::blinks:: I hadn't processed that the night isn't dark at the South Pole. That's brilliant. (In contrast, I'm trying to reconcile when the Atlantis expedition could have been in Antarctica with the nine months or so that the continent is functionally inaccessible for winged craft, since they wouldn't have gone there until the end of SG-1 S7. Bleh.)

But I have a particular love for shows that are clearly shaped, start to finish. (I actually go into shows with the expectation they always are, for some demented reason, and am almost always disappointed.) A:TLA was so very clearly written to be exactly what it was, with no (or next to no) diversions or fillers and important pieces carefully laid out throughout. So much love!