My girlfriend and I are rewatching Atlantis. I haven't seen it since it first aired and she has never seen it. So I have forgotten most of it. Which is fun when rewatching. We're nearly complete with season 3 and certain things keep bothering me. First and foremost is the lack of stun weapons. Shepard has to keep relying on Ronon to stun people.
Why was the Atlantis team not outfitted with Zat's from the start or some new hybrid weapon that is both energy weapon/firearm? Ronon has the most advanced gun, yet he seems to come from a civilization slightly less advanced than Earth was prior to the Stargate program.
One would think that after 8 years of SG teams traversing the galaxy and discovering cool new technology, they would have advanced their personal arms by the time of the Atlantis mission or at least carried Zat's as a backup weapon when stunning is needed.
At one point the team goes back to earth and returns with the anti replicator weapons. Pretty cool looking/functioning. But those are sadly short lived. So what is the insistence on the show creators to have SG teams keep using P90's on Atlantis? Even on SG1 is was fairly common practice to have a Zat on hand.
I understand that the gunpower weapons are useful against certain more advanced enemies who have systems in place to stop energy weapons. Which is why I think by this point a hybrid weapon could have been created.
Overall I am not a fan of the alien weapon design on Stargate. Either SG1 or Atlantis. I get that they are alien so they should look alien. But come on, everyone is speaking English on every planet anyway. We're willing to give a little here and there in suspending our disbelief. At least give them really cool props we can salivate over. The Zat is probably the worst looking of them all in my opinion. When I see stuff like the weapons from District 9 I can't help but think the creators of Stargate really fell short in what could have been very cool props. Props can make a huge impact. Just look at the light saber.
Why was the Atlantis team not outfitted with Zat's from the start or some new hybrid weapon that is both energy weapon/firearm? Ronon has the most advanced gun, yet he seems to come from a civilization slightly less advanced than Earth was prior to the Stargate program.
One would think that after 8 years of SG teams traversing the galaxy and discovering cool new technology, they would have advanced their personal arms by the time of the Atlantis mission or at least carried Zat's as a backup weapon when stunning is needed.
At one point the team goes back to earth and returns with the anti replicator weapons. Pretty cool looking/functioning. But those are sadly short lived. So what is the insistence on the show creators to have SG teams keep using P90's on Atlantis? Even on SG1 is was fairly common practice to have a Zat on hand.
I understand that the gunpower weapons are useful against certain more advanced enemies who have systems in place to stop energy weapons. Which is why I think by this point a hybrid weapon could have been created.
Overall I am not a fan of the alien weapon design on Stargate. Either SG1 or Atlantis. I get that they are alien so they should look alien. But come on, everyone is speaking English on every planet anyway. We're willing to give a little here and there in suspending our disbelief. At least give them really cool props we can salivate over. The Zat is probably the worst looking of them all in my opinion. When I see stuff like the weapons from District 9 I can't help but think the creators of Stargate really fell short in what could have been very cool props. Props can make a huge impact. Just look at the light saber.
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