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- 0:25Speaker 1: Get into Yate episode two hundred and seventy one. We're
- 0:30Speaker 1: talking Stargate Atlantis for the foreseeable future, and it's Mitch
- 0:35Speaker 1: and Maddie. What's going on? Broddie, say you say hid
- 0:37Speaker 1: to the people?
- 0:38Speaker 2: Just to drift? Just the two of us?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Oh, aren't we just lonely in a drift? I guess
- 0:41Speaker 1: what an apt episode? Certainly the title to be discussing
- 0:46Speaker 1: for our firsts. I mean, we've done ones that are
- 0:49Speaker 1: just you and I, but never lameously. Grace watch.
- 0:55Speaker 2: One of the one of the.
- 0:56Speaker 1: Big ones, you know, if you want to dms and
- 0:58Speaker 1: replace the word famously with whatever adjective you'd like. But yeah,
- 1:04Speaker 1: we're here talking about season four of Atlantis, the premiere
- 1:08Speaker 1: episode of when that bloody show returned and no more
- 1:12Speaker 1: SG one, although we can't seem to quite let go
- 1:16Speaker 1: of just I mean, you know, you guys have known
- 1:19Speaker 1: that I may or may not have seen DVD covers
- 1:23Speaker 1: along the way, so I knew that there was a
- 1:24Speaker 1: little thing or two here and there.
- 1:25Speaker 2: But well, I mean, speaking of DVD covers and things
- 1:28Speaker 2: coming back.
- 1:30Speaker 1: Do you hear that it's a booklet? Isn't it? Is
- 1:32Speaker 1: it a booklet?
- 1:32Speaker 2: That is a synopsis for the entire seson.
- 1:36Speaker 1: Stop it. It's not just like a booklet inside of
- 1:39Speaker 1: special features or anything.
- 1:41Speaker 2: Of every every synopsis for the entire season that came
- 1:45Speaker 2: in my big fat case.
- 1:48Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, though, we've always thought that the
- 1:51Speaker 1: Atlantis synopsies on the DVDs have been you know, they
- 1:55Speaker 1: haven't been worried about their word economy. They've been been
- 1:58Speaker 1: pretty fluid with how much they want to squeeze in there.
- 2:01Speaker 1: These ones look short. Let's just straight into it. A
- 2:04Speaker 1: drift episode one of season four star get Atlantis next
- 2:06Speaker 1: to a beautiful picture of one Amanda Tapping and boiler
- 2:10Speaker 1: Samantha Carter a drift. In twenty eight hours, Atlantis's shields
- 2:14Speaker 1: will fail completely in the city's inhabitants will succumb to
- 2:16Speaker 1: the vacuum of space to add to the predicaments, and
- 2:19Speaker 1: asteroid belt is fast approaching.
- 2:23Speaker 2: That's not bad.
- 2:24Speaker 1: That's very quick. I feel like they're even quicker than
- 2:26Speaker 1: the old school SG one DVD one. Yeah, I'm not complaining.
- 2:29Speaker 2: Yeah, well I guess, yeah, well they do. They did
- 2:31Speaker 2: like four four per page, so like that's it literally yet.
- 2:35Speaker 1: But like as opposed to like while the city is
- 2:38Speaker 1: still floating through space in twenty eight hours, this will
- 2:41Speaker 1: have just like bang.
- 2:42Speaker 2: It's meanwhile Samantha Kada blah blah blah blah blah blah blah,
- 2:45Speaker 2: Like yeah, they could be doing a lot there.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 2:48Speaker 2: Man, well just because you know it's the two of
- 2:51Speaker 2: us now, I thought, well, you know, you're still our newbie.
- 2:54Speaker 2: This is you know, this is uncharted territory for us,
- 2:56Speaker 2: unchattered territory for you. Yeah, and you know I have
- 2:59Speaker 2: a haven't made it a secret over the last few
- 3:02Speaker 2: seasons that season four and five Mitlanda is not exactly
- 3:07Speaker 2: my favor.
- 3:08Speaker 1: Season, not your faves. Yeah, you definitely said you might
- 3:12Speaker 1: tap out. I mean, prior to Brendan's announcement, you're like,
- 3:16Speaker 1: there's going to be a whole slew of long service leader.
- 3:19Speaker 2: I've been the only one of us of the entire
- 3:22Speaker 2: team that has been here for every goddamn episode, and
- 3:25Speaker 2: I was so looking.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Forward unless my bosses are listening, of course, for those
- 3:28Speaker 1: episodes that we always record in the studio, I have
- 3:30Speaker 1: always been here for those.
- 3:31Speaker 2: No, that was like three bosses ago. At this point,
- 3:33Speaker 2: You're fine, Yeah.
- 3:34Speaker 1: And guys, if we really want to delve into it.
- 3:36Speaker 1: Bosses that may or may not be listening. We did record, like,
- 3:38Speaker 1: I don't know, eighty episodes at home, so we're okay, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
- 3:41Speaker 1: actually nowhere near eighty. We wish it was eighty. It
- 3:43Speaker 1: wasn't eighty. Anyway, We push on.
- 3:45Speaker 2: Yeah, So I thought I'd fall back on something familiar,
- 3:48Speaker 2: and I've made something just a little just a little intro,
- 3:52Speaker 2: just so that we can get you just remember and
- 3:54Speaker 2: remind everybody that you are the newbie, and just what
- 3:58Speaker 2: do you think? O?
- 3:59Speaker 1: No, okay.
- 4:00Speaker 2: It was like a great guy love match. Okay, what do.
- 4:08Speaker 1: You think Daniel? Oh boy? Okay, so is this what
- 4:14Speaker 1: we used to do? It's been that long.
- 4:15Speaker 2: Since, Like we had this whole routine, and you'd be like,
- 4:18Speaker 2: you do the thing, you'd welcome everybody, you'd welcome, you
- 4:20Speaker 2: do the synopsis, and you're like, rece what do you think?
- 4:23Speaker 1: Right?
- 4:24Speaker 2: And then Reese would just roll into his you know,
- 4:26Speaker 2: his new be thought.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Okay, Jesus, I'll tell you what. If I would have
- 4:29Speaker 1: thought about it like that, I probably would have written
- 4:31Speaker 1: my notes a little differently. I wish I'd even brought
- 4:33Speaker 1: my notes, but they're sitting in my sitting in my
- 4:35Speaker 1: kitchen bench.
- 4:36Speaker 2: That's fine. You remember to bring all four of your children,
- 4:37Speaker 2: so that's the main thing.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Imagine if I brought the note and three kids, yeah,
- 4:40Speaker 1: just three. I'm missing my beautiful three year old princess.
- 4:44Speaker 2: Oh why did it have to be heard that you
- 4:45Speaker 2: left behind?
- 4:46Speaker 1: A no, I'm just saying the one that would you know,
- 4:48Speaker 1: I'd be more worried about, because.
- 4:49Speaker 2: Oh, okay, yeah, if the two middle ones left behind,
- 4:52Speaker 2: you'd be like, well, it's fine.
- 4:53Speaker 1: My oldest did actually, like a minute before we're leaving,
- 4:55Speaker 1: He's I just like probably no, but like I can't
- 4:57Speaker 1: just like stay here and go writing with my friends.
- 4:59Speaker 1: And I'm like, definitely, A no.
- 5:01Speaker 2: He's another year or two he'll be all right, but yeah,
- 5:04Speaker 2: not quite yet.
- 5:04Speaker 1: And also maybe him coming in as a bit of
- 5:07Speaker 1: a punishment, so it's like, get in mate, let's go.
- 5:09Speaker 1: You're already making me late. Let's go, bro, we were
- 5:10Speaker 1: supposed to get in there half an hour earlier. That
- 5:12Speaker 1: what we're going to all right? Yeah? I ah, well,
- 5:16Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of how you had sold this
- 5:19Speaker 1: episode or both of you guys. I think when we
- 5:21Speaker 1: did the finale, I feel like it was a little
- 5:23Speaker 1: bit of like, yeah, it's obviously picks up that they
- 5:26Speaker 1: you know, they come out of hyperspace right at the
- 5:28Speaker 1: end of the season finale in season three, they're floating.
- 5:31Speaker 1: They go, hey, this didn't mean to happen. We're now floating.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Whoops.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And then it just in case I have no idea
- 5:37Speaker 1: where we are yeh, like scary proposition and you're like, yeah,
- 5:41Speaker 1: not much else happens in episode one they just it
- 5:44Speaker 1: definitely picks up and sort of wraps that up or
- 5:47Speaker 1: kind of. But no, I don't know, I like this.
- 5:50Speaker 1: I liked it. It just it kept moving. There were
- 5:54Speaker 1: just things happening all the time, like the asteroid belt,
- 5:57Speaker 1: which is funny. The synopsis teas that that's coming, like
- 5:59Speaker 1: that was a a thing that was happening at the
- 6:01Speaker 1: end of the episode. That was it had to have
- 6:03Speaker 1: been before halfway.
- 6:04Speaker 2: And that was like the fifth problem, Like they got
- 6:06Speaker 2: through all these other problems first.
- 6:08Speaker 1: But like, I'm really feeling for dull State. I haven't
- 6:11Speaker 1: committed her character's name to memory yet. That is doctor
- 6:14Speaker 1: Keller Keller there we go yeah, like she and like
- 6:16Speaker 1: she goes on to say, hey, like half of my
- 6:18Speaker 1: team is and maybe this is in the next episode,
- 6:22Speaker 1: and you will have to clear it up for me
- 6:23Speaker 1: because I have watched too that She's like half of
- 6:27Speaker 1: my team are on the Apollo, like we are so
- 6:30Speaker 1: understaffed and we're in so much trouble here.
- 6:33Speaker 2: Yes, now, that did tie into something that I think
- 6:34Speaker 2: Brendan and I spoke about a while ago. We referenced
- 6:37Speaker 2: the puddle Jumper sequence where there's all the pilots shooting,
- 6:41Speaker 2: And yes, I think you were including that conversation where
- 6:43Speaker 2: we sort of said, well, why don't they just have
- 6:45Speaker 2: a bunch of pilots designated and all that kind of thing. Oh. Yeah,
- 6:47Speaker 2: and Brendan and I referenced slyly this episode and yeah,
- 6:51Speaker 2: I guess we both forgotten that.
- 6:53Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 6:53Speaker 2: So while the attack on Atlantis was happening by the
- 6:56Speaker 2: Replicators last season, obviously a bunch of the nonquote unquote
- 7:00Speaker 2: non essential personnel had been evacuated to the Apollo. Yes,
- 7:03Speaker 2: so it was kind of a skeleton crew left on
- 7:06Speaker 2: on Atlantis.
- 7:07Speaker 1: Skeleton crew if you want to hear Meny and I
- 7:08Speaker 1: talked about it later style get a GIEK podcast channel
- 7:11Speaker 1: right now.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Yes, obviously Keller lost. I mean, you know I would
- 7:16Speaker 2: argue that Keller's medical team is probably essential. Yes, you know,
- 7:19Speaker 2: I feel like medical team is probably something essentially.
- 7:22Speaker 1: I was thinking that too. I'm like, especially with what
- 7:23Speaker 1: they knew they needed to do, I get you don't
- 7:26Speaker 1: want to like potentially sacrifice the entire team, but maybe
- 7:30Speaker 1: leave the majority of them in the city es.
- 7:32Speaker 2: Actually they're working in shift work, whether you know there's
- 7:34Speaker 2: there's maybe like you know, Alpha Alpha Team, Beta Team,
- 7:37Speaker 2: Gamantine working in like eight hour shifts or whatever, so
- 7:39Speaker 2: they're always you know, rotating around you. At least keep
- 7:41Speaker 2: one whole team, you know what I mean. So she
- 7:43Speaker 2: should at least have a fully stocked even if it's
- 7:46Speaker 2: only for eight hours at a time, you have a
- 7:47Speaker 2: fully stocked medical team. But how did you feel about
- 7:51Speaker 2: I felt I felt for you straight away, and I'm like, well,
- 7:53Speaker 2: Mitch's gonna love this. He's going to come into ten
- 7:55Speaker 2: Hards when it's like maybe even the opening scene and
- 7:58Speaker 2: it's just Keller just strauted on a girl just doing
- 8:00Speaker 2: her best er, just getting wheeled in. I'm like, oh,
- 8:02Speaker 2: Mich's gonna love this.
- 8:04Speaker 1: It was just I mean, it was just a lot
- 8:05Speaker 1: like it Obviously hasn't been that long since I watched
- 8:08Speaker 1: the finale, but yeah, just threw that into the doctor
- 8:13Speaker 1: We're issue and the fact that the power is running out,
- 8:16Speaker 1: they have no idea where they are, the asteroid beld
- 8:18Speaker 1: is coming. When they fixed that, they still got to
- 8:20Speaker 1: do the jump, and you know, there was just so
- 8:23Speaker 1: much going on that it kind of breathed by but
- 8:27Speaker 1: didn't feel rushed. And at the same time, I didn't.
- 8:30Speaker 1: I wasn't concerned that we didn't get a wrap up
- 8:35Speaker 1: at the end of the episode. I didn't feel like
- 8:36Speaker 1: we needed a tie bowe on this story because I'm like,
- 8:38Speaker 1: I don't want to have all these problems happening that
- 8:40Speaker 1: don't feel rushed, but also don't feel like they've been
- 8:42Speaker 1: given too much time to breathe, and then at the
- 8:44Speaker 1: end go ah, oh, well we're done now, and then
- 8:47Speaker 1: took straight off into a wormhole. You know, I like that.
- 8:51Speaker 1: You know, it was like, it's scary I get there
- 8:53Speaker 1: in this insanely not futuristic because it's very ancient, but
- 8:57Speaker 1: like overly developed technicol logically speaking city or spaceship, and
- 9:03Speaker 1: that there just continues to be these problems with it.
- 9:05Speaker 1: They still don't fully understand after being years they don't
- 9:07Speaker 1: know how to drive this thing. Probably they don't. They
- 9:09Speaker 1: don't still haven't explored all of it. They're in the
- 9:11Speaker 1: middle of nowhere, diminishing power, and all of their people
- 9:15Speaker 1: are dying. And then you've just got the normal natural
- 9:18Speaker 1: things in space, like an asteroid belt that contend with
- 9:21Speaker 1: And I don't know, I just thought that, like that
- 9:23Speaker 1: was cool, just having them go out there and just
- 9:25Speaker 1: blast these things. I mean, the fact that we had
- 9:27Speaker 1: to have the shield shrink in just to protect the
- 9:31Speaker 1: core of the city.
- 9:32Speaker 2: The Dildo shield.
- 9:34Speaker 1: Yeah, well yeah, I.
- 9:36Speaker 2: What's that building in London, the Girkin or whatever it is.
- 9:39Speaker 1: I don't know what it's called, but exactly it looks
- 9:42Speaker 1: exactly what this shield look like in its smallest form.
- 9:45Speaker 1: But even the blokes that were on the outskirts of
- 9:48Speaker 1: the city and they said, hey, this shield's going to
- 9:50Speaker 1: start shrinking. We need to get them back in and
- 9:53Speaker 1: shepherds screaming at them and they're like, yeah, no worries,
- 9:56Speaker 1: we're nearly there, and oh well gravity's going and then
- 9:58Speaker 1: their atmosphere has gone and they just you just they
- 10:00Speaker 1: didn't even get like a third scene. They got two
- 10:02Speaker 1: shots and then you see their dot disappearing as well.
- 10:04Speaker 1: That's brutal, man.
- 10:05Speaker 2: That was a necessity because apparently the because I think
- 10:10Speaker 2: this is I was telling you so I don't even
- 10:12Speaker 2: mentioned in this synopsis written by Martin Geiro, directed by
- 10:15Speaker 2: Martin Wood, I didn't This was another situation where Martin
- 10:18Speaker 2: Wood during the filming of this, he had to duck
- 10:21Speaker 2: off and he was filming continuum, so a lot of
- 10:24Speaker 2: this stuff was second unit. And apparently there was some
- 10:27Speaker 2: shots of those guys getting like the the shield disappearing
- 10:32Speaker 2: and they were obviously like then started floating.
- 10:34Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 10:35Speaker 2: Apparently it was very good. Yeah, right, so that's why
- 10:37Speaker 2: they look where we're going to not put those shots
- 10:40Speaker 2: in this in this episode and we're just gonna tell
- 10:42Speaker 2: it with little dots on a screen.
- 10:43Speaker 1: I think that worked better. I think that was more
- 10:45Speaker 1: heartbreaking that it's like, oh, we didn't get a goodbye,
- 10:47Speaker 1: they didn't get a farewell moment, they didn't get to
- 10:50Speaker 1: finish their job, you know, live their lot, but it
- 10:52Speaker 1: was just like it's done. Yeah, Like so I actually
- 10:54Speaker 1: think that worked better.
- 10:55Speaker 2: Yeah, and I did, Like I hate to compliment this
- 10:58Speaker 2: episode because it's a Martin Gear episode, but it's like.
- 11:01Speaker 1: Yeah, I did focus on. Yeah.
- 11:03Speaker 2: Yeah, what I didn't realize is Atlantis definitely has a
- 11:08Speaker 2: pattern now, and I've spoke about, you know, the Ronan
- 11:10Speaker 2: pattern and a few other patterns, the mid season patterns.
- 11:12Speaker 2: They're doing a lot of three episode season arcs. I
- 11:16Speaker 2: think about the siege at the end of season one,
- 11:18Speaker 2: beginning of season two, Yeah, and the end of season
- 11:20Speaker 2: two beginning of season three was the thing with all
- 11:22Speaker 2: the Wraith that got turned into humans, and it was
- 11:24Speaker 2: kind of that filler episode of the middle with all
- 11:26Speaker 2: the guys in the bad old Lady weird wigs. Well,
- 11:28Speaker 2: and this one is, yeah, obviously we had the amazing
- 11:30Speaker 2: first strike at the end of last season, then we've
- 11:33Speaker 2: got this episode and then the next episode Lifeline is
- 11:37Speaker 2: kind of yet it's a three parter kind of thing,
- 11:39Speaker 2: so I think, yeah, it gives them a little bit
- 11:41Speaker 2: of space, like you were saying, to sort of not
- 11:43Speaker 2: wrap it all up forty minutes and have it all done,
- 11:46Speaker 2: because obviously the end of last season was a huge,
- 11:48Speaker 2: huge thing. So yeah, I like that we had a
- 11:51Speaker 2: little bit of time in this And yeah, I did
- 11:52Speaker 2: like the pacing of the just like the running joke
- 11:55Speaker 2: with Rodney where it was just like, oh, like I
- 11:57Speaker 2: didn't even get a minute, you know, like just just
- 11:59Speaker 2: the constant when they solved one problem and the one
- 12:01Speaker 2: and the next thing happens. But the thing I love
- 12:04Speaker 2: the most, and unfortunately it was the writing, was the
- 12:08Speaker 2: duality of Weir and Atlantis, like them both dying at
- 12:15Speaker 2: the same time. There was that moment like they think
- 12:18Speaker 2: it's gonna be okay, and then like Weir starts flat
- 12:20Speaker 2: lining as something else happens to the city, and there
- 12:22Speaker 2: was that moment where I think it's Keller and I
- 12:25Speaker 2: think McKay both kind of something happens with Weir and
- 12:28Speaker 2: Keller goes come on, and something happens with Atlantis and
- 12:31Speaker 2: McKay does the exact same come on. Like I did
- 12:34Speaker 2: really enjoy that duality because to me, with We're being
- 12:37Speaker 2: my favorite character of this series, yeah, yeah, I think
- 12:42Speaker 2: I did mention to you maybe last season or something
- 12:43Speaker 2: like that. Is something that I think the show misses
- 12:46Speaker 2: going forward is the fact that we've left that planet,
- 12:51Speaker 2: you know, so we don't get the Flag of Salas
- 12:52Speaker 2: storylines anymore and the deep history and and we wouldn't
- 12:56Speaker 2: be able to do the the underwater one from last
- 12:59Speaker 2: season with the the energy platform that was underwater with
- 13:02Speaker 2: the Wraith Queen and all that kind of like, we
- 13:04Speaker 2: can't do those stories anymore going forward, so I kind
- 13:07Speaker 2: of I don't know, tonally, I really enjoy the We're
- 13:13Speaker 2: being Atlantis and connected to that planet kind of thing
- 13:16Speaker 2: is all kind of wrapped up in my head. So
- 13:18Speaker 2: I did like the Yeah, as things for Weir got worse,
- 13:21Speaker 2: the city got worse, and vice versa. I find that
- 13:23Speaker 2: really really entertaining.
- 13:25Speaker 1: And the fact that she is missing from DVD covers
- 13:28Speaker 1: that I can now look at and with the way
- 13:30Speaker 1: that it operates in the open credits and the opening credits.
- 13:33Speaker 2: Just she's just gone. They forwarded her.
- 13:35Speaker 1: Okay, that's we'll talk about it more when we talk
- 13:38Speaker 1: about Samantha Carter. But like the fact that she is
- 13:42Speaker 1: straight up in the credits, I'm like, oh, I didn't
- 13:44Speaker 1: even know she was going to be in this episode,
- 13:46Speaker 1: you know, Like I think that I hate. I hate
- 13:48Speaker 1: when they do that sort of stuff. I like when
- 13:50Speaker 1: they really think about the fans and it's more old
- 13:53Speaker 1: school TV because you don't get big openers like that
- 13:55Speaker 1: anymore really, Although.
- 13:57Speaker 2: And I think in terms of this, like obviously the
- 13:59Speaker 2: the four orums and the message boards and like edit'd
- 14:02Speaker 2: been spoiled long long before the show, the show premiere,
- 14:05Speaker 2: yeah that it was happening, but yeah, you kind of
- 14:09Speaker 2: do lose something in the in the rewatch, and I
- 14:11Speaker 2: guess in the first watch too, when you're watching it,
- 14:13Speaker 2: Oh god, you're not live.
- 14:14Speaker 1: You're like, oh, Like, whenever I'm watching something for the
- 14:17Speaker 1: first I really try to avoid the on screen credits.
- 14:21Speaker 1: You know, not just out of the opening, but you know,
- 14:24Speaker 1: especially when it's like you feature and you know I
- 14:27Speaker 1: might throw in someone who make a cameo or returning episode.
- 14:29Speaker 1: I'm like, don't try and avoid that. And I know
- 14:31Speaker 1: it's caught me out sometimes watching Gate and you guys
- 14:33Speaker 1: have laughed at me because I've been surprised. It's like,
- 14:35Speaker 1: how do you not see that coming? And other ones
- 14:37Speaker 1: where you really wanted me to be surprised, and I'm like, no,
- 14:40Speaker 1: it got spoilt that. You know that was the one
- 14:42Speaker 1: where Daniel showed up again or something like that. Well,
- 14:45Speaker 1: you know for that was more so I guess for Reese,
- 14:47Speaker 1: but yeah, it'll be something I guess we talk about, well,
- 14:52Speaker 1: I mean the next week, the week, I don't know,
- 14:55Speaker 1: that's the point is that I'm watching this for the
- 14:57Speaker 1: first time. But the idea of like you said, she's
- 15:00Speaker 1: so tied to Atlantis, the Atlantis that's part of the
- 15:05Speaker 1: storyline of the show. That's what they wanted to do
- 15:07Speaker 1: with the show is move it somewhere else for whatever reason.
- 15:11Speaker 1: I don't know, they're not doing all that. Because Tory
- 15:14Speaker 1: Higginson came to them and said I want out, They're like, well,
- 15:17Speaker 1: let's move the entire city to another planet, like it's
- 15:20Speaker 1: clearly something they wanted to do.
- 15:22Speaker 2: And then she didn't even know what was happening until
- 15:24Speaker 2: after they finished First Strike, like she got you know, yeah,
- 15:27Speaker 2: and then they're like, you just want to can't have
- 15:29Speaker 2: a chat with us? Oh okay, upstairs, right, And then
- 15:32Speaker 2: they were like, so next season you're gonna you're gonna
- 15:36Speaker 2: be recurring.
- 15:37Speaker 1: Ah right, yeah, all right, Well, maybe that there is
- 15:40Speaker 1: something we need to talk about for next week, because
- 15:42Speaker 1: I have seen Lifeline, but it's and it obviously operates
- 15:47Speaker 1: in a very different way with weird than what this
- 15:48Speaker 1: one does. But that's interesting because I'm always I'm always
- 15:51Speaker 1: wondering when you see an actor leave a show and
- 15:54Speaker 1: you're like, did he or she want to leave, and
- 15:57Speaker 1: that's why this storyline's happening, and you know, if not,
- 16:00Speaker 1: you know, like, at what point do they have to
- 16:03Speaker 1: rewrite an entire show to get someone out either because
- 16:06Speaker 1: they loved them, they didn't want them to believe, but
- 16:07Speaker 1: the actor wanted to but gave them there, you know,
- 16:10Speaker 1: six months notice or is it like we need to
- 16:12Speaker 1: get them out of here, but we don't want to
- 16:14Speaker 1: impact the show by just, you know, kicking them off
- 16:16Speaker 1: straight away.
- 16:16Speaker 2: So I'll wait a few more episodes to when it's
- 16:19Speaker 2: appropriate to let you know.
- 16:21Speaker 1: But yeah, obviously you know, you can't do anymore not
- 16:24Speaker 1: to spoil anything for Mitch because you're talking to me. Yeah, yeah,
- 16:27Speaker 1: so you will absolutely be spoiling things. Yeah, you can't
- 16:29Speaker 1: pretend like you're just talking to Brendan anymore. That's it.
- 16:31Speaker 2: So but yeah, there have been some interviews with Tory
- 16:34Speaker 2: Higginson obviously since then, like at CON's and stuff like that,
- 16:37Speaker 2: so I do have some little transcripts of her thoughts
- 16:40Speaker 2: on it. But basically kind of like what I was
- 16:42Speaker 2: saying last season or maybe even season one, it's like
- 16:45Speaker 2: Brad right was the he was the weird champion. Then
- 16:49Speaker 2: think of the Tory champion as well. And at this
- 16:51Speaker 2: point I believe for season four, at least for season four,
- 16:56Speaker 2: it was Joe and Paul and now the other showrunners.
- 17:00Speaker 2: Brad stepped away, Cooper stepped away, so and they yeah,
- 17:03Speaker 2: they just didn't Brad was the only one that knew
- 17:06Speaker 2: what to do with Weird as a character. So with
- 17:10Speaker 2: him not sort of being there to champion for her,
- 17:13Speaker 2: they kind of went, well, we're going to take this
- 17:15Speaker 2: creative decision.
- 17:17Speaker 1: They listening too many Brennans. We've got to get her
- 17:20Speaker 1: out of here. Man, Yeah, what are we gonna do?
- 17:22Speaker 1: We're gonna panic. I mean it's kind of like you
- 17:24Speaker 1: look at the MCU at the moment, like it's not
- 17:25Speaker 1: not weirz that she's just for years, but it's like
- 17:27Speaker 1: they're trying all these new things and people this is
- 17:30Speaker 1: woke shit. Why, well, she's a woman or you know,
- 17:32Speaker 1: or you do have a bad one that just happens
- 17:34Speaker 1: to have her colored personally, whatever's going on, or it's
- 17:36Speaker 1: TV and it's COVID. All these things are happening post endgame,
- 17:39Speaker 1: and people like, well, MCU sucks now, and what are
- 17:42Speaker 1: Marvel doing? They're bringing back the old blokes that made
- 17:45Speaker 1: them all of the money that people loved and people like, well,
- 17:46Speaker 1: now they're out of ideas. It's like, no, you hated
- 17:49Speaker 1: the new stuff. Now we've got to bring back Carter.
- 17:52Speaker 1: You know you don't like Weir. You're like, well, we
- 17:54Speaker 1: like eighty percent of Atlantis, we like eighty percent of
- 17:57Speaker 1: the leads, but man, we just don't like her. We
- 18:00Speaker 1: don't have a Hammard. It's like, we can't give you
- 18:02Speaker 1: a Hammond. Will you take a card? It's like, yeah,
- 18:04Speaker 1: we'll take a card. Everyone loves Carter. There's one who
- 18:06Speaker 1: doesn't love CARDA give me two carters? Yeah, I mean
- 18:08Speaker 1: Rodney would be all up for two carters.
- 18:10Speaker 2: I'd love that.
- 18:11Speaker 1: Let's do it.
- 18:12Speaker 2: Were you actually were you given that you kind of
- 18:15Speaker 2: knew what was happening with with where like you said,
- 18:18Speaker 2: you'd sort of seen some DVD covers, so you kind
- 18:20Speaker 2: of knew a little bit about about Carter coming over
- 18:23Speaker 2: and so that were you even expecting, like we're to
- 18:26Speaker 2: wake up in this episode or did you just think
- 18:28Speaker 2: that was I think when I was at a shock
- 18:31Speaker 2: when she kind of woke up and took the thing
- 18:33Speaker 2: off and still had her hair after they'd shaved it,
- 18:34Speaker 2: and like I.
- 18:35Speaker 1: Think when I watched stuff like that, I can't help
- 18:37Speaker 1: but look at it as a looking at it from
- 18:40Speaker 1: a filmmaking or a TV production point of view, where
- 18:45Speaker 1: it's like, well you wouldn't that's that might be how
- 18:47Speaker 1: characterize Like I said the same time, So okay, first off,
- 18:51Speaker 1: I would have expected her to wake up, because that's
- 18:55Speaker 1: not how you write off someone that's been part of
- 18:57Speaker 1: the show, like an actor of performer, I mean of
- 19:00Speaker 1: your crew and the cast. That's not how you fare
- 19:02Speaker 1: well them. Even if you want to get rid of them.
- 19:04Speaker 1: You do something a little bit better, a little bit nice.
- 19:07Speaker 2: So you're gonna bring them back. Like I would understand
- 19:10Speaker 2: if there was a really really bad separation with the
- 19:13Speaker 2: with production and it's like she just didn't come back
- 19:15Speaker 2: after last season, yeah, and that was like a double
- 19:18Speaker 2: or something like that, and that's why. Yeah, but it's like, no,
- 19:20Speaker 2: they got her back, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, So.
- 19:23Speaker 1: Yeah, like it might make sense for the story that
- 19:25Speaker 1: that woman got absolutely hammered. And then the killer line
- 19:28Speaker 1: That's what I was going to say before was Keller saying,
- 19:31Speaker 1: even if she does wake up, and that's a massive if,
- 19:35Speaker 1: she will never be the same person again. And I
- 19:38Speaker 1: think that's whereas a viewer it got me. I was like,
- 19:41Speaker 1: just as a sort of someone who was watching the
- 19:43Speaker 1: characters and the storyline, I was like, oh shit, like
- 19:46Speaker 1: look at Sheppard, and I thought Joe Flanigan played that
- 19:50Speaker 1: very well. It was like, oh, it's already too late,
- 19:53Speaker 1: Like we can't I can't stop her from hurting herself
- 19:56Speaker 1: twelve hours ago, like she's it's done, and it almost
- 20:00Speaker 1: don't even have enough time to mourn not her because
- 20:04Speaker 1: she wasn't dead yet, but more on who she was
- 20:05Speaker 1: and the fact that they'll never have her again, this friend,
- 20:07Speaker 1: this boss, you know, because there was so much other
- 20:11Speaker 1: shit going on. So it still got me on that
- 20:14Speaker 1: point of view that I'm like, oh shit, she's never
- 20:16Speaker 1: coming back. But then I had to remember, no, don't know,
- 20:18Speaker 1: she is an actor. This is a show. It's a
- 20:20Speaker 1: work of fiction, and this is not a documentary that
- 20:23Speaker 1: they're filmed with real people dying from head injuries. Like
- 20:25Speaker 1: she will come back in some way for them to fair. Well,
- 20:29Speaker 1: she's not just going to flat line after being unconscious
- 20:31Speaker 1: for an episode and a half, Like that's just not
- 20:33Speaker 1: how they do things, you know, as much as you
- 20:36Speaker 1: watch a show sometimes and you go, well, in real life,
- 20:38Speaker 1: you know, we need to just you know, you need
- 20:40Speaker 1: to be able to watch a show and the main
- 20:42Speaker 1: character sometimes just needs to die without any ceremony. Like
- 20:46Speaker 1: that's how real life works, you know. So it didn't
- 20:51Speaker 1: surprise me, but in the lead up to it, it's
- 20:54Speaker 1: still got me a little bit that she was never
- 20:56Speaker 1: going to be the same now. The way that they
- 21:00Speaker 1: did bring her back. I never would have thought about it, because.
- 21:03Speaker 2: I thought that was really clever. Actually bring that back
- 21:05Speaker 2: from I want to say season two, Yeah, every season three,
- 21:12Speaker 2: wasn't it, Yeah, because that was when we first met
- 21:15Speaker 2: the replicators. Yes, actually yeah, the start of season three.
- 21:18Speaker 1: And I think that's where it gets me too. Then
- 21:19Speaker 1: I start thinking of it on like it's not just
- 21:21Speaker 1: that they wanted to do it, because we're going to
- 21:25Speaker 1: need to make things as bad as we can. It's like, well,
- 21:27Speaker 1: let's make her let's let's really her up because we
- 21:31Speaker 1: know we can just bring her back anyway. Yeah, because
- 21:33Speaker 1: of story, And it's I get it. You know, like
- 21:37Speaker 1: any sci fi superhero or anything, you can kill someone
- 21:40Speaker 1: because they have the ability to come back, either because
- 21:43Speaker 1: of their own powers or because of the technology available
- 21:46Speaker 1: to them. But it's like almost in hindsight, Oh well
- 21:50Speaker 1: there was no there were no stakes. But at the
- 21:52Speaker 1: same time, it took someone like Keller. It wasn't just
- 21:55Speaker 1: that Rodney was too taken by all the other problems
- 22:00Speaker 1: going on Atlantis that he didn't have time to think
- 22:02Speaker 1: about it, or that Shepherd was barting his tongue because
- 22:04Speaker 1: he didn't want to think about it. We had f Keller,
- 22:07Speaker 1: who's had about eighteen words to say in this entire
- 22:09Speaker 1: series so far, because she's shunning a new character for
- 22:12Speaker 1: her to pop up and go, hey, look, and she
- 22:13Speaker 1: had been trying to save her so many different ways.
- 22:15Speaker 1: I mean, they cut half a bloody skull out to
- 22:17Speaker 1: try to alleviate the other swelling brain, which is that's
- 22:21Speaker 1: wild holy shit.
- 22:22Speaker 2: Oh you should have asked your wife about that.
- 22:25Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean here I'm going, yeah, I saw
- 22:27Speaker 1: that and Saw three. That's completely pausible. Well, on Saw three,
- 22:31Speaker 1: you actually obviously because it's you know, a bit more graphic,
- 22:34Speaker 1: you actually see them with the you know, the bits
- 22:36Speaker 1: taking the skull piece out and then.
- 22:40Speaker 2: Well apparently in this I believe it was this one,
- 22:44Speaker 2: the video was like on the monitor that was actually
- 22:48Speaker 2: one of those procedures being filmed.
- 22:50Speaker 1: Oh shit.
- 22:51Speaker 2: And then so juill State was there, and then there
- 22:54Speaker 2: was a like the medical advisor was off screen or
- 22:56Speaker 2: you know what, instructing her how to be moving her
- 22:59Speaker 2: hands and she would be doing for it to sync
- 23:01Speaker 2: up with with that with that video.
- 23:03Speaker 1: Yeah right, Yeah, that's cool to go to that level,
- 23:06Speaker 1: because it wasn't. They didn't linger on it because they
- 23:08Speaker 1: can't get too graphic in this sort of show. So
- 23:10Speaker 1: I like that they that they went to that effort.
- 23:12Speaker 2: So I really did love to the the scene where
- 23:16Speaker 2: because Ronan kind of had nothing to do in this episode,
- 23:18Speaker 2: it was it was the end of last season. Was
- 23:20Speaker 2: it where he finally got the got to have the
- 23:21Speaker 2: conversation that I've referenced men many times where he's like,
- 23:24Speaker 2: I need to learn some science.
- 23:26Speaker 1: And even again, like, I know you said a lot
- 23:29Speaker 1: that he doesn't get a lot to do. But even
- 23:32Speaker 1: knowing that, watching the show for the first time, I'm
- 23:35Speaker 1: still continuously surprised at how little they give him to know. Yeah,
- 23:39Speaker 1: like knowing, I don't know if it's knowing where Jason
- 23:42Speaker 1: Momoa ends up as being like, you know, he's not
- 23:44Speaker 1: the number one actor in the world. But he's a
- 23:46Speaker 1: pretty recognizable face.
- 23:47Speaker 2: For him an A list, I reckon, I think.
- 23:49Speaker 1: For name recognition and the fact that he's in you know,
- 23:53Speaker 1: these massive movies and massive franchises and stuff like, Yeah,
- 23:56Speaker 1: he may as well be an A list if not
- 23:58Speaker 1: for like you know, Oscar in Talent or anything, you know,
- 24:01Speaker 1: in these amazing drama films or anything like that. I'm
- 24:04Speaker 1: sure he'd like to do more of those. But against
- 24:06Speaker 1: a celebrity level, God, yeah, even as a person like
- 24:09Speaker 1: Jason Momoa as an actor is just as big as
- 24:12Speaker 1: like some of the films that he's in, Like you
- 24:14Speaker 1: see him, you don't need to know that he's in
- 24:16Speaker 1: Fast and Furious so that he's Aquaman. It's like, oh no,
- 24:18Speaker 1: I just like Jason Momoa. He's just cool.
- 24:20Speaker 2: He's the Richard Anderson. Now he's the one whose Titan
- 24:22Speaker 2: name goes.
- 24:23Speaker 1: Above them the title and saying that in watching at
- 24:28Speaker 1: the start of this where he's getting the glass tugged
- 24:31Speaker 1: out of his shoulder and he's just like just turn
- 24:33Speaker 1: it out, and I'm like, ah, now I'm suddenly like fantasizing.
- 24:37Speaker 2: I'm like, and I know nothing about this first character
- 24:39Speaker 2: that fantasized.
- 24:42Speaker 1: Is I'm like, oh, where's a you know, it's I
- 24:46Speaker 1: guess we could have you know, asked six months ago,
- 24:48Speaker 1: oh if Aquaman met Ronan dex like, what's there? What
- 24:52Speaker 1: is that? Now? I'm like, okay, well, Lobo is a
- 24:55Speaker 1: space faring sort of guy. He and Ronan meet up
- 24:58Speaker 1: with each other. What's that like? Because since our last
- 25:01Speaker 1: Atlantis record, obviously they've come out the DCU saying yeah,
- 25:05Speaker 1: Jason m mull was going to play Lobo in the
- 25:07Speaker 1: DCU going on, and he's about to start filming Superman
- 25:10Speaker 1: Woman of Tomorrow. So it's.
- 25:14Speaker 2: Sorry, it's a young Justice thing with See, That's.
- 25:16Speaker 1: What I'm saying. I know, I know Nassy.
- 25:19Speaker 2: So see if I prefer Roan and an Aquamant to
- 25:22Speaker 2: meet because they both have an Atlantis in common, of course, yeah,
- 25:25Speaker 2: you know.
- 25:25Speaker 1: I mean even just that that that fun in hindsight
- 25:29Speaker 1: for us, going oh, finally we would have known, you know, like, yeah.
- 25:31Speaker 2: This is But I did love his scene where he
- 25:34Speaker 2: kind of says goodbye to Weir. Yeah, I thought that
- 25:37Speaker 2: was really there is a good The only thing I
- 25:38Speaker 2: wish he'd done because he's I don't think he's ever
- 25:41Speaker 2: done it before is he says goodbye doctor Weir, and
- 25:44Speaker 2: I wish he said Elizabeth.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 25:46Speaker 2: I just think that would have been a really a
- 25:47Speaker 2: really cool, poignant moment. But that's just me being the
- 25:49Speaker 2: weird fan boy that I am.
- 25:50Speaker 1: No, I get it because I mean you think about
- 25:52Speaker 1: the way that like Tilk was the same, like, you know,
- 25:55Speaker 1: it was always okay, it is Daniel Jackson, but it
- 25:57Speaker 1: was never just Daniel. But there was that one time
- 26:00Speaker 1: we made a real point on the was it in
- 26:01Speaker 1: a dream sequence or something dream sequence or something like
- 26:05Speaker 1: maybe Daniel died, but there was some one point where
- 26:08Speaker 1: Tilk just referred to him as Daniel or maybe in
- 26:09Speaker 1: the future was it or something in one of those
- 26:11Speaker 1: episodes where it was very strange that man, yeah, maybe
- 26:16Speaker 1: that was.
- 26:16Speaker 2: Why he was dying on the planet and yes, hallucinating
- 26:18Speaker 2: as a fire man and.
- 26:19Speaker 1: He referred to him as Daniel. No, it was that one, yeah, yeah,
- 26:22Speaker 1: and he referred to him as Daniel, and it was
- 26:24Speaker 1: always you know O'Neill. He never called him jack you know,
- 26:28Speaker 1: never called a Samantha or sam or anything like that.
- 26:30Speaker 1: So when he does do stuff like that or would
- 26:33Speaker 1: sort of take down you know, that's not even on
- 26:36Speaker 1: an authority thing because he's not a military person. But
- 26:38Speaker 1: for Mama to do that, or for Ronan to do
- 26:40Speaker 1: that as well, would have been a nice moment to
- 26:42Speaker 1: be like, hey, you might die. I know you can't
- 26:43Speaker 1: hear me, but I will call you Elizabeth because I'm
- 26:45Speaker 1: in this moment, I'm thinking it was a friend rather
- 26:47Speaker 1: than the boss of this human expedition or another planet.
- 26:50Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah.
- 26:51Speaker 1: So yeah, that was a nice moment. And then immediately
- 26:53Speaker 1: again a problem starts and the alarm start going off
- 26:56Speaker 1: and they rush in. He's like, what did I touch?
- 26:58Speaker 1: And we as a viewer, go, you weren't even went
- 27:00Speaker 1: you went physically touching it. It was fine, And the Kelly go, look,
- 27:02Speaker 1: you didn't do anything. You gotta leave.
- 27:04Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, because this is it's it just ship
- 27:06Speaker 2: just kept going wrong. And so yeah, it was I
- 27:08Speaker 2: had written down here my notes, I just had cluster.
- 27:11Speaker 1: Yeah, and you need levity a lot of the time,
- 27:14Speaker 1: but there was levity I think in the Chaos. I
- 27:17Speaker 1: think the levity was that scene where the jumpers are
- 27:19Speaker 1: out there firing missiles and asteroids and things, and then
- 27:22Speaker 1: Rodney having to turn back because there was one big
- 27:24Speaker 1: one that was heading straight towards the tower or whatever.
- 27:27Speaker 2: Or like, and someone feel free to correct me, but
- 27:31Speaker 2: it's like, I feel like maybe the puddle jumpers shouldn't
- 27:33Speaker 2: have been moving so fast, and then they wouldn't have
- 27:36Speaker 2: had to have like done a Yuian comeback, like if
- 27:38Speaker 2: they'd been moving slower, could they have not? Just could
- 27:41Speaker 2: they have not just been moving the same speed as
- 27:43Speaker 2: Atlantis and then just kind of just sat out in
- 27:45Speaker 2: front of it and just like taking potshots at you know,
- 27:48Speaker 2: I'm assuming the logic behind it was no the quicker
- 27:51Speaker 2: we get to the asteroid film destroyed when yeah, give
- 27:55Speaker 2: us more time there, so that could be a thing,
- 27:56Speaker 2: but I was just like they are fanging their way over.
- 27:58Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it was that like great to see so
- 28:01Speaker 1: many of them out there, just bang bang bang. But
- 28:03Speaker 1: then when Sheepherd's that we need to do more and
- 28:06Speaker 1: Roddie's like, I can't control for it. Once He's like,
- 28:08Speaker 1: well you came with the right attitude sort of thing,
- 28:10Speaker 1: and just see then four go in completely different directions,
- 28:13Speaker 1: like that's some cool shit to watch. And then the
- 28:16Speaker 1: jump as well, where they go out to fix the
- 28:18Speaker 1: power thing whatever it was, and they had to do
- 28:22Speaker 1: the jump, and and even that that's a weird sort
- 28:25Speaker 1: of like, hey, here's here's the problem. And then it
- 28:29Speaker 1: wasn't really a problem. It's like, we've got to go
- 28:31Speaker 1: that far and he's like, well, I'm going to throw you,
- 28:33Speaker 1: and then just before it tugs on me, another word,
- 28:36Speaker 1: you can do it. I'm gonna let go of my
- 28:38Speaker 1: you know, my gravity is going to be switched off
- 28:40Speaker 1: with the boots, and then and then you're in erse.
- 28:42Speaker 1: She's going to drag me, and then we're going to
- 28:44Speaker 1: be fine. What if you miss, Well, we'll just have
- 28:45Speaker 1: to hope that I don't. You've got to trust me.
- 28:47Speaker 1: And then as he throws him very slowly obviously, and
- 28:50Speaker 1: then it's just that massive wide then that sort of
- 28:53Speaker 1: moving you know, drone shot almost around and then by
- 28:56Speaker 1: the time we get back to a close up, they
- 28:58Speaker 1: land and there was no peril. Like the peril wasn't
- 29:00Speaker 1: in the jump. The pairil was can they get it
- 29:02Speaker 1: done in time? Well, they probably could, except for the
- 29:04Speaker 1: fact that there are micro asteroids piecing them like a sniper. Yeah,
- 29:08Speaker 1: And I'm like, oh, okay, another problem because of a
- 29:10Speaker 1: problem that it had you know it just yeah, I
- 29:14Speaker 1: as a first timer, I really like it. I could
- 29:16Speaker 1: probably see why as a repeat viewer you might look
- 29:20Speaker 1: at this and go it's very much a middle chapter
- 29:23Speaker 1: or yeah.
- 29:23Speaker 2: Because on how it ends. So I'm just like, yeah,
- 29:26Speaker 2: I know they survived this.
- 29:27Speaker 1: I know they survived I know that this problem doesn't
- 29:29Speaker 1: end at the end of the episode. I know that
- 29:30Speaker 1: I've got to get to another episode before anything significant happens.
- 29:35Speaker 1: I just yeah, So maybe if I got to rewatch
- 29:37Speaker 1: this in a couple of years, yeah, I'm going to
- 29:39Speaker 1: feel differently about it. But I don't know.
- 29:41Speaker 2: I speaking of the you know, getting to the end
- 29:43Speaker 2: of it, and obviously we kind of left on a
- 29:44Speaker 2: cliffhanger here where he's like, oh, how do you feel
- 29:46Speaker 2: about a heist? And they're going to go back to
- 29:48Speaker 2: the Replicator home world and steal some zzpms. My only thought,
- 29:55Speaker 2: didn't we basically destroy that planet last week? Like the
- 29:59Speaker 2: whole the whole he's in the first strike is we
- 30:01Speaker 2: had that big thing with Apollo launching the thing, because
- 30:04Speaker 2: you know, the start of the episode. Last week's episode
- 30:06Speaker 2: was like, you know, they had those those grainy gray
- 30:09Speaker 2: things like they're building stuff. You know, and we bomb
- 30:12Speaker 2: the crap out of that, like at least half of
- 30:14Speaker 2: that planet got the Remember when the shot pulled back
- 30:16Speaker 2: and there was like multiple explosions, like giant. Yeah, I
- 30:20Speaker 2: was like, is there anything.
- 30:21Speaker 1: Left weapons development on the other side of the planet.
- 30:26Speaker 2: Because I remember them saying it was a different planet.
- 30:27Speaker 2: It's like, no, we do regular flybys of the Replicator
- 30:31Speaker 2: home world, so it is weird that, yeah, we're going
- 30:33Speaker 2: to go back to this place that we bomb the
- 30:34Speaker 2: shit up, which furthermore, and it sucks that Brendan's not
- 30:38Speaker 2: here to defend himself. But further ball proves that the
- 30:42Speaker 2: Apollo and what's his name wrong because they did that
- 30:45Speaker 2: little blow up thing and everything's worse because of it,
- 30:48Speaker 2: and it didn't help because now they have to go
- 30:51Speaker 2: back and steal from that freaking planet.
- 30:52Speaker 1: Anyway, I'm trying to remember the exact argument, but it
- 30:55Speaker 1: was it well.
- 30:56Speaker 2: The preemptive first strike, and I was saying how it
- 30:59Speaker 2: was ineffectual, Yes, yeah, and not.
- 31:01Speaker 1: Like it was, but the plan wasn't. I think the
- 31:06Speaker 1: decision was solid. It's like, we need to do this,
- 31:08Speaker 1: How did it have worked? It would have been a
- 31:09Speaker 1: great idea. The fact that it was a good idea
- 31:12Speaker 1: that became ineffective. I don't think makes it a bad.
- 31:15Speaker 2: Well, because I think the original idea was they said,
- 31:17Speaker 2: they said, look, we're going to do this now, and
- 31:19Speaker 2: then when we have other ships and stuff, we're going
- 31:22Speaker 2: to come through and we're going to mop up and
- 31:23Speaker 2: clean everything up pillage. And we was like, why don't
- 31:26Speaker 2: we just wait and do all that when we have
- 31:28Speaker 2: like the planetary wide anti replicated weapons and all that
- 31:31Speaker 2: kind of stuff, Because if you remember, the anti replicated
- 31:34Speaker 2: weapons only take out the replicators, which means it would
- 31:36Speaker 2: have taken out every single person there, and then that
- 31:38Speaker 2: entire planet sized city with infinite zzzpms would have been
- 31:43Speaker 2: ours to take. Yeah. Yeah, So if we had listened together,
- 31:46Speaker 2: if we had listened to doctor Weir and waited a
- 31:48Speaker 2: couple like a month, maybe then you know, we could
- 31:52Speaker 2: have done all that. But because of our attack on them,
- 31:54Speaker 2: then they retaliated with the beam satellite thing, and now
- 31:59Speaker 2: here we are, yes, and we had to pay the consequence.
- 32:02Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it is. It is a great consequence.
- 32:04Speaker 1: So for whatever reason we had to pay it, whether
- 32:07Speaker 1: it be replicators or Rayther or otherwise. The fact that
- 32:10Speaker 1: we have had to abandon the planet is like for
- 32:14Speaker 1: a first time or it is massive to me. Yeah,
- 32:17Speaker 1: I did not see that coming. And I think even
- 32:19Speaker 1: I watched that first episode and like they're leaving and
- 32:22Speaker 1: then I don't know whether in my head it was like, well,
- 32:26Speaker 1: it was like some kind of subconscious block where it's like, well,
- 32:28Speaker 1: they're not They're not going to leave. It's like they're
- 32:30Speaker 1: leaving until they sought out the satellite beam problems whatever,
- 32:35Speaker 1: and then we're going to go back because that's their home,
- 32:37Speaker 1: that's the where the plant. It is not that they
- 32:40Speaker 1: would keep going like it is. It's like, I don't
- 32:42Speaker 1: know Reese would have gotten to you know, the end
- 32:45Speaker 1: of season eight and we go oh, season nine to
- 32:48Speaker 1: ten are very different. And season nine and ten is
- 32:50Speaker 1: because they took place in the Alpha site Beta sites
- 32:52Speaker 1: because of the SUC got blowed up and we've got
- 32:55Speaker 1: no way back and this is a Sliders type thing
- 32:58Speaker 1: which talk about it in the future, but you know,
- 33:02Speaker 1: we're just running emissions to protect Earth from off world
- 33:05Speaker 1: while also trying to get back or something like. It
- 33:07Speaker 1: would have been so different because the operation, the base
- 33:12Speaker 1: of everything is completely different, like this is like this
- 33:16Speaker 1: is yeah, and look, they might get they might find
- 33:19Speaker 1: a place and resume operations, and for all aesthetics, you go,
- 33:25Speaker 1: it's exactly the same as it was. It's no different, sure,
- 33:30Speaker 1: and it's a cheap way for a TV show as
- 33:32Speaker 1: we know it to be just over halfway through its run,
- 33:35Speaker 1: to make you seem like this and big consequences but
- 33:37Speaker 1: not really. But at the same time, for those people
- 33:39Speaker 1: they went through such peril there for twelve hours, twenty
- 33:42Speaker 1: four hours, forty eight hours, whatever.
- 33:44Speaker 2: It was, it's kind But then, like I said to me,
- 33:48Speaker 2: it's I think they wrote themselves into a corner because
- 33:51Speaker 2: now they don't have the history of the planet to
- 33:56Speaker 2: draw from you with the flage styles and all that
- 33:59Speaker 2: stuff I spoke about, And yeah, I don't think this
- 34:01Speaker 2: is a spoiler for you, because obviously we'll just talk
- 34:03Speaker 2: about it. It's yeah, we we never go back to that planet.
- 34:05Speaker 2: We never see that planet ever again. But also we
- 34:08Speaker 2: get no resolution to the satellite bean weapon. Ye, it's
- 34:13Speaker 2: never a dress, it's never brought up address.
- 34:14Speaker 1: I guess it's still just there, just.
- 34:17Speaker 2: Bearing into that planet. At some point, maybe that planet
- 34:19Speaker 2: is just going to explode. I don't know, because I.
- 34:21Speaker 1: Get straight to the core. Yeah, yeah, go along.
- 34:26Speaker 2: And get a little cool. Poor little Sam, Poor little
- 34:29Speaker 2: Sam the flag of Silas you spoke earlier about some
- 34:33Speaker 2: like the lighter moments you found with the the jumper
- 34:38Speaker 2: flight and all that kind of stuff, these were my
- 34:40Speaker 2: little comical light moments to help break it up, all right,
- 34:43Speaker 2: that means we'll need to Yes, yes, yes, you should
- 34:45Speaker 2: get the I will as soon as I've shut down
- 34:47Speaker 2: all the way.
- 34:47Speaker 1: Yes, yes, the same thing. Wait, wait, what's going on here?
- 34:51Speaker 1: You know I did like that. I actually remembered it
- 34:54Speaker 1: going on longer than that.
- 34:56Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it was a few more.
- 34:57Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't even that they were getting irritated with
- 34:59Speaker 1: each each other, like obviously Shepherd ended it. They just
- 35:03Speaker 1: they're that good, they're ahead of everybody else that they
- 35:05Speaker 1: can think at the same speed.
- 35:07Speaker 2: And then there was a there was another moment as
- 35:09Speaker 2: well that I think just spoke to me on a
- 35:10Speaker 2: spiritual level, because you know, I spent about ten years
- 35:13Speaker 2: working in a hardware store where it was it was
- 35:16Speaker 2: me in my twenties and I think the next oldest
- 35:18Speaker 2: person that worked there was probably fifty. Ah, and you know,
- 35:23Speaker 2: just a lot of a lot of issues where just
- 35:27Speaker 2: we trans at one point, we transition from with the
- 35:28Speaker 2: old school tills to like, you know, barcode scanners and
- 35:31Speaker 2: things like that. There's a lot of issues. And now
- 35:33Speaker 2: I work with my dad, who you know, he's in
- 35:35Speaker 2: his seventies and a lot of our work is involved
- 35:38Speaker 2: in computers and things like that. So this moment here,
- 35:41Speaker 2: it spoke to me on a spiritual level. It's complicated.
- 35:44Speaker 1: But imagine them as leaky pipes.
- 35:46Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so you pump water through them, they leak, right,
- 35:49Speaker 2: dumb this down anymore, you're gonna get hit.
- 35:51Speaker 1: Sorry.
- 35:53Speaker 2: That just props to my dad for not actually saying
- 35:56Speaker 2: that to my face, the way that I have to
- 35:58Speaker 2: dumb things down sometimes there.
- 36:00Speaker 1: I mean, there's a couple of moments, even the last
- 36:01Speaker 1: couple of weeks, and I felt like, I'm about I'm
- 36:05Speaker 1: going to be condescending if I answer a question the
- 36:08Speaker 1: way like answer it in the way that it was
- 36:11Speaker 1: required considering how it was asked, you know, And it's
- 36:14Speaker 1: from my wife Sarah asked me a Question's like, I
- 36:17Speaker 1: can't even give you a proper example. She'll ask me
- 36:19Speaker 1: a question. I'm like, but it's the answer of that
- 36:23Speaker 1: is so simple you couldn't possibly be asking for this answer,
- 36:26Speaker 1: because that's so you have to know that you just
- 36:29Speaker 1: must be asking a far more You're needing a more
- 36:31Speaker 1: complicated answer, you need the second or third tier answer,
- 36:36Speaker 1: but you're asking it in the most basic way because
- 36:38Speaker 1: you know that what I'm asking. I'm like, you know
- 36:40Speaker 1: what color is the sky? And I'm like, it's blue?
- 36:44Speaker 1: But yeah, do you mean, like, do you want to
- 36:46Speaker 1: go through how how the sunlight reflects and with the
- 36:51Speaker 1: oceans depending on what the weather patterns are and blah blah,
- 36:53Speaker 1: what do you? And I have to sort of go well,
- 36:56Speaker 1: either I play dumb, like I don't even know how
- 36:59Speaker 1: to answer the first because then a lot of the
- 37:01Speaker 1: times it ends up being that that first tear answer
- 37:04Speaker 1: that she's after it, I'm like, oh, I didn't know that.
- 37:05Speaker 1: You didn't know that. Yeah, Because the way that I
- 37:08Speaker 1: get through life, and I think I've explained this to
- 37:10Speaker 1: you before, I if I know something, I assume everybody
- 37:14Speaker 1: does because I'm an idiot. And if I understand something,
- 37:17Speaker 1: if I can read someone a certain way, or if
- 37:19Speaker 1: I can more what any problem whatever, if I interpret
- 37:21Speaker 1: something a particular way, I'm like, well, that's the most
- 37:24Speaker 1: basic level, anyone can do it, and that's where I stop.
- 37:27Speaker 1: But everyone else is a far more intelligent adult human
- 37:30Speaker 1: being that can do it better than I can.
- 37:32Speaker 2: So yeah, I've had to use phrases like I can
- 37:35Speaker 2: explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you,
- 37:39Speaker 2: or if I want to get really petty, it's the
- 37:42Speaker 2: I don't think I have enough crayons to explain.
- 37:47Speaker 1: I was like, I've heard a crayon.
- 37:50Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I don't know the crayons explain this to you.
- 37:54Speaker 1: Yeah, so that's brilliant. I like that.
- 37:57Speaker 2: Well, yeah, that's that's a drift.
- 38:00Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, I mean yeah again, thumbs up, two thumbs
- 38:03Speaker 1: up for me. I really enjoyed that. But I can, Yeah,
- 38:06Speaker 1: I can. I'm not anticipating not liking it the next
- 38:09Speaker 1: time I watch it, but I can definitely see why
- 38:13Speaker 1: someone who is repeat watching this might see it a
- 38:15Speaker 1: certain way compared to what I do as a first timer.
- 38:18Speaker 2: But yeah, Like, I have a few other things I
- 38:21Speaker 2: want to talk about, but I think I need to.
- 38:24Speaker 2: I desperately want to read them out here because I've
- 38:25Speaker 2: got some things, but I'm like, I think they're better
- 38:28Speaker 2: positioned for next week's episode Okay, yeah, I think they're
- 38:31Speaker 2: better positioned for Lifeline.
- 38:33Speaker 1: Okay, good, Well, I look forward.
- 38:35Speaker 2: To just tempted to do it as a two parter,
- 38:36Speaker 2: like as we could do it as one episode.
- 38:38Speaker 1: Well, I was surprised that we didn't. When you sort
- 38:40Speaker 1: of said, oh, we definitely need to do these as
- 38:43Speaker 1: two podcasts because they're like they are different from each other,
- 38:48Speaker 1: but they're also a part I didn't think you said
- 38:50Speaker 1: there were a part two and three of a three
- 38:52Speaker 1: episode arc. You didn't even say they're a part one
- 38:55Speaker 1: and part two, but it was like use different different
- 38:58Speaker 1: words to basically say that, And I was like, why
- 39:00Speaker 1: are we doing it as a as a two part.
- 39:02Speaker 2: I think I wanted to just let the weird stuff breathe. Yeah,
- 39:05Speaker 2: give you rooms so we don't know, you know, what's
- 39:07Speaker 2: happening with all of just more.
- 39:08Speaker 1: Weird content for more episodes obviously, you know. So Brendan
- 39:12Speaker 1: was you, you're saying that, he go, let's just get
- 39:14Speaker 1: it done in one point, honestly, Jesus Christ, let's just
- 39:17Speaker 1: wrap up this weird things. So or do we want to?
- 39:21Speaker 1: I have no idea. And now in hindsight, I'm thinking
- 39:25Speaker 1: and I probably speak to this a little bit more
- 39:28Speaker 1: on the on the next episode, but there were moments
- 39:32Speaker 1: in this and thinking about, well, they would only do
- 39:35Speaker 1: this for this particular reason on the filmmaking level. They're
- 39:37Speaker 1: only doing this because maybe this person is leaving. And
- 39:39Speaker 1: here I've been talking about Weird and laughing at them, like, oh, Brendan,
- 39:43Speaker 1: I think on his farewell episode two episodes ago, and
- 39:46Speaker 1: I'm like, mate, where are you going to be when
- 39:49Speaker 1: we need to defend Weird for the next two seasons
- 39:51Speaker 1: And you guys ha ha ha ha ha ha, And
- 39:55Speaker 1: I'm like, hey, for all I know, she is in
- 39:56Speaker 1: every every episode for the rest of the season, but
- 39:59Speaker 1: she's just not the same. She's in every third episode
- 40:02Speaker 1: and we just pop in and chat. I have no
- 40:04Speaker 1: idea what's going on.
- 40:06Speaker 2: But they really message all my self control not to
- 40:09Speaker 2: give stuff away.
- 40:10Speaker 1: And you know what, that's the one thing I'm looking
- 40:12Speaker 1: forward to the most, knowing that at least for the
- 40:15Speaker 1: next two seasons while we cover Atlantis, that you are
- 40:18Speaker 1: going to have to well, I mean in general Stargate,
- 40:21Speaker 1: but for as long as we at least do Atlantis,
- 40:23Speaker 1: that you are going to have to do is really
- 40:24Speaker 1: bite your tongue yea permanent time. I haven't got Brandon
- 40:27Speaker 1: looking after me, going, hey, it sounds a little bit
- 40:29Speaker 1: like you are trying to spoil something, so I look
- 40:33Speaker 1: forward to you sweating over the other side of the desk.
- 40:35Speaker 2: Look, I will always, I will always defend myself and
- 40:38Speaker 2: say that the reason I think, you know, he thought
- 40:41Speaker 2: I was spoiling stuff because he knew what I was
- 40:43Speaker 2: alluding to, whereas I think I allude to stuff and
- 40:46Speaker 2: it's like, well, you don't know that I'm actually being
- 40:48Speaker 2: quite crypto.
- 40:49Speaker 1: And me I'm sitting there, yeah, like listening to you guys.
- 40:53Speaker 1: And then there would be moments is.
- 40:55Speaker 2: It Family Guy or the Simpsons, like I get knocked.
- 40:57Speaker 1: Down, but I'm all like I when Homer imagines, you know,
- 41:01Speaker 1: it goes into his head and it just shows like,
- 41:03Speaker 1: you know, a monkey picking a fleas of another monkey's back.
- 41:05Speaker 2: Or the donkey just sitting there just Yes.
- 41:08Speaker 1: It was basically that there would even be moments where
- 41:10Speaker 1: I would hear something that you guys, oh, we probably
- 41:12Speaker 1: shouldn't have said that, and I'll be like, don't worry,
- 41:14Speaker 1: I'll forget about it. Knowing that I would, but at
- 41:17Speaker 1: the moment, in that very moment, and for only that moment,
- 41:20Speaker 1: forgetting the fact that I edit the friggin thing, and
- 41:22Speaker 1: then I would have to listen to it at least once,
- 41:25Speaker 1: maybe twice in some moments from sitting there trying to
- 41:27Speaker 1: find tune one frame, forward, back, whatever, that I'll hear
- 41:30Speaker 1: something four or five ten times. And even when I
- 41:33Speaker 1: re listened to it back, Oh, I had forgotten about
- 41:35Speaker 1: that until now. I wonder whether I'll forget about it again.
- 41:37Speaker 1: And yeah, flatline, I don't remember anything.
- 41:41Speaker 2: Keep in mind, it is something that crossed my mind
- 41:44Speaker 2: at some point. We are just going to turn on
- 41:45Speaker 2: his microphones and you're going to think we're talking about
- 41:47Speaker 2: in an episode of Atlantis, and I'm just gonna be
- 41:49Speaker 2: like fade in p three x eight eight A Robert Roth,
- 41:53Speaker 2: and I'm just going to read you the entire script
- 41:55Speaker 2: for the first ones.
- 41:57Speaker 1: And you're just going to have to sit through it.
- 42:00Speaker 2: I recreate the entire thing as a one man show.
- 42:02Speaker 1: Okay, Yeah, Well, there's certain boxes we're going to take
- 42:05Speaker 1: before the end of this podcast run. And I mean
- 42:07Speaker 1: the first one will have to be yeah, yeah, we
- 42:09Speaker 1: will have to be well, that'll be one. We have
- 42:11Speaker 1: to get Brendan back for and then we don't even
- 42:13Speaker 1: allude to it as being a lost episode.
- 42:15Speaker 2: Which we we just pretend like we recorded it.
- 42:19Speaker 1: Reese isn't here today, Yeah yeah, and we just go
- 42:22Speaker 1: and it will be like there was a lost publishing,
- 42:25Speaker 1: like there was an episode we recorded, we edited, we
- 42:28Speaker 1: didn't proubablish it because it got lost somewhere. We eventually
- 42:31Speaker 1: found it. We couldn't back catalog it, and we just
- 42:33Speaker 1: uploaded it and someone, you know, maybe on our YouTube channel,
- 42:36Speaker 1: we can order it in the right way.
- 42:38Speaker 2: You better believe. Oh, I see, that would probably ruin
- 42:40Speaker 2: the illusion. But I'd love to go back and just
- 42:41Speaker 2: get audio clips of you from the episode, pretending like
- 42:44Speaker 2: you knew what was going on.
- 42:45Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, it's like, why does he pretend like he's
- 42:48Speaker 1: never seen it? Comfort thirteen episodes ago? All right, that's
- 42:52Speaker 1: episode two hundred and seventy one talk and episode one
- 42:55Speaker 1: of season four. A lot of numbers there. Stargate Atlanta's
- 42:58Speaker 1: back next week for the lay the Line. I guess
- 43:01Speaker 1: part three of this three episode arc, which, yeah, what
- 43:04Speaker 1: I do actually like because while there are great episodes
- 43:07Speaker 1: of Stargate, there are great episodes of other television in
- 43:09Speaker 1: the like twenty two episode format, the forty two minute
- 43:12Speaker 1: episodes of those twenty two episode formats where you can
- 43:15Speaker 1: see your problem happen and you go, I bet that's
- 43:18Speaker 1: nineteen minutes, and you check the time code, You're like, yeah,
- 43:20Speaker 1: that's nineteen minutes. Episode in like, they think they're facing
- 43:23Speaker 1: a problem, they think they work it out, something bad happens.
- 43:25Speaker 1: You're like, yep, no, this is where they go back
- 43:27Speaker 1: to the drawing board. So I like, when we do
- 43:29Speaker 1: have a three episode arc that you know, can at
- 43:31Speaker 1: least surprise you because we don't need to have things
- 43:33Speaker 1: wrapped up two thirds of the way through or in
- 43:36Speaker 1: with you know, in the final fifth of the storyline.
- 43:38Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm digging it. SG one. I now get
- 43:42Speaker 1: to watch it for the first time in my life.
- 43:45Speaker 1: What did I say? SG one, Oh, well, we didn't.
- 43:49Speaker 2: Even really address the whole card on us of it all.
- 43:50Speaker 2: But we can do that.
- 43:51Speaker 1: Oh oh my god. Yeah we will because obviously.
- 43:53Speaker 2: She pops back up because like I said, I've seen LiLine.
- 43:56Speaker 2: It was very it was very brief in this episode. Yeah,
- 43:58Speaker 2: I think there's more. There's more, there's more heff next week.
- 44:00Speaker 1: Yeah that yeah, first year, for the first time ever,
- 44:03Speaker 1: I'll be watching this back to back, so I wonder
- 44:07Speaker 1: whether I'll be able to take in a lot more
- 44:10Speaker 1: and commit it to memory. Yeah, rather than having to
- 44:12Speaker 1: duck between.
- 44:13Speaker 2: Different Galaxy seasons.
- 44:14Speaker 1: Go we quicker two like definitely. Yeah, And like I
- 44:17Speaker 1: was saying, like that, I've liked all of it so far,
- 44:21Speaker 1: but the way that you've went out season four and
- 44:23Speaker 1: five not five, whereas I'm going to be going in
- 44:26Speaker 1: thinking about that, but I'm also going to be getting
- 44:28Speaker 1: it on a weekly basis, and so it might be
- 44:31Speaker 1: better to me than the first three seasons, just as
- 44:33Speaker 1: far as consistency levels go.
- 44:35Speaker 2: So oh, there's some people that think, you know, there's
- 44:37Speaker 2: some episodes in season four people just say that it's
- 44:39Speaker 2: the best episode of the entire series. Yeah, I mean
- 44:41Speaker 2: so for me, there's just a lot more. There's less consistency,
- 44:44Speaker 2: and there's more ups and downs. Yeah, there are some.
- 44:46Speaker 2: There are some you know, eight out of ten, nine
- 44:48Speaker 2: out episodes in here, but I think there's also a
- 44:50Speaker 2: couple of like two out of tournament. So it's just
- 44:53Speaker 2: a bit and because you know, yeah, I.
- 44:56Speaker 1: Just you're doing very well. You are sweating, and you're
- 45:01Speaker 1: read so well.
- 45:02Speaker 2: Let's just from the talking you told me about Jesus Christ.
- 45:06Speaker 1: We'll be back next week. Lave On episode two hundred
- 45:08Speaker 1: and seventy two.
- 45:10Speaker 2: Get in the Gate, Get into the Geek, Get into Gate,
- 45:15Speaker 2: Get into Gate Stargate podcast. Get into it now before
- 45:20Speaker 2: it's too late.