An observation about the Ancients

[RoJoHen]

Final nail in the Ancients' coffin: The ship of them that took back over Atlanis...only to die to the man/woman at the hands of the Replicators...off screen.

What a joke.

I missed most of the third season and I always wondered why the writers decided to bring in a shipfull of Ancients, have them assume there right to Atlantis (basically kicking out the Humans without so much as a Thank you for minding the house), and then kill them all off two or three episodes later.

They actually killed them off at the end of the very same episode that they first appeared, which makes it that much worse.

 

[Meat Tenderizer]

in Ark of Truth, we see that the Ancients ran away from the Ori and started anew in the Milky Way. Then, when the great plague hit, the Ancients again run away to the Pegasus galaxy and start anew. Then, when the Wraith attack Atlantis, the Ancients run away back to the Milky Way and start anew again.

Notice a pattern? It seems like the Ancients would let things get really really bad and then they would just cut and run and start over again.

The Ancients were imcopetent when it came time to fighting real wars, which is heightened by their near insanity when it comes to developing solutions to combat those threats (exploding tumor bombs?).

 

[broberfett]

I think my problem with it was that they were built up to be this amazing race of ancestors, but eventually we found out that for all their advancement, they lacked even basic compassion for other beings, except a few 'rebels' ... and people STILL looked up to them.

It's like waiting for years to meet your idol, only to find out they're a douchebag and then STILL worship them instead of taking that poster down off the wall.

Yeah, that sums it up. The ancients were thoroughly boring.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

Ever notice how every pretty much precursor race in science fiction leaves the following crap behind:

-Sealed evil in a can
-Weapon to defeat said evil
-Horrifically dangerous experiments
-Galaxy-killing weapons
-Some sort of "passing of the torch" to humanity

It's always sort of "why didn't they use the friggin anti-bad guy gun when they had the chance?"

 

[Romulan_spy]

Ever notice how every pretty much precursor race in science fiction leaves the following crap behind:

-Sealed evil in a can
-Weapon to defeat said evil
-Horrifically dangerous experiments
-Galaxy-killing weapons
-Some sort of "passing of the torch" to humanity

It's always sort of "why didn't they use the friggin anti-bad guy gun when they had the chance?"

Well, the super advanced civ is usually portrayed as being too stuck in their mindset to be able to think differently. For example, the Asgard were certainly advanced enough to defeat the Replicators but they admit to SG1 in that episode that it would never occur to them to build gunpowder based guns like what SG1 uses. O'Neill comments that the Asgard need someone "dumber than them".

And, we see in Ark of Truth that the Ancients were unwilling to use the Ark for ethical reasons but SG1 was willing to use it.

 

[DWF]

Ever notice how every pretty much precursor race in science fiction leaves the following crap behind:

-Sealed evil in a can
-Weapon to defeat said evil
-Horrifically dangerous experiments
-Galaxy-killing weapons
-Some sort of "passing of the torch" to humanity

It's always sort of "why didn't they use the friggin anti-bad guy gun when they had the chance?"

Well, the super advanced civ is usually portrayed as being too stuck in their mindset to be able to think differently. For example, the Asgard were certainly advanced enough to defeat the Replicators but they admit to SG1 in that episode that it would never occur to them to build gunpowder based guns like what SG1 uses. O'Neill comments that the Asgard need someone "dumber than them".

And, we see in Ark of Truth that the Ancients were unwilling to use the Ark for ethical reasons but SG1 was willing to use it.

The Asgard were beaten by the Replicators though in fact they lost their homeworld to them.