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Well the Daedelus could just pick up a gate (once they deal with thier current situation). The gate might not be destroyed though - it takes a lot to physically destroy a Stargate.
Haven't read plot blurbs so didn't know Shepherd survived. Thanks.
The panouts have been used before - was it the ?finale of season 2? the first time we saw them?
Are these new aliens in anyway similar to the aliens we saw in "The Daedelus Variations"?
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NOpe, not at all. The armor, tech, and the fact that they actually SPEAK are all giveaways. THey also usa ship which is very reminiscent of the puddle jumpers... I'm thinking they're also ancients of a sort. Perhaps they're sealed in their suits to stay away from their plague?
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Or they're somehow culturally related to the Ancients or the Ori, but are not Ancients physically. They could pass through the Atlantis shield, and as Female Technician noted, Ancient ships can do that (we saw it in the opening shot of the series premiere actually, when a jumper passed through the shield). I thought it was cool how they opened a window on the *other side* of the shield *before* passing through it, as if the shield's presence simply didn't matter to them. That's rather worrisome as (aside, as noted, from Ancient ships themselves) nothing has ever been shown to be able to penetrate an Ancient force field until it's depleted and shuts off. And I note the suited guy they shot to death had an arm-shield that was able to be depleted.
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quote:Originally posted by Daniel Butler: I think he was joking about the heaven thing...
Well, yes, but given the character the joke didn't fit very well. It would've been nice if his line was something like, "I don't think so, I don't remember the afterlife looking like this..."
I don't know, something like that, but maybe that would've been too much of an in joke that the casual viewer (are there any?) would've missed.
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Well if you really want to pick that offhand joke apart, Daniel never really 'died', he ascended and even then he had his memories wiped of the experience.
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Besides, that all happened YEARS ago. He's been through much worse since. Like the time he had to read scripts for "Wormhole X-Treme!" the movie. That was far more painful!
Anyway, they've accidentally let the identity of the armored aliens slip on Gateworld, where they show one guy stepping out. I won't spoil it here - but blimey, I didn't see that one coming.
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Holy shit! That's a big one, all right... never suspected! Makes a lot more sense...
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Um...I can't find anything about it. How bout a link? That wouldn't ruin it for anyone who didn't click.
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Damn you all and your temptalizing.
Must...resist...
EDIT: Yeah, what's the deal. Couldn't find anything.
Also, what's the deal with naming a space cruiser after Apollo? Even though SG-1 may never have fought him, isn't he probably a System Lord? What with all the gods from human mythology being evil alien overlords and everything? What's next, the USS Anubis?
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"Also, what's the deal with naming a space cruiser after Apollo? Even though SG-1 may never have fought him, isn't he probably a System Lord? What with all the gods from human mythology being evil alien overlords and everything? What's next, the USS Anubis?"
The Goa'uld assumed the identities of some Earth deities, not all of them. That would have been a lot of System Lords.
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Or a lot of Goa'uld - not every god-named Goa'uld was a System Lord. All the Goa'uld were supposed to be gods.
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The Asgard also assumed deity names... probably Tok'ra, too. Maybe even the Nox and Furlings, who knows?
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NO WAY!
Man, that's totally why I don't do spoilers. I suck.
Anyway, re Apollo:
It's true that we don't know for sure. But it just seems odd given the nature of Apollo and the rest of the Greco-Roman and Mesopotamian gods, since they all liked to torture and mess with humans. Conversely, using Norse for the Asgard made sense, since IIRC, they were much more beneficial figures to mankind than Mediterranean and Mesopotamian gods.
Anyway, it's not a huge thing, but you'd think given what they know, they'd be more likely to name their ship Thor or Freya or similar.
Random final thought: Do we know how the Titans from Greek mythology play into the Stargate mythos, if at all? Prometheus was a titan that gave mankind fire and who was then punished by Zeus, so it makes sense a) to name a ship for him and b) that he was an Ancient, Tokra, or similar friendly figure who defied a System Lord and was punished. I'd be interested in seeing a story based on the Titan/Olympian struggle myth. Maybe the Titans were remnants of the Ancients that were ultimately defeated by the emerging System Lords?
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