Originally posted by Mister Oragahn
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It took off from a glorified snowy plateau barely big enough to host a village, as far as a I recall.
Here's a story of disapointment:
We learn that the Alterans are from another galaxy. Woah. Why did they move?
A war with the "Ori".
Imagination goes rampant. The Ori are ascended beings, but not limited with pesky rules of non interference. They rule a whole galaxy.
Dang. I have to see that.
They must be ruling an empire of medieval pawns covering many planets, with mighty outdated cities all over the place, and plenty of Ori temples, full of gadgetery.
They must have the ability to built ships in many numbers... on many planets, using all those powers to assemble them effortlessly.
What we see? The Ori empire is nothing more than something like three villages, at best, and we're not even sure that all of them are on different planets anymore.
I expect some massive cities, or huge ruins, anything big you know, the leftover from the clash of two great civilizations which have been travelling through their galaxy and beyond.
Nope, one city, Celestis, and nothing else. Not many fancy things to see there.
As for the ships, well, beyond one valley visibly used to build ships by using primitive structures, there's nothing else to see. We got, what? a total of twelve ori ships?
Ah, of course, I thought the Alterans departed from that galaxy. Oh, that must have been a great exodus. But no. Sorry, we later learn that they left the galaxy in one ship.
One frakin' ship.
Uh.
OK, nevermind! It must have been a glorious ship. Something big, fantastic... of course, considering how Atlantis was a letdown (notably when you compare what we got to what was initially explored), my hopes weren't so high.
Still, I expect something like a worldship, with all Alterans from many planets docking inside that big ass ship, and leaving.
Comes AOT. Nope, it's just another sub Atlantis tug. Yeepee.
Oh but wait, at least that village they departed from... was just one village among many, on another planet!
No. That village is just a chain mountain away from Celestis. So basically, all that great stuff about a formidable conflict of values, opinions and technology, was nothing more than two ******* villages slinging crap at each other.
There are many other things to list, most of them being about what the staff could have added to the Ori lore (we had a thread about what the Ori could have been given) but no, the Ori is just a story about one village with six towers or so grandiloquently called Celestis like if it was anything massive, and that's all.
Here's a story of disapointment:
We learn that the Alterans are from another galaxy. Woah. Why did they move?
A war with the "Ori".
Imagination goes rampant. The Ori are ascended beings, but not limited with pesky rules of non interference. They rule a whole galaxy.
Dang. I have to see that.
They must be ruling an empire of medieval pawns covering many planets, with mighty outdated cities all over the place, and plenty of Ori temples, full of gadgetery.
They must have the ability to built ships in many numbers... on many planets, using all those powers to assemble them effortlessly.
What we see? The Ori empire is nothing more than something like three villages, at best, and we're not even sure that all of them are on different planets anymore.
I expect some massive cities, or huge ruins, anything big you know, the leftover from the clash of two great civilizations which have been travelling through their galaxy and beyond.
Nope, one city, Celestis, and nothing else. Not many fancy things to see there.
As for the ships, well, beyond one valley visibly used to build ships by using primitive structures, there's nothing else to see. We got, what? a total of twelve ori ships?
Ah, of course, I thought the Alterans departed from that galaxy. Oh, that must have been a great exodus. But no. Sorry, we later learn that they left the galaxy in one ship.
One frakin' ship.
Uh.
OK, nevermind! It must have been a glorious ship. Something big, fantastic... of course, considering how Atlantis was a letdown (notably when you compare what we got to what was initially explored), my hopes weren't so high.
Still, I expect something like a worldship, with all Alterans from many planets docking inside that big ass ship, and leaving.
Comes AOT. Nope, it's just another sub Atlantis tug. Yeepee.
Oh but wait, at least that village they departed from... was just one village among many, on another planet!
No. That village is just a chain mountain away from Celestis. So basically, all that great stuff about a formidable conflict of values, opinions and technology, was nothing more than two ******* villages slinging crap at each other.
There are many other things to list, most of them being about what the staff could have added to the Ori lore (we had a thread about what the Ori could have been given) but no, the Ori is just a story about one village with six towers or so grandiloquently called Celestis like if it was anything massive, and that's all.
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