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Originally posted by themeatcleaver View Postfor the record i purchase the hd itunes versions and will DEFINITELY grab the full season when its outsigpic
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Something doesn't sit well with me... This is the third (as far as we know) generation of the Stargate with the Milky Way & Asgard galaxy being the first generation and Pegasus as the second...
We've seen multiple times of the gate surviving massive explosions, being shot at... having an Alkesh crash into it... and so on... But a single drone can destroy a Naquadah gate just by 1 shot?!
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Originally posted by themeatcleaver View Posti kinda did too. i'm interested to find out what his deal is THIS time. i almost had the feeling he was alt-rush, what with the way he was acting.
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Originally posted by Airlock View Posti got this feeling that Rush knew more about what was going on than he led on.
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Sigh....
Ok, I can see why some of you like this episode.
For those who like space battles - you got drones buzzing and shooting.
For those who lamented the lack of use of the gates - you got gates.
But, overall as a story and as fiction, IMO it lacked the necessary cohesion and believability. And I'm not talking about the time travel (as much as a cop-out that is for story writers.)
Let me ask you all a question: how many of you could build a house from scratch, without tools? Or, how many of you could even make a barrel (complete with metal bands), from scratch?
And so on.
Yes, the crew was well educated, but except for military survival training most of them wouldn't have the skills (forget the theoretical knowledge about physics and math - much of it wouldn't be of much use) to build anything more than the most primitive of medieval villages - there just wouldn't be enough laborers.
Indeed, that was the whole lesson from the Faith planet. Those people died because they couldn't even survive a single year because of simple seasonal changes, on a planet designed (apparently) to be habitable.
Again, there just aren't enough bodies on Destiny to found a civilization much beyond a stone age village.
And then of course there is the whole static language problem.
Oh, and the idea that a single source of Chinese genetic material (Ray) could be enough so people 2000 years later (about 60 to 70 generations) would have distinct "racial" differences so some could clearly look Chinese and others not... no, sorry, it doesn't work that way.
Sigh...
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Originally posted by Airlock View Posti got this feeling that Rush knew more about what was going on than he led on.
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Originally posted by BadOnion View PostThat was a great episode. Only thing that didn't ring true was that the language they spoke hadn't evolved into something a little different from english in 2000 years.
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Originally posted by senilegreen View PostSigh....
Ok, I can see why some of you like this episode.
For those who like space battles - you got drones buzzing and shooting.
For those who lamented the lack of use of the gates - you got gates.
But, overall as a story and as fiction, IMO it lacked the necessary cohesion and believability. And I'm not talking about the time travel (as much as a cop-out that is for story writers.)
Let me ask you all a question: how many of you could build a house from scratch, without tools? Or, how many of you could even make a barrel (complete with metal bands), from scratch?
And so on.
Yes, the crew was well educated, but except for military survival training most of them wouldn't have the skills (forget the theoretical knowledge about physics and math - much of it wouldn't be of much use) to build anything more than the most primitive of medieval villages - there just wouldn't be enough laborers.
Indeed, that was the whole lesson from the Faith planet. Those people died because they couldn't even survive a single year because of simple seasonal changes, on a planet designed (apparently) to be habitable.
Again, there just aren't enough bodies on Destiny to found a civilization much beyond a stone age village.
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