For starters, these SGA posts are going to be my Fangirlish Rantings at their peak. seriously. this show, Stargate Atlantis, is very near and dear to my heart. The rantings will be long, random, and in-depth. i've posted an episode summary to give you guys a CHANCE at understanding what the heck i'm talking about. i do plan on having Stargate as a Featured Fandom, problem is, i'd be a pain. with three movies and two series (one running, and the other having run for TEN years), it's be really hard. but i DO plan on doing it! honest! in the mean time, i have an episode summery with a SHORT ranting at the end. you can either skip the insanely long recap and go straight to the ranting, or you can just skip this post and point and laugh at the ranting Fangirl!
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RODNEY DELIVERED TEYLA'S BABY!?
seriously!! it was hilarious too! because of the fact that Sheppard and Ronon had to run off somewhere to go blow up Michael's hyperdrive engines, McKay was left with a very pregnant Telya! who was currently going through labour!!
while yes, i'm not giving you a recap of the entire show (i'm sorry! i really am) i will explain this!! Stargate Atlantis = kick butt scifi show. and how can you have a scifi show without intergalactic space ships? well, after a VEEEERY pregnant Teyla was captured by the Wraith (the big bad bad-guys of the show) known as "Michael", Colonel John Sheppard and his team try to go out and find their missing team mate! well, after searching for... two episodes, they find her! weeeell... Sheppard had gotten intel that Michael was going to be bringing Teyla to this certain planet so she could have her baby. Colonel Sheppard's team, along with Major Lorne's, go to the planet to try and rescue her. turns out, they beat Michael to the planet; he's one his way though. it also turns out that the facility was booby-trapped. yeah. booby trapped. so the entire compound collapses! with sheppard's and Lorne's team trapped inside! yay! whumps all around!! well, when Col. Samantha Carter (the commander of the earth science/military expedition to the Pegasus Galaxy and more specifically, Atlantis) doesn't here from the teams past their deadlines, she sends in a third team through the Stargate. and they're like "Ooh! crap! the building collapsed with our guys inside!" so Carter sends in a team of Combat Engineers to pull 'em out!
the sad thing is though, that out of the two teams sent through, only four people survived the collapse: Rodney, Sheppard, Lorne, and Ronon.
Rodney (who was practically untouched during all of this) and Lorne (who sadly, got a broken leg) are the first to get pulled out. Ronon (who, too, is miraculously untouched) and Sheppard (who's pinned down by a large beam and not doing to well) are much deeper and will take a LOT longer to pull out. and the Daedalus (the USAF's big pretty space ship which has Asgard BEAMING technology) is still two hours out.
unfortunately, they don't have that kind of time. apparently, once the booby trap is sprung, an automated sub-space signal is sent out, alerting Michael if one of his facilities are ever compromised. Michael now changes course and heads to the planet with Sheppard's team. so now they have a Wraith Cruiser with Michael and Teyla, bearing down on their position. so the big question is, who will reach them first? the Daedalus, or Michael?
sucks for them, but Michael's ship reached them first!! so now Michael is sending out some of his Wraith-Human hybrids to go collect sheppard's team. like i said, Rodney and Lorne made it out, but Ronon and Sheppard are still trapped. weeeell, to be honest, i can't really remember details, but after Michael's hybrids are at it (getting sheppard and ronon out) the Daedalus shows up! yaaaaay! but because of the fact that Michael's Cruiser is right there orbiting the planet, they have to activate the shields really fast. by shields i mean force field looking things. So, that kinda nixes simply beaming sheppard and ronon out and on board the Deadalus. you see, in order to beam people into the ship, you have to have the shields down, but if they take down the shields, weeeeell... michael will shoot the crap out of them... so they take the shields down anyway. BOOM!! they get the crap shot out of them!! buuuuut, they get Ronon and Sheppard safely beamed to the infirmiry!! yaaaaaaaay! but because of Michael's shooting... they lost sub-light (just moving through space) and hyper-drive (moving at light-speed -- which they shouldn't be able to do according to Einstein's Theory of Relativity. well, they can, but there should be a huge time thing going on) engines. noooooooooo!! but there shield generates are working! at like... 40%... long story short, they're sitting ducks; they can't move, and their shields will be failing anytime soon.
anyway, so Sheppard's in the infirmiry getting prepped for surgery. at least, he's SUPPOSED to be prepped for surgery... you see, his getting pinned down by the beam really did a number to his entrails, so Dr. Jennifer Keller (Atlantis' chief surgeon) is TRYING to get him prepped for surgery, but sheppard won't let her! he realizes that Teyla's still on board Michael's ship, and knows he needs to save her. so he manages to convince Keller to give him a quick fix up and have him cleared for duty so he can try to rescue her. McKay (rock on!!) also manages to get the hyper-drive and sub-light engines operational... with Carter's assistance. did i tell you guys that Carter's a scientist too? well, she is. anyway, so sheppard has this big plan for rescuing Teyla...
first) they're going to launch a whole bunch of missiles at Michael's Cruiser.
Second) as the Darts (small, one-man wraith ships) move to intercept the missiles (sacrificing themselves in order to protect Michael and the ship that is), Sheppard will fly a cloaked PuddleJumper (small, Ancient built ships that were designed for 'gate travel. they have two sections -- the Forward Section, which has four awesome seats for the pilot and main team; and the Rear/Aft Section which has two benches, one along each side of the walls, and can comfortably fit ten people) into the now open bay doors of Michael's ship.
So, as Michael opens up the bay doors to launch the Darts, Sheppard's going to sneak in along with Ronon and McKay and try to get Teyla out. they managed to get in unnoticed and all seems to be going according to plan! after cloaking the jumper (as in activating this very convenient shield device that basically renders it invisible) they step out and try to find her. luckily, that much was easy. after finding her in a cell, they get her out and are getting ready to leave when, OH NO!! Michael starts powering up for a hyper-jump!! as in, he's going to go really far away, really fast!! as kete might say, "OH NOES!!". so sheppard's like, "Hey! what if we blow it up?" and Mckay's like, "Sure, that'll work." so Ronon and Sheppard run off to go blow up the shield generator... leaving McKay with a VERY pregnant Teyla. as in, her water broke an hour ago and she's been going through severe contractions... junior is on the way!! thus leading me to my opening statement!!
So, McKay delivers Teyla's baby, rather hilariously, and Sheppard and Ronon return from planting C-4 all over the hyper-drive engines and effectively blowing it up! hmm... what happens after that... gasp!! i don't know!! wait, yes i do! they return to the place where the INVISIBLE jumper is parked... and sheppard can't find it... way to go, colonel!! so... what happens? um... i actually can't remember... so i'm going to be guessing now!! wait!! now i remember!! okay, so what happened is that Sheppard managed to sneak into the Dart hangar on board the ship and hijack a Wraith Dart. remember, they can only fit one person, aka, the pilot. but what the Darts are designed to do is scoop up people by using a variation of beaming technology. you see, (i use that phrase a lot don't i?) the beaming technology that the Earth ships have requires a signal to lock onto, and then beams up whatever it's attached to. the personnel all have a sub-cutaneous transmitter implanted in their arm i think for the beaming technology to lock onto. the wraith beaming tech on the other hand, can just scoop up anything that has a life sign. so the wraith use this technology as an easy way for transporting their soldiers to the surface of a planet, or capturing humans when they get the munchies (instead of eating food, they suck the life force out of people using this funny thing in the palm of their right hands. creeeeeeepy). so, Sheppard steals one of these and scoops up Ronon, Teyla, and McKay, while carrying Telya's ADORABLE new born son in his lap. oh yeah! they also meet up with Teyla's husband, who was also captured by Michael, and is actually one of Michael's Wraith-Human Hybrids, so they take him along with them... i think... anyway, after making it out of the hangar, they manage to hail the Daedalus and fly the Dart into the X-302 bay (fighter jets that are able to fight and operate in the vacuum of space. helpful, no?).
By the time they return to the Daedalus, though, the shields are almost completely depleted because of the fact that Michael had been firing at the ship constantly while Sheppard's team was rescuing Teyla. so they make a quick get-a-way through hyperspace just before the shields fail completely!
then, after a short trip through Hyperspace, they arrive back onto Atlantis!! Sheppard FINALLY has his surgery, Teyla's back and her baby's ok, Ronon's fine, and McKay's bragging about how he delivered Teyla's baby!! sounds like a good way to end the season five premiere, right? yeah! if they kept it that way. unfortunately, Col. Samantha Carter, Scientist and Commander of Atlantis, is asked to return to Earth for an evaluation of her time served in Atlantis. you see, the I.O.A kind of heads the stargate program in the way that they get to decide you needs to be replaced and when. no, we are not SUPPOSED to like the IOA. well, Carter originally thought that she would be back in Atlantis after maybe two weeks. wrong. upon arriving in the SGC (Stargate Command, a USAF base in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado where the Earth's Stargate if kept) through the Stargate, she is told that she has been relieved of command, only to be replaced by Richard Woolsey, a bureaucrat.
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wow! i can't believe i just gave you an ENTIRE episode summary!! chances are, i'll be doing this for all the episodes every week... sorry if you guys don't want to read an entire episode recap, but this is what this site is for -- FANGIRLISH RANTINGS. and for me at least, recaps are usually involved in rantings. anyway onto the rantings!
first off, i'm sad... lately, it seems that the writers are trying to dig deeper into the friendship between Ronon and John... not Rodney and John... this makes me sad!! personally, i love to see the friendship developing between Flyboy and Answerman!! "Flyboy and Answerman" is a fanon name given to Sheppard and McKay, Sheppard being a very skilled pilot for the US Air Force, and McKay being the smartest man in two galaxies (the Milkyway and Pegasus). anyway, i was saddened to see that in the episode, "Outcast", where Sheppard's father dies, it was RONON who accompanied sheppard to Earth for the funeral, not RODNEY!! but, at least the writers recognize the friendship between those two, because while sheppard's packing for Earth, Rodney walks in and says something along the lines of, "I sent in a notice saying that i wanted to go with you to Earth, but the shield generator on <insert gate coordinates> is malfunctioning, so i'm going to have to stay and fix it." SEE!? Rodney wanted to go, but some stupid shield generator on some stupid planet had to malfunction!!
ok, one defining characteristic among fangirls is the love to see relationships develop. either it be platonic (friendship) or romantic, most of us love to see it! i (and my sister) personally, love to see the friendships develop. like, say when the main characters hug, our response is "SQUEEEE!!! so sweet!" while these relationships are my favourite and are important and everything...it's the romantic relationships that get other fangirls into cat fights with each other... example: "OMG!! Teyla and Sheppard make SUUUCH a cute couple!!" response... "HECK NO!! TEYLA AND RONON SHOULD SO GET MARRIED!! SHEPPARD'S JUST NOT RIGHT FOR HER!!" and then they get into HUGE arguments about how "OMG!! sheppard LOOKED at Teyla!! THEY'RE IN LOVE!!!!!!1" and what not...
when this happens... just back a way slowly... i was on LiveJournal (an online blogging community) one time, and my gosh!! the Ship Wars were getting vicious!! they were cussing each other out like mess! i had to exit the page before i got killed or something!! i made the mistake of giving my input... i swear they were about to shoot me through the computer screen... "shipping" or "ship wars" are when Fangirls get into arguments concerning who they think should get together in a Fandom.
anyway, back to ranting! so i covered the rodney and john situation (grrr!)... now moving onto... McKay delivering Teyla's baby!
ok, THIS was HILARIOUS. nothing short. so, while Teyla, is GOING THROUGH LABOUR, McKay is flipping out more than she is!! he's all like, "Can't you just hold it in or something!?" ha!! and her response? a death glare and a, "No Rodney!" he's just so confused... again, he's STILL flipping out, but he absolutely LOST it when she said, "now i need you to catch him." poor, poor Rodney... he did it though! it was still hilarious though... you know, for a genius astrophysicist, he can be SUCH an idiot some times...
anyway, because i feel sort of guilty for uploading a BOOK as my blog entry, i'm going to cut my rantings short!! yes, if you don't count the episode recap, this is considered "short" for my standard fangirl rantings
see ya!
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8 Comments
Moolatte XD
7/13/2008 09:17:06 am
HEY I AM GETTING A WEBSITE!! JUST NOT SURE WHEN I WILL GET AROUND TO DOING IT!!! BUT MOM SEZ ITS OK!!
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Durithyll
7/13/2008 09:36:38 am
rock on!! sweet girl, very nice!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! we have sucked another Unsuspecting Victim into Weebly!!
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Kete
7/13/2008 09:55:31 am
Okay... um...
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Durithyll
7/13/2008 11:55:28 am
Daiyori: i don't!
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Kete
7/14/2008 03:02:09 am
Yes, and now I have as much hope of understanding you as Roake has in Daiyori shutting up.
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dark_vampire_kitten
7/14/2008 09:50:26 am
durithyll i deleted my new site and changed my name...... i basiclly changed everything..... even my password
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7/14/2008 11:06:41 am
...hey i got my website finished just click the name to see it... please click the name...
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