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So he doesn’t have a defense for the deus ex machina argument for the horrendously pathetic “wormhole drive”… and yet still calls himself a writer?
When a writer on a tv show needs a miraculous device that lets you instantly be anywhere you want to be in the universe… you know he’s got problems.
Absolutely pathetic, ruined an otherwise decent finale. Shame about the pointless Vegas that took an hour out of what could have been an excellent two part finale.
<Mod snip >and come up with a scenario where an out of the blue “wormhole drive” might not be necessary.
A wormhole drive is just that – a drive that sends the ship through a wormhole, like a person stepping through an active gate. The advantage being that you don’t “travel” through hyperspace for hours on end. You get de-molecularized, or whatever you want to call it, and then spit out at the other end a few seconds later. It’s basically instantaneous, which is why I needed it as a device in this episode. Some people have complained that it was a bit of a deus ex-machina, to which I don’t really have much of a defense. At one point, Brad was thinking about using this as a set-up for a similar drive in Stargate Universe, but he’s since changed his mind. But since it IS set up now, Joe and I do intend to use it as part of the story for the Atlantis movie.
When a writer on a tv show needs a miraculous device that lets you instantly be anywhere you want to be in the universe… you know he’s got problems.
Absolutely pathetic, ruined an otherwise decent finale. Shame about the pointless Vegas that took an hour out of what could have been an excellent two part finale.
<Mod snip >and come up with a scenario where an out of the blue “wormhole drive” might not be necessary.
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