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** Probably something along the lines of, "We thought we were going to get more seasons to continue his arc."
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* A characterization headscratcher: John Sheppard and his eventual fate on the show. The series repeatedly establishes that this is a guy with a serious GuiltComplex and enough self-loathing to border on DeathSeeker. Fine. All of the other characters have bucketloads of issues too, no big deal. However Season 4 and 5 mostly has them working through their demons: Teyla becoming a mother and finding Kanaan, Rodney getting together with Keller/fixing things with his sister, even Ronon opening up to relationships with Amelia and finding more of his people are alive. Meanwhile Sheppard, (on top of the deaths of Ford, Carson and everyone in his past), loses Elizabeth several times - who is at the very least an extremely close friend and [[{{ShipTease}} possibly]] [[{{UnresolvedSexualTension}} more]] - and becomes an even darker character. There are two occasions where his subconscious gains control and he hallucinates being beaten and tortured because he ''believes he deserves to suffer.'' Rather than addressing this, the show ends with the rest of the characters living HappilyEverAfter with their partners while Sheppard's alone and presumably as guilt-ridden as before. This is your main character and there's not even a "some people don't get a happy ending" message, he's just forgotten about. Just what? What were they trying to say and do with his character arc?
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** Or it could be that since the wraith are a highly hierarchal and militaristic culture, "Lt. Kenmore" would be better able to integrate any lingering wraithy. tendencies into a military construct.
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* So they have the Attero Device that blows up Wraith starships that attempt to jump to hyperspace - however it has that nasty side effect of causing any Stargates that attempt to dial another blow up. However in SG-1 we say they had the ability to stop Stargates from successfully dialling out by scrambling the DHD programme so it dialled random, useless, addresses. Why not use this to your advantage? You send out the Virus that causes the gates to lock up as they dial every gate they can think of until every gate is unable to dial out except yours. You can then turn on the Attero device and fly around blowing up Wraith ships in huge numbers (either the Ancients or Terrans can easily mass enough ships to overwhelm the mostly scattered Hives). After the job is done you then use your gate to transmit the update that gets rid of the virus, which then transfers through the gate system as each gate "unlocked" randomly dials new gates.
No Wraith, and no World Ending explosions.
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* So they have the Attero Device that blows up Wraith starships that attempt to jump to hyperspace - however it has that nasty side effect of causing any Stargates that attempt to dial another blow up. However in SG-1 we say they had the ability to stop Stargates from successfully dialling out by scrambling the DHD programme so it dialled random, useless, addresses. Why not use this to your advantage? You send out the Virus that causes the gates to lock up as they dial every gate they can think of until every gate is unable to dial out except yours. You can then turn on the Attero device and fly around blowing up Wraith ships in huge numbers (either the Ancients or Terrans can easily mass enough ships to overwhelm the mostly scattered Hives). After the job is done you then use your gate to transmit the update that gets rid of the virus, which then transfers through the gate system as each gate "unlocked" randomly dials new gates.
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* So they have the Attero Device that blows up Wraith starships that attempt to jump to hyperspace - however it has that nasty side effect of causing any Stargates that attempt to dial another blow up. However in SG-1 we say they had the ability to stop Stargates from successfully dialling out by scrambling the DHD programme so it dialled random, useless, addresses. Why not use this to your advantage? You send out the Virus that causes the gates to lock up as they dial every gate they can think of until every gate is unable to dial out except yours. You can then turn on the Attero device and fly around blowing up Wraith ships in huge numbers (either the Ancients or Terrans can easily mass enough ships to overwhelm the mostly scattered Hives). After the job is done you then use your gate to transmit the update that gets rid of the virus, which then transfers through the gate system as each gate "unlocked" randomly dials new gates.
No Wraith, and no World Ending explosions.
No Wraith, and no World Ending explosions.
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** Hm? Where did you hear that he couldn't be fed on? The true reason for runners was never discovered, but the theories that they went with was fun and/or combat training.
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* If the reason why Ronon became a runner is because the Wraith couldn't feed on him, how was the Wraith in Broken Ties able to repeatedly drain and restore him?
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** SG-1 (and most similar shows) do the same thing: send out the #1 tech/science genius, #1 expert on Goa'uld and other alien languages and cultures, and only contact with the Jaffa rebellion for random missions.
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** UriahGambit? The guy was pretty annoying, maybe his home universe figured they could come up with a solution without him and were half-hoping he'd get himself killed. Plus he was, if anything, even more arrogant than our [=McKay=] what with not having his crippling sense of personal insecurity so he just assumed he wouldn't need anything.
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** UriahGambit? The guy was pretty annoying, maybe his home universe figured they could come up with a solution without him and were half-hoping he'd get himself killed. Plus he was, if anything, even more arrogant than our [=McKay=] what with not having his crippling sense of personal insecurity so he just assumed he wouldn't need anything. anything.
** They probably figured that if whoever was running the device was malicious, a gun wouldn't help that much, while the gun might alienate (or get him killed by) an otherwise reasonable and willing-to-negotiate group.
** They probably figured that if whoever was running the device was malicious, a gun wouldn't help that much, while the gun might alienate (or get him killed by) an otherwise reasonable and willing-to-negotiate group.
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* How did Meridith Rodney Mckay manage to get into a highly secretive military program without ever putting his full name down on a form. I feel like his name probably should have been on the profiles Weir and Sheppard used to pick members for their teams.
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** Because in their first appearance, Atlantis was occupied by a hostile, heavily armed military force who had weapons specifically designed to destroy them (well Milky Way Replicators but still) and who would rather destroy the city than give it to them. Once the Ancients took over, there were significantly less troops with almost no weapons or ways to defend themselves against them so they took it for its strategic importance.
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** They DID have security though. They wrote the macro to only work from either Atlantis or the SGC. Granted I'm sure the IdiotBall was involved in not stationing a contingent of Airman or Marines in the Midway Station considering in real life the military would never let such an obvious security flaw remain, but then again the exact same thing is all that prevents anyone in Pegasus from dialing out to Milky Way.
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*** From the Ancient's perspective, the Atlantis Expedition personal are either thieves or grave robbers, depending on how well they acclimated to the fact that a few years of them flying in near FTL was actually 10000+ years. They took their city, slept in their beds, stole all their books, nicked all their good electronics, got a bunch of there stuff blown up, fiddled with all their dangerous experiments, and generally just ignored common decency for the sake of getting some cool stuff.
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* In the episodes called "The Siege", why didn't SGC just send through a pile of SAM missile batteries to Atlantis instead of railguns. We know that missiles work—since 302s shoot stuff down effectively. So when the Wraith darts come flying in, you just shoot them down from beyond-visual-range with missiles and call it a day. McKay keeps talking about how we don't have enough drones. Air-to-Air missiles are basically our version of drones. Strap a naquadah warhead to it, new propellant, and a cheap shield generator... you get Tau'ri drones to obliterate everyone else with. Instead, we fight a long drawn-out battle where we're basically using artillery pieces to shoot at supersonic things a couple of hundred metres away. In fact, in dealing with almost any problem from Wraith darts—just throw missiles at it from beyond-visual-range.
* After/During "The Siege", why didn't the Marine corps bring like 30 naquadah generators to power all the stuff on Atlantis? 20 strapped together in a room or such would power the shields and anything which requires city-wide power and the extra 10 could be used to power other stuff around the city. We know that more than one naquadah generator can be chained up (the Chair is powered by 2) and we also know that naquadah power can be used to power Atlantis's shield (The Last Man).
* So, we have damage on our ship? Well, we have a time dilation device. Slow down time, fix everything, un-slow down time. Those Asgard are so helpful.
* After/During "The Siege", why didn't the Marine corps bring like 30 naquadah generators to power all the stuff on Atlantis? 20 strapped together in a room or such would power the shields and anything which requires city-wide power and the extra 10 could be used to power other stuff around the city. We know that more than one naquadah generator can be chained up (the Chair is powered by 2) and we also know that naquadah power can be used to power Atlantis's shield (The Last Man).
* So, we have damage on our ship? Well, we have a time dilation device. Slow down time, fix everything, un-slow down time. Those Asgard are so helpful.
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*** Back in SG-1's ''Sacrifices''. Not only did the zat blast spread over both a jaffa and the hostage he was holding, but it also seemed weakened, with the jaffa still being able to move around afterwards.
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** That would require them having all the technology, equipment, and know-how to reverse-engineer a new Arcturus reactor. Its highly likely they lost most of what they would need to do that, along with the 5/6 of that solar system.
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* Why does everyone keep saying that Project Arcturus was a complete fiasco and an embarrassment? [=McKay=] might not have discovered an energy source, but he got something even better. A solar system destroying bomb! Now that is something that has to come in handy at somepoint, plus the solar system they destroyed was uninhabited anyway.
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** The Atlantis Expedition is explicitly under the IOA right from the start, even the soldiers are on secondment from their home countries. The SGC is still US Military even by the time the IOA are loosely administering it. The Zats were initially gathered even prior to agreement with Russia, never mind the IOA, and so are presumably US Military property only. The US Military is just keeping their toys close to home and not willing to give up an advantage when they don't have to. Militaries don't like to share if they don't have to.
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*** The wraith use energy weapons though, which would need very different first aid (or even none at all, since the wraith use stunners). Hence the question for why he's performing first aid for bullet wounds.
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*** It's worse than that. Recall that Area 51 is where they send any alien technology that they acquire off-world. It's not just the chair that they need to protect, it's every piece of alien technology that they've ever acquired for study. So really, it's more a question of why they couldn't find a single shield generator amongst all that tech, and failing that, why they wouldn't have installed one there years ago once they became advanced enough to build shields themselves. You would think that the military would be smart enough to fortify ''the most important research facility on the planet'' from alien attack.
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** Or, you know, the Puddle Jumpers have some form of waste disposal unit that they don't usually bring up because it's not relevant?
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*** Yeah, he seems to have a stronger-than-usual latent Ancient gene. Maybe he just won the genetic lottery there and it had side effects like a higher Will save.
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** The symbols are to tell anyone that's looking at the gate where it's being dialed from.
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*** Life sucking vampires that, in his first encounter with them, imprisoned him and his team, did horrible things to his commanding officer, and in pretty much every encounter with them afterwards they're trying to slaughter and eat other people and kill him in the process. It's like he doesn't even understand that the [[DracoInLeatherPants cool-looking dangerous bad-ass leather-wearing aliens]] are automatically morally superior to us evil ol' humans and that they thus deserve to eat us. He actually has an emotional reaction to their activities! The nerve!
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*** Those sound like pretty different applications of force. A punch and a push are two different things after all. With a push you could just put your hands against the shield and shove, which the shield either doesn't protect against or has been programmed not to protect against, for whatever reason. A punch on the other hand is basically a projectile coming in very fast, and would be protected against the same way bullets or shrapnel would be. So, no inconsistencies, the shield just deals with different things different ways.
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*** There isn't a civilian population. There are a bunch of scientists who do not hold military ranks, but it's not like the Enterprise-D, they don't have a bunch of families just running around being a little city. Also just because you don't like an explanation doesn't mean it's not plausible. The fact that you admit "There's just no good answer to this" means you didn't come here to have a headscratcher answered, you just came to complain about the show, which is not what this page is for.
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** Could be any one of a number of reasons. Maybe the Ancients took all their sidearms with them when they left. Maybe they left the weapons behind but after thousands of years the power cells died and the humans can't figure out how to recharge them. Maybe as the power cells age they start leaking chemicals or exotic particles that corrode the electronics and damage the guns beyond repair. (Of course the real reason is because the writers hadn't come up with Ancient handguns when the show first started. They can't very well go back and reshoot the entire series to retcon them back in.)
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** I think he meant that they could have attacked Atlantis and taken all the humans as prisoners, but instead they're letting the Earthlings leave peacefully.
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** That depends. Have we ever seen a Zat blast act that way before?
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* During ''Midway'' why didn't Atlantis use the ZPM to dial Earth directly and warn them about the attack on Midway Station? They admit they wanted to conserve power, but given that defense of Earth has priority over everything else I don't see an reason why they wouldn't.
