Xander ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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if it were hunter-gatherer cultures, I wouldn't really have a problem, because they do tend to stay fairly static (I think).
Here comes the archaeology geek bit. This is a simplification that grew out of the Colonial anthropology of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Hunter-gatherer societies can be extremely complex and dynamic, and show as much, if not more, variety and agency as agriculturalist peoples.
Sorry, I'll shut up now.
Hunter-gatherer societies can be extremely complex and dynamic, and show as much, if not more, variety and agency as agriculturalist peoples.
Aha! But if you majored in MovieAnthropology...
Good point. I just didn't think they showed as much rate of change. But my grounding, past Anthro 101 (and then Male/Female, and something else -- our Anthropology teacher was also co-director of the Women's Studies department), is terribly haphazard. I cede the point with style and grace.
So yeah! Not even hunter-gatherer societies! Which, now that I...
Do you think there are Jaffa farmers? Or are there human slaves on Chulak (and other Jaffa planets)? Or is their food imported?
Man, I'm short-attention-span woman today. Look, shiny!
Still, the idea that none of the transplanted groups changed at all is so incredible I just try to ignore it.
Well, it does happen occasionally. Kelowna, for instance, or the Tollans, or the Society Of Stupid People from "The Sentinel." (HEAD GUY: We've dedicated our lives to peaceful contemplation. ME, out loud: Well, it doesn't seem to have helped much!)
Do you think there are Jaffa farmers? Or are there human slaves on Chulak (and other Jaffa planets)? Or is their food imported?
Maybe they have replicators? But wouldn't they get them confused with the Replicators? Now I'm confused.
Do you think there are Jaffa farmers? Or are there human slaves on Chulak (and other Jaffa planets)? Or is their food imported?
I've always assumed that farming is a lot of what humans are doing on goa'uld-dominated worlds, since there's absolutely no evidence of Jaffa doing so. Canonically human slaves either traipse around with goa'uld in skimpy outfits or mine ("I dreamed about mining. Naked.") but that's clearly silly, and the goa'uld and Jaffa must get their food from somewhere.
(HEAD GUY: We've dedicated our lives to peaceful contemplation. ME, out loud: Well, it doesn't seem to have helped much!)
Ah, their whole problem was selecting their ruling class out of cast members from Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.
Katie! You're a genius! They eat rocks! (Eats, Rocks, and Leaves?)
Meanwhile, on Enterprise, their resident linguist can pretty much translate anything! Perfectly! Why? Because the plot requires it.
She had trouble in the pilot, right? That being the only episode I ever watched? But then learned the true meaning of Christmas to Believe in Herself and thereafter never made a mistake ever?
It's one of those things where it's not consistent. If they want it to be an issue, it's an issue. If, on the other hand, she needs to translate whale song? Just give her a couple of days.
It's almost kind of interesting, watching them desperately try to make Enterprise darker and darker.
Pretty freaking close.
If they tried to get me to buy she could learn a new human language in under a week, who'd expect me to buy it? Yet ... she crosses species with a wink and a smile.
HATE the language crap. Just hate it.