oblivion
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Post by oblivion on Mar 14, 2005 1:40:15 GMT -5
I was really impressed with this season 7 episode. It was understated, but the concepts were quite mindblowing. It reminded me of the Star Trek TOS episode about Landru.
A chilling tale for so many reasons! People "erased" from existence by a computer program that could revise the memories of all the inhabitants. People sent out of the safety of the habitat dome and into a corrosive maelstrom because the habitat had to shrink due to energy degradations...by the same computer. People's memories of the very place they lived revised, all by computer. And since everyone was in the link all the time, no one noticed the shrinking habitat, the erased people, even if the erased were their husbands, wives, governing council.
If the program had been written to notify people of problems instead of handling problems as best it could, it would have been a completely different world.
The message...Programmers of the world, be humble!
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Post by ConqueringWolf on Mar 14, 2005 10:37:55 GMT -5
hey....I have actually seen that eppie....once....I didnt get to see the whole thing but saw enough to recognixe what ur talking about...at the end the SG crew go outside the barrier in EV suits or something don;t they?
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Post by oblivion on Mar 14, 2005 12:16:53 GMT -5
Yep that's the episode. They go out in hasmat suits (think that's what they called them). That's when they found all the skeletons. The remains of dome inhabitants who'd been sent outside by the computer link because the dome had to shrink again.
There are 3 or 4 scenes after that. The climax of the episode was when Teal'c and O'Neil were cornered by the dome inhabitants who insist they link to the computer. Meanwhile, down in the control center, Sam and the environmental controls engineer are working frantically to reprogram the info being fed to the inhabitants.
At the end of the episode, it was quite sad. The memories the computer had revised were revised forever. Taking off the link didn't allow people to remember spouses, parents, etc. who had been removed from memory and from the dome. The engineer asks Sam to describe his lost wife to him. The only record of her existance was in the memories of the SG-1 team.
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Post by asguard on Mar 15, 2005 21:26:48 GMT -5
It was cool at the end when the computer told the people to attack sg-1.The people where like zombies when they where controled by the computer
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Post by oblivion on Mar 16, 2005 20:12:27 GMT -5
That was part of the reason the episode reminded me of the "Landru" episode of Star Trek TOS.
As soon as we realized the people in the habitat dome were hooked up to a central computer, the jokes began...
"Are you of the body?"
"You are not of the body!"
"It is the will of Landru"
etc...
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Post by asguard on Mar 17, 2005 20:24:22 GMT -5
It would be freeky having a computer hooked up into ur head
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oblivion
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Post by oblivion on Mar 18, 2005 3:01:06 GMT -5
I'd love to have the instant access to information not stored in my own poor overworked brain! And some more computational speed would be cool, too. But, I'd want to be in control. No "revisions"!
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BFD
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Post by BFD on Feb 2, 2006 20:27:17 GMT -5
I just re-watched this episode. It is probably one the best episodes for the "techy" sci-fi fans. I just wish they hadn't recycled the engineer into a regular Atlantis character...it kind of spoils it for those of us who obsessively watch old seasons.
Oh, and don't worry, as a programmer, I would NEVER dream of writing code that would erase your memory...unless it was of the $50 I borrowed...lol ;D
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Post by syborg on Feb 6, 2006 10:36:33 GMT -5
The problem with the episode was how did the machine which they sent into the dome survive the toxis environment and later how did the Sg-1 team survive? because the Stargate was not in the same place as the dome
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Post by BFD on Feb 6, 2006 11:25:45 GMT -5
It takes time for things to corrode..besides, it would make sense for the MALP to be constructed to withstand corrosive environments long enough to evaluate the situation and send back the data. And didn't you see the Haz-Mat suits?
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