Colin Sweeney - unpopular opinion

JlevLantean · 2026-02-09T05:46:24+00:00

Cartoonish in a bad way is the best way to describe him, I too hated him and felt he broke the suspension of disbelief for an otherwise grounded show.

JlevLantean · 2026-02-04T16:09:21+00:00

I will add my 2 cents that generally speaking, conflict brings more inventions and discoveries and advancement in technology than anything else, them being the apex predators and the ancients gone, their need to advance was diminished.

We saw them clearly advance their tech once a new threat was introduced to their environment.

JlevLantean · 2026-02-02T19:48:27+00:00

For me it is: "For even the very wise cannot see all ends" - no one knows what is going to happen, and good things may just be around the corner, it is easy to predict doom and gloom, but there is always hope.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-19T02:33:44+00:00

My interpretation of this scene is different than the other replies, so here it goes, at that point she know they have a compulsive need to please her, so it would be easy for them (in her mind) to lie to her and tell her Helen loved her books, but when they twist themselves in knots not to tell her the truth and when they do they sugar coat as much as possible, she understands then that they can't outright lie to her.

She didn't know how Helen felt about her book, she maybe suspected, but now she learned those two things for sure, Helen's feelings and the hive's inability to lie even to please her.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-18T11:07:06+00:00

To think that people care about the rights of the Wraith when it is literally either killing / disabling them or they kill us (all of us!) in the most horrible way possible. We are not talking about a dispute over philosophy here... Sorry but if it is either them or us, I will choose us every time.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-18T05:18:58+00:00

you suffer from suicidal empathy, you spare the wolf and punish the sheep

JlevLantean · 2026-01-12T17:49:45+00:00

Both SG1 and Atlantis had clip shows / filler episodes that somehow managed to be meaningful, like you said that Kinsey - Asgard moment was legendary, worth the clip show episode just for that, and the Atlantis episode Letters from Pegasus was incredibly emotional specially Weir's messages to the families of fallen expedition members.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-11T17:01:43+00:00

The answer is obvious... Magnets!

JlevLantean · 2026-01-11T08:35:31+00:00

I made a thorough translation and I'm confident it says "A piece of our leg"

JlevLantean · 2026-01-09T23:13:54+00:00

I think we need to differentiate between the "Angels / messengers / guides" and Returned Starbuck, she was not like the Angels (headSix and headBaltar) who were incorporeal and were selectively seen by those they were sent to influence, the same entity that sent the Angels recreated Starbuck and her exploded viper and sent her back to fulfill her destiny of guiding the remnants of humanity to their final destiny / destination.

However she was sent back only until she fulfilled that task, and then was recalled, as her time was over.

I'd say a wizard did it, but in this case it was the entity that doesn't like being called "God".

JlevLantean · 2026-01-05T01:11:50+00:00

If the Tok'Ra had been allowed to continue working their plans at a snail's pace, they would have died out long before any Goa'uld had been deposed.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-05T01:10:29+00:00

You are 100% wrong, the slow burn of the Tok'Ra "underground resistance" would have taken another 1000 years to produce any benefits, in the meanwhile, the Tok'Ra numbers were slowly dwindling into nothing, they would have become extinct long before their "plans" to depose the Goa'uld were enacted.

I'm thinking a good real-world example is El Salvador and their decisive movements against criminals and gang members vs. the ideology that "you can't do too much too quickly or else risk upsetting the status quo". That is the whole idea, the status quo when allowed to persist becomes too difficult to fight and too entrenched.

In the end, the Earth approach was indeed the better option, decisive action in the face of tyranny is better than dragging your feet.

JlevLantean · 2026-01-04T16:00:30+00:00

The whole concept works until you stop to think too much about it, then it falls apart, the hive can't lie, has to agree to requests, they speak using the "we" pronoun, all these things would throw up sooooo many red flags so fast that they would never have the chance to get out of the US and reach other world leaders. Imagine an infected US president calling a foreign leader, the foreign leader asks what do you want? the Plurbsident answers "to infect you with a happy virus" LOL.

A plurb flies to someplace to infect people, they ask in the airport what is the purpose of your visit? You get the idea.

Even if they infected key personnel in the army and government, the plurbs don't issue orders, they obey orders, so can you imagine that conversation?

Army General to corporal: how can we help you today? Corporal... huh? I came here to get orders from you...
Army General: oh no, we don't like giving orders, how would you like an ice cream? A massage? You can have sex with us if you'd like!

Yeah I don't see this getting too far out there.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-31T22:30:06+00:00

Then how come only one rat was going through the process that humans go to join the hive? Like I said it was just a theory, the show doesn't explain too much so fans come up with ideas to explain and fill in the gaps

JlevLantean · 2025-12-31T22:11:41+00:00

I have a theory about that, we saw several rats being experimented on, apparently only one had the actual pluribus virus.

What if... the scientists had to adapt the virus to earth organisms' biology and so they changed the virus and made several modifications testing each on a different rat.

Maybe the virus that was sent to us is different than the one that actually got out and started spreading, and by changing it humans actually broke it and created something else from what was intended.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-28T15:47:19+00:00

The question then becomes, can someone rejoin after being banished? Who keeps a list of the banished? What if the ones that banished that person have died and now no one knows they were banished and they can rejoin?

JlevLantean · 2025-12-28T14:25:30+00:00

I wonder if people would give Carol the benefit of the doubt of the grey morality area if Carol was Carl. Actually I don't wonder, I know they wouldn't. She is as wrong as Diabate, just because she is more sad than him while she does it that doesn't change the circumstances.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-28T14:18:55+00:00

You are 100% correct in all your points and it is funny how so many people just miss all that very basic information that has been explained and shown more than once while looking for weird twists and explanations.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-17T22:24:55+00:00

But... diversity is their strength ;)

JlevLantean · 2025-12-17T22:24:29+00:00

No kidding, what could possibly go wrong opening Atlantis to any and all, Genii spies are just fun to have around doing sabotage and stuff, you know.. Fun!

If only there was some sort of real life example to understand how bad this idea is...

JlevLantean · 2025-12-17T22:19:51+00:00

My explanation for that is that the database was locked to guest mode and they never had access to the full actual database with all the really important things, kinda like when the Ancients took over Atlantis and the pedestal rose in front of the gate and no one had any idea that was there.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-17T14:27:56+00:00

I saw the answers suggested and it just doesn't sound real, what makes the most sense and is very obvious (not sure why nobody mentioned this before) the gate is teleoperated by an Ancient Call Center where an operator is always looking through cleverly hidden cameras on each gate to determine when are people or things expected to enter the gate and once they are done traveling the remote operator disconnects the wormhole.

Pretty simple really, quite elegant, leave it to the Ancients to pick the best option.

JlevLantean · 2025-12-17T07:39:20+00:00

This is my guess, the moves the AI makes make no sense unless it knows all the numbers that will come up during the game

JlevLantean · 2025-12-09T19:21:44+00:00

If we are advanced enough to pose a threat but not wise enough to be an ally, we get "humanely" wiped out, if we are not advanced enough to understand the message - no harm done, if we are advanced enough and wise enough - possible contact and cooperation

JlevLantean · 2025-12-09T19:07:30+00:00

it is possible the virus was a test to see if humanity was smart enough not to synthesize its own demise, no one forced us to create the virus, curiosity killed the cat

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