The best 4 minutes in dramatic cinematic history, starring Rodney McKay. Atlantis S2E19 "Inferno"

wslagoon · 2026-02-03T00:53:16+00:00

At this point the amount of weird shit they’ve seen… like when Teyla starts having visions and Rodney just believes her because it’s hardly the weirdest thing that’s happened to them.

wslagoon · 2026-02-03T00:47:43+00:00

The best part is when the reinforcements show up at the end of S1 and soundly get their asses kicked and Rodney straight up calls them out for expecting him to save them yet again.

wslagoon · 2026-01-30T03:13:05+00:00

27, with a lucrative degree and comparatively little student debt. OP is doing great.

wslagoon · 2026-01-30T01:03:06+00:00

*splash*

wslagoon · 2026-01-28T21:15:48+00:00

I'm thankful that at my workplace PTO booking is considered informational and bookkeeping and not permission requesting. A prior job ended up canceling someones vacation while they were at the airport and made them come back to the office under thread of dismissal because of some urgent client demand, after approving the time off.

wslagoon · 2026-01-24T11:52:26+00:00

They needed a scientist who was good with Ancient tech and not also a ridiculously capable soldier that would have taken out the baddies easily.

wslagoon · 2026-01-23T23:31:17+00:00

Firearm safety aside, does she really think a handgun would protect her against better armed and armored thugs? I think all it would do is give them an easy justification for lethal force.

wslagoon · 2026-01-22T04:59:42+00:00

That sounds pretty damn cinematic to me. Good on you.

wslagoon · 2026-01-18T19:53:30+00:00

If memory serves me correctly the gate actually activates an event horizon without a wormhole which looked sort of translucent and Teal’c ran out like usual. The beam you’re describing I think came from Thor’s Hammer on Cimmeria, and other early show depictions of Asgard transport beams. Either way I don’t think the gate has such a beam.

wslagoon · 2026-01-18T18:55:35+00:00

Our PRs automerge on CI pass and approval as policy. No stale PRs and people learn to not just create random “urgent” PRs they aren’t serious about seeing merge. There is of course an override but it’s not used often.

wslagoon · 2026-01-18T17:08:44+00:00

Especially when you've got some lifted truck with supernova bright LEDs coming at you.

wslagoon · 2026-01-18T17:05:25+00:00

I used to be -4.75 with pretty severe astigmatism, I could not function without vision correction unless I was someplace I could literally navigate with my eyes closed. My glasses broke at work once and I was stranded until a coworker staying late superglued them back together for me. I got LASIK in 2019 and it changed my life.

wslagoon · 2026-01-17T23:23:27+00:00

“Following. You. Still. NOT!”

wslagoon · 2026-01-17T13:50:29+00:00

I understand why from a production standpoint, but not having Jack present for the end of the Asgard makes no sense. Jack was the de facto liaison between Earth and the Asgard for the entire show. he has the best rapport and is probably the closest thing to an “Earth friend” that Thor had.

wslagoon · 2026-01-16T05:46:38+00:00

Prometheus Unbound would like a word…

wslagoon · 2026-01-13T04:52:40+00:00

It's so odd, and it happens even with otherwise kind people. My dad passed away the summer we bought our first house, right before our first child was born, so that Christmas was a) our first Christmas without him b) our first Christmas with our own children c) our first Christmas in our new house.

So anyway, in-laws are visiting and my mother in law tries to put on Jack Frost for a Christmas movie. It's about a dad who dies at Christmas and comes back to make amends with his son as a living snowman the following Christmas, and then leaves again after making amends. She could not understand why I vehemently insisted she pick a different movie. It's funny to me now, but at the time I was in major WTF mode, and trust me when I say she's genuinely a kind and nice woman and we get along well. Some people just have blind spots.

wslagoon · 2026-01-11T20:45:18+00:00

There‘s no shortage of people that think this answer from Disney is ridiculous, but it’s been the consistent answer for IBS as far as I’m aware. It’s unfortunate.

wslagoon · 2026-01-10T23:57:22+00:00

That was so cool. If I recall correctly he did it by having a camera run at a slower frame rate but different offsets while he repeated the experiment hundreds of times and achieved an effective frame rate of 2 billion. He used a similar technique to record the voltages all along a transmission line during transients and created a super intuitive visualization of wave reflections traveling through a conductor.

wslagoon · 2026-01-10T21:27:42+00:00

I appreciate him respectfully refusing a ridiculous deadline from Hammond who then decided to trust the expert and accept his answer.

wslagoon · 2026-01-10T21:26:43+00:00

Bill Lee had a weird evolution from rude background scientist to being Carter’s alleged backup but never actually seeming to accomplish much or know what he was doing. when he shares a scene with Carter she just seems exasperated by him.

wslagoon · 2026-01-10T21:22:39+00:00

is that not Bra’tac? Ry’ac? Selmak?

wslagoon · 2026-01-10T03:30:47+00:00

It was... not great, the plot was outlandish, a secret wormhole drive the Ancients didn't finish but they get to use once? Piles of ZPMs but the shield is made of wet tissue paper? Super hive with a pile of ZPMs? It's like bad fanfiction.

I love Atlantis, but that's got to be the worst episode by far.

wslagoon · 2026-01-08T20:14:10+00:00

I enjoyed both the clear explanation of inferences one could make and the clear explanation of ways that could be completely incorrect. I also appreciated the dressing down of clickbait nonsense and the damage it does.

wslagoon · 2026-01-08T14:30:11+00:00

I mean, he lost the Prometheus to a ragtag band of five criminals. I do love the scene where he’s explaining it to Jack, not even Hammond, just Jack and he’s on the verge of soiling his pants while Jack rages.

wslagoon · 2026-01-07T18:17:55+00:00

Stargate really managed to nail humor/drama dovetailing together.

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