02-16 The Long Goodbye

[Colonel Carter]

Title: The Long Goodbye
Directed by: Andy Mikita
Written by: Damian Kindler
Original Air Date: January 2, 2006 (The Movie Network)

Synopsis: After recovering two alien stasis pods from space, the minds of the inhabitants are transferred into Dr. Weir and Sheppard. But when it's discovered that the two are enemies hoping to settle an ancient score, the alien combatants put the entire population of Atlantis in danger.


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I liked it for the most part. Didn't care for all the camera zooms and didn't see why they would have kissed each other since by doing so it would only take them longer to run out of the room - but the powers that be on the show just look for every opportunity to get the main characters to kiss. Which I think is rather juvenille of them.

The only thing I absolutely did not like was the fact that NO ONE in the room doubted the sincerity of the entity possessing Weir allowing her to speak there at the beginning to them. I immediately doubted it. The whole maneuver looked like a Tok'ra letting the host speak but this wasn't a symbiote and if it was, it could completely control the host and pretend to be the host.

Furthermore, just the way she was looking around at everyone and the way she was talking looked very anti-Weir to me and the other characters should know her far better than me so if it's obvious that the alien is lying and pretending to be Weir, it should have been obvious to them as well. Certainly to Caldwell. I truly think they should have waited awhile before rushing to let Sheppard be possessed as well.

To me that was the most absurd part to the episode and completely unbelievable. Do you mean to tell me that no one on the senior staff has any common sense?

[Anissa T]

Didn't care for all the camera zooms and didn't see why they would have kissed each other since by doing so it would only take them longer to run out of the room

Actually, I understood that. While, I still found it an excuse to have them kiss, it also gave them "both" an opportunity to access the situation.


The only thing I absolutely did not like was the fact that NO ONE in the room doubted the sincerity of the entity possessing Weir allowing her to speak there at the beginning to them

Actually, if I'm not mistaken I think Caldwell did and he mentioned that again later in the episode. Oh, that reminds me, they still need to address the issue of chain of command. All the commands I know of have written who takes command no matter how many people are "out of commision". I certainly understood why they were arguing about it during the episode.

Anyhow, I disagree about Caldwell knowing she was not Weir. Although he is a military person with "probably" intense training for these situations, he didn't know Weir as well as everybody else. If nothing else it should have been Rodney and Beckett who picked up on that before Caldwell.

While it looks like they don't have common sense, that was clearly a military situation and half the team is non-miliary. They for the most part were either scientists or medical. However, Teyla and Ronan should have been all over that.

[cb49747]

I liked this episode, although I have to admit I did not understand the kiss. Not sure what that was all about.