Stargate Atlantis: "Miller's Crossing" 11/30/2007 {EP0412}

[Peapod]

This felt like a self-contained filler episode to me, made just to complete an episode order, but irrelevant to the series overall. If I never saw it, I wouldn't have missed anything.

Am I alone in thinking this?

[randu]

Stargate Atlantis: "Miller's Crossing" 11/30/2007 {EP0412}
This felt like a self-contained filler episode to me, made just to complete an episode order, but irrelevant to the series overall. If I never saw it, I wouldn't have missed anything.

Am I alone in thinking this?

Yes, that's exactly what I thought.
Randy

[frederic1943]

By making it Rodney's sister they could lower costs. They could shoot in Vancouver without trying to make it look like someplace else.:D

[Wire Paladin]

This felt like a self-contained filler episode to me, made just to complete an episode order, but irrelevant to the series overall. If I never saw it, I wouldn't have missed anything.

Am I alone in thinking this?
To me, this episode showed a different side to both McKay and Sheppard. McKay willing to give up his life for his sister by allowing the Wraith to feed on him. Then Sheppard gets the medical guy to give up his life to the Wraith in order to save McKay's sister. That was a dark side of Sheppard and he even covered up what was done. And of course this resulted in a further bonding between Sheppard and McKay.

A good episode.

[lwilli201]

A filler, yes, but it shows that the residents of Atlantis are not generic people without family's. The show showed a little of the strain of the long absences from family. The brother in law was not a very happy camper about how McKay's job at Atlantis affected this family. Sheppard allowing the Wraith to feed on a human was not in character for a person that normally sees every thing in black or white. Usually he is able to come up with a better solution to problems.

Was he correct in his decision?

It seemed that the Wraith solved the program problem between feeding and the body being rolled out of the room. Did he have the solution before the feeding but held out until after the feeding?

[DogLover]

Wasn't there an episode during season 1 or 2 where a wraith girl (adopted by a human) survived initially by feeding off of animals? Couldn't they just have taken him to a cattle ranch and let him have at it?

[gulfwarvet]

This felt like a self-contained filler episode to me, made just to complete an episode order, but irrelevant to the series overall. If I never saw it, I wouldn't have missed anything.

Am I alone in thinking this?

nope your not alone, i don't think we would have been lost if we missed it.

[Juppers]

It did advance their knowledge of nanites which could and probably will be used as a future plot device, especially when it come to Weir. Then again, it may just be filler.

[jkane]

I like the stand alone episode idea. They need more of them. Just not with McKay's character! He's very irritating to me.

[Earl Bonovich]

Yes it was a "gap" episode...

With only a marginal point to the story line...
The wraith working to get the program to diable the replicators to the next level.

[jaywdetroit]

Sure- this was a low budget episode, but as stated previously, any episode that grows the characters, is a good one. The more we know about these characters, the more we care about/or despise them.

I don't think every episode has to follow the season plot as long as it doesn't stray from the created world and environment.

[redfiver]

While mostly a stand-alone episode, they did further the season story arc, with learning more about the replicator virus. this is a good thing, especially when they meet up with Weir again.

And, did they just cure cancer? Could the nanites remove a Goa'uld?

[Drew2k]

Yet another episode without Samantha Carter. I really think TPTB miscalulcated when they dismissed Tori Higginson in favor of Amanda Tapping. If they really thought it would be such a coup to have her, thinking it would bring more viewers to the show, why has she been absent in so many episodes?

I say bring back Weir, and not in a guest role! I just hope when her contract is finally up that Amanda Tapping doesn't renew and that Weir can be brought back as Expedition Leader, Replicator-free, of course. :)

[lpctv]

Yet another episode without Samantha Carter. I really think TPTB miscalulcated when they dismissed Tori Higginson in favor of Amanda Tapping. If they really thought it would be such a coup to have her, thinking it would bring more viewers to the show, why has she been absent in so many episodes?

I say bring back Weir, and not in a guest role! I just hope when her contract is finally up that Amanda Tapping doesn't renew and that Weir can be brought back as Expedition Leader, Replicator-free, of course. :)

Isn't she splitting time with the SG-1 Movies or, did that already wrap?

[Doug Brott]

Another thing that was developed was a furthering of the alliance between the one Wraith character and Rodney in particular. It's not gone so far as trust, but there is respect there now. This showed some of that as well.

I'd count on both the wraith and the nanite elements to be very critical as we near the seasons end. We also got to see the use of the gate-bridge again which (while all bells and whistles :)) is still kinda cool.

Oh, and might I add .. Stargate in HD is awesome.