How did Ford, who was leaning over the DHD, get shifted by momentum when the entire cockpit was submerged before the drive pod touched the gate? He would have been dematerialised energy.
Also, love the discrete units/only in one piece rule that suddenly applies to gate travel when SG-1 has shown dozens of cases of something being cut off by the gate. Usually staff weapons.
I've seen elderly people with walkers move faster than Jumper 1 and they still managed to scrape the gate and get stuck. What a colossal piloting fail.
And if it was automated at the end then it would have avoided scraping the gate and repositioned the craft or stopped it! I don't buy that the autopilot wouldn't detect the retraction failure and enter the gate. The Ancients have fail-safes for everything else.
The rest of the episode better be absolutely amazing for them to go through such an insipid setup.
Then Wier asks for their life story when time is obviously of the essence. Not sure how anything other than "the ship was damaged, now it's stuck" is at all relevant. How does Weir not understand the time constraint? McKay just told her the Stargate will shut down and cut the ship in half. Plus she should have known from her brief stint at the SGC and any briefings she got while prepping to be the lead of the Atlantis mission.
Nope, the rest of the story wasn't amazing, even in the slightest. A stupid setup, followed by an uneventful and almost boring episode.
The only thing we established is Weir is dead weight because she has no useful skill to contribute, not even leadership. She can read a clock and give updates, so I guess there is that.
What a great episode, utilising a single location extremely well. I particularly love stories that revolve around the mechanics of the Stargate itself (see also SG-1's '48 Hours'), but this has the added bonus of keeping it fresh with the new Atlantis characters and the unique situation allowed by them. Dr. Weir is good here, I enjoyed her moment telling Halling to essentially get out of her way and she handles the arrogant doctor well too.
A fun problem-solving episode that also expands our knowledge of the technology of Atlantis.
Shout by SmatthewVIP 7BlockedParent2020-10-27T00:27:01Z
A good single location episode. They have a issue and try to solve it. Basically a one act play with a neck monster