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

In article <419ms3dufb3mbdfj55bsou470vv93hhoo3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 "David V. Loewe, Jr" <daveloewe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 17:07:22 -0500, Thanatos <atropos@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > Jeffrey Kaplan <nomail@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> 
> They all speak Ancient Egyptian, which they learned from Ra and had
> enforced on them by the System Lords.  Everyone who goes through the
> gate has been taught Ancient Egyptian by Daniel.  We hear it as
> English on our TV sets because of a filtering program installed by the
> Asgard for Stargate SG-1 (which is our version of Wormhole X-Treme).
> 
> How is that for a fanwank?

Damn.  I actually like it.

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No Shat, No Show.
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