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Discussion Post: Stargate Atlantis 5x10 First Contact

Sep 26, 2008 21:31

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kaballa September 27 2008, 13:30:25 UTC

Is it just me, or does it make no sense whatsover that armour that a diamond drill couldn't penetrate and was triggered to self destruct was apparently vunerable to a few bullets, allowing the occupant to be killed?

finding_jay September 27 2008, 13:45:33 UTC

Maybe this goes back to what Daniel was saying about what's under the armour? I can't help but wonder if the soldier was 'programmed' (either if it's a robot or something in the armour or something else entirely) to die as soon as it was separated from the rest of its team after a certain distance? I'd need to watch the episode but didn't it die after they entered hyperspace?

green_grrl September 27 2008, 14:52:31 UTC

Maybe the bullets penetrated a small joint in the armor? Or maybe the bullets took out some circuitry on the surface that supported the habitat inside?

Stargate, necessitating fanwank since 1997 ... ;-)

Still, SNARKY DANIEL! \o/

kaballa September 27 2008, 15:08:15 UTC

Heh, I think Daniel was the gayest snarky bitch he's ever been in this ep :-)

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alexcat September 27 2008, 14:57:59 UTC

I was struck by the armored men looking and sounding a bit like Cylons!

Daniel sounds like majorsheppard September 27 2008, 17:48:45 UTC

Jack at his best... but love the comment about him being gay.

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Re: Daniel sounds like majorsheppard October 1 2008, 22:07:08 UTC

In this entry, by Kabala?

xathras September 28 2008, 20:25:42 UTC

If the Wraith knew about the device such that they had a name for it, why did they not rebuild their hyperdrives to work on another frequency (such as the same frequency the Ancients use for that MAD factor), or rotate randomly through a range of frequencies to circumvent the vulnerability, in the 10,000 years since the device was last active?

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trindajae September 29 2008, 08:47:01 UTC

It sounded from Rodney's babbling like it was a matter of which principles the engines were designed around. It could be argued that changing the frequency of the hyperdrive would be tantamount to changing the entire structure of every internal combustion engine in a given country. Even if you can figure out a new engineering model, it would take time to do the research (or steal working models from other races and reverse-engineer them) and to implement the changes. The logistics of it could be a serious problem.

korepersephone September 30 2008, 02:39:03 UTC

Yay! Daniel! I've missed him so much!

Love this ep, favorite of the season :D stupid cliffhanger...