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thesmilingfish · 4 months ago

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So you wanna watch some of David Hewlett's pre-Stargate work?

I've compiled a list of everything that I could find that's available to stream for free (at least in the US) that he's done from 1987-2001.

If there are mistakes, links don't work or something is missing, please let me know.

Oh, and I didn't write the blurbs, some of which are pretty awful but as with a lot of you I've not seen everything on the list so I can't vouch for their veracity. If I have seen it, I'll include a little comment at the end with how much David is on screen or moments of interest.

Sites include: YouTube, Tubi, PlutoTV, Plex and Fawesome.

YouTube:

The Dark Side (1987) - A cab driver gets mixed up with a fare he picks up who turns out to be a adult film actress and she claims she has proof that the people she is working for are producing snuff films. Her claims seem to be validated when the cabbie notices suspicious looking people following them. (He's in a good portion of it but I remember being unimpressed with the movie as a whole.)

Night Heat - S3 E18 Simon Says (1987) - The exploits of the detectives of the Mid South Precinct, in a generic North American city not unlike New York (but a lot like Toronto), chronicled through the eyes of newspaper columnist Tom Kirkwood and his "Night Heat" column. (David plays a teenage prostitute. He's only in a few scenes spread out through the episode. It's a very dark subject matter so this isn't for everyone. Gotta say, 19-year-old David is beautiful.)

Friday the 13: The Series - S1 E10 Tales of the Undead (1988) - Ryan believes that a half-man, half-monster comic-book hero has come to life and is responsible for the murder of a shopkeeper. (He's in the first half of this cheesy, fun episode. He gets in a fight with Ray Walston - and loses.)

Pin (1988) - Isolated by his strange parents, Leon (DH) finds solace in an imaginary friend, which happens to be an anatomy doll from his father's doctor office. Unfortunately, the doll begins to take over Leon's life, and his sister's life as well. (He's the star and is creepy as fuck.)

My Secret Identity - S1 E2 A Walk on the Wild Side (1988) - The key component for Dr. J's latest invention is stolen by a group of wayward children. Andrew goes undercover and fakes loyalty to the gang in an attempt to recover the device, only to run into trouble when he meets the mastermind and leader of the gang, Rock (DH), who doesn't take too kindly to Andrew. (He's only in the end part of the episode but he's wearing a leather jacket playing a tough guy so you gotta watch it. Plus he's got a fight scene with Jerry O'Connell.)

T and T - S1 E16 Black and White (1988) - After his wife is attacked, Det. Jones thirsts for revenge. (He's playing another tough guy but this time he has great hair. AND he's got a fight scene with Mr. T.)

T and T - S2 E18 Thicker Than Water (1989) - The Brothers struggle to maintain their dance club only to be set upon by thugs, the neighborhood, the police, the Department of Health and the fire department. (OMG the hair! Big, black and reaching for the sky. You need to see it. The episode is actually pretty good and the band with the female lead singer is good too.)

The Penthouse (1989) - Dinah leads a charmed life with her father in a penthouse. Joe (DH), a friend from Dinah's past, breaks out of a mental hospital and into her penthouse to take her hostage. Can Dinah be saved while she tries to save Joe? (He's co-starring in this. He's suitably creepy. We get to see him wearing nothing but a towel and we get to see him juggle. Not at the same time.)

Where the Heart Is (1990) - A wealthy businessman shows his young-adult offspring how tough life can be. (He's one of the young adult offspring so he's in a fair amount of the movie. You've probably seen pictures/gifs from this where he's dressed like an angel flipping someone off or of his lovely bare posterior.)

Deep Sleep (1990) - Shelly, institutionalized following the death of her father, returns home desperate for answers about his death. Her memories return, revealing long-repressed dark family secrets. (He's the lead character's brother so he's in maybe a quarter of it. It's not a very good movie and David seems awkward in it.)

Scanners II: The New Order (1991) - A breed of humans known as The Scanners with dangerously powerful telepathic abilities are being recruited by a corrupt police commander in his crusade to take over the city. (I hate to say it, but the movie is kinda dull. I've put off watching it for ages because I was thinking it was going to be super gory and it really wasn't. There were a few gory bits but they weren't that well done which made is less gory somehow. His hair is styled badly and he's called 'pretty boy' twice I think but it kinda came out of the blue. Um, there's an adorable moment when DH heals a puppy but other than that it's kinda meh.)

Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel (1991) - Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman arrives in town a on for a toy convention. He brings his bored, beautiful wife with him. She's there so they can turn his business trip into a brief vacation, by planning a side excursion to visit Disneyland. They check into a nearby 1950s place four miles from Disneyland, a rundown place called the Sunset Motel, where affairs and sexual crimes among the motel guests quickly develop and cause trouble. But, that's not all, there's also get blackmail, beatnik style poetry, amnesia, and murder.

The First Circle (1991) - In the USSR, political prisoners who were scientists were not always sent to GULAG, but also to The First Circle (named after Dante's Inferno), a special incarceration unit near Moscow where they could work for the government. (This is uploaded into parts of about an hour a piece. The link is to the playlist.)

The Valour and the Horror (documentary) - S1 E1 A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (1992) - In the autumn of 1941, nearly 2,000 inexperienced Canadian soldiers were sent to Hong Kong at the request of the British government as a symbolic show of strength that would deter a Japanese attack on the colony. Canada's soldiers found themselves in the midst of a desperate battle they could not hope to win. (He only has a couple of moments on screen where he's playing a soldier reenacting letters home, but he's fantastic. The episode itself is very intense, so consider yourself forewarned.)

The Quiet Killer aka Black Death (1992) - When a teenage daughter of a wealthy New York City family returns home while feeling sick, nobody suspects a thing. At home, her health deteriorates quickly, resulting in a painful death on the streets before her Manhattan home. In the hospital, it does not take long before its discovered she's died of the bubonic plague and then its a race against the clock to locate and treat all the people who might be infected. (He plays a journalist who's after the truth! He's in the last half of the movie and has a couple nifty moments. He's got good chemistry star Kate Jackson.)

Forever Knight - S1 E10 Dead Air (1992) - Nick and Schanke are on the hunt for a deranged killer (DH) who brags about his crimes on a psychiatrist's radio show. Meanwhile, Nick has constant flashbacks to 1440 when he watched LaCroix torture a man for his own ends. (Back to creepy. But also poignantly broken.)

Split Images (1992) - A journalist knows more about a grizzly murder than is good for her. All her evidence points toward a mysterious millionaire but no one will believe her. (He's in maybe 2 minutes total, playing a cop, near the end of the movie but he's adorable. It was actually not a bad little made-for-TV-movie with Gregory Harrison taking on the creepy lead character duties.)

The Boys of St. Vincent: 15 Years Later - Fifteen years after the events of The Boys of St. Vincent took place, the various boys involved are brought in to testify against the brothers, now finally standing trial, who assaulted them when they were children. They are faced with revisiting the abuse and trauma they sustained as children.

Shining Time Station - S3 E4 Stacy Cleans Up, S3 E23 The Mayor Runs for Re-Election - At seemingly a ordinary train station in a small American town, extraordinary things happen including a tiny man called "Mr. Conductor" who tells stories about Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends. (He is so freaking cute with this huge black rim framed glasses. He also appears to be having a great time.)

Silent Witness: What a Child Saw aka Blood Brothers (1993) - A prosecutor tracks a gang murder to a Los Angeles youth who could name his own brother.

Monster Force (1994) - In the near future, Monster Force, a team of six teenager monster hunters, battle Creatures of the Night, monsters lead by the classic Universal monsters like Dracula, the Mummy, Wolfman and the Creature from the Black Lagoon. (The link is to a playlist which contains all of the animated episodes.) (This is a cute Saturday morning cartoon that I probably would have been into big time if I was in their target audience. It's hecka fun.)

Traders (1996-2000) - The show explores the intimate lives and loves of investment bankers whose high-stakes decisions and sizzling alliances can have grave international consequences. (The link is to a playlist which only contains the first two seasons.) (I've only seen the first season and David is heartbreaking in it. As I remember there's lots of close-ups of his eyes showcasing just have vulnerable Grant is. All five seasons are available to stream at Fawesome!)

Elevated (1996) - Ben and Ellen are thrust into adventure when Hank (DH), a blood covered security man of the building rushes into their elevator, claiming that there's a dangerous creature in the building. (This is a fantastic short film - it's like 15 minutes long. It's not super scary but it has moments of tension and David is fantastic. It's directed by Vincenzo Natali, who also directed the movie Cube.)

Cube (1997) - Seven strangers of widely varying personality are involuntarily placed in an endless maze containing deadly traps. (Very scary. Very disturbing. And oh so good.)

On the 2nd Day of Christmas (1997) - Trish (Mary Stuart Masterson) and her six-year-old niece, Patsy, make their living by picking pockets. But when they try to take advantage of holiday shoppers with fat wallets, they run into a little snag—a department store security guard named Bert (Mark Ruffalo) catches them in the act. The store owner wants them arrested, but decides to wait until Christmas is over. To ensure they don’t make a run for it, he entrusts their care to Bert. (David is featured in the subplot and is in quite a lot of this one but honestly after the first time I saw it I just skip to his scenes. Sort of has a fight scene with the Hulk, Mark Ruffalo. Wears a cast, a Santa suit and black hi-top Chucks throughout the movie.)

Clutch (1998) - Martyn (DH), an aging Toronto area college student with no degree yet to show for his so far ten years in college, has agreed to do an illegal job solely for the money: steal a rare book. In the process, Martyn ends up accidentally killing the owner. Not knowing what to do about the dead body, Martyn decides to take it along with the book.

Survivor (1999) - An Arctic oil rig crew discovers something strange far beneath the Earth's surface, which may or may not be responsible for the series of murders that begin to take place. (The plot is one we've all seen before, but it has a cast that is solid and it held my attention. It's a made-for-TV movie so very little gore, just a couple of bits of blood. It's mostly character reactions to what they're seeing. David has several nice moments with a character that's funny, endearingly awkward, exasperated, smart, reluctantly brave...)

The Life Before This (1999) - Several innocent bystanders are injured or killed when two robbers, fleeing from the police, run into the neighborhood cafe.

Chasing Cain (2001) - The drive-by shooting of a doctor and a woman who work at an abortion clinic leads Detectives to a suspect with ties to the pro-life movement.

And Never Let Him Go (2001) - The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney. (This is one of my favorite mini-series. I giffed it a lot back in the day. Mark Harmon is marvelous as the creepy lead with David playing his baby brother. Oh and we get Paul Michael Glaser as a detective. Good stuff.)

The Triangle (2001) - A group of friends wind up in the Bermuda Triangle. (Eh. I've seen it twice and I can't tell you much about it. We get David in shorts wearing a bucket hat though so that's nice.)

Treed Murray (2001) - An advertising executive (DH), trapped in a tree by a gang of would-be muggers, manipulates them into fighting in order to save his life.

PlutoTV

The Penthouse (1989)

Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

Cube (1997)

Tubi

The Penthouse (1989)

T and T - "Black and White" (S1 E16), "Thicker Than Water (S2 E18)

Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

The Valour and the Horror - S1 E1 A Savage Christmas: The Fall of Hong Kong (1992)

Ultraforce - S1 E1 Prime Time (1995)

Plex

Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

Desire and Hell at the Sunset Motel (1991)

Silent Witness: What a Child Saw aka Blood Brothers (1993)

Cube (1997)

Fawesome

Scanners II: The New Order (1991)

Traders (1996-1999) - They have all 5 seasons of the show

Silent Witness: What a Child Saw (1993) - also known as Blood Brothers

Cube (1997)

Treed Murray (2001)

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If there's interest, I can do a 2002-2025 reference list with links to free streaming sites of his work as well. (Or any of the Stargate actors actually.)

And if you haven't done so yet, go vote in my poll please.

#david hewlett #stargate #stargate atlantis #reference #i'm sure there are some mistakes this was more of an intense project than i thought it would be #i have the next 2 days off and i'm going to attempt to watch everything i haven't on this list #i've edited this like a dozen times #time for go to bed #adding commentary as I watch them

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dr-futbol-blog · 28 days ago

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The Pegasus Project, Pt. 12

The situation is getting more and more intense, and Mitchell and McKay both continue standing behind Carter not so much to take refuge in her but to be where the action is, Carter seeming to have occupied what should be the weapons station but which on the Odyssey seems to be the communications station instead. It seems like both the weapons fire and steering of the ship is done by the other female officer on the Bridge, Womack. While McKay had made the suggestion that they needed to get away from the wraith, wanting to put some distance between him and their arch-nemesis, the captain seemed very much to agree with him. Carter, on the other hand, had just silently observed for a moment, seeming lost in thought. She then seems to come up with one of those brilliant, completely counter-intuitive ideas that resembles Sheppard more than McKay, and which is the kind of thing that has made McKay assess Carter as being reckless in the past.

Carter: No, you know what, we need to do the opposite. Mitchell: What? McKay: What? Carter: Against a gravity well this strong, they've literally got the higher ground. But if we can get them to follow us closer to the black hole… McKay: Then their systems will be affected the same way as ours, including their jamming technology!

Both Mitchell and McKay voice their surprise at her suggestion at the same time, seeming bewildered. For McKay, this is normal since he seems to have this reaction to most of Carter's wacky ideas. Mitchell, on the other hand, has worked more closely with Carter and has seen her at work much more frequently, and even he seems surprised by this suggestion. But as soon as Carter explains what she means, McKay seems to agree with her, and his relief appears palpable. McKay very much wants them to survive this, he wants to return back home in one piece because he has someone waiting for him there, and if one of Carter's wild ideas is going to get him there, he is fully on board with that. They seem to be out of options, as they are now the proverbial sitting ducks at the mercy of the wraith bearing down on them. We also have to appreciate the fact that Carter's plan actually hinges on work that McKay has done previously in trying to disable wraith jamming technology, and the beaming of nukes on board the hives had initially been Sheppard's idea.

Note the way that Mitchell continues standing with regards to McKay, seeming prepared to shield him or to keep him upright again if necessary. Both Mitchell and McKay are holding on to Carter's chairback to keep upright, but Mitchell is much more in Carter's space than McKay is, has his body behind Carter's chair while McKay is stood to the side and back, merely holding on with his hand. And because McKay might easily be able to get a much firmer grip of the chair if he put his body closer to it, he really does seem to want to maintain a physical distance to Carter, and whether this is because he does not want to come across as Grabbyhands McGee (and it is doubtful he would have time to even think along those lines here), or he simply wants to respect his own relationship by keeping a distance to a person whose closeness to him is an issue to the man waiting for him back home, knowing that Sheppard is uncomfortable with him spending time with Carter where he cannot see him, is anyone's guess. We may recall that the first thing McKay does when Carter takes up a post on Atlantis later is to inform her in no uncertain terms that he is seeing someone, and it is not for Carter's benefit that he makes the gesture.

Carter: Which means we should be able to beam the warheads directly aboard their ship. Emerson: In that close, we won't have the engine power to maneuver. Mitchell: So we sling-shot and use the gravity well to accelerate back out. Emerson: Take us in, full power!

Now that both Carter and McKay seem to agree, the two smartest people on the Bridge, it seems like everyone else cannot help but go along with their idea, as insane as it seems to go full throttle toward a black hole. We should also note that it is Mitchell's idea to use the gravity to create the effect of a sling-shot that is crucial to the success of the plan, and this seems to come from his expertise as a fighter pilot, in knowing how the maneuvre himself with respect to the "Gs." It tells us that Mitchell is no fool even if he is less educated than Carter and McKay, and while he may not match Sheppard's intelligence, he is well above average -- like most fighter-pilots come officers tend to be.

Because this is the first major cross-over episode between the two shows, it is obvious that the power of friendship would ultimately save the day -- that it is them working together that resolves the situation. And note that even though we do not see Sheppard after the meeting at the beginning of the episode, he too is a part of finding this resolution since it appears to have been his idea, whether directly or indirectly, of not increasing the yield but the duration of the blast which is what finally wins them the day, not to mention that the beaming of nukes in the first place had been suggested by him.

Womack: Shields are barely holding! Emerson: See it? Mitchell: Not yet, sir. Emerson: Maintain course. Carter: Teal'c, it's Sam. We're about to try something that will probably vaporize the stargate at both ends. You've got exactly twenty seconds to get your hyperdrive on line and get out of there.

Carter sends Teal'c a message, apparently just hoping that it will reach him in time since their decreased distance to the black hole should make their communications even slower than before. Carter does the countdown again, and whether or not the concept of beaming warheads onto a hive is giving McKay flashbacks to one of the most difficult moments of his life, the situation is much too intense for him to have time to dwell on it.

Ironically time seems to slow down as things speed up when they close in on the black hole, and now everyone is speaking in that deep bass that they had been hearing from Teal'c the whole time. One thing to note here is that as neither Mitchell nor McKay have a lot to do while the others are working either steering the vessel or beaming the nukes, and so both of them are stood by a monitor watching the gate and we find them with their heads bent toward each other. They also turn their heads almost at the same time. However, we may note that McKay does not actually seem to be looking at Mitchell because Mitchell is not the man that he wishes to communicate with by exchanging glances. We should also note that McKay is not anywhere near Carter protecting her from the sparks flying all over the place, as he seems to have no kind of an instinct for protecting women with his own body, Carter or otherwise. Even with women he likes, it does not even occur to him to protect them with the possible exception of his sister.

Mitchell: There it is. McKay: Wraith ship's in position! Carter: Beaming warheads in three, two, one, mark.

Mitchell, however, whether he has an instinct to protect McKay or is doing it for some other reason, does seem to be growing more fond of him, and we see Mitchell touch McKay's upper arm as he passes him, not dissimilar to the way that Sheppard had touched him earlier, patting him on the upper arm. Although Sheppard's gesture had been notably more awkward than Mitchell's -- and may give credence to the assertion that Mitchell is who Sheppard pretends to be -- it does again present us with a touch by proxy. Sheppard touches Mitchell, Mitchell touches McKay, the touch from Sheppard is delivered by Mitchell to McKay symbolically.

Mitchell has quicker reflexes than McKay and sees what has happened faster, and so it takes a beat for McKay to catch up. But just as soon as Mitchell parks himself behind Carter again McKay joins him there, even though there is really no reason for either of them to be there. It seems like Mitchell was McKay's motivation for moving from the screen to stand behind Carter, and McKay may have followed Mitchell from Carter to the screen in the first place, and we again note that he puts much more distance between them than Mitchell and Carter do, seeming not to want to touch Carter even by accident where Mitchell has touched him twice and he seems not to have minded.

Carter: The wraith ship has been destroyed. Emerson: Reduce sub-light engines to one third. Let's get hyperdrive back on line. Carter: There's something else. I don't know how it survived the detonation, but… McKay: The stargate! It's still intact. Carter: And it's still active. Teal'c: Odyssey, this is Teal'c. Mitchell: Teal'c, I thought we told you to get the hell out of there. Teal'c: If I had done so, I would be unable to inform you that the jump was successful. The supergate is now active.

Their plan is successful in taking out the wraith ship, and they all seem more than a little relieved. We may note that McKay and Mitchell exchange a glance as the captain tells them to wind the ship down and basically tells everyone that they can relax now. And although it is definitely a moment between them, it is communicating that experiencing danger together has made them bond over the course of this mission, we may still note that for McKay this is mainly a subconscious gesture. He seeks to exchange a glance with someone that is usually with him in similar moments, and just as soon as he realizes that Mitchell is not Sheppard, he has to look away. He even goes so far as to look at the exact opposite way from Mitchell where there is nothing and no one for him to look at, as though wanting to undo or rewind what had just transpired. They are all glad and more than a little relieved but Mitchell is not his foxhole guy.

Mitchell: Are you serious? Teal'c: There is more, Colonel Mitchell. I was able to keep the Stargate concealed until the last moment and lure the Ori vessel into the unstable vortex of the Supergate when the jump occurred. Carter: You mean we just blew up an Ori ship? McKay: ...by destroying a wraith ship. Teal'c: Indeed we did. Today we have achieved a great victory.

McKay lets out a whine when Teal'c informs them that their plan had actually worked -- not just their plan to take out the wraith by beaming the nukes onto the hive and slingshotting around the gravity well but their original plan to increase the duration and not the yield to get the wormhole to jump from the Chihuahua to the St Bernard that he had quite possibly worked out together with Sheppard while the other kids had been mean to him. McKay's whine seems to communicate something to the effect of "Well, how about that!" which we know is something that Sheppard would be able to read off of him.

And again we may note that as relieved as they all are, as happy as this makes them, McKay makes no attempt what so ever to make physical contact with Carter about it. If it was something that he desired and sought out, if he found Carter physically attractive and was infatuated with her, this would be precisely the kind of time when it would be socially acceptable for him to try to hug her or even to just high five her, to try to touch her in some way. In this kind of moment it is acceptable even for heterosexual men to hug each other. But he does not because it is not something that he wants. Instead, he again turns to look at Mitchell because this is something that the desires: to exchange meaningful looks with a man. This is something he has grown accustomed to on Atlantis: knowing that he cannot exchange touches, he cannot hug the person he wants to hug when all is said and done and everyone is beyond happy that it all worked out because they can never be seen doing that in public. All McKay and Sheppard are allowed to do when they are relieved is to exchange meaningful looks, just like they had at the end of Critical Mass (S02E13), communicating in that wordless way only they are capable of with each other. What we see between them are lingering desires, secret longings for his touch.

The episode ends with Jackson and Vala standing outside on one of the balconies on Atlantis having a private conversation, and while we have seen Sheppard and Weir do this a few times, we have never seen Sheppard do this with McKay. However, it likely has happened more than once, and given how Jackson and Vala were being paralleled with McKay and Sheppard in the episode, it is possible that they too had done this when McKay had returned, to have reconnected and gone over what had happened to McKay while he had been away. Earlier Vala had told Jackson "I think I understand why you came back, Daniel. I wouldn't have liked their company either," which may be the kind of thing Sheppard had also told McKay on a similar night, on one of the same kind of balconies.

This is interesting given how McKay appeared almost to be bullied by Mitchell and Carter on the Odyssey before Mitchell seemed to warm up to him, and if McKay had been talking with Sheppard while he had been on the Odyssey, complaining about his treatment by the people on the ship, this might be something that Sheppard also might have communicated to McKay. McKay too had been among people that were not his people, and he was more than glad to be home. Getting a chance to work with Carter was not enough to make him miss Earth or the SGC, and this experience of working with them on the ship had only convinced him that he had made the right choice to come to Atlantis even back when they did not know if they were ever able to return to Earth. He had found the love of his life there, and while Jackson's final words to Vala are "We're in this alone," McKay and Sheppard share a similar sentiment, only theirs is "We're in this together."

And this brings us to the title. SG-1 does not seem to have the same naming scheme for episodes as SGA, but we can still speculate on why they had chosen this name for it beyond this being a project that takes place in Pegasus -- two such projects, in fact, if Jackson's attempt at locating Merlin's weapon and cajoling its whereabouts from Morgan Le Fey is counted as one. There are two episodes with Pegasus in the title, this and Letters from Pegasus (S01E17). That is also why there might be a reference in the title to that previous episode, and hence if the original reference had been to the novel Letters from Atlantis, which I had not discussed at the time, this might be in reference to the book The Atlantis Project (2005) by Scott S. Phillips, still fairly recent at the time of airing. It "offers a profound message of hope and certainty in an uncertain and often deceptive World" as Dr. Stewart tries to solve both the mystery of Plato's Atlantis and his own family issues. The Letters from Atlantis (1990) novel by Robert Silverberg is interesting in that it features time travel by inserting a consciousness to that of someone from the past, and in it the sad and lonely protagonist Roy inserts his mind into that the Prince of Atlantis while someone else has inserted their mind into that of a regional governor, the two of them exchanging letters in a story that is more than a little homoerotic what with having men literally inside other men.

However, given that McKay almost seemed to be bullied in the episode -- he explicitly told Vala that he thought she was mocking him and told Mitchell that Sheppard had been kidding -- there is also the off-chance that they were making a reference through the title to the film The Manhattan Project (1985), in which an unusually gifted school boy Paul decides to construct an atomic bomb for a national science fair, the world's first privately built nuclear device. He is found out by a military investigation team, one thing leads to another and the bomb is in danger of obliterating all of New York, and in the end everyone has to work together to disarm it. It also features the line "You'd get the Nobel if you could publish," which is also relevant with McKay, and is something that Jackson tells him later in The Lost Tribe (S05E10).

McKay would have been in his late teens when the film came out, so presumably he would have already done his own experiment with building a bomb by this time, of which we had learned about in Underground (S01E08). And while McKay's backstory may be based on the film, they may also have meant for McKay's story to have inspired the film in "the real world" of the fictional world, with certain changes of artistic license made to the story, like giving the youth a girlfriend. That does not stop the film from containing a lot of homoerotic innuendo, mind you, but not as much as the next episode that we will delve into, being one of the most important episodes with regards to the subtext in the entire course of the show.

#mcshep #stargate #stargate atlantis #stargate sg 1 #sga #sga meta #john sheppard #rodney mckay #sheppard is bi #rodney is gay #ep. the pegasus project #sg1 #sam carter #ep. critical mass #ep. letters from pegasus #ep. underground

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