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Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 29, 2006 12:01:37 pm PDT #9628 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.

Zenkitty - Jul 29, 2006 12:04:32 pm PDT #9629 of 10001

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Has the mythology of the Stargate universe ever explained what happened to the Ancients?

Consuela - Jul 29, 2006 12:34:01 pm PDT #9630 of 10001

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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.

Zenkitty - Jul 29, 2006 12:59:03 pm PDT #9631 of 10001

Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

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.

Consuela - Jul 29, 2006 1:10:58 pm PDT #9632 of 10001

We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix

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.

Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 29, 2006 1:42:01 pm PDT #9633 of 10001

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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.

Dana - Jul 29, 2006 1:44:40 pm PDT #9634 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Heh. Sci-Fi is running the original Stargate movie, and Richard Kind (who played Lucius in last night's SGA) is in it.

ChiKat - Jul 29, 2006 1:45:07 pm PDT #9635 of 10001

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

The Stargate movie is on Sci-Fi. Mmm...James Spader and Kurt Russell.

ChiKat - Jul 29, 2006 1:45:41 pm PDT #9636 of 10001

That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

Stargate movie x-posty goodness!

Dana - Jul 30, 2006 10:59:13 am PDT #9637 of 10001

"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Okay, over the past week or so, I finished up this season of Dr. Who.

I am so glad that other people were scared by The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, because I would have hid under my bed, had it been convenient. Dr. Who is usually sci-fi scary, but this was horror movie Aliens scary, and I was successfully creeped the HELL out.

It was almost impossible to avoid what the big spoiler was -- when everyone is talking about "the big spoiler", it's a pretty easy guess that someone's leaving the show. So I spent the whole of Doomsday waiting for it to happen. Big props to Billie Piper, though, who is aces at being utterly miserable. *sniffle*

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