Re: 4th Season Stargate Atlantis - Trio - 5 star poll - SPOILERS AHOY !

In article <atropos-4B47FE.17072214022008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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 Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article <mht8r31nsthaoo7gq4o0qtovuqu18l3tin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>  Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> > The language thing, though... it was either ignore the language issue
> > by just having everyone speak the same language, waste time in EVERY
> > EPISODE learning a new language, or have a magic-tech universal
> > translator that works instantaneously on hearing a new strange
> > language.  They opted to just ignore the whole thing.
> 
> Which continues to be one of the most jarring aspects of the show. I 
> agree that the language issue is a problem-- one which has no easy 
> solution-- but to have them whisked through a Stargate each week to the 
> vast corners of the galaxy (and now another galaxy altogether) only to 
> be instantly greeted by (often) bizarre natives who speak perfect 
> English instantly takes me right out of the story. Heck, the aliens not 
> only spoke English, they even understood O'Neill's slang and jokes, 
> things even an Earther who learned English as a second language wouldn't

> get.

And sometimes they have societies that are clearly clones of stuff we 
had 400 years ago, even though they were wisked away thousands of years 
ago.

-- 
Star Trek 08:

No Shat, No Show.