The Aliens

[wingsabre]

They reminded me of the renegade Asgard that we saw in SGA. Except those were cooler and smarter. These didn't appear to be formidable enemies as they were intelligent, but not that bright, and they weren't strong either (Rush took one down pretty easily).

Sometimes a mother will gather the strength to lift a car over her shoulder to save the life of her baby.

[jhkplaya888]

They seam advanced? They are utterly weak, i mean destiny beat them off, destiny the same ship whose systems are down, aged and broken. Their shields go down in a few hits on the shuttles, and whose combined firepower barely did anything to destiny which had utterly failing shields. A 304 would take those aliens out in a couple of shots...They also do not have hyperspace or teleportation devices.

[The Dude of Lebowski]

they've only been in one ep...im sure they got other technology that is advanced that we havent seen yet, so u can't really judge them yet

[DigiFluid]

They seam advanced? They are utterly weak, i mean destiny beat them off, destiny the same ship whose systems are down, aged and broken. Their shields go down in a few hits on the shuttles, and whose combined firepower barely did anything to destiny which had utterly failing shields. A 304 would take those aliens out in a couple of shots...They also do not have hyperspace or teleportation devices.

A 70 year old dreadnought could still shoot down a canoe.

[haloplayer]

So are we (the fans) going to be adopting the name "smurfs" to these aliens?

I think Alien Smurfs or Smurf Aliens is a GREAT name.

It would be great if a character like Eli called them that as well.

[Astria]

I vote for Alien Smurfs.

[Albeno]

So what? It is a TV show.

Well, when you'repromised aliens that are 'truly alien', bipedal, four limbed, two eye humanoids are not really what comes to mind.

[Egle01]

Only thing, I would have liked to see some variety with the aliens. Different outfits and facial features. In "Space" they all appeared to be just copies of each other.

[KEK]

Only thing, I would have liked to see some variety with the aliens. Different outfits and facial features. In "Space" they all appeared to be just copies of each other.

Human brains aren't geared no notice differences in the faces of other species. A squirrel for example will look pretty much the same as any other to most people, but they're as varied as human faces. I remember watching an interesting documentary about how toddlers can recognise squirrel faces, and other animals as easily as we can recognise people, but as they/we grow up the pathways in the brain used for it go dormant though lack of use.

[Egle01]

Human brains aren't geared no notice differences in the faces of other species. A squirrel for example will look pretty much the same as any other to most people, but they're as varied as human faces. I remember watching an interesting documentary about how toddlers can recognise squirrel faces, and other animals as easily as we can recognise people, but as they/we grow up the pathways in the brain used for it go dormant though lack of use.

Okay, that changed my opinion about their faces, but not about outfits.

[TENTHIUS]

haloplayer: Yeah! I vote for Smurfs

[kirmit]

They also do not have hyperspace or teleportation devices.

We have no idea how their space travel works, for all we know it could be faster than hyperspace. As for teleportation, they could well have it, even in the MW the advanced races there can't beam through a shielded ship, which the destiny was.

[smooTh__]

Additionally, octopi, dolphins, whales and even elephants are all shown to have varying levels of intelligence, and none of those are bipedal.

While this is true, none of the species you mention are ever very likely to manage to develop advanced technology in their current physical form. (And races with advanced technology are the only ones relevant to speak about in this context.)

There's no real reason to assume bipedalism has anything to do with our particular intelligence.

Again true, but our physical appearance does play a big part in our ability to manipulate the world around us to suit our needs and eventually develop advanced equipment, helping us to further increase our intellect.

It's simply hard to make technologically advanced aliens that are completely "truely alien" because we have no way of even imagining how these life forms and their technology would look like. It's not implausible to assume that if there is planets similar to earth out there (i.e. similar plant life, similar tempratures and atmospherical make up etc) then life on such planets is reasonably similar to lifeforms on earth.

And besides, this is a tv show, and the aliens we encounter have to be capable of interacting somewhat with the human crew on destiny. Abstract and weird aliens like the razor-blade things wouldn't work very well as an antagonist alien.

As for their technological level and apparent military strength, at least I'm glad they weren't like the Wraith and the Goa'uld - super duper crazy strong and impossible to kill the first time we see them, then later on 1 shot with a glock equals 1 kill. Consistency this time plx.

They also do not have hyperspace or teleportation devices.

I think its quite clear that their means of travel were at least faster than Destiny. Now if we only knew how fast Destiny is ^^

[The Dude of Lebowski]

I've been pondering a theory over the last few hours whilst ii've been working and i think i may be on to something...i hope. The smurf aliens are the furlings....and before you all say 'yeah, unlikely' hear me out. the furlings and the ancients were in an alliance so it would make sense then that the furlings would know of destinys existence. plus we can safely assume that the ship from the end of Air belonged to the smurf aliens. so my theory is the furlings found out about destiny via the ancients and went there to help out there old friends, or maybe were told to by the ancients coz they couldn't be bothered and were busy with other things. so the furlings have been on board destiny for all this time (maybe awaiting orders from the ancients) and then got scared off by the sudden arrival of the earth crew (still don't know why they were frightened, either there was only a small group on destiny and there was a large amount of people coming through and that scared them) and yeah that's my theory, now you may say 'yeah, unlikely' haha

[-Plot::Twist-]

They seam advanced? They are utterly weak, i mean destiny beat them off, destiny the same ship whose systems are down, aged and broken. Their shields go down in a few hits on the shuttles, and whose combined firepower barely did anything to destiny which had utterly failing shields. A 304 would take those aliens out in a couple of shots...They also do not have hyperspace or teleportation devices.

They most likely didn't want to hurt Destiny. They aren't interested in destroying it, they want it or themselves.