Originally posted by Cory Holmes
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Sorry if after three years of pointless demonstration that they were simply wrong, I'm just feeling extremely amused by the situation.
A lot of you had to wait for a damn so called "official" report to finally swallow the idea that the city was within 3 km wide, when several measurements were made a long time ago and came to the same conclusion.
That's not saying that I didn't complain. If you'd seen the original sketches, drawings and CGI prototypes, you'd wonder why they settled on a villageship.
I have them sitting somewhere on an olf HDD, and it pains me to look at them, and then return to the show and see what we ended with.
A small cold, grey town, with nothing but secret rooms and seemingly identical staircases and corridors.
It always made me roll my eyes when O'Neill had hard time to buy the idea of a flying city, because when you look at Atlantis, you would notice that it was actually slightly smaller than a ship he blasted above Earth some months ago (Anubis' super ship), or slightly smaller than a terraforming ship he intended to destroy more than three years ago (the Gadmeer's ship).
At least, his words would have made more sense if the city had been 20 km large.
But I'm hardly surprised that we ended with something so disapointing.
The level of communication between writing room and the VFX dept. seeming absurdingly that low, and I'm not even talking about intercommunications within the very VFX dept. (seen the latest Ori attack on a world? It looked like a whole nation was turned into a crater when seen from space, but only corresponded to a mere camp fire been a bit wild when seen from the surface... of course, this raises the question of what would have happened if the village reintegrated in the middle of a kilometer deep crater, but that's another issue due to stupid ancient devices running on plot-juice), it's hardly surprising that if the original idea was to have Atlantis be *BIG*, yet it just ended being barely bigger than a village.
Sometimes, I just find myself either hoping for SGA to get better, or waiting for it to stop, so to let the franchise rest, and have the right people put in place instead, in a couple of years, to bring the magic back without stupid non-science, lame plot devices, and sparing the audience's intelligence being insulted every two episodes.
By the way, a hiveship is 11 km long.
EDIT:
An Aurora class warship is a little over 1 km long. From the guy responsible of the model.
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