At the beginning of The Storm - yeah yeah, spoilers, obviously, spoilers - McKay says "According to the Ancients' database".
Ouch. It's only at my second viewing (today) that I noticed the problem. It is a database that can describe to you in details things like the meteorology of the planet. Not just an addresses database, a true encyclopedia, then. And they have access to it.
The mere fact of the discovery of that database would have deserved a full episode of its own. And we first hear about that casually. And it is not an earthlings encyclopedia on dvd, it is the Ancients' immense knowledge. Think about O'Neill in SG1 receiving knowledge and just beginning to show his new talents.
If they have access to that database, they have access not only to meteorological knowledge, but also to the whole functioning and equipment of Atlantis, they have access to history and literature, to science and ascencion theology, to intelligence against the wraith... Now wait a minute, if they already know all that, we're in a different series then, or four years ahead in the narration, they can't behave like helpless visitors in unchartered Atlantis any more, they can move it, they know all about Pegasus, the why of human settlement...
That is wrong, isn't it?
Ouch. It's only at my second viewing (today) that I noticed the problem. It is a database that can describe to you in details things like the meteorology of the planet. Not just an addresses database, a true encyclopedia, then. And they have access to it.
The mere fact of the discovery of that database would have deserved a full episode of its own. And we first hear about that casually. And it is not an earthlings encyclopedia on dvd, it is the Ancients' immense knowledge. Think about O'Neill in SG1 receiving knowledge and just beginning to show his new talents.
If they have access to that database, they have access not only to meteorological knowledge, but also to the whole functioning and equipment of Atlantis, they have access to history and literature, to science and ascencion theology, to intelligence against the wraith... Now wait a minute, if they already know all that, we're in a different series then, or four years ahead in the narration, they can't behave like helpless visitors in unchartered Atlantis any more, they can move it, they know all about Pegasus, the why of human settlement...
That is wrong, isn't it?
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