This is one of my favorite scenes showing McKay and Zelenka bouncing off one another productively and effectively. McKay is very good at the minutia and Zelenka has remarkable problem solving skills as well as being far better at staying on point for the problem. They work very well together, if McKay kept his ego in check better. Which, thankfully, he most certainly does.
Be real, he took one look at Sheppard and decided that the jock got to do all the physical exertion. This was long before he started becoming an even vaguely likeable person when not in active peril or faced with someone who was actively dying.
@@leonkernan Your sarcasm didn't come across 1) because it's written in non-emoting text and 2) because Rodney does actually grow a softer side later on that you could well have been mistakenly referring to. Pardon me for failing to understand something that is vague and open to interpretation.
I like that they went to the trouble to explain why an advanced city with a protective shield would bother with having lightning rods. Great attention to detail. Speaking of details, I always loved that the scorch mark in the gate room that you can see during the control room scene sticks around until the team actually starts getting resources from Earth and can take the time to repair it. Also the slow progression of Rodney learning Zelenka's name
@@JOESMITH-qs8ue I think he was more explaining to Sheppard, but Weir's questions were more to clarify/confirm what's been told to her previously. Or alternatively, the script for one of the scenes was rewritten but the other wasn't changed to account for it.
Czech accent in English is very specific, but difficult to describe. It does not sound like other Eastern Europeans. Also, Czech is a phonetic language, which means that everything is read _exactly_ as it is written and this causes Czechs to incorrectly pronounce sylables that are supposed to be deaf in English.
I think Nykl was out of practice in the first season. His normal Canadian accent comes through several times, like the start of this when he says 'Hurricane'.
To answer your question in the description, there probably is a remote access. It's just they've not found it. I mean when you consider some of levels deep you sometimes have to go in a modern operating system, trying to find the remote toggle switch for the grounding stations in a system that is thousands or even millions of times more advanced would probably not be easy.
the funny thing is nerds fear static electric surges from killing their tech part like computers and stuff which begs the question why do the shields not only survive the static electricity but also run off of it?
@@toomanyaccounts yeah except one slight problem with your logic the ancients designed the shields to run off of zpm power not lightning strikes there fore why does the shield not blow when it gets that first lightning strike fed into it? please actually watch the show before assuming that it was designed for lightning strikes when it was not the lightning rods feed the power into the sea not the shields Rodney just half fast rerouted the power to the shield assuming that it could take the power yet you computer cannot take a static shock to power it if you tried you would fry your computer cause it's designed for regular electricity
@@raven4k998 the ancients had lighting rods to channel the energy into the ocean. the system however could be fed by the lighting but that was more of a side effect of the power system design. they just had to have most of the people leave since it wasn't designed to channel the lighting completely. the atlantis team in other wods jury rigged a power source for the shield
@@Ragitsu they probably did but it was probably from a remote control station the atalantis expedition had yet to explore/repair after all they were still trying to get several sections working and powered well in to the later seasons and had lots of labs and contol rooms they had yet to discover the use of, plus knowing the ancient such a vital piece of city safety euipment pobably had a command code/password needed for the remote functions so manually is best way to A make sure they can disconnect them and B visually see they have disconnected last thing they would have wanted is a faulty sensor telling them they are all disconnected when one of them is not.
@@Ragitsu I do believe that when they say they had to disable them they mean reach into the guts of a thing that doesn't have an 'off' switch and pull out some important bits that won't damage it permanently if they're removed. This isn't the kind of system you want a hacker to be able to remotely disable since a hacker would also likely be able to flood the city with electricity and this system would be what makes that move futile. Though come to think of it the Ancients definitely weren't humble enough to be planning around getting hacked. But they were at war, so it's possible the Wraith forced them to think laterally and consider the possibility.
@@Ragitsu There probably wasn't one (or an easily accessible one) for the same reason there aren't ways to disable lightning rods on skyscrapers, or automatic brakes on elevators, or the brakes on your car. It's a giant safety system for the entire city, one with (presumably) three redundant grounding stations so that the corridors don't become deathtraps during storms! That's not something you want easily disabled, nor is it something you're probably ever going to want disabled, unless you're repairing the system. If you are repairing it, you'll have qualified technicians on-site. I mean, imagine if three backwater hicks, only one of which has a half-backed idea of how your tech works, decided they wanted to monkey with a system that handles multiple gigajoules of energy. That would be so dangerous!
It's neither, it's just a storm, a very powerful, very big storm. Calling them a tropical storm is a misnomer. In 1993 a storm called Braer developed in the Atlantic, it covered ⅔ of the Atlantic, had air pressure of a force 5 hurricane and wind of a force 3 but was still a storm.
Yes but the shield works with capacitor kind of system, it charges capacitors and keeps shields up for a certain amount of time, unless shield is being drained by damage on them. Or least that's how i understood it :D
Yes, once it's activated. But as you can see later in the episode, the idea was to supercharge the entire city, basically turn it into a big capacitor. The stored energy kept the shield up just long enough to block the most devastating super wave from washing away the city. Then the shield collapsed due to a lack of more incoming power, which meant certain decks especially around the back side of the city (from the perspective of where the wave was coming from) still got flooded. This is also why about half a dozen episodes later we get the one with the damaged lab on that side of the city where the replicator nano killer bots have been freed by the lab flooding.
@@Jukantos Was that flooding from the storm? I always thought that was left over from when they found the City. Even when they moved in, there were already sections of the outer part of the city that were flooded.
He would also have to refer to her as "doctor" if he wanted to use her proper honorific. The issue there is that he possesses the same honorific, effectively having the same academic "rank" as her. Thus, it would seem particularly stuffy to refer to her by her honorific.
weirs a civilian. He could call her Dr but thats more a formal thing and not something Rodney would use for general conversation. Later in the series he also stops calling Sheppard by his rank and uses his name.
