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Well, since no one else is going to do it... Discuss Atlantis here. It looks interesting so far. I'd say something more, but my daughter just woke up from her nap.
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Did anyone else notice that, although the Wraith could regenerate bulletholes, but a spike driven through one killed it?
Also, why the hell did the hologram from the Ancients speak English? Of course you could apply that to any and everybody they meet, but at least you can say there that they speak a variant of an Earth or Goa'uld-based language - the Ancients wouldn't have spoken anything like English, and wouldn't have made a recording in it. Oh, well.
Oh, and I really like the Irish guy ;P
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Also, why the hell did the hologram from the Ancients speak English? Of course you could apply that to any and everybody they meet
I thought it was a bit of a joke when the first adult they met on Teyla's planet said his name, and Shepherd said "I don't know that word." As if, for just a second, we'd think they spoke another language!
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I also enjoyed it and didn't care much for the Wraiths. Otherwise, it looks and feels just as good as SG-1--but in a new way or something.
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I'm not sure how you came to that conclusion, but he's definitely Scottish, confirmed by the Scottish flag on his shoulder.
Speaking of nationalities, here's the different flags I remember: USA, Canada, Spain, UK, Germany, Russia, Scotland and Australia. I'm sure there were others.
They're now going to be looking for a power source for the city, to replace the 3 failed ZPE generators. Of course, getting their hands on just one will give them the city shields and (or?) give them the ability to dial Earth.
The Wraith are aware of Earth now, but they don't know where it is. For them, it will be a mega-smorgasbord. I also don't think the Wraith are very original either, but the writers have suprised me over the years, so they may get more interesting down the road a bit.
Sheppard likes college football. I like this guy already!
One thing that reminded me of Voyager's premiere: the only person that didn't approve of Sheppard (a superior officer, no less), got killed already.
Lt. Ford seems at least familiar with gate travel, so I imagine he was previously on one of the unseen SG teams.
They still use GDOs, but it seems they've given each individual their own code, as evidenced by them saying something like "it's Lt. Ford's code".
Sgt. Siler makes an appearance, but doesn't get sent to the infirmary! I was fully expecting something to go haywire when he threw that large electrical switch.
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The new bad guys certainly don't seem like something that would bother the Ancients. (At least, not so far.)
And how come the Ancients put a security field over that gate, and not every gate? It's, like, a super good idea that should be obvious. (Also, why do they have a big fancy gate control room anyway? The Asgard just kept theirs in an alcove off a hallway.) ALSO, I don't think there's room in that ship to hold those fold-out engines. (Plus, Ancient weapons, even after laying idle for a long time, seem to blow up Wraith ships just fine. Really, the only problem the, uh, Atlantis people seem to have, in regards to the Wraith, is running out of ammunition.)
Having complained, I thought it was great, mostly.
Is it the official story now, though, that the Ancients are just humans? I've missed most every episode of SG-1 about them, at least in the last two seasons. Because, anyway, that is sort of disappointing.
Perhaps the Furlings will show up.
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The Ancients are humanoids who evolved on Earth. I'm pretty sure humans are not supposed to be descended from them (at least, not as a whole). Someone mentioned that humans are the "second evolution of this form" on Earth.
"The new bad guys certainly don't seem like something that would bother the Ancients. (At least, not so far.)"
Well, so far, we've seen, what? About five of them? And they'd just been sitting around for who knows how many years, feeding sporadically. Now they've awakened what will probably hundreds, if not thousands, more, who are going to start making a concerted effort to be really really nasty. I'm sure they'll seem more foreboding in the coming episodes.
Of course, it still won't make sense that the humans will be able to beat them week after week, if they're powerful enough to kick the Ancients' collective ass. But, then, how did SG-1 always beat the Goa'uld? And why does everyone speak English? It's going to be just one of those things that's to be expected.
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I'm sure the Wraith are plenty mean. It's just that an Ancient transport ship seems to do a pretty good job blowing them up, as does a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile.
Anyway, I guess we'll see. I wonder why the Ancients couldn't (or didn't) get help from their fancy Four Races alliance?
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Presumably said alliance was toast by this point, given that the Ancients had apparently left our galaxy. There's also no telling how much their allies were worth, really. The stored knowledge of the Ancients (well, and Jack) built the ultimate Replicator-killer in five minutes flat, which all the combined research of the Asgard couldn't do in years.
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Yeah, they are. They moved too. But I see your point, I suppose distance shouldn't matter that much.
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