History Recap / StargateAtlantisS02E14GraceUnderPressure

* MsFanservice: Though Carter’s primary role in this episode is to serve as a voice of reason to [=McKay=] as he slowly loses his grip on reality thanks to a concussion, blood loss, and hypothermia, this is sill ''[=McKay’s=] mental image of Carter, so she’s dressed in a bright pink Atlantis jacket with the zipper undone enough for a nice view of her cleavage. Later on, she rises from the water wearing nothing from the waist up but a blue bra.

* MsFanservice: Though Carter’s primary role in this episode is to serve as a voice of reason to [=McKay=] as he slowly loses his grip on reality thanks to a concussion, blood loss, and hypothermia, this is sill ''[=McKay’s=] mental image of Carter, so she’s dressed in a bright pink Atlantis jacket with the zipper undone enough for a nice view of her cleavage. Later on, she rises from the water wearing nothing but a blue bra.

* StockEpisodeTitles: A comparatively minor case, currently coming in at 5 uses.

* AtlantisIsBoring: The Lantean Ocean, which covers most of the planet, contains... whales. Or, as far as we can tell, exactly one whale. ''And nothing else.''
** The lack of sealife on an oceanworld is later explained in-universe during Season Three's "Echoes"... but the reason why is definitely not good. [[spoiler: The Lantean sun has a coronal mass ejection every 20,000 years or so, at which time a huge radiation spike wipes out all life on the planet unless its shielded]]

** The lack of sealife on an oceanworld is later explained... but the reason why is definitely not good. [[spoiler: The Lantean sun has a coronal mass ejection every 20,000 years or so, at which time a huge radiation spike wipes out all life on the planet unless its shielded]]

Griffin and [=McKay=]'s Jumper is sinking fast, and the external pressure is taking its toll on the windshield integrity. [=McKay=] and Griffin retreat to the back half of the Jumper - where they can't close the door. Griffin elects to close the door from the outside, sacrificing himself and leaving [=McKay=] alive, alone, and in the dark, with a bleeding head wound. The rest of the episode is him feaking out in a closed room until Sheppard comes and rescues him.

* RecycledScript: From "Grace," as the writers are well aware.

** The lack of sealife on an oceanworld is later explained... but the reason why is definitely not good. [[spoiler: The Atlantian Sun has a coronal mass ejection every 20,000 years or so, at which time a huge radiation spike wipes out all life on the planet unless its shielded]]

* AlmostOutOfOxygen: briefly, but he fixes it.

* AtlantisIsBoring: The Lantean Ocean, which covers most of the planet, contains...whales. Or, as far as we can tell, exactly one whale. ''And nothing else.''

* HardHead: averted. [=McKay=]'s knock on the head in fact drives much of the plot.

* BadAss: Griffin. While Rodney is panicking and berating him as the Jumper sinks, in 10 seconds, Griffin doesn't even hesitate to go into the cockpit, wish him luck, and then close the doors and sacrifice himself to save Rodney, before Rodney even figures out whats happening.

* HeroicSacrifice: Griffin

* HiddenDepths: Griffin may appear to be a RedShirt taxi-driver of a Puddle Jumper, but apart from the occasional gap in knowledge, does raise some rather good philosophical questions about science and if McKay ever feels depressed that later generations might consider his theories "wrong"

* AtlantisIsBoring: The Lantean Ocean, which covers most of the planet, contains...whales. Or, as far as we can tell, exacly one whale. ''And nothing else.''

Despite his urgings, Carter remains depressingly true to life, offering helpful advice on his personality problems, the reasons there is no chance they would ever be a couple, and how to stay alive in a sinking Puddlejumper with limited energy remaining. In particular, she opposes his plan to try to surface, saying that instead he should sit tight and let himself be rescued. And then the Jumper hits bottom, and begins to take in water. Which Carter swims in. [=McKay=] goes ahead with his plan anyway - which fails, leaving him with no power up to his waist in freezing water in a lost Jumper on the bottom of the sea. On the upside, Carter has finally consented to take her shirt off.

Sheppard and Zelenka finally manage to get a Jumper more or less seaworthy and start scouring the oceans, finding nothing but the occasional whale. Fortunately, said whale is going around and around in circles centered on a specific point. Sheppard investigates and finds - the downed Jumper! Apparently the whale took [=McKay=]'s earlier urgings to go find help for him seriously - and does he say thank you? Of course not. Zelenka has prevented the second Jumper from imploding by modifying its cloak into a shield. When they get close enough, they just extend the shield around the second Jumper, and Sheppard walks [=McKay=] on out, waving a brief goodbye to Carter as he goes.