On Mar 23, 5:26=A0am, arrom...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Ken Arromdee) wrote:
> Bad things:
> -- Ancient seeming to consist of Latin words. =A0(Granted, this is
already=
> established)
> -- The whole replicator subplot
> -- Using the replicator subplot to do a Terminator riff, which really
> doesn't belong in a serious story
> -- Being able to pump replicators with hundreds of bullets, without
hurtin=
g
> any of the machinery behind them (Granted, this is already established
too=
..)
> -- Teal'c being *within walking distance* of the Ori stronghold. =A0It's
> fortunate they didn't build it on a cliff or on an island or something.
> -- And have I mentioned the stupidity of the reokicator subplot yet?
>
- The deus ex machina basis of all the plot, as usual. Luckily, some
Ancient guy thought of a way to kill ascended beings and they found
it. Now, out of nowhere, we have a device that can change people's
belief, and Daniel suddenly knows about it. That's very very very bad
writing.
- "Millions of years ago" the Ancients lived like middle-ages humans
from Earth but had a very powerful technology.
- For millions of years, nothing changed in the Ori universe (this is
absurd).
- For millions of years, nobody found the ruins supposed to be in a
central part of the Ori galaxy.
- This is the Vatican of the Ori but there is almost nobody on the
planet, nobody spots them coming, everybody speaks american english
(as usual).
- These ruins looked hundred of years old, not millions. And the Arch
was like new.
- The Ancient who had the idea about the Stargate left the Ori galaxy
the day he had the idea but somehow the Ori have the same Stargates.
=2E.. and that just the tip of what was bad.
> Good points:
> -- Teal'c's comment about how he too has killed innocents. =A0I was
saying=
to
> myself "the writers had better have thought of that". =A0They did.
> -- Sending the Ark to Area 51 instead of the usual reset button where
the
> magic device is conveniently destroyed at the end of the episode.
=A0(Besi=
des,
> it's not powerful against anyone except Priors, since, say, Wraiths
aren't=
> linked in the same way.)
> -- Sam's untied long hair, showed very briefly.
>
- No more Ori storyline, and only one SG1 episode to go.
> Also, the whole Ancients unable to intervene except in whatever tiny way
> is convenient for the plot thing is really old. =A0I don't see how they
co=
uld
> have done it anyther way, but I'm hoping future stories (movies,
Atlantis,=
> or whatever) lower the power of the threat and make it something that
the
> team can actually handle itself.
> --
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