A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
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Someone posted about how Hewlett had talked about the difference between being Rodney on SG-1 and on SGA. When he's on SG-1, he's a foil rather than a main character, and the writing certainly seems to reflect that. (Personally, I tend to think that he is so cute I could just DIE, so I am not the most objective viewer.)
The shot of both of the casts together in Atlantis' briefing room was just so pretty. God, they're all so gorgeous.
So that's hive ship #10, right? In under two years, about 500-600 humans with three little ships have managed to kill off roughly 1/6 of the Pegasus Galaxy's dominant species.
The Ancients must have been the slowest, most unimaginative tacticians in the history of sentient life.
Has the mythology of the Stargate universe ever explained what happened to the Ancients?
Yup.
The Ancients left the Pegasus Galaxy when they failed to defeat the Wraith, and came back to the Milky Way Galaxy, but they were succumbing to some kind of Ancient Plague. So most of them chose to Ascend.
So the Ancients are still around, as the Ascended Beings that Daniel hung out with for a while?
Do the Ascended have any opinions about the Ori? I stopped watching about the time the Ori showed up, except I caught a couple episodes for Claudia Black.
The Ascended fear and hate the Orii. The Orii want to kill them, but the Ascended will do nothing in the human world to help defeat them. Which was made pretty explicit last night--the Ascended woman who gave Daniel some information was punished by the others.
The plague was before the Ancients flew Atlantis from Earth to the Pegasus Galaxy, several million years ago. The remnant that came back @8,000 B.C.E. either merged into human culture or meditated until they ascended.
Interestingly, we got confirmation last night that the Ori only ascended after that last group of Ancients did, not millions of years ago when their two peoples first split. The threat they represent (beyond just being scary religious fanatics) is quite recent, maybe no older than the go'a'ould occupation of Earth.
Heh. Sci-Fi is running the original Stargate movie, and Richard Kind (who played Lucius in last night's SGA) is in it.
The Stargate movie is on Sci-Fi. Mmm...James Spader and Kurt Russell.
Stargate movie x-posty goodness!