sga and stuff
Aug. 2nd, 2006 12:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
myurbandreamso, i've been reading like, a million sga fics over the past couple weeks. (i'm on a kick. stfu.) and i had some thoughts, about the characters, and the plot, and, well, stuff. many of these were actually noted in the fic "using occam's razor to skin schroedinger's cat", so there you go. *eyeroll* fanfic writers think alike. nee-san, i expect feedback. you can actually comiserate on this with me. and bri, you too. *glares*
-what if the sgc had to vet their gate or the daedelus got destroyed in the milky way galaxy? happens all the time in sg1, so why don’t we see it reflected in atlantis? and also, it’s a very effective way of cutting off their communication
-rodney is the 2ic of atlantis, and he has the political and administrative authority that goes with it, though he generally doesn’t use it. generally he just verbally bludgeons people into doing what he wants. also, he commands very well, if brutally, as we saw in that fic by schalott, um... transcendental.
-why is elizabeth worried at such an early stage about their relations with other people in the pegasus galaxy? the atlantis expedition is there first as a scientific research expedition and second as a military outpost, and only after that as a diplomatic toe-in-the-water. (EDIT 16,9,07: so, i had a thought here, rereading this: she's establishing trade relations, which are gonna be very important if atlantis ever does get cut off from earth, since the city isn't near self-sufficient, let alone able to sustain the level of technology they brought from earth.)
-elizabeth is first in command, and john, rodney, and carson are her division advisors. carson doesn’t seem to get much say in things, while radek is like a limpet on rodney, package deal, and the soft sciences don’t get much representation, as they sort of float between rodney’s neglect and carson’s lack of influence.
-atlantis is a city. why do people freak out about the idea of having, god forbid, families and noncombatants and, the horror, children in the city? just wondering. well, i mean, there’s the genii, and the wraith siege, and the storm, but on the whole the city itself is pretty safe, and the kids would get evacuated just like the soft sciences people, right?
-why is everyone focused on zpms? they’re great big batteries, non-rechargeable and really hard to come by. couldn’t the hard sciences come up with something better on their own in a week?
-wouldn’t the ancients have had things like parks and gardens and ways to grow food for themselves? i can’t picture them as being dependant on less-advanced worlds for food
-what if the ancients were so detached that they just let the wraith evolve at first, especially since stopping evolution is kinda unethical? and also because if the humans didn’t have any adversity they’d never evolve or do anything. and by the time they realized the wraith were gunning for them it was too let, so they just left, oh well, this project didn’t work, but we’ve got that other one we left back in the home galaxy thousands of years ago, let’s go check it out, yeah?
-hey, john could ascend, couldn't he? i mean: chaya, and then teer. oh, yeah.
-wouldn’t the ancients be dying out? I mean, they’re so focused on ascension, wouldn’t they be ascending faster than they could bother having kids? and of course the wraith- well, the city would be getting emptier and emptier, and that would also be a problem with the battle, if people are ascending left and right, then who's gonna stop the wraith?
-are humans a subspecies of ancient or are they a created species or something? I mean, the ancients ‘seeded’ galaxies with human life and watched over them like gods from afar. Did the ancients purposefully create a subspecies or are they a subclass, like slaves or something, genetically weaker or deviant or something that eventually got sent out of ancient society entirely? Obviously, based on don’s spoilers for sga 3.8, the ancients didn’t have any kind of regard for humanity compared to themselves, if they were willing to kill of all the humans in hopes of starving out and defeating the wraith or something of the like. Actually, they do treat humans like a slave class or similar, don’t they? Huh.
-woah. Plot of someone else’s: they made john to have the gene, to be an artificial ancient, because the gene was way rarer than they said, and they all gave him bits: rodney’s mind, elizabeth’s way with words, jack’s military instincts, and the gene; and atlantis is afraid of him, because he’s not normal, but they didn’t count on him being beautiful and real and figuring it out. Scary.
no real news. well, except:
omg i go to college in fifteen days omg!!!!!!!! *dies*
-what if the sgc had to vet their gate or the daedelus got destroyed in the milky way galaxy? happens all the time in sg1, so why don’t we see it reflected in atlantis? and also, it’s a very effective way of cutting off their communication
-rodney is the 2ic of atlantis, and he has the political and administrative authority that goes with it, though he generally doesn’t use it. generally he just verbally bludgeons people into doing what he wants. also, he commands very well, if brutally, as we saw in that fic by schalott, um... transcendental.
-why is elizabeth worried at such an early stage about their relations with other people in the pegasus galaxy? the atlantis expedition is there first as a scientific research expedition and second as a military outpost, and only after that as a diplomatic toe-in-the-water. (EDIT 16,9,07: so, i had a thought here, rereading this: she's establishing trade relations, which are gonna be very important if atlantis ever does get cut off from earth, since the city isn't near self-sufficient, let alone able to sustain the level of technology they brought from earth.)
-elizabeth is first in command, and john, rodney, and carson are her division advisors. carson doesn’t seem to get much say in things, while radek is like a limpet on rodney, package deal, and the soft sciences don’t get much representation, as they sort of float between rodney’s neglect and carson’s lack of influence.
-atlantis is a city. why do people freak out about the idea of having, god forbid, families and noncombatants and, the horror, children in the city? just wondering. well, i mean, there’s the genii, and the wraith siege, and the storm, but on the whole the city itself is pretty safe, and the kids would get evacuated just like the soft sciences people, right?
-why is everyone focused on zpms? they’re great big batteries, non-rechargeable and really hard to come by. couldn’t the hard sciences come up with something better on their own in a week?
-wouldn’t the ancients have had things like parks and gardens and ways to grow food for themselves? i can’t picture them as being dependant on less-advanced worlds for food
-what if the ancients were so detached that they just let the wraith evolve at first, especially since stopping evolution is kinda unethical? and also because if the humans didn’t have any adversity they’d never evolve or do anything. and by the time they realized the wraith were gunning for them it was too let, so they just left, oh well, this project didn’t work, but we’ve got that other one we left back in the home galaxy thousands of years ago, let’s go check it out, yeah?
-hey, john could ascend, couldn't he? i mean: chaya, and then teer. oh, yeah.
-wouldn’t the ancients be dying out? I mean, they’re so focused on ascension, wouldn’t they be ascending faster than they could bother having kids? and of course the wraith- well, the city would be getting emptier and emptier, and that would also be a problem with the battle, if people are ascending left and right, then who's gonna stop the wraith?
-are humans a subspecies of ancient or are they a created species or something? I mean, the ancients ‘seeded’ galaxies with human life and watched over them like gods from afar. Did the ancients purposefully create a subspecies or are they a subclass, like slaves or something, genetically weaker or deviant or something that eventually got sent out of ancient society entirely? Obviously, based on don’s spoilers for sga 3.8, the ancients didn’t have any kind of regard for humanity compared to themselves, if they were willing to kill of all the humans in hopes of starving out and defeating the wraith or something of the like. Actually, they do treat humans like a slave class or similar, don’t they? Huh.
-woah. Plot of someone else’s: they made john to have the gene, to be an artificial ancient, because the gene was way rarer than they said, and they all gave him bits: rodney’s mind, elizabeth’s way with words, jack’s military instincts, and the gene; and atlantis is afraid of him, because he’s not normal, but they didn’t count on him being beautiful and real and figuring it out. Scary.
no real news. well, except:
omg i go to college in fifteen days omg!!!!!!!! *dies*
