47:47Speaker 1: out of commission, Why is that she's pregnant. I'm like, God,
- 47:49Speaker 1: it seems like a secret she's been trying to keep.
- 47:52Speaker 1: And she's like, oh, John was such a dick about that.
- 47:55Speaker 1: He was such a dick about that.
- 47:56Speaker 3: Like mart Gera has this big, long speech about in
- 47:59Speaker 3: the autommon because he wrote it, but it wasn't great.
- 48:02Speaker 2: It wasn't a great thing to do. He did it
- 48:03Speaker 2: from a place of love, but it was very it
- 48:06Speaker 2: was not great. It was a bit nikky.
- 48:07Speaker 1: Hey jealous, Yeah, hey jealous.
- 48:09Speaker 3: And the fact that it can tails written by man
- 48:11Speaker 3: because every single person when they find out Taylor's pregnant,
- 48:13Speaker 3: who's the father.
- 48:14Speaker 1: Who's the father?
- 48:14Speaker 2: Who's the father? Like it matters.
- 48:18Speaker 1: Hi doing that.
- 48:19Speaker 2: She's a strong independent woman. She don't need no man.
- 48:24Speaker 1: Have your Father's day, everyone
- 48:27Speaker 3: Geek, get into Gate, Get into Gate, Stargate podcast, Get
- 48:35Speaker 3: into it now before it's too late.