“I have seen other worlds with as much, but they were in fear of the Wraith. John had spoken the words that were behind the creeping sense of wrongness she felt. “I share your sense of unease,” Teyla said.
The events depicted in this adventure takes place a week and a half after the events of " Condemned". And Doctor McKay? He just wants to get the Stargate working. Meanwhile, Ronon and Doctor Zelenka find themselves in an unlikely partnership as they seek a way off their island and back to the Stargate. And to make matters worse, there's a Wraith cruiser in the skies above. And as he gradually pieces the situation together he realises that his team is scattered across a tropical archipelago, unable to communicate with each other or return to the Stargate. Still, it was a really fun and interesting look at gaming life, and though the premise may feel borrowed from a certain book we shall not name, it was still pulled off really well.Colonel John Sheppard knows it's going to be a bad day when he wakes up in a downed Puddle Jumper with a head wound and no memory of how he got there.Ĭoncussed, far from the Stargate, and with his only remaining teammate, Teyla, injured, Sheppard soon finds himself a prisoner of the local population. The episode was also a really nice showcase for (once again, and we aren't complaining) McKay and for Sheppard as well - of course, since they are the two big stars, why wouldn't they get most of the episode time? However, if you went looking for any of the other actors, be prepared not to see very much of them. The episode was very much a philosophical rambling on the idea of "what if artificial intelligence in games are actually real," and in that it does indeed make you think about things.
And in those moments, the best were the discussions between Sheppard and McKay, who though they now knew the truth, still argued as if they were playing a videogame, and it was great hearing them bicker back and forth, especially with Sheppard constantly claiming that McKay was cheating by having them advance intellectually faster than they should've been. The funniest thing was watching the episode as someone who is into gaming, and getting little references or noticing certain behavior that perhaps you've done so before in a game of this ilk. The country leaders - Sheppard and McKay's avatars more than anything - looked like their personifications too, as McKay's was a woman (with Carter styled hair, which was a hilarious gag) who dressed very regally and lovely, while Sheppard's guy looked very military and as if he was ripped from the Mad Max films. Sheppard, meanwhile, chose to go the more militaristic route, increasing his army beyond that of McKay. McKay+(David+Hewlett)+plays+ McKay and Sheppard represent all the players out there, as McKay wanted to be the showy and defensive minded RTS player, choosing to work on technology advancements, and plastering his mug all over his world. Regardless of that fact, it was still a really fun and interesting look at the idea of if games were real. So just because we don't name the book, know that we know the book and know that we know we felt the same thing too. It's hard to reference a certain book that this episode feels it was obviously taken from without spoiling said book in question, so don't go emailing us saying, "Oh, it was a complete rip-off of the book so-and-so!" Yes, we've read this certain sci-fi book, and when we learned the game was real, we instantly thought about the book in question. But then, one day, a picture of McKay is found hanging in a town square by an away mission team, and the two soon learn they've been controlling real people and not games. The two friends enjoyed playing against each other, trying to make their country the best it could be. Welcome to the situation McKay and Sheppard finds themselves in this week.Īfter arriving at Atlantis, the two found what amounted to a game room, with what appeared to be a real time strategy game along the lines of Warcraft, Starcraft, Civilization - those kinds of games. But what if that game you were playing had real world consequences, and each individual AI entity was actually real, and when you playfully planned a course of action to lead an attack on perhaps some other village, you were really killing thousands in the process. Who doesn't love videogames? We know we do.
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