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Episode 164 SGA Childhoods End

Feb 022013

A routine recon through the gate leads to the jumper being disabled by some form of advanced energy dampening device. Stranded on the world the team discover a society of young people no older than 25 who believe that if they kill themselves on their 25th birthday it maintains a community that is too young for the Wraith to being interested in culling. McKay discovers an ancient type device powered by a ZPM which is powering the shield and it’s that which has kept these people safe from the Wraith, maybe should not have turned it off and taken the ZPM to Atlantis. Meanwhile a power struggle between the current leader and next in line leads to an open confrontation between bow and arrow armed youngsters and the P90 equipped SG team while Wraith probes scan the planet for food.

Childhoods End was the only episode of Stargate directed by David Winning and it received many plaudits for the direction. It is a very highly produced episode, the location shooting of the camp is very well done and there is some top notch matt paintings as well a very atmospheric lighting effects. Perhaps the highlight is McKay’s interaction with the two children who pretty much act exactly like kids exposed to new people and new things, intense curiosity classes with the typical McKay intolerance but this time chocolate comes to the rescue.

Atmospheric woodland.

I certainly would have liked to see David Winning direct more Stargate episodes but it never came to pass for whatever reason but everyone involved with this episode worked well and we got an entertaining story with a little backbone although there were certainly deeper aspects to explore if the writers had gone that way.

Peek a Boo

Many thanks to Brad who took time out of his work night to record with us, it was around 3am in Australia and well you can’t buy that commitment:)
This weeks promo is from Tuning Into Scifi TV and next week we are going to discuss the SG1 episode Affinity. We got some feedback from Facebook and a new itunes review from Ryan which we are very thankful for and if you want to get in touch then you can do so via the links on this website or by email. We can also be found under Gatecast on Facebook, Google+, iTunes and Stitcher Internet Radio as well as on Twitter.

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Episode 158 SGA Hide And Seek

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Dec 012012

A game of hide and seek by a couple of the youngsters in the city leads to the release of an energy based entity which feeds on the power sources of the city and even the energy generated by living beings. McKay as he is finds a new toy which leads to all sorts of bother as he once again leaps before looking but long term it pays off via an unexpected show of courage on his part.

Hide And Seek is an interesting episode to have after the uber feature premiere, it perhaps reflects the average budget of an episode of Atlantis as well as providing both the story and the viewers with an idea of how truly vast the city is and how long it will take to explore let alone understand everything that the Ancients left behind. We get some great moments between Sheppard and McKay as well as discovering the fact that having a large civilian population isn’t really going to work both for the city and the series itself.

He’s a good boy really.

To be honest there isn’t a lot to say about this episode, it’s a typical scifi season 1 effort neither good nor really bad just there but they have already got the humour down pat which will pay off through out the five years of the show.

Spooky!

We’ve had our itunes competition draw and the winner was Dan LaRock, he’ll be receiving his Ronon figure courtesy of the US postal service. We have a bit of feedback in this weeks episode as well upcoming birthdays and a little news, we can never get too much feedback that’s a fact:)

This weeks promo is from our friend Nuchtchas and her podcast Nutty Bites and next week we are back at the SGC with the SG1 episode “Zero Hour”, join us and let us know what you think.