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SGA 2x14 "Grace Under Pressure" SPOILERS
A little late because of existential crises and other fun stuff.
So, you know how I've wanted them to do more with the ocean? I got it this time! This episode was like Apollo 13 meets The Hunt for Red October with a dash of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Star Trek: The Voyage Home.
McKay and aredshirt guy from the Daedalus are having a jumper ride. They're testing the jumper that got shot down in an earlier episode. Griffin, the Daedalus guy, is musing about the fact that scientists like Rodney have to prepare for the disappointment of having their discoveries completely debunked by later generations. This does not sit well with Rodney. Griffin comments that a lot of scientific innovation seems to have been done by Spaniards. Rodney is not one of the Barcelona McKays. *snicker*
Uh-oh! Trouble with the inertial dampeners (aren't those the same bastards that threatened the city last week?) Brace for impact! SPLASH! Oh noes!!
Zelenka is trying to raise them on the radio. Time has passed. Rodney wakes up. He has a bad cut on his head. He responds, then realizes, holy shit, we're under the freaking water!! Zelenka says they're 1200 feet deep and sinking!
Maura: 1200 feet! That's almost the maximum depth for a nuc!
Rodney: That's almost the maximum depth for a nuclear submarine!
Glass is cracking. This is very bad. Zelenka remains calm on the radio. He'd make a great 911 operator. Griffin heroically seals himself in the front compartment while it's flooding, thereby saving Rodney in the rear compartment. *hugs* We loves Griffin!
Okay. This is creepy. It's dark and scary and Rodney keeps chanting "Open fields, open fields, you're in a wide open field." Why am I not surprised to find that he's claustrophobic?
Ack! The radio transmitter is flooded! Now they'll never find him!
Maura: Where the hell is Sheppard? And Rodney should know that salt water is an extremely poor conductor for radio signals. He is so screwed. And it's going to get very cold. And what about the air? Where the hell is Gene Kranz and the NASA geek squad when you need them??
Back in Atlantis, Sheppard knows Rodney's alive and will not rest until he's been found and brought back to their bed.
Rodney has calmed down and hooked his laptop up to the jumper. He activates the emergency transmitter (psst, Rodney, salt water doesn't do much for conducting "emergency" radio signals, either). As we know, Rodney likes to talk. Now he's talking to the jumper! There is much maniacal laughter, especially when he discovers he's only got about three-and-a-half hours of power left. And it's getting cold. He bargains with the jumper to let him have enough heat to keep from hypothermia while reserving as much power as possible to stop him from, you know, dying. Rodney has a revelation: "I have been struck on the head." He assesses his symptoms and behaviour and realizes that he's suffering from hypoxia.
Maura: What did I tell you about the air?
He boosts the power to the Co2 scrubbers (happily there isn't that square thing in a round hole problem) --"I'm going to dial up the Co2 scrubbers or I'm going to die of hypoxia! *giggles* That is SO funny!"
In Atlantis, Sheppard has a plan. It's a clever plan. Apparently some guys came to the Pegasus galaxy to study the ocean on a planet where the water is all under a huge crust of ice. They have some kind of winch/grapple thing. He's going to make the jumper submersible and attach this winch/grapple thing to it. "It's like chocolate and peanut butter," he tells Weir.
Weir comments that Sheppard and McKay have been pestering her for a long time to let them take one of the jumpers and play sub driver.
Maura: Hee! It's just like those gay submarine porn titles we came up with: Depth Charge, Emergency Blow and Dive, He Said.
Elizabeth gives Sheppard the go-ahead and he RUNS back to work.
Rodney doesn't look too good. "Look," he says to the jumper, "I need to be the one saving the poor bastard stuck down here. I'm not actually supposed to BE the poor bastard stuck down here." There are scary hull popping noises and then what the closed captioning described as 'eerie whale-like moaning'.
Maura: (in bad Scottish accent): Captain! There be WHALES here!! OMG! Where is that damn cetacean expert from 7th Heaven when you need her??
Rodney asks the whale if he is friendly or hungry. Then he exhorts the whale to go get help. Happily, he's not so far gone that he doesn't realize he's "treating an alien whale like Lassie." But this gives him an idea. If he can get the jumper's drive pods working, maybe he can actually "swim" the jumper to the surface!
Zelenka is trying very hard to figure out where Rodney might be, what with the rate of descent and the ocean currents etc. He explains all of this to Weir, calling her "Elizabeth". He is so dead gone on her!
Rodney is cracking right the hell up. He's muttering to himself about needing a new set of eyes when a female voice says, "Let me have a look."
Maura: The whale has turned into a woman and beamed aboard to save Rodney!
It's actually Dr. Samantha Carter from SG-1. WTF? She's all in pink and showing some cleavage. She explains that he's having a hallucination. He needs help and his subconscious has manifested the one person he knows who is smarter than him. There is some discussion of who's smarter and how badly Sam wants to jump Rodney's bones. Hell of a hallucination there, Doctor!
Maura: Uh-huh. I'd still prefer the whale.
Zelenka has narrowed the search field down to three miles! Sheppard is pleased. The jumper can dive to 1000 feet and the grapple is 1000 feet, so as long as Rodney hasn't gone too deep, they can snatch him and haul him nearer the surface.
Maura: Where's the Daedalus? Can't Hermiod just beam Rodney to safety? It worked for Ford.
Sheppard wants to convert the jumper's cloak into a shield so they won't get totally crushed by the weight of the ocean, but he needs Zelenka along to make it happen. Zelenka doesn't want to go.
Maura: What's the matter, Radek? You think Sheppard's going to try to braid your hair and paint your face?
Sheppard is willing to order Zelenka to join him (because his woobie is in trouble), but Weir uses her wiles to persuade Zelenka to go.
Rodney, meanwhile, is proceeding with his plan to get the drive pods running. Sam doesn't think that's a good idea, besides, she (who is really Rodney's mind) KNOWS that Sheppard will come for him.
Maura: Awww. Sheppard's like Gibbs. He won't leave anyone behind!
Zelenka and Sheppard are in the jumper, speeding over the ocean. Zelenka manages to do the cloak-to-shield conversion and they submerge.
Sam and Rodney are still arguing when the jumper hits bottom. Very bad. Perched on a ridge. Rodney is getting fed up with Sam -- "You claim to be a creation of my mind and, yet, you are in no way dressed provocatively." *giggle* But...oh noes! Micro-fissures in the hull from the crash! Water seeping into the rear compartment!
Maura(singing): "The captain wired in he had water comin' in and the good ship and crew were in peril!"
Back in the jumper, Zelenka is getting sporadic life sign readings.
Sheppard: As in sea monster life sign readings??
Maura: A man after me own heart!
Rodney is now under water. He's going to freeze! He surfaces and wonders aloud why he and Dr. Carter never "hooked up". Apparently, it's because he's petty, arrogant, and bad with people.
Maura: Oh, and? GAY!!!
Sam suggests he increase the air pressure to slow the seepage. "You're a figment of my imagination. The least you could do is take your top off!"
Maura: I say the same thing to my figments all the time Rodney. They never comply.
Zelenka reports that the jumper's shield is draining. They only have 30 minutes to save Rodney.
And now, things get a little weird. Sam is cuddling up to Rodney "for warmth".
Maura: Reading the Due South fanfiction, are we, Sam?
Rodney points out that this is impossible. Sam asserts that she can get Rodney hot.
Rodney: EXCUSE ME???
Sam submerges and when she comes up, she's in her underwear! Oh my. They're kissing. A lot. And Rodney is very, very hot. Sam was right. But suddenly...
Maura: Ewww! Girl cooties!
...he pulls away. "I'm not going to fall for your plan, Lieutenant Colonel Siren! He thinks she's trying to slow him down and distract him from getting the drive pods running. He goes back to work. The water is up to his chin. The pods fire up and then fizzle out. He now has about half an hour of power left. *gulp*
But Sheppard is coming! Zelenka, according to the captions, is 'speaking bitterly in Czech'. Big power drainage. And the sea monster? They're getting closer to it. Sheppard notices that it seems to be circling a particular spot! The whale IS Lassie!!
Rodney's sinking, literally and figuratively. He feels terrible about the redshirt sacrificing himself. Sam assures him that he'll make it. "I don't think I'd even believe that if you were naked." He closes his eyes, but then opens one just to see if she, in fact, gets nekkid. Nope.
Sheppard and Zelenka find the jumper, but they can't grapple it up because it's full of water. Sheppard is stricken! But Zelenka has an idea -- they can extend the jumper shield around Rodney's jumper, get him out, and get the hell out of there.
And then Sheppard is knocking on the door of Rodney's jumper. Rodney isn't sure if it's real or not and freaks out a bit. Eventually, Sam convinces him that it's really Sheppard at the door and not a land shark.
Sheppard and Zelenka drag Rodney into their jumper. The whale waves good-bye.
Maura: Awwww! Sweet!
Now off to watch NCIS!
M.
So, you know how I've wanted them to do more with the ocean? I got it this time! This episode was like Apollo 13 meets The Hunt for Red October with a dash of The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and Star Trek: The Voyage Home.
McKay and a
Uh-oh! Trouble with the inertial dampeners (aren't those the same bastards that threatened the city last week?) Brace for impact! SPLASH! Oh noes!!
Zelenka is trying to raise them on the radio. Time has passed. Rodney wakes up. He has a bad cut on his head. He responds, then realizes, holy shit, we're under the freaking water!! Zelenka says they're 1200 feet deep and sinking!
Maura: 1200 feet! That's almost the maximum depth for a nuc!
Rodney: That's almost the maximum depth for a nuclear submarine!
Glass is cracking. This is very bad. Zelenka remains calm on the radio. He'd make a great 911 operator. Griffin heroically seals himself in the front compartment while it's flooding, thereby saving Rodney in the rear compartment. *hugs* We loves Griffin!
Okay. This is creepy. It's dark and scary and Rodney keeps chanting "Open fields, open fields, you're in a wide open field." Why am I not surprised to find that he's claustrophobic?
Ack! The radio transmitter is flooded! Now they'll never find him!
Maura: Where the hell is Sheppard? And Rodney should know that salt water is an extremely poor conductor for radio signals. He is so screwed. And it's going to get very cold. And what about the air? Where the hell is Gene Kranz and the NASA geek squad when you need them??
Back in Atlantis, Sheppard knows Rodney's alive and will not rest until he's been found and brought back to their bed.
Rodney has calmed down and hooked his laptop up to the jumper. He activates the emergency transmitter (psst, Rodney, salt water doesn't do much for conducting "emergency" radio signals, either). As we know, Rodney likes to talk. Now he's talking to the jumper! There is much maniacal laughter, especially when he discovers he's only got about three-and-a-half hours of power left. And it's getting cold. He bargains with the jumper to let him have enough heat to keep from hypothermia while reserving as much power as possible to stop him from, you know, dying. Rodney has a revelation: "I have been struck on the head." He assesses his symptoms and behaviour and realizes that he's suffering from hypoxia.
Maura: What did I tell you about the air?
He boosts the power to the Co2 scrubbers (happily there isn't that square thing in a round hole problem) --"I'm going to dial up the Co2 scrubbers or I'm going to die of hypoxia! *giggles* That is SO funny!"
In Atlantis, Sheppard has a plan. It's a clever plan. Apparently some guys came to the Pegasus galaxy to study the ocean on a planet where the water is all under a huge crust of ice. They have some kind of winch/grapple thing. He's going to make the jumper submersible and attach this winch/grapple thing to it. "It's like chocolate and peanut butter," he tells Weir.
Weir comments that Sheppard and McKay have been pestering her for a long time to let them take one of the jumpers and play sub driver.
Maura: Hee! It's just like those gay submarine porn titles we came up with: Depth Charge, Emergency Blow and Dive, He Said.
Elizabeth gives Sheppard the go-ahead and he RUNS back to work.
Rodney doesn't look too good. "Look," he says to the jumper, "I need to be the one saving the poor bastard stuck down here. I'm not actually supposed to BE the poor bastard stuck down here." There are scary hull popping noises and then what the closed captioning described as 'eerie whale-like moaning'.
Maura: (in bad Scottish accent): Captain! There be WHALES here!! OMG! Where is that damn cetacean expert from 7th Heaven when you need her??
Rodney asks the whale if he is friendly or hungry. Then he exhorts the whale to go get help. Happily, he's not so far gone that he doesn't realize he's "treating an alien whale like Lassie." But this gives him an idea. If he can get the jumper's drive pods working, maybe he can actually "swim" the jumper to the surface!
Zelenka is trying very hard to figure out where Rodney might be, what with the rate of descent and the ocean currents etc. He explains all of this to Weir, calling her "Elizabeth". He is so dead gone on her!
Rodney is cracking right the hell up. He's muttering to himself about needing a new set of eyes when a female voice says, "Let me have a look."
Maura: The whale has turned into a woman and beamed aboard to save Rodney!
It's actually Dr. Samantha Carter from SG-1. WTF? She's all in pink and showing some cleavage. She explains that he's having a hallucination. He needs help and his subconscious has manifested the one person he knows who is smarter than him. There is some discussion of who's smarter and how badly Sam wants to jump Rodney's bones. Hell of a hallucination there, Doctor!
Maura: Uh-huh. I'd still prefer the whale.
Zelenka has narrowed the search field down to three miles! Sheppard is pleased. The jumper can dive to 1000 feet and the grapple is 1000 feet, so as long as Rodney hasn't gone too deep, they can snatch him and haul him nearer the surface.
Maura: Where's the Daedalus? Can't Hermiod just beam Rodney to safety? It worked for Ford.
Sheppard wants to convert the jumper's cloak into a shield so they won't get totally crushed by the weight of the ocean, but he needs Zelenka along to make it happen. Zelenka doesn't want to go.
Maura: What's the matter, Radek? You think Sheppard's going to try to braid your hair and paint your face?
Sheppard is willing to order Zelenka to join him (because his woobie is in trouble), but Weir uses her wiles to persuade Zelenka to go.
Rodney, meanwhile, is proceeding with his plan to get the drive pods running. Sam doesn't think that's a good idea, besides, she (who is really Rodney's mind) KNOWS that Sheppard will come for him.
Maura: Awww. Sheppard's like Gibbs. He won't leave anyone behind!
Zelenka and Sheppard are in the jumper, speeding over the ocean. Zelenka manages to do the cloak-to-shield conversion and they submerge.
Sam and Rodney are still arguing when the jumper hits bottom. Very bad. Perched on a ridge. Rodney is getting fed up with Sam -- "You claim to be a creation of my mind and, yet, you are in no way dressed provocatively." *giggle* But...oh noes! Micro-fissures in the hull from the crash! Water seeping into the rear compartment!
Maura(singing): "The captain wired in he had water comin' in and the good ship and crew were in peril!"
Back in the jumper, Zelenka is getting sporadic life sign readings.
Sheppard: As in sea monster life sign readings??
Maura: A man after me own heart!
Rodney is now under water. He's going to freeze! He surfaces and wonders aloud why he and Dr. Carter never "hooked up". Apparently, it's because he's petty, arrogant, and bad with people.
Maura: Oh, and? GAY!!!
Sam suggests he increase the air pressure to slow the seepage. "You're a figment of my imagination. The least you could do is take your top off!"
Maura: I say the same thing to my figments all the time Rodney. They never comply.
Zelenka reports that the jumper's shield is draining. They only have 30 minutes to save Rodney.
And now, things get a little weird. Sam is cuddling up to Rodney "for warmth".
Maura: Reading the Due South fanfiction, are we, Sam?
Rodney points out that this is impossible. Sam asserts that she can get Rodney hot.
Rodney: EXCUSE ME???
Sam submerges and when she comes up, she's in her underwear! Oh my. They're kissing. A lot. And Rodney is very, very hot. Sam was right. But suddenly...
Maura: Ewww! Girl cooties!
...he pulls away. "I'm not going to fall for your plan, Lieutenant Colonel Siren! He thinks she's trying to slow him down and distract him from getting the drive pods running. He goes back to work. The water is up to his chin. The pods fire up and then fizzle out. He now has about half an hour of power left. *gulp*
But Sheppard is coming! Zelenka, according to the captions, is 'speaking bitterly in Czech'. Big power drainage. And the sea monster? They're getting closer to it. Sheppard notices that it seems to be circling a particular spot! The whale IS Lassie!!
Rodney's sinking, literally and figuratively. He feels terrible about the redshirt sacrificing himself. Sam assures him that he'll make it. "I don't think I'd even believe that if you were naked." He closes his eyes, but then opens one just to see if she, in fact, gets nekkid. Nope.
Sheppard and Zelenka find the jumper, but they can't grapple it up because it's full of water. Sheppard is stricken! But Zelenka has an idea -- they can extend the jumper shield around Rodney's jumper, get him out, and get the hell out of there.
And then Sheppard is knocking on the door of Rodney's jumper. Rodney isn't sure if it's real or not and freaks out a bit. Eventually, Sam convinces him that it's really Sheppard at the door and not a land shark.
Sheppard and Zelenka drag Rodney into their jumper. The whale waves good-bye.
Maura: Awwww! Sweet!
Now off to watch NCIS!
M.
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Maura: Oh, and? GAY!!!
LOL I so enjoy reading these recaps! Of course, I'd enjoy watching the ep a bit more, me thinks, but since I can't.... *g*
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M.