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You get episodes like Cor-ai, where the locals are all "we run away when they come!"
Which wasn't working too well, was it? Weren't they left with some other method to protect themselves at episode's end?
SG1 is worse than Joss and Buffy's powers, about having the reach of any technology/alien/etc do more than serve the narrative.
Just as strong/whatever as need be.
Which, I must say, is more irritating in principle than most of what that guy listed. He's all about external rules. I get miffed when internal ones get frelled.
Which is to say--if the writers want the Go'auld to get you, they don't have to mess with canon much to get it done. Perhaps we just never see stories of those missions, because they're not interesting, because there's so much less conflict.
eta: Speaking of SG1--the replicators, right? But they were also bent on destroying their templates, not living among them.
eta: Speaking of SG1--the replicators, right? But they were also bent on destroying their templates, not living among them.
The Atlantis versions are all into becoming the Ancients, though.
The SGA replicators confuse the fuck out of me, and I try not to think about them too much.
He's all about external rules. I get miffed when internal ones get frelled.
Absolutely. Good writing and internal consistency can overcome almost any annoying cliche. (Which Firefox keeps wanting to correct to cloche.)
I totally buy that replicators created by the Ancients would think that becoming an Ancient is the best thing ever. I mean, these are the Ancients we're talking about.
I totally buy that replicators created by the Ancients would think that becoming an Ancient is the best thing ever. I mean, these are the Ancients we're talking about.
Hee. Yeah, okay, good point.
I've always kind of thought they should be moving away from it, all "huh, you know, this thing never brings us anything but trouble. Let's try living a couple days' walk away!"
For me it's that they should be moving away because of simple population pressure. Humans breed like rabbits.
I totally buy that replicators created by the Ancients would think that becoming an Ancient is the best thing ever. I mean, these are the Ancients we're talking about.
I can only buy it if they never actually met any Ancients before settling on that ambition. People might as well have flashing neon "HUBRIS" signs as headgear.
Yeah, that's my point. Not that the Ancients are super-cool, but that the Ancients themselves think they're super-cool. Of course any artificial life they created would have that same belief.
...Y'all don't think the whole thing might be a little tongue in cheek?
On a side note, if an alien can reproduce human speech, is mentally capable of doing so, and bothers to learn English, it’s going to speak in Received Pronunciation, aka the King’s English. Why would an alien learn a provincial dialect like American English? They’d speak it correctly. All aliens should sound like Hugh Grant.
