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So, I got a cold, stayed home from work, and have been watching Stargate: Atlantis in my copious amounts of free time. It's fun! I basically plopped in the first disc of the first season, pressed play, and switched discs as needed. Things I noticed:
*I originally shipped McBeckett and Sheppard/Weir. Rewatching the show, I slip back into those ships again. McBeckett is just adorable. I do see and ship McShep, of course, but those other ships were the ones I picked up out of canon. And there needs to be more femmeslash opportunities.
*Said femmeslash opportunities should involve Dr. Weir, because she is rather attractive.
*I never noticed it before, but there are mammoth sized hints of future plots at the end of the episode. Like at the end of Hot Zone. McKay: "It wasn't the wraith who made the virus. We don't know WHO made the virus. Let's just hope we never run into them." (Read: VIRUS-MAKERS FOCUS OF FUTURE EPISODE, FILM AT 11)
*I would be delighted if the Genii, in that episode we meet them in, confessed to difficulties with cataracts. They live in proximity to a woefully undershielded nuclear reactor. Said reactor is spewing neutron radiation around their living area, which means there is also alpha/beta/gamma radiation around, both from the reactor and from the things activated by the neutrons. Now, if the dose rate was low enough, and since there was nothing in-show about it and McKay didn't seem to worried, I'll assume it is, it wouldn't kill anyone outright. But the incidence of cataracts in adult Genii should be huge. Living in a field of just 1 mr/hour 24/7/356, they should all have cataracts before they're 40[1]. This isn't a complaint at all - as far as I could tell it was a great episode with regards to radiation stuff, I just would have been quietly delighted if this was so.
*I like Ford. I miss him. He was awesome.
*"That's fascinating." "Anthropologist fascinating, or actual fascinating?"
I had way more I wanted to say, and interesting thinky meta things, but I can't remember them. The curse of being sick.
[1]based on a dose of 300 rem required for cataracts, information from http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/osradtraining/biologicaleffects/page.htm
*I originally shipped McBeckett and Sheppard/Weir. Rewatching the show, I slip back into those ships again. McBeckett is just adorable. I do see and ship McShep, of course, but those other ships were the ones I picked up out of canon. And there needs to be more femmeslash opportunities.
*Said femmeslash opportunities should involve Dr. Weir, because she is rather attractive.
*I never noticed it before, but there are mammoth sized hints of future plots at the end of the episode. Like at the end of Hot Zone. McKay: "It wasn't the wraith who made the virus. We don't know WHO made the virus. Let's just hope we never run into them." (Read: VIRUS-MAKERS FOCUS OF FUTURE EPISODE, FILM AT 11)
*I would be delighted if the Genii, in that episode we meet them in, confessed to difficulties with cataracts. They live in proximity to a woefully undershielded nuclear reactor. Said reactor is spewing neutron radiation around their living area, which means there is also alpha/beta/gamma radiation around, both from the reactor and from the things activated by the neutrons. Now, if the dose rate was low enough, and since there was nothing in-show about it and McKay didn't seem to worried, I'll assume it is, it wouldn't kill anyone outright. But the incidence of cataracts in adult Genii should be huge. Living in a field of just 1 mr/hour 24/7/356, they should all have cataracts before they're 40[1]. This isn't a complaint at all - as far as I could tell it was a great episode with regards to radiation stuff, I just would have been quietly delighted if this was so.
*I like Ford. I miss him. He was awesome.
*"That's fascinating." "Anthropologist fascinating, or actual fascinating?"
I had way more I wanted to say, and interesting thinky meta things, but I can't remember them. The curse of being sick.
[1]based on a dose of 300 rem required for cataracts, information from http://web.princeton.edu/sites/ehs/osradtraining/biologicaleffects/page.htm
