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    Too much Earth idiosyncronisities?

    Are the Stargate aliens showing too many Tau'ri behaviorism and speech patterns?

    Not only do they all seem to be using the Imperial, and to a much lesser extent also the metric, System, they also use a lot of Earth (specifically American) expressions.

    In "Miller's Crossing", Ronon exclaims "Sweet!" in response to John telling him he's found something for him to point his gun at.

    Am I the only one who was irked at this? The suspension of disbelief is almost all gone by now. Ronon and Teyla (to a lesser extent) have become so earthified they feel and sound just like pretty much any other Earthling.




    #2
    Yes. Some of the lines that Ronon has been given really annoy me, I think it's because the writers can't differentiate between English (language) phrases and North American ones, let alone route out the Earth phrases... If that makes any sense...

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      #3
      I'm not saying this as fact just a hypothetical - Ronan's situation isn't the same as Teal'C or Teyla. Ronan doesn't have the option of going back to his own people and culture like they do (or did) without that ancor it's easier to pick up the "local" slang.
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        #4
        To be fair, when you're around your friends, you tend to pick up sayings from them and use them yourself.

        Ronon has been hanging around the Atlantis crew for over two years now. I'm not really surprised he's picked up a couple of mannerisms.

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          #5
          I think Lucius was probably the worst, he even had the accent.

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            #6
            Originally posted by jenks View Post
            I think Lucius was probably the worst, he even had the accent.
            That's probably not the only respect in which Lucius was the worst...

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              #7
              Originally posted by FallenAngelII View Post
              In "Miller's Crossing", Ronon exclaims "Sweet!" in response to John telling him he's found something for him to point his gun at.
              that's nothing. what about:

              SHEPPARD: Hey, buddy, you wanna lower your gun?
              RONON: What the hell?

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                #8
                It bothers me when it's random-alien-ally-and-or-enemy-of-the-week, but with Ronon and Teyla, not so much. They spend all their time on a base with people from earth; it makes sense that they would pick up the slang.
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                  #9
                  FYI, "idiosyncronisities" isn't a word. Synchronicity is a word...and a Police album. Idiosyncrasy is a word.

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                    #10
                    Ronon's word choices indicate that he's assimilated to Earth culture and it's not really surprising.

                    What I didn't like is when in Rising, Sumner tells the Wraith keeper lady to "go to hell" and she, completely understanding the phrase, responds, "Earth first!" Now, either she's intelligent enough to infer the meaning of the phrase without understanding what the concept of Hell is or it was just bad writing.
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                      #11
                      It's called suspending disbelief. We can pretend like they're really in the Pegasus galaxy doing all these lovely things, but at the end of the day, they're being fed lines by writers who are working for a primarily American audience. They're going to use "miles", "Hell" and "Sweet!" because that makes it accessible to more people. If they started inventing units of measurement, people would get annoyed having to figure out what a "darblat" or a "apsco" is every episode (except die-harders). You just have to accept all the Earth terminology just like you accept the fact that all the aliens speak English.
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by FallenAngelII View Post
                        Are the Stargate aliens showing too many Tau'ri behaviorism and speech patterns?

                        Not only do they all seem to be using the Imperial, and to a much lesser extent also the metric, System, they also use a lot of Earth (specifically American) expressions.

                        In "Miller's Crossing", Ronon exclaims "Sweet!" in response to John telling him he's found something for him to point his gun at.

                        Am I the only one who was irked at this? The suspension of disbelief is almost all gone by now. Ronon and Teyla (to a lesser extent) have become so earthified they feel and sound just like pretty much any other Earthling.
                        I can accept some Earth mannerisms/words as simply those that Ronon and Teyla have absorbed while hanging around Sheppard. However, yes, everybody speaks English, etc. but that's for the viewer's benefit. And nobody seems to have problem with times, dates, length of years, etc. even if they live on a different planet with a different rotation.

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                          #13
                          Originally posted by FallenAngelII View Post
                          Are the Stargate aliens showing too many Tau'ri behaviorism and speech patterns?

                          Not only do they all seem to be using the Imperial, and to a much lesser extent also the metric, System, they also use a lot of Earth (specifically American) expressions.

                          In "Miller's Crossing", Ronon exclaims "Sweet!" in response to John telling him he's found something for him to point his gun at.

                          Am I the only one who was irked at this? The suspension of disbelief is almost all gone by now. Ronon and Teyla (to a lesser extent) have become so earthified they feel and sound just like pretty much any other Earthling.

                          OMG , you are not alone that bugs the hell out of me , they should be like an Athosian and a Satedan , not acting all earth like they are not from there
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Darien View Post
                            That's probably not the only respect in which Lucius was the worst...
                            *snort* Oh, boy, is that an understatement!
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                              #15
                              Originally posted by Jeffala View Post
                              Ronon's word choices indicate that he's assimilated to Earth culture and it's not really surprising.

                              What I didn't like is when in Rising, Sumner tells the Wraith keeper lady to "go to hell" and she, completely understanding the phrase, responds, "Earth first!" Now, either she's intelligent enough to infer the meaning of the phrase without understanding what the concept of Hell is or it was just bad writing.
                              In case you hadn't noticed, the queens have a pretty good psychic ability.

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