**Spoilers** for all previous season arcs in part 2, specifically Season 1: Poisoning the Well, Underground, Season 2: Runner, Condemned, The Hive, Michael, Season 3: Misbegotten, Irresistible, Irresponsible, Sunday, Vengeance, First Strike Season 4: Adrift, Lifeline, Missing, Outcast, The Kindred Part 1 & 2, The Last Man, Season 5: Search and Rescue, The Seed, Broken Ties, The Queen
All Season 5 spoilers are hidden
**Huge Spoilers** for the five people in the world who haven't yet read Harry Potter. Although in fairness, if you haven't, this thread will be both meaningless and tedious.
A legend begins...
Okay, bear with me on this one. I'm ill, in bed, probably slightly delirious and excruciatingly bored. But writers - we are on to you. You think we didn't get your subtle references, your hints, but you couldn't keep it a secret forever. Stargate Atlantis is Harry Potter in space! And I'm about to expose your cheeky little ruse. Let me show you in my magical mystery list how the pieces are alllll falling into place. NB: I have a horrible feeling this has probably been done before, but it gave me a couple of hours distraction, so I'm happy.
Oh and P.S. I'm a newbie, been hovering around reading posts for a bit, thought I would make an entrance in style. Think it worked?
Number 1: *Spoiler free*Atlantis is Hogwarts!
Oh yes oh yay. We have an enormous, mysterious place to explore where little is understood, nothing is as it seems, but once you're there you would never want to leave. And no matter how strange it is, it's still the safest place in the galaxy. Easy to hide from stupid meddlers thanks to a handy cloaking device and almost impenetrable due to a dinky shield. Also:
Gryffindor - The soldiers. Daily staring possible doom in the face as they pass through the gate into unknown territory. Brave, bright, the best of the best, and they know it. If you can deal with the fact that they think they know how to do everything better than everyone else, you'll see you can't do without them.
Ravenclaw - The scientists. Very smart, very competitive, especially with each other. Demand respect and deference, and get frustrated when underlings presume to question their abilities. Still, Atlantis is what it still is because of them, and they judge others only with the same painfully high standards with which they judge themselves.
Slytherin - The bureacrats and politicians. An ambitious lot. Not inherently or automatically bad, but they have spent so long endeavouring to get themselves ahead of the pack, even the best of them often forget why they wanted to get to the top in the first place. The worst of them are suspicious, selfish and untrustworthy and must be treated with extreme caution. Nevertheless, aside from a tendency to watch their own backs ahead of anyone else's, the decent ones will work tirelessly to achieve the necessary ends and aren't afraid of some serious hard graft, provided they've had some careful prodding in the right direction by minds unclouded by protocols. Still, not the most likeable bunch, and you're unlikely to want to go on a skiing holiday with any of them.
Hufflepuff - The gateroom staff. Don't seem to do much except uselessly let you know when the gate activates despite the fact that everyone can quite clearly see that it has, and sometimes let you know when someone is on the phone; they're really just jumped up receptionists...at least that's how it seems. This lot take on the sort of 'thankless but important' jobs that others wouldn't deign to do, because they're just happy to be in Atlantis in the thick of things. Plus, they're the ones that organise the football/chess tournaments when the scientists and soldiers are threatening to tear chunks out of each other, and throw the parties for birthdays that all the more important people forgot. They make life just that little bit easier for all concerned.
House elves - the general staff. Rarely seen and seldom heard, this lot modestly and good-humouredly go about the business of keeping Atlantis ticking over. They don't play hero and they don't get the glory, but boy, does that coffee hit the spot. Had a life-sucking insect attached to your neck for the last hour? Just say the word and they'll rustle you up the best rump steak this side of the Pegasus. Just spilt the most powerful acid known to man that is slowly eating its way through the floor? They'll get it cleaned up and give the room a new lick of paint into the bargain before you can say 'But I thought it was an alka seltzer!'
Stand by for Number 2...
All Season 5 spoilers are hidden
**Huge Spoilers** for the five people in the world who haven't yet read Harry Potter. Although in fairness, if you haven't, this thread will be both meaningless and tedious.
A legend begins...
Okay, bear with me on this one. I'm ill, in bed, probably slightly delirious and excruciatingly bored. But writers - we are on to you. You think we didn't get your subtle references, your hints, but you couldn't keep it a secret forever. Stargate Atlantis is Harry Potter in space! And I'm about to expose your cheeky little ruse. Let me show you in my magical mystery list how the pieces are alllll falling into place. NB: I have a horrible feeling this has probably been done before, but it gave me a couple of hours distraction, so I'm happy.
Oh and P.S. I'm a newbie, been hovering around reading posts for a bit, thought I would make an entrance in style. Think it worked?
Number 1: *Spoiler free*Atlantis is Hogwarts!
Oh yes oh yay. We have an enormous, mysterious place to explore where little is understood, nothing is as it seems, but once you're there you would never want to leave. And no matter how strange it is, it's still the safest place in the galaxy. Easy to hide from stupid meddlers thanks to a handy cloaking device and almost impenetrable due to a dinky shield. Also:
Gryffindor - The soldiers. Daily staring possible doom in the face as they pass through the gate into unknown territory. Brave, bright, the best of the best, and they know it. If you can deal with the fact that they think they know how to do everything better than everyone else, you'll see you can't do without them.
Ravenclaw - The scientists. Very smart, very competitive, especially with each other. Demand respect and deference, and get frustrated when underlings presume to question their abilities. Still, Atlantis is what it still is because of them, and they judge others only with the same painfully high standards with which they judge themselves.
Slytherin - The bureacrats and politicians. An ambitious lot. Not inherently or automatically bad, but they have spent so long endeavouring to get themselves ahead of the pack, even the best of them often forget why they wanted to get to the top in the first place. The worst of them are suspicious, selfish and untrustworthy and must be treated with extreme caution. Nevertheless, aside from a tendency to watch their own backs ahead of anyone else's, the decent ones will work tirelessly to achieve the necessary ends and aren't afraid of some serious hard graft, provided they've had some careful prodding in the right direction by minds unclouded by protocols. Still, not the most likeable bunch, and you're unlikely to want to go on a skiing holiday with any of them.
Hufflepuff - The gateroom staff. Don't seem to do much except uselessly let you know when the gate activates despite the fact that everyone can quite clearly see that it has, and sometimes let you know when someone is on the phone; they're really just jumped up receptionists...at least that's how it seems. This lot take on the sort of 'thankless but important' jobs that others wouldn't deign to do, because they're just happy to be in Atlantis in the thick of things. Plus, they're the ones that organise the football/chess tournaments when the scientists and soldiers are threatening to tear chunks out of each other, and throw the parties for birthdays that all the more important people forgot. They make life just that little bit easier for all concerned.
House elves - the general staff. Rarely seen and seldom heard, this lot modestly and good-humouredly go about the business of keeping Atlantis ticking over. They don't play hero and they don't get the glory, but boy, does that coffee hit the spot. Had a life-sucking insect attached to your neck for the last hour? Just say the word and they'll rustle you up the best rump steak this side of the Pegasus. Just spilt the most powerful acid known to man that is slowly eating its way through the floor? They'll get it cleaned up and give the room a new lick of paint into the bargain before you can say 'But I thought it was an alka seltzer!'
Stand by for Number 2...
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