the day is going by really slow as it is only 10:13am EST
since the title of this post is drifting through reality i should talk about the latest stargate atlantis episode: The Deadalus variations.
i have only seen parts of the series up until season five when i started watching every episode. i am working to piece together the rest of the series so i can watch it and get the full story.
in this episode, a ship appears out of no where in orbit above atlantis broadcasting Deadalus IFF. Sheppard, McKay, Ronan and Teyla take a jumper up to investigate. There are no life signs in the ship. McKay opens the bay doors and they head on in, there is only a single jumper in the bay. McKay heads to engineering and starts bringing systems online and detects an energy spike, all of a sudden, there is a flash of white light and atlantis is not showing up on any sensors. they isolate where the energy reading came from and go to investigate, they find a control room that they dont recognize and a bulkhead door that has an interesting lock on in. they open the bulkhead and discover an alternant reality drive behind it. the drive has no off switch and every time it is charged they jump to a parallel universe moving them farther and farther from there own reality. McKay investigates trying to find a way to get them back home and the drive engages, moving them to yet another reality. they find an alien ship in orbit that starts firing on atlantis. Sheppard fires up the asgard beam, taking out the main weapons. the ship launches there fighters on the deadalus with minimal shields, and McKay speeds up the time it takes for the drive to engage, allowing them to escape. the next reality they are less than 2 million kilometers from the sun and need to direct all power to the shields. they do this and it is still not enough power to keep them safe until the next jump, McKay decides the only solution is to devote all energy to the drive and try to force a jump. in doing so they move to the next reality where there is no planet, only an asteroid field, when McKay has a stroke of brilliance. he is able to calibrate the drive to retrace its steps. they use the thrusters to move into a higher orbit when they jump back to the sun and McKay attempts to get the sublight back online to avoid the alien ship in the next reality. they make the next jump and attempt to out run the alien fighters but it is no use, the sublights are barely operational. with the first hit the sublights go completely off line and they are sitting ducks. all of a sudden fighters from atlantis show up and take out the fighters. Sheppard gets to talk to his alternant reality double and then they jump to the planet with no atlantis, just one jump from home. they head down to the hanger bay and an alien starts attacking them. they kill the alien but not before he shoots McKay and pulls the pin on a grenade, depressurising the hanger bay making it impossible to get back to the jumper. they make the jump and atlantis sends out a jumper to help, by the time the jumper gets there the ship jumps and is gone, but there are still 4 life signs waiting where it was. they move in and find that it is Sperrard, McKay, Ronan and Teyla in space suits. back at atlantis we find that McKay has saved all the data about the drive and could build another. Sheppard says no to the idea, but perhaps the people in charge will have other ideas
3 comments:
I thought DV was an okay episode, but it was typical of most Atlantis episodes, it was somewhat bland and felt badly fleshed out. Although, I love the idea of that becoming a larger plot devices in a later story arc.
yeah, i think that an alternant reality drive would make a great plot device, perhaps they could try to rescue the original crew, perhaps they could try to give closure to the alternate versions of there selves who died when they got stuck on it.
I'm the sort who delvs into a story and doesn't mind the minor gaps, so even if they just slap something together, I'm happy. That said, I enjoy the Stargate writers because they are thinking ahead, always. A good example is that SG-1 mentions moving the Enkarans to a new planet a few episodes before it actually happens. This is completely minor, but it makes the plot smoother. It's never cool when they introduce some major event that would have required months of work in the episode they need it in. Just mentioning it earlier adds realism that too many shows don't actually have.
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