What if Atlantis had taken a different direction?
I know people are going to gasp in horror when I mention this but.. more like SGU...!
I don't mean in terms of more character driven story arcs, but in terms of mystery and original exploration episodes, I can't stress that enough.. More random planets, more lantian ruins, more alien monsters etc. The Deadalus variations for example was a fantastic episode... and original.
Atlantis could have been bigger.. at the size that it was after a year or 2.. I really don't see how they couldn't have found everything and explored every compartment,
In Atlantis they had access to every system (well everything they could power) immediately, Im guessing the events of Before I Sleep is responsible for this but in SGU the fact that they have little to no control of The Destiny has allowed for some very interesting story telling techniques.
They could have made it so that McKay, Zelenka etc had a very hard time operating the cities systems until the later seasons (perhaps after until the return when Helia unlocked everything), this would have really added to the continuity overall because Mckay at times made the ancients look like inbred hicks. Obviously they could dial, manage powerflow but not access the primary systems... Not with the push of a button anyway, maybe activating the shield would require manually turning on every emitter or something of the likes... The main database was completely off limits till later on also, this would have added more to the mystery of it and explained why after 5 years of probably upto 100 scientists sifting through it they've really found next to nothing, surely it has some form of search function in it, if not it definetly has some form of organization to it so if they wanted to find how to cure a specific disease they could just go to the medical/biology section and eventually, especially after years they'd find it.
They could have taken the gene therapy out of the mix meaning not everyone could access every system and it also limited how far some people could explore the city until they could turn off that security protocal built into the citys systems.
The Wraith could have been handled better IMO, they were very goa'uldish in terms of their requirements for humans, the worshipping later on. They could have made them a bit more established in that their entire race wasn't in hibernation, but that the humans of Pegasus were essentially being farmed, that each hive had a specific area of space or number of planets and it was responsible for that area, not letting the humans grow to a big enough number while at the same time not letting their numbers drop too low. A wraith home planet could have been introduced at some point too. And wasn't it said early on in SGA the wraith only had something like 50 hives?? 2 or 3 BC-304s with the asgard upgrades could have easily cut this number down dramatically in a year or so.
The idea of the evil asgard was brilliant, they could have brought that in much earlier on, it could have been a cross over with SG1 at some point too. They could also have been a bit more established in the galaxy, being in constant conflict with the wraith, not for protecting humans but perhaps over territory.
SGA after season 1 just seemed to me to become more like a race to the next ZPM so something should have been done about that at somepoint...
The damage done to the city when it was being flooded during Rising could have been more exstensive, again limiting Atlantis's capabilities.. eventually being fully repaired after the return.
The characters were handled pretty well, and I liked how Earth politics and the IOA had an effect on them, and there was loads of other things done very well in Atlantis, but if these few changes had being made, I really think the show could have been better, and really kept in with continunity..
Am I crazy????
I don't mean in terms of more character driven story arcs, but in terms of mystery and original exploration episodes, I can't stress that enough.. More random planets, more lantian ruins, more alien monsters etc. The Deadalus variations for example was a fantastic episode... and original.
Atlantis could have been bigger.. at the size that it was after a year or 2.. I really don't see how they couldn't have found everything and explored every compartment,
In Atlantis they had access to every system (well everything they could power) immediately, Im guessing the events of Before I Sleep is responsible for this but in SGU the fact that they have little to no control of The Destiny has allowed for some very interesting story telling techniques.
They could have made it so that McKay, Zelenka etc had a very hard time operating the cities systems until the later seasons (perhaps after until the return when Helia unlocked everything), this would have really added to the continuity overall because Mckay at times made the ancients look like inbred hicks. Obviously they could dial, manage powerflow but not access the primary systems... Not with the push of a button anyway, maybe activating the shield would require manually turning on every emitter or something of the likes... The main database was completely off limits till later on also, this would have added more to the mystery of it and explained why after 5 years of probably upto 100 scientists sifting through it they've really found next to nothing, surely it has some form of search function in it, if not it definetly has some form of organization to it so if they wanted to find how to cure a specific disease they could just go to the medical/biology section and eventually, especially after years they'd find it.
They could have taken the gene therapy out of the mix meaning not everyone could access every system and it also limited how far some people could explore the city until they could turn off that security protocal built into the citys systems.
The Wraith could have been handled better IMO, they were very goa'uldish in terms of their requirements for humans, the worshipping later on. They could have made them a bit more established in that their entire race wasn't in hibernation, but that the humans of Pegasus were essentially being farmed, that each hive had a specific area of space or number of planets and it was responsible for that area, not letting the humans grow to a big enough number while at the same time not letting their numbers drop too low. A wraith home planet could have been introduced at some point too. And wasn't it said early on in SGA the wraith only had something like 50 hives?? 2 or 3 BC-304s with the asgard upgrades could have easily cut this number down dramatically in a year or so.
The idea of the evil asgard was brilliant, they could have brought that in much earlier on, it could have been a cross over with SG1 at some point too. They could also have been a bit more established in the galaxy, being in constant conflict with the wraith, not for protecting humans but perhaps over territory.
SGA after season 1 just seemed to me to become more like a race to the next ZPM so something should have been done about that at somepoint...
The damage done to the city when it was being flooded during Rising could have been more exstensive, again limiting Atlantis's capabilities.. eventually being fully repaired after the return.
The characters were handled pretty well, and I liked how Earth politics and the IOA had an effect on them, and there was loads of other things done very well in Atlantis, but if these few changes had being made, I really think the show could have been better, and really kept in with continunity..
Am I crazy????
Comment