Thirty Eighty minutes is the length of time a wormhole will remain active without serious manipulation via huge amounts of energy to sustain it so when a puddle jumper is trapped in a space gate and partially within the event horizon the clock is ticking. To make matters worse Sheppard has been bitten by some sort of giant instinct which has disturbingly similar traits to the Wraith by feeding on his life force when it is damaged and even attempts to free the ship may implode it’s power core and the energy will feed back to Atlantis with catastrophic results.
Thirty Eights minutes is a very good episode to have in the first season of any scifi show, we get plenty of character development as well as action and brings in more secondary characters who may or may not been seen again and if so only seasons later. This episode also lays a lot of the practical groundwork for the emergence of the Wraith which went hand in hand with the genetic manipulation the Ancients did in the Pegasus galaxy.
Touch it, I dare you.
Sheppard doesn’t really have much to do whilst strapped to the bulkhead of the jumper but is the focal point of the events onboard and also in the events on the Wraith world they visited, it was there that they realised that the “mountain” had been a rather large space ship which had pulled up it’s roots and flew away.
Wasn’t there a mountain here?
We also get introduced to Dr Kavanagh played by Ben Cotton, he is written as a annoying individual and played wonderfully as such and of course Dr Radek Zelenka my personal favourite character from Atlantis played to a tee by David Nykel. The only really strange piece of the story is the clash of cultures between Weir and Halling although that was probably a ham fisted attempt to strengthen the events in the following episode.
This weeks promo is from the Saturday B Movie Reel a font of B movie scifi/creatures feature and disaster reviews. Thanks once again to Brad for sending us in an audio comment and for everyone who participates via the various social media portals. Next week we are going to be releasing a special episode in which we’ll talk about MacGyver and Richard Dean Anderson/Christopher Judge fifth season episode “Live & Learn”.
Promo…
- Saturday B Movie Reel
Links…
- Thirty Eight Minutes IMDB
- Thirty Eight Minutes Wiki
- Ben Cotton
- Fiona Hogan
- David Nykel
- Edmond Kato Wong
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