[Ashrak]

OMFG I WANT MORE!!!!!

except the daedalus is a tad ugly from the topside ... meh but im loving the splosions

[Ace]

I wuv Hermes

[WMCoolmon]

Great ep.

My favorite char is the Asguard (Is that Hermes?)

[Liberator]

Hermiad

[ZylonBane]

Love the Daedelus. More greebles = MORE POWER.  Bwahahah.

But cripes people, it's ASGARD, not "Asguard" or "Asgaurd" or "Asgourd".

[aldo_14]

And Hermod.  Or at least it should be if they're sticking to Norse mythology.

[Ashrak]

good ep ey?

[Bobboau]

alright, it's starting to feel a bit like stargate, wich is a good thing, they need more tie ins, they need a few asgard ships to get in there, and one or more SG1 regular needs to come in. the deadalas had better damned well stay around for the entier season and not be some were else all the time.

[Omniscaper]

Atlantis following the the formula now I see.  

Babylon 5 - Whitestar
DS9 - Defiant
SG-1 - Prometheus
Atlantis - Daedalus

A glimmer of hope remains for the show. That sure was a purdy mushroom cloud. Too bad Mckay wasn't outside.

[Ace]

Don't dis the McKay...

[ZylonBane]

The Wraith were amazingly stupid in this episode. Oh look, a big explosion and Atlantis is completely gone. No debris, no nuthin. Gosh George, think we should hang around and check it out? Nah, let's just leave... IMMEDIATELY!

And I still think it's slap-in-the-face idiotic that the Wraith Darts sound like motorcycles.

[Bobboau]

well there was a warship in orbit that had managed to single handadly destroy four or five hive ships, I wouldn't have wanted to hang around there for long myself given that they probly didn't know what other tricks the deadalus had

given time they could probly set up a weapons delivery system were it teleports the missle just outside the wraith jamming feild or they could try sheilding there weapons.

that or just get the Asgard to send in three or four O'Neils, I'm sure they could be inclined to do that for a peice of the atlantis pie

[ZylonBane]

I'm starting to wonder if you were even paying attention last night. The Daedelus was not in orbit, it had docked at Atlantis for repairs after the Wraith shot it up. And they've made it clear repeatedly that the Wraith aren't deterred by individual losses. They just keep coming and coming and coming. That's how the Ancients were defeated, remember? Not through technological superiority, but through sheer force of numbers.

So this episode asks us to believe that the Wraith are smart enough to devise a means of blocking an Asgard transport beam within a few hours, but not smart enough to even suspect that the "destruction" of Atlantis was an obvious trick.

[Bobboau]

oh, yeah, it was docked at the time... I remember them comming between them and Daedelus saying that they were leaveing (thinking gee I sure do hope the wraith aren't monitoring there knowen communication chanles) but now that I think of it, yeah they were docked.

[Ace]

It all does hinge on how well Tayla convinced them that the city was going to be destroyed.

If it seemed like an act of desperation to find out the Wraith's plans, and she just happened to spill the beans on the self-destruct plan while being probed, it might be believable to them.

Of course if I were the Wraith I would have pulled out the second the Daedalus started beaming nukes in. Work up the solution fast but observe for a while to make sure they don't have other tricks.

[achtung]

You know, how is it that if the ship was docked at the city that the Wraith didn't detect it while the city was cloaked?

[Bobboau]

cause it was within the sheild turned cloading barier

[WMCoolmon]

I thought the Daedalus was outside the shield.

And I assumed that the Wraiths not sticking around and looking for wreckage was a symbolic contrast to the Ancients/humans. Not to mention a somewhat necessary plot device.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Bobboau
alright, it's starting to feel a bit like stargate, wich is a good thing, they need more tie ins, they need a few asgard ships to get in there, and one or more SG1 regular needs to come in. the deadalas had better damned well stay around for the entier season and not be some were else all the time.

From what I understand of the plans for this season, several stories take place onboard the Deadalus so it should be around

Don't dis McKay...I'm glad they kept that character from SG-1 and moved him to Atlantis.  Admitedly I've only seen 3 episodes plus the Atlantis: Rising repeatedly...seeing as its not shown here yet...

[WMCoolmon]

I really disliked the scene with him and the 9mm though. Didn't they already establish in the ep with the really old Wraith that he knew how to use one (ie squeeze the trigger)? And the Wraith just stood there while he started yelling and drew an obvious weapon at them.

On a side note: interesting that they apparently have hand-stunners, too. Does anyone see the parallel to SG1 and zats?

Edit: And something else I've noticed, the Wraith seem to demonstrate very little genetic variety. I'm wondering if that will come in a future ep where Weir and co. have the option to deploy a genetic weapon against them...