Has the mythology of the Stargate universe ever explained what happened to the Ancients?
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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.
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*
Vortex - Jul 30, 2006 2:18:59 pm PDT #9638 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Evil-shrink-lady murdered Susan #2, and made it look like suicide, if that helps. Which brings up a point. Did anyone do an autopsy on Susan #2, or even investigate the fact that it might not be a suicide?
Well, evil shrink lady spread some pills around, probably the same substance that she poisoned her with. Her husband had just died after almost destroying the universe, so I can see how they might have chalked it up to suicide, especially if the Evil Shrink had said something like "I can't share out sessions, but I'm not surprised"
Susan #2 may not have contacted her parents because Walter told her she couldn't because they were moving to Eureka. I mean, if I moved to a top secret town, I wouldn't be surprised that I wasn't allowed to talk to anyone.