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[eretria]

JEWEL!!!!!!!!! Oh, still as beautiful and as radiant as ever. I get the feeling I’ll like you a lot. Yes, yes, people will hate you on principle because you replace Carson, but really? I don’t think there could be a better replacement.

Rodney, Rodney, that SHIRT! Have you been trading with John lately?

Those two. That, I really, I just … This is totally kindergarten, isn’t it? John doing a facial “I finished before you, neener, neener, neeeeeener” at Rodney? I love it!

Chuck has really been named CHUCK. Oh, show. Oh, oh, oh. I just … How am I going to get my regular dose of squee without you in the next couple of months?

Surgical strike – that’s what they’re calling it these days, eh? This sounds a bit uncomfortably like daily politics on earth.

Oh, but this is going to be interesting – seeing John’s more military side. However, anyone else think this is a truly bad plan?
Also: Uh, guys, if you’re playing with nukes again, then, really, this time it’s definitely goodbye to little Sheppard’s, McKay’s and Weir’s.

Wow. That stand-off between Elizabeth and Ellis really wasn’t a stand-off, because her body language signalled right from the beginning that she put herself in the weaker position. Intentional or unfortunate acting on TH’s part?

Oh, oh, but this is lovely. Radek willing to stage a rebellion, and Rodney being very gentle, and not pissed off at Radek in the least. In fact, he sounds tired and sad, but still proud of Radek or suggesting. Oh, my boys.

Jesus Christ, if you don’t have any consequences from this amount of deadly destruction, I’m going to be severely disappointed.

They leave John ALONE there? What kind of a fucking bad move is THAT?

Well, what do you think will be the purpose of a stargate that just appears out of nowhere in geosynchronous orbit around the city after you just destroyed half a planet, you MORON, Ellis? How about, Oh, and army? Or guns? How about a damn COUNTERSTRIKE?

The return of “buddy” makes me happy yet again.

So does Elizabeth throwing Ellis’ earlier words right back into his face. That’s my girl – that’s the Elizabeth we don’t see nearly enough.

Rodney, baby, idea for you: If the prophet can’t come to the mountain, maybe the mountain needs to come to the prophet, hm? How about trying to move Atlantis away from the beam?

Why the hell is Ellis calling him John?

Ellis, I’m sorry, but whoa, are you a misguided arse. And if you try to pitch John against Elizabeth? It’s going to backfire in ways you can’t even begin t imagine.

Uhm. But if you submerge the city and the energy beam continues to , er, beam, then won’t the heat vaporise the water? What about the climate of the planet?

I love your cgi, beloved show. LOVE it. Atlantis sinking – this feels epic. Huge.

Oh, John. Sometimes it’d just be better if you shut up. However, how much do I adore Teyla’s quiet “I’m not invisible”? Because that’s what she has been quite a lot lately. What a wonderful touch to acknowledge that.

John did NOT just say that. He did NOT tell Rodney and Radek to “make out and get it over with”, did he? (Wanna bet that he just wanted to throw that phrase back at someone, finally, because he heard that said too many times about him and Rodney?)
The Rodney/Radek shippers must be combusting in front of their screens.

And this next conversation tells us that those two don’t even need words anymore. They live in each other’s brains. God, but this is beautiful.

Leaving the science of this aside, but the asteroid plan is really cool. Also, a nice tipping of the hat to Siege II.

But, uhm … Just thinking here, but: Was that Wraith queen really dead?

Oh, boy. I have a very bad feeling about John in this chair and Rodney being so far away. Of course, I could be flashing back to Fates, but, still. John was way too reluctant, and Rodney wasn’t comfortable either.

Yeah. And, after I have stopped screaming, I now realise how it’ll be that Elizabeth won’t be in all of season 4 – she has got to be severely injured, definitely in a coma for a period of time, maybe even blind after this.

Well, FUCK, but that is a cool ending. A seriously fantastic ending. No, seriously. I … *flails*

This is what epic means. This is what real danger means. Not some physical enemies – no, just one enemy, and the worst of them all: Time.

God. Fantastic.

What I can’t help but notice: John was so deep in “communion” with the city through the control chair that he didn’t even notice the blast, and didn’t notice until he had been well in hyperspace. I want more of this. More of how it affects him. What sitting in the chair does to him. Why the chair made him so uncomfortable and what happened the last times he sat in it.

One final thing? The city flying, and everyone's joy about it was just absolutely beautiful.