Atlantis - New Series - UK

stevos · 09-01-2008, 8:22 AM

My bleeding skyhd box decided to play up last night and i missed the first 8mins of the program whilst it restarted it self.

Could someone explain where they got their beam weapons from?

Also what was the argument about at the beginning of the program between mccay, carter and the ship captain?

From what i did see, it looks like it could be yet another good series.

raigraphixs · 09-01-2008, 8:41 AM

for non-hd its repeated today sky2 9pm and sat sky1 7pm.

CLH · 09-01-2008, 9:35 AM

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Originally Posted by stevos

My bleeding skyhd box decided to play up last night and i missed the first 8mins of the program whilst it restarted it self.

Could someone explain where they got their beam weapons from?

Also what was the argument about at the beginning of the program between mccay, carter and the ship captain?

From what i did see, it looks like it could be yet another good series.

They got the beam weapons from the show writers

Seriously though, Asgard tech apparently. Just come in, new line stuff.

The argument? Something of nothing really. The black colonel was berating Rodney for talking too much. As it took place on Atlantis Samantha tore a strip off him for it. Twas actually an interesting scene given that everyone other than Rodney was a Colonel.

Razor · 09-01-2008, 9:44 AM

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Could someone explain where they got their beam weapons from?

Iceland were doing a deal. Buy 1 Roast chicken and get a free beam weapon.

I was actually wondering the same last night.

BTW Atlantis thread is here.

Stargate Atlantis Season 4 - US version with Spoilers

raigraphixs · 09-01-2008, 9:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Razor

Iceland were doing a deal. Buy 1 Roast chicken and get a free beam weapon.

I was actually wondering the same last night.

BTW Atlantis thread is here.

Stargate Atlantis Season 4 - US version with Spoilers

is this one same pace as UK?, US is 4-5 days ahead?

raigraphixs · 09-01-2008, 10:01 AM

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Originally Posted by CLH

They got the beam weapons from the show writers

Seriously though, Asgard tech apparently. Just come in, new line stuff.

The argument? Something of nothing really. The black colonel was berating Rodney for talking too much. As it took place on Atlantis Samantha tore a strip off him for it. Twas actually an interesting scene given that everyone other than Rodney was a Colonel.

how did that scene go: - 'colonel, colonel, colonels, colonel, colonel, colonels'

Rodney's face

sam showed him who's boss, nice moment sticking up for rodney.

Starburst · 09-01-2008, 11:05 AM

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is this one same pace as UK?, US is 4-5 days ahead?

Yep, a few people me included can't wait a few days or may not have SKY1

That is a spoiler thread so beware.

There is a UK specific thread with spoilers here.

Starburst · 09-01-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by stevos

Could someone explain where they got their beam weapons from?

Have you seen the SG1 series finale?
If not then that explains how the SGC got hold of Asgard tech.

CLH · 09-01-2008, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by raigraphixs

how did that scene go: - 'colonel, colonel, colonels, colonel, colonel, colonels'

Rodney's face

sam showed him who's boss, nice moment sticking up for rodney.

Super scene. It's so good to have it back.

badkarma · 09-01-2008, 11:18 AM

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Have you seen the SG1 series finale?
If not then that explains how the SGC got hold of Asgard tech.

I thought there was a problem with using the technology, does it not alert the Ori or something ? So they had it but can't use it. Maybe I'm making that up though. I was so dissapointed with the SG1 finally I gave up towards the end but thats another thread

stevos · 09-01-2008, 11:21 AM

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Have you seen the SG1 series finale?
If not then that explains how the SGC got hold of Asgard tech.

Yeah i have seen it, but wasn't sure if that was the source or if i had missed something. After all they couldn't fly the suped up ship without the bad guys (forgot their name for the sec) following them so why risk showing them atlantis.

Never really understand the asgard beam weapon, when the baddies came through the super gate the asgard ship (fully specced not retrofit) couldn't do anything about it, whilst fitted to a human ship they suddenly can go straight through shields etc, nice plot hole i guess. But that is back in the good old days of SG1

Razor · 09-01-2008, 11:23 AM

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is this one same pace as UK?, US is 4-5 days ahead?

The US is only a few days ahead of the UK so basically they are on the same time table now. I am now watching the UK broadcasts as they are in HD.

Singh400 · 09-01-2008, 11:26 AM

Maybe because those Asgard ship were older technology. IIRC in the SG1 S10 season finale, the technology given to SG1 was even implemented on Asgard ships yet - it had just been designed to defeat Ori shields.

Starburst · 09-01-2008, 11:41 AM

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Yeah i have seen it, but wasn't sure if that was the source or if i had missed something. After all they couldn't fly the suped up ship without the bad guys (forgot their name for the sec) following them so why risk showing them atlantis.

The ORI are not in the Pegasus galaxy, they are powerful but not so powerful they can tract an energy source between galaxies

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Never really understand the asgard beam weapon, when the baddies came through the super gate the asgard ship (fully specced not retrofit) couldn't do anything about it, whilst fitted to a human ship they suddenly can go straight through shields etc, nice plot hole i guess. But that is back in the good old days of SG1

The ORI ships had shields that were equal to that of the Asgard, perhaps even more so given the power generation those ships seemed capable of where as the replicator ships had Ancient level shields (perhaps not advanced as Asgard who continued to develop tech) and Wraith had no shields at all which is why the beam weapon worked on them but not the ORI.

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I thought there was a problem with using the technology, does it not alert the Ori or something ? So they had it but can't use it. Maybe I'm making that up though.

The problem was that some of the Asgard tech was trackable even in hyperspace(the main core I think it was, not bought s10 on DVD was hoping for a HD release so it's been a while) which they do mention in Ark of Truth.
So using the full power of the Asgard core left the Odyssey vulnerable since it was not a match 1 on1 for the ORI.

badkarma · 09-01-2008, 12:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Starburst

The problem was that some of the Asgard tech was trackable even in hyperspace(the main core I think it was, not bought s10 on DVD was hoping for a HD release so it's been a while) which they do mention in Ark of Truth.
So using the full power of the Asgard core left the Odyssey vulnerable since it was not a match 1 on1 for the ORI.

Thats what I thought, which made the new weapons a bit confusing, made for a better ep though so can forgive them

stevos · 09-01-2008, 12:34 PM

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So using the full power of the Asgard core left the Odyssey vulnerable since it was not a match 1 on1 for the ORI.

The problem was that it was more than sufficient to blow up one ORI ship, at the beginning of that final eps. But then again as you said the weapons could have been redesigned after the initial super gate exposure to deal with the ORI shields.

I did love the whole transfer more power to hull regeneration.