#sga: sateda

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STARGATE ATLANTIS / "Sateda"

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Stargate Atlantis - Sateda (S03E04)

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Rachel’s Giffing Celebration

Day 5: Parallels

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I never should have come here. I never should have stayed.

Stargate Atlantis "Sateda" requested by @hearteyesmcgarrett

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rodney mckay stumbling delirious into the gate room while the rest of his team is in mortal peril

🎬the hive / sateda

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because of how quickly things go south both in the city and off-world, Atlantis has a "tactical pajamas protocol" that's basically "report immediately even if that means putting a tac vest over your pjs"

this has people reevaluating their sleepwear (looking [respectfully] at you cadman)

omg another ask i thought i answered already whoops i'm bad at this sorry guys

okay i love this and i think it would've been hilarious to see marines in their tac vest with a gun and pjs underneath tbh it would've been hilarious

also the only episode i can think of where we see anything resembling pjs is rodney in his bathrobe at the start of sunday and we ABSOLUTELY deserved to see more of that tbh another instance of us being robbed

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Sateda is one of my all time favorite episodes of Stargate Atlantis. It's got everything: Sheppard in a leather jacket (where did that come from?), Ronan backstory (and his non-military Satedan outfit), McKay getting shot in the ass, epic Wraith kills, the Sheppard/Teyla conversation about feelings, McKay and Carson's parallel conversation about feelings, and just so many feelings!

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Hm

Top 5 Atlantis episodes?

(Or top 5 Jumper Mishaps even)

thank you!!

aaah okay. things that pretty much guarantee a top notch ep for me: no bad guy. let the plot be driven by a ticking clock or their personal insecurities; OR very few shootout fight scenes / battles; team!!!!!!!!; backstory.

5. phantoms. everyone experiencing some very intense hallucinations together? backstory?? character building for everyone??? including carson??? Sign Me Up.

4. the last man. it's like. backstory and the future at the same time. and everything hurts. but also it's just john and rodney having a conversation. about the things that matter to them. and i cry.

3. submersion. it has every single good atlantis trope. trapped in a haunted house vibes. so much team. every ship you could dream of. cool technology. john on his knees. thinking someone's dead. mind control. mcshep bickering for days. so many things.

2. vegas. my feelings are well documented. i'm dying. i'm lying on the floor. everything hurts. everything hurts in a terrible csi filter, which is objectively hilarious. todd's writing poetry. it's the penultimate episode. we are all clowns.

1. doppelganger. help. all of my feelings are right here. john loves his team so much. he loves rodney so much. the nightmares everyone has are so fascinating. they stay up all night at the end because they love each other so much. HAVE YOU SENT HELP YET.

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Stargate Atlantis S03E04 ↳ RFW's Favorite Stargate Whump Moments

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So innocently I decided I wanted to start my day off with a little Stargate, as one does. I watched an episode of SG1 and then started SGA only to realize I was watching Common Ground. Well, this doesn't promise to be very relaxing.

I think one of the things I like about SGA over SG1 is I feel like it hits harder. I don't know why exactly. SG1 has plenty of torture and has been known to kill off characters. But there is something about SGA that is more intense, less light, less guaranteed to wrap everything up nicely. The thing I'm unsure about is how much of this sense of intensity comes from knowledge accumulated from rewatching--Elizabeth's death, Carson's death, Sheppard's deepening darkness, Rodney's experiences in the Shrine episode. But, I had watched some of SG1 before SGA and I loved SGA immediately unlike SG1. Even the most intense SG1 episodes don't make me cry like some lighter SGA episodes.

Anyway.

Common Ground. I love it because Sheppard doesn't even once lose his faith that his people will come for him. At the same time, he doesn't sit around twiddling his thumbs. I love that he does both, works for his escape and trusts his friends. I love that after talking about giving up his life in Sateda and then being given two examples of his willingness to die for his friends, we see his trust in them.

I love his final command being not to give in. I love Ronon's anger. I love Elizabeth's pain and strength. There is a shot of Elizabeth from the back staring at the closed Stargate and you can just sense her calling Sheppard back, willing it to open, willing information to form so she can send the team to get him back. It's such a powerful image of a woman in her home waiting for her people to get back, not idle but with a visceral aggression.

I love that we finally get to view the Wraith with a little more nuance. I love it every time Todd chuckles. Giving us a Wraith with a sense of humor was pure brilliance because it connects us to him instantly. It humanized him in a refreshing way. But, really, the golden moment was when Todd treated Sheppard like a brother-in-arms and Sheppard did the same. Talk about me cheering!

I love this episode. It hurts but it also makes me smile and it brings in one of my favorite characters: Todd.

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STARGATE ATLANTIS / "Sateda"

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Carson Beckett in Every Episode - Sateda (S03E04)

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Hello! I think you've talked about how you think that Daniel should have been expedition leader instead of Sam in season 4 due to the military thing. So how would that change things according to you wrt plot, interpersonal dynamics, characters, etc? Would love to know your take on it.

'should have been' is probably a little too strong, since it's mostly because i love him and i want him in my house, but other reasons include:

i want to keep the expedition under civilian command. this is vital to me.

it would be nice to soften Daniel back because the last couple of seasons in SG-1 made him sooo jaded and military-like that i want to remove him from that environment to see what happens

i want a bit of reversal, in that it's now Daniel stepping into a place that used to be Elizabeth's and he's now the interloper who has big shoes to fill (Elizabeth is not there to see it but the audience - i.e. Me - can draw comparisons as a result)

the expedition needs a Daniel, in that he's a good way to expand SGA lore and the Alterans and also as someone who will Not Go Quietly Into The Night in terms of war crimes and harebrained Sheppard-concocted schemes

First Contact and The Lost Tribe have proven that Daniel and Rodney are hilariously brilliant together

i want Daniel's presence to push Teyla's character development by LIGHT-YEARS (like the opposite of dead wife manpain. he is alive and in her space and she wants to cause him pain because he is wrongwrongwrong)

things that are likely going to happen with Daniel in charge:

restructuring of the science department (to Rodney's immense displeasure and secret relief)

the great Daniel and Sheppard enemieship

maybe the resolution of the Michael plot line would've been better idk

we can imagine a great SG1 Team Leader to SGC base commander journey for Sam, as was her right

we may finally get the Sheppard Military Mutiny that I always wanted with Elizabeth (less nuanced because he and Daniel aren't friends, but still determinative)

i just want Daniel to say to Sheppard's face that disobeying orders is not anti-establishment praxis when he's still, you know, wearing a uniform

we would likely get to explore the city more because Daniel's at the helm and he has Priorities

Ronon is the only AR-1 member who (openly) likes him. this is PAIN for Sheppard and plain alien to Rodney (Daniel and Ronon bond over memorializing Sateda)

MORE. ALTERAN. LORE.

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