Broken Ties (SGA)

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SSG286: Could you ever trust a friend the Wraith had turned? Stargate Atlantis Season 5, Episode 3, “Broken Ties,” asks it twice. Tyre, the Satedan who turned Wraith worshipper in “Reunion,” lures Ronon Dex into a trap and hands him to a Wraith scientist, desperate to win back his place and his next dose of the Wraith enzyme. The Wraith feeds on Ronon and gives his life back, again and again, until Ronon breaks and joins them.

Jeff Haecker, Lisa Jones, and Victor Lams follow both men through it. Tyre’s withdrawal on Atlantis plays like an addiction drama, and the panel wonders why it came so long after “Reunion.” Lisa admits she lost track of whether Tyre ever really betrayed the team; Jeff walks through how the detox brought him back for good, from freeing the prisoners to cutting off the Wraith’s feeding hand to the sacrifice that ends the episode.

Mark Dacascos returns as Tyre for a sword fight with Jason Momoa choreographed by stunt coordinator James “Bam Bam” Bamford. The episode ran more than six minutes long, and Victor says half the fight was lost to the cut. Victor shares the story of Momoa’s dreadlocks, roughly six pounds of hair that became a wig after the network asked to keep the look, plus Ronon’s punch to Sheppard’s face and the DVD commentary Momoa recorded with Joseph Mallozzi.

There’s plenty of Woolsey, too. Robert Picardo gets the doors, a crying baby handed off on the way to the cafeteria, and his best scene yet: slipping into “something more comfortable,” which turns out to be a suit, a pocket square, and a glass of red wine. Meanwhile Teyla decides whether to rejoin Sheppard’s team, and Kanaan supports whatever she chooses, which doesn’t win him many points with the panel.

Plus: Ronon’s own withdrawal, McKay’s piano lessons, Joel Goldsmith’s score for the closing montage, the German, French and Japanese titles, and Lisa’s question about whether anyone should trust Ronon again so soon.

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