August 19, 2008

Stargate Atlantis Season 5 Episode 5 ( Spoliers)

( Ghost in the Machine )

I thought this episode was magic!

The Replicators are back!, sort of, in the form of a disembodied Elizabeth Weir and her we-tried-to-ascend-but-screwed-it-up cronies,

Weir arrives at the city in the form of a computer virus tapping in from subspace and she tries to get Atlantis to help her and her mates back into corporeal bodies after a royal screw up while trying to ascend.

It was very clever to bring her character back one more time without actually Torri Higginson herself appearing, I suppose there was some kind of contractual dispute or royalty thing going on here, but never mind.


The episode was full of interesting stuff and of course McKay and the rest of them were at their finest, the chick who plays Fran ( the Replicator template ) is really awesome and her morality of Weir inside her shone through to ultimately sacrifice herself and her mates so that the Atlantis crew would be safe.

Sheppard did not trust her and I think he regrets it at the end when he discovers her real motive to neutralise the replicator threat.

Another fine instalment by Stargate Atlantis.

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