yay, Stargate Atlantis!
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skoosiepantsSo SGA is on, wooo!! I'm gearing up for my Supersaturation II fic, and I don't know if I have any bandslashers who hang around this journal and have no idea what SGA is, but this was fun to write anyway, and I wanted to have this down for when I post Ss II :)
Stargate: Atlantis for Bandslashers
This is a mixture of fanon and canon, because my own views pretty much color everything. Also, herein lie SPOILERS for the ENTIRE show, especially the pilot episode, so if you want to watch SGA and like to be surprised, keep away!
Once upon a time there was a movie called Stargate. If you’ve seen Stargate, you’ve got the basic premise of SG-1, however, and this is the slightly confusing part, the movie is actually a separate entity from the show. As in, Stargate: The Movie history is NOT the same as Stargate: SG-1 history. The character plot lines basically match, but anything about the aliens, alien worlds, the Stargate itself? Kind of different. This, of course, is a stupid pointless tangent which I will not be getting into, but whatever. I felt the need to point this out.
Stargates are wormholes that open up onto other planets. You can travel through them! They’re super cool!
So, yeah, SG-1 goes on adventures through the Stargate for 7 years or something, and then they find references to the lost city of Atlantis! Built by the same “Ancients” who built the Stargates! Only they can’t figure out how to get there, because the address never works.
Side note on the Ancients, or the Alterans: They suck. They’ve all “thought” themselves onto a higher plane of existence where they’re all bundles of energy with super powers and stuff, but they have a strict “no meddling in human affairs” policy. So they’re totally smart and powerful and they really, really like Daniel – Daniel dies, like, fifty times in the course of SG-1 – but they won’t help us if we’re in trouble. Also, they totally kick everyone off of Atlantis at one point! Boo-hiss! But that’s another irrelevant story.
Enter USAF Major John Sheppard. He’s got a black mark! He totally disobeyed orders in Afghanistan and got sent as punishment to Antarctica! He likes to fly! He likes ferris wheels and fast cars! Football is his sport of choice; however, it seems to me like he would really suck at playing it! He has pointy ears! He wears a lot of black! He’s secretly a dork! He has this messy mop of hair that Rodney likes to make fun of! He sticks his chest out a lot like a little kid and pulls his lips in over his teeth and talks with his eyebrows and, also, almost always stands with his hands on his hips. He is emotionally retarded, has this total asexual charisma – they keep trying to pair him up! He has no connection with any female whatsoever! And I say asexual, because males (except Rodney) are iffy, too! - and he never sees it coming. As in, he keeps getting trapped by girls - and that one dude in Childhoods End almost, okay? That kid was so into him – and it’s always a surprise to him! Like, who me? You like me? Nawwwww. ANYWAY. Sheppard sits down where he isn’t supposed to sit – in this Ancient chair – because he is both curious and lazy at the same exact time, and it lights up for him! It shows him the way to Atlantis! Rodney drools!
Enter one Dr. Rodney McKay, astrophysicist – who is actually introduced into the story before John, but for summary purposes, I’m bringing him in here. Rodney is a genius. Rodney is the smartest man alive. Rodney is, as opposed to Sheppard, socially retarded. A match made in heaven, right? Rodney’s Canadian! Rodney yells at everyone because everyone is dumber than he is. (Opinion tangent: I actually think the reason he likes Sheppard so much is that Sheppard isn’t supposed to be smart, but he keeps surprising him. Rodney has no expectations, yet Sheppard is a math nerd! Sheppard could have been in MENSA!) ANYWAY. Rodney has this little-boy, delighted smile – that he shows most often around Sheppard! – and he’s sweetly pudgy around the middle and he has a great ass. He’s also allergic to citrus, certain bugs, is possibly hypoglycemic and may be a little bit of a hypochondriac. He has an unfiltered mouth and an abrasive personality. He’s awesome.
So it turns out that Sheppard has this ATA gene. He can activate things the Ancients built with his MIND.
After flipping a coin, Sheppard signs on for the trip to Atlantis. The expedition to Atlantis could be a one-way trip! The city is in another GALAXY! They have no idea if they’ll have enough power on the other end of the ‘gate to dial back home. (In fact, for the entire first season they are cut off from Earth. It’s pretty cool.)
In quick succession, here’s what happens:
The city is under water and is failing quickly, since their presence is turning on all sorts of previously dormant energy-sucking programs (side note: anyone with the ATA gene can light up the city functions with their mind, but Atlantis is totally a slut for Sheppard). They need to find a place off-world to escape to before the city collapses and they’re all crushed!
Off-world, Sheppard and his CO meet Teyla Emmagan. She’s an alien! A HUMAN alien – most aliens are humans, spread around the galaxy by the Ancients or whatever. Plus, they all speak English. Whatever, they explained it away with Stargate technology, but it still doesn’t make much sense - and Teyla’s last name is misspelled a lot. This bugs me. It’s Emmagan, not Emmagen.
Enter the Wraith! Wraith are scary. They’re advanced and intelligent, and this brings up a whole food-chain debate with ethics and stuff, but that’s third season shenanigans, so for right now we’ll stick with the scary-ass, B-movie space vampire monster vibe they’ve got going on. They slam their hand onto your chest and you die a slow, painful death by aging until you’re just a bony, hairless corpse. This is how they eat. They think of humans as herds (like cattle) and they cull their herds to feed. They are also thousands of years old, because they’re mainly asleep all the time. They wake up and feed maybe once every 50 years or so. Wraith are the reason the Ancients fled the city of Atlantis and went back to Earth. There was a huge war and stuff.
So the Wraith capture Sheppard’s CO and other people on Teyla’s world, and Sheppard never leaves a man behind! He totally goes in to save Colonel Sumner, only Colonel Sumner is dying! So Sheppard shoots Sumner to put him out of his misery, and ends up killing the Wraith that is feeding on him, too, and of course THAT sends out an alarm to the rest of the sleeping Wraith, and basically it’s Sheppard’s fault that all the Wraith in the entire galaxy wake up, and since Wraith can read minds or whatever, thanks to Sumner they also know all about where Earth is and it’s tasty supply of humans. The Wraith like the thought of feeding on the billions of people on Earth. They wouldn’t have to sleep to build up their human herds!
Sheppard is now in command! (Well, he’s in command of the military. Atlantis is a civilian run expedition! Dr. Elizabeth Weir is in charge! She nods her head a lot and ends up giving into whatever John wants. She’s a diplomat! You either love her or you hate her, and mostly that’s because the writers on the show are all men.)
Also, city failsafes click on and the city rises out of the water and is saved!
Sheppard asks Rodney to be on his away team so they explore new worlds together! They are BFFs forever! They take turns saving each other’s lives, because Rodney is smart and Sheppard is recklessly brave, and then as time goes on you see that Sheppard has a nice size brain, and that Rodney is totally loyally brave, and would do his very best for Sheppard and Teyla – also on Team Sheppard! – and Ford, who is second-in-command, and, I know, it’s completely stupid having the smartest man alive, the CO of Atlantis AND the second-in-command on the same away team, but whatever. Basically, it’s 4 people to a team, with a mix of military and science folks.
Ford is cool, but you don’t need to know Ford that well. He likes C4. He likes to blow things up, and he’s really enthusiastic.
A couple eps into season two, Ford goes crazy (okay, and the three Siege episodes are arguably my favorite eps EVER) and he’s replaced on Team Sheppard by Ronon Dex, an alien warrior who’s been running from the Wraith for 7 years, because they implanted him with this tracking device. He is actually called a Runner. Wraith hunt Runners down for fun. Ronon is hot and large and carries this awesome gun. He wears the same leather clothes every day. He follows Sheppard around like a puppy. It’s sort of a lion and mouse type thing, even though Dr. Carson Beckett was the one who actually removed the thorn from his paw.
Rodney and Ronon make the best comedic duo since Rodney and Radek! (Radek is a little Czech engineer. He’s second in command of the science department. He keeps Rodney in check and takes a lot of verbal abuse. He hates kids, loves Weir, can finish Rodney’s sentences, and is really, really smart.)
Rodney and Ronon bond over food! Actually, I’m not sure what else they have in common, but I love those two together. They eat! They poke fun! Ronon would totally save Rodney, even though it’s obvious he finds him really annoying! They’re like siblings!
Okay, and then lots of other stuff happens. They go on ADVENTURES. They have a couple enemies other than the Wraith, including the Genii, who are kind of stupid, but not primitive, like the rest of the galaxy seems to be. The Genii want to get rid of the Wraith, but they don’t want to help TEAM ATLANTIS get rid of the Wraith. Consequently, they end up trying to kill Sheppard and co. a bunch of times. It’s a little more complicated than that, though. There’s also the Replicators, who are basically robots that look human and are made up of tinier robots called nanobots. It’s a LOT more complicated than that, but they’re the current Big Bad. They’re alternately hard and easy to kill, but I’m not going to get into that.
So, okay, John and Rodney are best friends and totally in love and at times they’re like two little boys running around the city and they cock block each other (or John cock blocks Rodney, like, for real, it’s pretty funny) and get super jealous of girly attention and they’re basically the best couple on TV. There’s so much gay I’m pretty sure it’s being played up on purpose.
Stargate: Atlantis for Bandslashers
This is a mixture of fanon and canon, because my own views pretty much color everything. Also, herein lie SPOILERS for the ENTIRE show, especially the pilot episode, so if you want to watch SGA and like to be surprised, keep away!
Once upon a time there was a movie called Stargate. If you’ve seen Stargate, you’ve got the basic premise of SG-1, however, and this is the slightly confusing part, the movie is actually a separate entity from the show. As in, Stargate: The Movie history is NOT the same as Stargate: SG-1 history. The character plot lines basically match, but anything about the aliens, alien worlds, the Stargate itself? Kind of different. This, of course, is a stupid pointless tangent which I will not be getting into, but whatever. I felt the need to point this out.
Stargates are wormholes that open up onto other planets. You can travel through them! They’re super cool!
So, yeah, SG-1 goes on adventures through the Stargate for 7 years or something, and then they find references to the lost city of Atlantis! Built by the same “Ancients” who built the Stargates! Only they can’t figure out how to get there, because the address never works.
Side note on the Ancients, or the Alterans: They suck. They’ve all “thought” themselves onto a higher plane of existence where they’re all bundles of energy with super powers and stuff, but they have a strict “no meddling in human affairs” policy. So they’re totally smart and powerful and they really, really like Daniel – Daniel dies, like, fifty times in the course of SG-1 – but they won’t help us if we’re in trouble. Also, they totally kick everyone off of Atlantis at one point! Boo-hiss! But that’s another irrelevant story.
Enter USAF Major John Sheppard. He’s got a black mark! He totally disobeyed orders in Afghanistan and got sent as punishment to Antarctica! He likes to fly! He likes ferris wheels and fast cars! Football is his sport of choice; however, it seems to me like he would really suck at playing it! He has pointy ears! He wears a lot of black! He’s secretly a dork! He has this messy mop of hair that Rodney likes to make fun of! He sticks his chest out a lot like a little kid and pulls his lips in over his teeth and talks with his eyebrows and, also, almost always stands with his hands on his hips. He is emotionally retarded, has this total asexual charisma – they keep trying to pair him up! He has no connection with any female whatsoever! And I say asexual, because males (except Rodney) are iffy, too! - and he never sees it coming. As in, he keeps getting trapped by girls - and that one dude in Childhoods End almost, okay? That kid was so into him – and it’s always a surprise to him! Like, who me? You like me? Nawwwww. ANYWAY. Sheppard sits down where he isn’t supposed to sit – in this Ancient chair – because he is both curious and lazy at the same exact time, and it lights up for him! It shows him the way to Atlantis! Rodney drools!
Enter one Dr. Rodney McKay, astrophysicist – who is actually introduced into the story before John, but for summary purposes, I’m bringing him in here. Rodney is a genius. Rodney is the smartest man alive. Rodney is, as opposed to Sheppard, socially retarded. A match made in heaven, right? Rodney’s Canadian! Rodney yells at everyone because everyone is dumber than he is. (Opinion tangent: I actually think the reason he likes Sheppard so much is that Sheppard isn’t supposed to be smart, but he keeps surprising him. Rodney has no expectations, yet Sheppard is a math nerd! Sheppard could have been in MENSA!) ANYWAY. Rodney has this little-boy, delighted smile – that he shows most often around Sheppard! – and he’s sweetly pudgy around the middle and he has a great ass. He’s also allergic to citrus, certain bugs, is possibly hypoglycemic and may be a little bit of a hypochondriac. He has an unfiltered mouth and an abrasive personality. He’s awesome.
So it turns out that Sheppard has this ATA gene. He can activate things the Ancients built with his MIND.
After flipping a coin, Sheppard signs on for the trip to Atlantis. The expedition to Atlantis could be a one-way trip! The city is in another GALAXY! They have no idea if they’ll have enough power on the other end of the ‘gate to dial back home. (In fact, for the entire first season they are cut off from Earth. It’s pretty cool.)
In quick succession, here’s what happens:
The city is under water and is failing quickly, since their presence is turning on all sorts of previously dormant energy-sucking programs (side note: anyone with the ATA gene can light up the city functions with their mind, but Atlantis is totally a slut for Sheppard). They need to find a place off-world to escape to before the city collapses and they’re all crushed!
Off-world, Sheppard and his CO meet Teyla Emmagan. She’s an alien! A HUMAN alien – most aliens are humans, spread around the galaxy by the Ancients or whatever. Plus, they all speak English. Whatever, they explained it away with Stargate technology, but it still doesn’t make much sense - and Teyla’s last name is misspelled a lot. This bugs me. It’s Emmagan, not Emmagen.
Enter the Wraith! Wraith are scary. They’re advanced and intelligent, and this brings up a whole food-chain debate with ethics and stuff, but that’s third season shenanigans, so for right now we’ll stick with the scary-ass, B-movie space vampire monster vibe they’ve got going on. They slam their hand onto your chest and you die a slow, painful death by aging until you’re just a bony, hairless corpse. This is how they eat. They think of humans as herds (like cattle) and they cull their herds to feed. They are also thousands of years old, because they’re mainly asleep all the time. They wake up and feed maybe once every 50 years or so. Wraith are the reason the Ancients fled the city of Atlantis and went back to Earth. There was a huge war and stuff.
So the Wraith capture Sheppard’s CO and other people on Teyla’s world, and Sheppard never leaves a man behind! He totally goes in to save Colonel Sumner, only Colonel Sumner is dying! So Sheppard shoots Sumner to put him out of his misery, and ends up killing the Wraith that is feeding on him, too, and of course THAT sends out an alarm to the rest of the sleeping Wraith, and basically it’s Sheppard’s fault that all the Wraith in the entire galaxy wake up, and since Wraith can read minds or whatever, thanks to Sumner they also know all about where Earth is and it’s tasty supply of humans. The Wraith like the thought of feeding on the billions of people on Earth. They wouldn’t have to sleep to build up their human herds!
Sheppard is now in command! (Well, he’s in command of the military. Atlantis is a civilian run expedition! Dr. Elizabeth Weir is in charge! She nods her head a lot and ends up giving into whatever John wants. She’s a diplomat! You either love her or you hate her, and mostly that’s because the writers on the show are all men.)
Also, city failsafes click on and the city rises out of the water and is saved!
Sheppard asks Rodney to be on his away team so they explore new worlds together! They are BFFs forever! They take turns saving each other’s lives, because Rodney is smart and Sheppard is recklessly brave, and then as time goes on you see that Sheppard has a nice size brain, and that Rodney is totally loyally brave, and would do his very best for Sheppard and Teyla – also on Team Sheppard! – and Ford, who is second-in-command, and, I know, it’s completely stupid having the smartest man alive, the CO of Atlantis AND the second-in-command on the same away team, but whatever. Basically, it’s 4 people to a team, with a mix of military and science folks.
Ford is cool, but you don’t need to know Ford that well. He likes C4. He likes to blow things up, and he’s really enthusiastic.
A couple eps into season two, Ford goes crazy (okay, and the three Siege episodes are arguably my favorite eps EVER) and he’s replaced on Team Sheppard by Ronon Dex, an alien warrior who’s been running from the Wraith for 7 years, because they implanted him with this tracking device. He is actually called a Runner. Wraith hunt Runners down for fun. Ronon is hot and large and carries this awesome gun. He wears the same leather clothes every day. He follows Sheppard around like a puppy. It’s sort of a lion and mouse type thing, even though Dr. Carson Beckett was the one who actually removed the thorn from his paw.
Rodney and Ronon make the best comedic duo since Rodney and Radek! (Radek is a little Czech engineer. He’s second in command of the science department. He keeps Rodney in check and takes a lot of verbal abuse. He hates kids, loves Weir, can finish Rodney’s sentences, and is really, really smart.)
Rodney and Ronon bond over food! Actually, I’m not sure what else they have in common, but I love those two together. They eat! They poke fun! Ronon would totally save Rodney, even though it’s obvious he finds him really annoying! They’re like siblings!
Okay, and then lots of other stuff happens. They go on ADVENTURES. They have a couple enemies other than the Wraith, including the Genii, who are kind of stupid, but not primitive, like the rest of the galaxy seems to be. The Genii want to get rid of the Wraith, but they don’t want to help TEAM ATLANTIS get rid of the Wraith. Consequently, they end up trying to kill Sheppard and co. a bunch of times. It’s a little more complicated than that, though. There’s also the Replicators, who are basically robots that look human and are made up of tinier robots called nanobots. It’s a LOT more complicated than that, but they’re the current Big Bad. They’re alternately hard and easy to kill, but I’m not going to get into that.
So, okay, John and Rodney are best friends and totally in love and at times they’re like two little boys running around the city and they cock block each other (or John cock blocks Rodney, like, for real, it’s pretty funny) and get super jealous of girly attention and they’re basically the best couple on TV. There’s so much gay I’m pretty sure it’s being played up on purpose.
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Date: 2007-10-06 03:25 am (UTC)I have a friend coming with me to meet JFlan (in two weeks!!) and I should totally direct her here, that one paragraph pretty much sumerises Sheppard up pretty well :D
And also (going back to the beginning, coz I jumped to SGA) that explains why Daneil comes back in the series... see I saw the movie, thought he'll stay dead (hah! like that ever happened) but he stays on the planet, been trying to see the first ep of SG-1 since, just to see how he come back. and English speaking Aliens! Wot?
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Date: 2007-10-06 08:31 pm (UTC)I can't remember the name of the episode, the one where they end up tied up with collars around their necks.
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Date: 2007-10-06 02:29 pm (UTC)NETFLIX IS DEPRIVING ME OF S2. THEY KEEP SENDING ME ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT INSTEAD AND I AM SWAYED BY THE SHINY.
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Date: 2007-10-06 02:52 pm (UTC)(ha, and that girl from the volcano planet totally had the same name as my World of Warcraft character. /dork)
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Date: 2007-10-06 11:11 pm (UTC)Norina! The John/Norina/Rodney scenes were so very hilarious!
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Date: 2007-10-07 03:41 am (UTC)HA! I didn't even think about it when I was picking out a name, it just came up, and wasn't taken so I chose it. Hee.
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Date: 2007-10-06 03:51 pm (UTC)In any case: <333333333333
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Date: 2007-10-07 12:21 am (UTC)Alsoooo, I forgot to tell you earlier but: today, I cashiered this messy-dark haired guy named John McKay, and his credit card had the Air Force logo on it. I had to try very, very hard not to completely lose my shit right there. What are the freakin' odds?
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Date: 2007-10-07 05:34 pm (UTC)Hey, i talked to my parents, just to make sure on that whole wedding deal, and the only way I'm getting there is if my mom caters your wedding. So, uh. Need a caterer? *grin*
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Date: 2007-10-06 11:37 pm (UTC)I knew SGA fairly well, but this summary is awesome!
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Date: 2007-10-06 11:39 pm (UTC)I had fun writing it :) It was nice getting back to my SGA roots!
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Date: 2007-10-06 11:44 pm (UTC)It hasn't been THAT long since I watched the pilot, but it's always nice to be refreshed, especially by someone who watches the show as a fan-fan and not just someone who occasionally watches.
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Date: 2007-10-07 05:33 pm (UTC)also, i am ridiculously looking foreward to the Supersaturation Redux. oh man, seriously, THIGH HOLSTERS, okay, and i just. seriously. **incoherent hand wavings**
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Date: 2007-10-07 06:47 pm (UTC)MAJOR RAY TORO IN A THIGH HOLSTER!!!
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