OH. MY. GOD.
that episode BROKE MY BRAIN.
First off, I was utterly confused for the first two minutes. My mom actually walked in and stared at the screen and asked, "What is this?" To which I replied, "Stargate Atlantis." "OUR Stargate Atlantis?" "Yes." "Not Psych? Or CSI?" "No."
And then the show proceeded to BLOW. MY. MIND.
I sat on that couch making a @o@ face for the entire time. IT WAS JUST A GIANT FANFIC. YOU KNOW IT WAS. At first I thought, "Oh, this is just the Atlantis team undercover tracking a rogue Wraith. John is pretending to be a detective." And then he's all "weird handprint..." and i'm like "WHAT. NO." and then I had to work through twenty million layers of "wtf" in my brain to figure out what was going on:
a) did they go undercover and come into contact with some Ancient device that erased their real memories?
b) did the writers start reading fanfic?
And the thing with the Wraith: first of all, my logic sensors are now out of whack because: that is a human being who has applied prosthetics to look like a wraith...applying prosthetics to look like a human. SECOND, of COURSE wraith would totally listen to marilyn manson. and dress like punkers.
Thirdly, am i the only one who thought that was hot? the whole wraith-dressing-human and wearing leather and spikes and oh my gosh there's something wrong with me.
RODNEY. ohmygosh he was ADORABLE in his whole "i will own your life" shpeel. he was so...commanding. It turned me on to no end. I'm sure it turned John on, too. He was prolly all, "okay, you can have me." or maybe the interrogation turned into some desperate sex-on-the-table and during the aftermath of the best orgasm of John's life, he realized that there are ALIENS and they LISTEN TO MARILYN MANSON and he's not ALONE.
anyway
at the end, the GOLD TELEVISION MOMENT OF MY LIFE: "The field medic, the one you went back for in Afghanistan? You knew them personally? You were....involved?" YES. YES. THEY JUST OUTED JOHN SHEPPARD ON NATIONAL TELEVISION. MY LIFE IS COMPLETE.