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As I posted earlier, I'm a bottle show kind of guy having grown up with Lost in Space and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, and having a full reset is natural to me. With Atlantis being more arc based I can see where some people could have legit issues about the inconsistencies. But personally it doesn't phase me.
As for the number of people per planet, I would think it possible that over time there are settlements over much of a planet. But everyone concentrates on the ones near the gates.
I liked it, but I think the episode's plot would have been more effective last season. Last year the Hoffman plague popped up out of nowhere and, imo, it didn't present any threat other than the characters said it was one. Showing an episode that dealt with it before the "Return of Carson" two-parter, would have been nice.
Good. This didn't feel like Yet Another Rehash, maybe because it seemed like the characters were actually thinking things through for a change and coming up with plausible plans. And when those plans let to bad things happening, the writers didn't let the characters off the hook with an easy out.
Carson is a much better character than Keller. Rodney is getting massively annoying, though.
Next week should be fun.
They better get OJ's lawyer or they're sunk because I never saw anyone as guilty as the Atlanteans of carelessness, magical thinking and just plain stupidity. I give the Pegasans permission to burn them at the stake.
If there is no Gate, you cannot rate! *Johnny Cochrane mode off*
Here's something I'm suprised nobody has brought up - who is satisfied with the whole "will the tower and gateroom be just fine in the next ep" treatment? I mean, you either:
a) are annoyed that there wasn't a scene showing the gateroom being patched up
b) glad that it wasn't shown back in pristine condition
c) annoyed that there wasn't a mention of such a watershed event (yeah I know, they got an ex-midway gate, but still...)
Maybe the next ep showing the gateroom will show the walls being patched up with mudbricks, thanks to the labor of all the renassaince fair inhabitants - or maybe habitats for pegasus-galaxy humanity will pitch in!
Seriously though, how do y'all feel about the treatment in the ep (or lack thereof) of the tower damage issue?
So, we know there are "millions" of people in the Pegasus galaxy from all the times when the Atlantis people say "millions" of lives are at risk.
Let's say each planet has a village of 1000 people (even though the one here had 700 people), so that means there are a thousand planets for every million human beings in the Pegasus galaxy.
I don't know, I just think that's fairly high dispersion.
Well, they've mentioned higher populations occasionally, though they've rarely shown them. Proportionally, they're probably as rare as planetary civilizations in the Milky Way.
The Genii probably have thousands of people, if not tens or hundreds of thousands. The planet with the prison island they let the Wraith use for food must have had a fairly high population. It was mentioned that there were numerous villages surrounding the buried city ship in "The Tower." I think there were a couple others.
I gave it a bad. How stupid could these villagers be by even thinking that the Wraith will leave them alone if they give them the people who are infected with the drug? Then only the 'good eatin' folks" are left in the village and the Wraith can drop by for lunch anytime.
I'm so sick of all these dimwitted Renaissance Festival villagers everywhere, I'm rooting for the Wraith now.
I gave it a bad. How stupid could these villagers be by even thinking that the Wraith will leave them alone if they give them the people who are infected with the drug? Then only the 'good eatin' folks" are left in the village and the Wraith can drop by for lunch anytime.
I'm so sick of all these dimwitted Renaissance Festival villagers everywhere, I'm rooting for the Wraith now.
It's human nature to try to save yourself at the expense of others. We're a bunch of selfish, pitiless fools. I thought the deal would only spare the village a culling at that point in time not for all time.
It is possible to make a deal with the Wraith and not have them immediately bone you. Someone mentioned the prison island planet, they made a deal to give the Wraith the "dregs" of their society for the Wraith to leave the rest alone and the Wraith honoured that until the Atlantis goody-goodies come along and then caused the likely destruction of that civilisation.
^^Which would have happened eventually, as they resorted to trumping up charges against people to keep the rate of imprisonment high enough to prevent the Wraith who brokered the deal from coming after the rest of the planet.
Bad. Just your plain typical Atlantis episode
It wasn't a great move to have 2 Amazing episodes then give the viewers this flat line.
However I love Paul/Carson and this was GREAT for me on a personal level.
Medieval type village - check.
Wraith capture/escape - check.
Wraith hoffan virus - check.
Walking through pine forests - check.
Villagers who can't act and have stupid names - check.
For **** sake, can we please have a bit of creativity from the idiot M&M twins? I'm so fed up with the wraith, the drug, the ubiquitous villages....
Episodes like Daedalus Variations, First Contact and The Shrine, make me very sad that the show is ending.
Unfortunately every other episode makes me wish it ended that week.
Terrible, boring, predictable, rehashed rubbish.
The last couple of minutes were exciting but that's about it.
And the writers seem to be having MASSIVE problems writing final scenes. I've lost count of the amount of awkward, infirmary based, non-important, half-hearted scenes they've delivered between characters as the final scene.
Seriously, what was the point of that chat between McKay and Beckett?? It was so cringe-worthingly awkward.
- or maybe habitats for pegasus-galaxy humanity will pitch in!
