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So....anyone else watch the rest of Atlantis?
I felt that the finale was very very rushed. Would've been much better as either a two-parter or a telemovie like the pilot.
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hzzz wuh? Is this show still on? Oh, I guess I stopped thinking about it. *sigh* And it used to be my favourite show, too. ...Why is my Firefox suddenly using a British English spell-checking dictionary?
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The last episode was a neat premise, but it really should have been two hours. They made the super Wraith ship out to be this massive threat, but they never put on a face on it to give it personality.
The Death Star had Grand Moff Tarkin and the Emperor, the Borg had Locutus, etc...Super weapon stories need someone behind the wheel to make them interesting. If Todd had been commanding the ship I think it would have been more interesting.
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So now Atlantis is on Earth. San Francisco in fact - by the Golden Gate Bridge, like Starfleet . So what's to become of the Expedition? Will they withdraw from Pegasus completely? I can't remember if there are supposed to be DVD movies.
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There is one to be filmed in 2009 for release this fall, presumably before Universe begins. SG-1 is supposed to get a movie too, which will probably be its last (it was hinted at in the finale with the Odyssey off on a secret mission and Carter set to take command of the "General Hammond").
With Atlantis now on Earth, there seems very little reason to bother with Pegasus anymore, though arguably they need to take care of the Wraith threat now that they know where Earth is.
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I think it's safe to say that Atlantis will be going back to Pegasus. If nothing else they have the only gate in the galaxy that can connect to the Milkyway (or was it just earth?) Random thoughts:- Anyone else think "wormhole drive" was a bit out of the blue and unnecessary? Nice of them to acknowledge Don S. Davis's passing in that way. As for the Oddessy's secret mission, I just took it as a convenient way to keep the rest of SG-1 out of the way. Could be a link in to the next movie though. We'll see. I liked the little exchange about the Star Trek Experience, especially ironic with Picardo in the room. Somehow, I'm not even remotely surprised that the Wraith was a Marilyn Manson fan.
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Yeah, the wormhole drive was just stupid. Crappy idea, struck me as fanboyish, completely out of the blue. I'm just ignoring it though because bitching about it won't make it better :-/ Much as I'd like to...
Well, it's just that there's a galaxy full of people they left behind there, including some alliances and friends (the Athosians, for example?), and sources of Ancient artifacts mayhap. Pegasus isn't fully explored yet after all.
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Oh I almost forgot, the sound effects for the A-10s weren't even close to the real thing. Tankbusters are loud and clanky, like a petrol lawnmower on steroids. Those things sounded like jet fighters. Of course I only to know this because I happen to live on the flightpath out of Boscombe Down.
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I've seen 'em at airshows and you are right. They sound much like my local garbage truck going around 500 kph uphill and on fast forward. Likewise, the guns sound completely different than what we heard, more like a buzzsaw.
As for the fate of Atlantis, remember the original concept of the show was that Atlantis WAS the antarctic outpost they were always looking for - SG-1 was SUPPOSED to end, and Atlantis would take over from the SGC and battle the Replicators for years to come. When it was decided that Atlantis and SG-1 would run concurrently for a while, they moved Atlantis to another galaxy to effectively keep them out of each other's way. Now that SG-1 is over, there shouldn't be much reason to move Atlantis back to Pegasus, which is a relatively volatile place compared to the godless (or Goa'uld-less, or Ori-less) masses of the Milky Way. If Wraith fightin' is needed, they have up to five Daedalus class ships available now (Daedalus, Odyssey, Sun Tzu, Apollo, and now General Hammond) to whup their butts with their Asgard weapons and shields.
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What about 'em? They don't justify keeping the city there IMO. It's not like Atlantis was providing much more than a relatively safe base of operations; it's not a sanctuary, nor a significant resource for most of the people living there. Assuming the Wraith are taken care of in the upcoming movie (and the Iron Asgard don't provide much further trouble), the newly-formed coalition in Pegasus should be able to take care of things. A routine visit by starship every once in a while to keep an eye on things should suffice while Atlantis remains on Earth so the locals can continue to pry its secrets out.
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Well now that have 3 ZPMs they don't need to keep the city in any one place at all now. It can be fully mobile and go wherever they want it to. Though given the Antarctic outpost chair is destroyed, I imagine the IOA will want Atlantis to stay as Earth's new last line of defence.
That begs the question though; did they move the whole outpost to Area 51, or just the chair control mechanism? Did we ever get much of a sense of how big the outpost was for that matter?
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. So what's to become of the Expedition? Will they withdraw from Pegasus completely? I can't remember if there are supposed to be DVD movies.
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