Oh dear, looks like the "wormhole drive" is coming back

[Kpnuts]

Just for the record that was Paul Mullie in that quote not Joe Mallozzi and I don't see what the big deal in using it a second time it exists now not using it again would be a mistake. I'm sure they also regret Zat guns and teleporters for the same reason.

I'm aware it was Mulllie.

You don't see what the big deal is in using a pathetic and cringeworthy deus ex machina plot device for a second time? It was bad enough the first time, but they want to use it again

And no, ray guns and teleporters are a little different to this magical technology that puts a flying city in any SPECIFIC (down to the right orbit in a solar system) place in the universe.

DWF, did you think the wormhole drive was a great idea, and illustated excellent creative vision from the writing team?

To be honest I really don't care right now either way, the term Deus et Machina is way overused in it's own right and it used to be an acceptable way to end stories. And in any event it's not really important the show is over and there's more important things to think about. There really was no way the city would get there in time and gave the show a heroic ending. I guess no matter what they do you're going to complain anyway.

No. I thought the episode was very good.

I just find it funny that you can't even dislike something to stupid as the 'wormhole drive'

 

[DWF]

^^^It's not as silly as the Holly Hop drive on Red Dwarf.

 

[bigdaddy]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!

You must be new...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!

You must be new...

No its just that I'm coming to the conclusion that the people who insult the writers might actually be right .

 

[Gertch]

I don't think it's that bad. But I sure hope they don't think up something like a ring that sends a wormhole to another ring that people can actually travel through.

 

[Kpnuts]

I don't think it's that bad. But I sure hope they don't think up something like a ring that sends a wormhole to another ring that people can actually travel through.

There's a difference between the Stargate system... something invented over 15 years ago and is the very concept of the show itself...

and a magical "drive" that lets an enormous flying city go anywhere in the universe you want, to solar system/planet orbit accuracy, in a couple of seconds.

The fact that it popped up out of the blue, with the tiresome "McKay's been working on it for some time" excuse, is just the icing on the cake really.

 

[bigdaddy]

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!

You must be new...

No its just that I'm coming to the conclusion that the people who insult the writers might actually be right .

I think I can speak for kpnuts and myself...

Told you so.

 

[Gertch]

The fact that it popped up out of the blue, with the tiresome "McKay's been working on it for some time" excuse, is just the icing on the cake really.

But so didn't the gate in the Stargate movie. It just popped out of the blue to us and come to find out they had been working on it for some time.

 

[DWF]

The fact that it popped up out of the blue, with the tiresome "McKay's been working on it for some time" excuse, is just the icing on the cake really.

But so didn't the gate in the Stargate movie. It just popped out of the blue to us and come to find out they had been working on it for some time.

The same could said about the Pegasus for that matter.

 

[Gertch]

The fact that it popped up out of the blue, with the tiresome "McKay's been working on it for some time" excuse, is just the icing on the cake really.

But so didn't the gate in the Stargate movie. It just popped out of the blue to us and come to find out they had been working on it for some time.

The same could said about the Pegasus for that matter.

And I love them all.

 

[Kpnuts]

The fact that it popped up out of the blue, with the tiresome "McKay's been working on it for some time" excuse, is just the icing on the cake really.

But so didn't the gate in the Stargate movie. It just popped out of the blue to us and come to find out they had been working on it for some time.

If you looked up the term "clutching at straws" in the dictionary, there'd be a copy of that post of yours in there!

 

[StarfleetUK2K1]

at least they could have given the drive a mention in a previous episode or two, saying stuff like 'if only we had 3 ZPM's' ahh well, chances wasted

 

[Broccoli]

The wormhole drive was silly for two major reasons:

1) It came out of nowhere. Granted, the writers had little time to come up with a finale. However, from what I have read, EatG was pretty much going to be the season ender anyway where Atlantis was going to end up on Earth. Some ground work should have been placed before hand that McKay was tinkering with Wormhole drive. At least earlier in the episode would suffice. The way it was presented in the episode was "Oh, hey, we have this magic thing that we've never bothered mentioning before that can do what we completely need at the moment."

2) Show us the drive working. If it's so awesome, lets see how this thing works. Like Atlantis going into wormhole drive. Instead, we got Zelenka talking about it and then Atlantis is at Earth.

It probably would have been better if it wasn't mentioned at all and leave it as a scene with Woosley and Co. worrying if they'll get to Earth in time. Maybe Zelenka claiming that the ZPMs need to recharge or something.

I remember an interview a few weeks back from TPTB where they were arguing on a certain polarizing scene in the episode and whether or not to put it in. I wonder if it was the Wormhole drive discussion.

 

[bigdaddy]

It came out of nowhere. Granted, the writers had little time to come up with a finale.

They had plenty of time, they had five years of the show. This was going to be the SEASON finale. From what I understand there was very little, if any, time to change the episode when the canceled word came down. So at the very least they should have had a year to think of how to get Atlantis back. of course the writers obviously didn't plan anything out and then made up some useless bullshit that wasn't needed to get Atlantis to Earth.

 

[Corran Horn]

They could easily write wormhole drives "out of the storyline" by borrowing something from the whole Star Trek thing where at some point they found out going over a certain warp speed was destablilzing space or causing fissures of some sort.

Just have Atlantis discover that the point from which they initiated the wormhole drive ended up causing a black hole and destroying the solar system they initiated it from. Then just abandon the technology. They got to use it for 'sloppy writing' to get Atlantis back to Earth, but can thankfully get rid of it so it doesn't ever have to come up again or nobody can ever ask "Hey, why not just equip this thing on all ships."

It's pointless because it didn't have to be in the Atlantis finale at all. What was it, a 2 minute filler? Sure, it makes Zelenka look smart, but we already knew that. Plus, there was already drama in the fact that Atlantis might not make it there anyway even if it had just stayed with the normal hyperdrive.

 

[Broccoli]

It came out of nowhere. Granted, the writers had little time to come up with a finale.

They had plenty of time, they had five years of the show. This was going to be the SEASON finale. From what I understand there was very little, if any, time to change the episode when the canceled word came down. So at the very least they should have had a year to think of how to get Atlantis back. of course the writers obviously didn't plan anything out and then made up some useless bullshit that wasn't needed to get Atlantis to Earth.

Dude...what's your deal? No need to jump on my case. If you bothered to read my entire post you would have noticed the sentence right after the one you quoted basically says what you are complaining about.

Take a Xanax or something to calm down. You're hatred of the Stargate writers is a little much that you are twisting the words of people agreeing with you in another attempt to bash them about something you've already bashed them about in the same thread.

 

[bigdaddy]

It came out of nowhere. Granted, the writers had little time to come up with a finale.

They had plenty of time, they had five years of the show. This was going to be the SEASON finale. From what I understand there was very little, if any, time to change the episode when the canceled word came down. So at the very least they should have had a year to think of how to get Atlantis back. of course the writers obviously didn't plan anything out and then made up some useless bullshit that wasn't needed to get Atlantis to Earth.

Dude...what's your deal? No need to jump on my case.

Dude, what's your deal? I wasn't saying anything bad to you, about you, I was stating the facts.

So dude, you need to chill dude.

 

[Broccoli]

They had plenty of time, they had five years of the show. This was going to be the SEASON finale. From what I understand there was very little, if any, time to change the episode when the canceled word came down. So at the very least they should have had a year to think of how to get Atlantis back. of course the writers obviously didn't plan anything out and then made up some useless bullshit that wasn't needed to get Atlantis to Earth.

Dude...what's your deal? No need to jump on my case.

Dude, what's your deal? I wasn't saying anything bad to you, about you, I was stating the facts.

So dude, you need to chill dude.

I am chill. It seemed like you got on your bandwagon based partly on what I said, and I interpreted it as if you antagonistically disagreeing/arguing with me on the matter even though we pretty much said the same things.

Also, thanks for mocking me on my choice of phrase.

 

[Kpnuts]

It came out of nowhere. Granted, the writers had little time to come up with a finale.

They had plenty of time, they had five years of the show. This was going to be the SEASON finale. From what I understand there was very little, if any, time to change the episode when the canceled word came down. So at the very least they should have had a year to think of how to get Atlantis back. of course the writers obviously didn't plan anything out and then made up some useless bullshit that wasn't needed to get Atlantis to Earth.

Dude...what's your deal? No need to jump on my case. If you bothered to read my entire post you would have noticed the sentence right after the one you quoted basically says what you are complaining about.

Take a Xanax or something to calm down. You're hatred of the Stargate writers is a little much that you are twisting the words of people agreeing with you in another attempt to bash them about something you've already bashed them about in the same thread.

He wasn't jumping on your case, he was debating and discussing, by stating a few facts and a few opinions. Otherwise known as an internet message boad post.

Nothing to do with you.

 

[Neroon]

Surfer-speak in Stargate ... I've heard stranger things, but not much.