Daniel Butler
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quote:Originally posted by Aban Rune: Oma wasn't that bad. Yah, I mean she kind of screwed up the once. But she wasn't mean. Plus she talked in really cool riddles. And wasn't half bad to look at.
Yeah, but she was a rogue, remember? The only Ancients we've seen who wanted to do some actual good were punished or ostracized for it.
And about the Furlings, does anyone else just get a picture of little Ewoks in their heads whenever they're mentioned?
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Obviously with a name like that everyone thinks they are going to be furry.
What do we know of them so far?
One of the four 'great races'. Were more pacifist in nature like the Nox and didn't like to interfere compared with the Asgard. Are quite technologically advanced... They have tech motifs that look black and silver and have little pyramid structures Some wanted to abandon technology and formed that community. They were known to at least one Goa'uld (the one who screwed up their community)
I wonder if they are in their own galaxy?
I would assume they fit in with another Earth-myth...
Asgard/Norse Ancients/Roman? Later Ancients Merlin etc. Nox/Faeries
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I think I've heard it mentioned that the crystal skull race were supposed to turn out to be acended Furlings. It fits, but sounds more like speculation to me. I suppose it's possible that connection was droppd for whatever reason or the writers changed and it was simply forgotten. The latter would seam to be the case as they were built up to be enemies of the Goa'uld then never mentioned again.
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I also wonder if they're native to this galaxy or not. The Nox apparently are. The Ancients aren't, but had taken up residence and established a significant presence, likely having already built the Gate system, when the Alliance was established. The Asgard aren't native either, but had apparently been visiting for awhile.
Note: I haven't seen Seaon 10 yet (it's on pre-order at Amazon) so I may not be up on a couple of things.
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The writers HATED the Furlings, because it saddled an otherwise cool alien United Nations concept with a really dumb name. Think of the ribbing they took when they were announced at parites.
Host: "And now, the four races that rock our galaxy! The Ancients! The Asgard! The Nox! The... [snicker] the Furlings!!".
Nox: "Do not snicker at those less fortunate than you."
Asgard: "This rots, man. We TOTALLY need a fifth race to hang with now."
Ancients: "That's it, I'm outta here. See you on another plane."
When the current crop of producers took over in the third and fourth seasons, it quickly became one of the most derided questions that they were ALWAYS asked but NEVER wanted to answer. So when the opportunity came to parody the Furlings in "200", they turned out to be EXACTLY what you thought, or feared. And the Crystal Skull aliens were not meant to be the Furlings. Ascension was barely touched upopn at that time, and the writers probably didn't think much of it. Besides, the one example of Furling tech seems to indicate that whatever they looked like, they were at least as tall as regular humans as the buildings they had were about the right size.
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What I don't get is why not play off it. Sure you expect "Furlings" to be furry and Ewok-y, so turn it around and make it ironic: introduce them as grotesque alien spider things with tentacles for faces.
Sure it's dumb, but there's plenty of potential to make a decent joke out of it while still moving the story along, something which Stargate doesn't seem to have a problem with the rest of the time.
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Clearly, my brain is just wired differently, because, until I saw it discussed on the Internet, I always associated the word "Furling" with the word "furl", not "fur".
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Daniel Butler
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So...they're flat sheets of tissue with a long straight spine, which they wrap around like a flag?
That actually reminds me of a book I had when I was little, containing artists renditions of imagined life on different planets in the solar system... crystals on Pluto, ostrich-like things with giant ears to hear through the thin Martian air, Europan ice-skaters with lacy back spines to grab magnetic energy from Jupiter's magnetic field, and my favorite, giant gas-filled blimps with tentacles that floated through Jupiter's upper atmosphere consuming hydrogen. Point being: Why in this age of CGI is everything so damned humanoid? I want the Furlings to be grotesquely alien in physiology and psychology...
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Wasn't that a book simply entitled "SPACE"? From National Geographic or something. Had a big PAINTING of a spaceship (another rarity these days) on the cover. Borrowed it all the time from the school library. I liked the Venusians eating the Soviet Venera lander.
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