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[QUOTE]Originally posted by MinutiaeMan: [QB] Okay, I've got several lines of thought here. [list=1] [*]First, pertaining mainly to "Hot Zone" but reinforced this week too: I could've sworn that all of the people in Atlantis' galaxy were supposed to be descended from the Ancients, and were not actually Humans. As I understand it (having not yet seen seasons 6 through 8 of "SG-1"), the Ancients evolved on Earth millions of years ago, and decided to head out to the Pegasus Galaxy some 10,000 years ago (as seen in Atlantis' pilot episode). Now, I suppose that 10,000 years ago is "recent" enough for the Ancients to have taken a bunch of prehistoric Humans with them on their joyride to Pegasus -- especially considering that 10,000 years ago was about the time that the Goa'uld started taking Human slaves, too. But at the same time, just [i]why[/i] would the Ancients want to take a bunch of Humans out to the Pegasus Galaxy in the first place? Resettlement? Hoping to save some of them from the Goa'uld? Cheap labor of a slightly more benevolent sort compared to the Goa'uld, considering the Ancients' probably-severely-declining population at that point in time? It just seems that there are a whole lot more questions that are raised if most everyone in the Pegasus Galaxy is actually Human, and not from the Ancients. [*]I'm deeply disturbed by some of the implications of the end of this episode. Chaya spoke as if the Ancients were continuously watching her, and as if they all had the power to do the same kinds of things that she could, i.e. wiping out Wraith ships en masse. And if the Ancients are still watching Chaya, that means that they're still in the Pegasus Galaxy -- and probably never left. Which raises the extremely troubling possibility that the Wraith [i]never actually defeated the Ancients at all[/i] -- instead, the Ancients just decided to pull out and cede the galaxy entirely. If that's true, we're treading dangerously close to a sort of "Prime Directive"-esque situation... or maybe something more along the lines of the Shadows/Vorlons conflict. Whatever the parallels, it means that the Ancients are apparently [i]not gone at all[/i], and instead are sitting idly by while the Wraith start yet another culling. (Of course, I don't mean "troubling" in the fact that "Atlantis" is being somewhat derivative, but more concerning the Ancients' apparent lack of ethics. I'm not jumping to conclusions regarding the development of the series arc just yet.) [*]This last seems trivial by comparison, but I figured I'd toss in my guess as to what was happening around the planet. Based on Chaya's explanation, it seems that the Wraith tried to attack there ten thousand years ago, during the Wraith-Ancient war. Like that planet full of kids, the Wraith probably stayed away, but regularly sent in a couple of fighters to check things out and see if their potential lunch was no longer guarded. I assume that it was just bad luck that the Wraith and the Jumper crossed paths when they did. Just how the Wraith knew exactly when the planet was no longer protected by Chaya, though, I can't tell. Maybe they had more ships just outside the system (being a staging area or something like Mark suggested), although I'd originally figured that the Wraith fighters came through the Stargate, just like the Jumper did. I suppose it was just one of those "it helps the plot" coincidences. [/list] That just about sums it up. Aside from the fact that I, too, loved those Kirk references. ;) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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