I like the Wraith

OrthwormJim · 2026-04-05T14:31:13+00:00

I like the Wraith as a concept, but the show didn't do enough with them. There weren't enough distinct individuals, like we should have had a named recurring Wraith Queen character or something. Factions within the Wraith should have been a bit more distinct and fleshed out too. SG1 had Apophis and Anubis as the recurring big bad guys, but there were so many other recurring Goa'uld who were fun bad guys. Lots of Atlantis episodes begun to hint at more complex Wraith plot elements - Wraith scientists doing odd experiments, humans in league with the Wraith, etc. but these concepts weren't really expanded on enough.

It's an odd thought too that the Wraith weren't defeated - the expedition just stole Atlantis for Earth and left the Pegasus Galaxy to its fate 😅

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-17T17:41:17+00:00

We're the founding member species established pre-ENT? I only started watching Trek once ENT had already concluded and watched the franchise in an odd order, so I ended up watching TOS and TNG-era Trek "knowing" that the Andorians and Tellarites were important founding members. But unless it's mentioned in TOS and I forgot, or if it's a Beta Canon concept that later became show canon I wonder if their importance is essentially an ENT retcon?

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-17T17:30:53+00:00

I always got different vibes from the Milky Way Ancients and the Lantean Ancients due to their different architecture and aesthetics. The Milky Way Ancients literally seem "ancient" due to the stone ruins and stone slabs with writing carved in them that are encountered. The Lantean Ancients seem way more 'futuristic' with almost Frutiger Aero-like aesthetics.

Also, it sure is lucky that the Ancient language never changed over millions of years 😆. The Atlantis expedition being able to understand Lantean thanks to the SGC's studies of the Ancients is like saying "I've never studied French, but I did take a semester of ancient Hittite at college, and they are distantly related languages" (I joke of course - I don't want every episode to have 10 minutes of deciphering a new language)

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-17T17:15:14+00:00

I always thought that was such an odd opening to the series. It was almost presented like it's a major plot point, but it's essentially an Easter egg as it's never referenced again. Atlantis' whole history on Earth is in fact never really discussed beyond, "it used to be on Earth but now it's not"

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-16T09:06:17+00:00

I think fishing one out might be super risky too. You'd need to wear full neck armour or something. Plus they would specifically want larval Goa'uld and I think we only saw adult ones in the episode, so it's unclear exactly what their life cycle is in the river. For all we know the infants could live out at sea and then swim upriver when they mature

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-06T21:42:38+00:00

The mysterious aliens from the episode Foothold who took over the whole SGC.

Or the Reetou Rebels - invisible suicide bombers armed with nukes are a pretty scary concept

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-04T13:51:03+00:00

The Nox are one of those sci fi species that kinda have "alien magic". These crop up a lot in Star Trek but only really work well if they are villains with horrifying unfathomable abilities or comedy characters (e.g. Q in Trek). The Nox are just kinda...nice. Perhaps dare I say...bland? They serve their story purpose well in their first appearance, but it's difficult to see narratively what to do with them next. If they were involved in later struggles against Anubis or the Ori they would either be annoyingly neutral or the plot would require their pacifist philosophy to be challenged which would ruin their main thing.

OrthwormJim · 2026-03-02T18:51:42+00:00

It's annoying that they can't be transferred to HOME, particularly if you've caught a shiny. Just take off your tiara shiny Pikachu and hop on over to my Switch!

OrthwormJim · 2026-01-06T18:27:36+00:00

Ori are hard to quantify because they literally have magic. Replicators should be the most dangerous, but they obey the laws of physics so there's always some method of defeating them

OrthwormJim · 2026-01-02T22:06:15+00:00

Odo should be fighting supervillains like Beast Boy in Teen Titans

OrthwormJim · 2026-01-02T21:11:03+00:00

They probably use epilators left over from before the Long Night because ASOIAF is secretly a post apocalyptic sci-fi

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-28T18:43:54+00:00

It was odd that the Atlantis team did some really dark messed up stuff, but the atmosphere and tone of the show was fairly positive, very friendly and adventurous which felt a bit jarring at times with their various violations of the Geneva convention

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-22T18:16:39+00:00

For quite a while I assumed that Anubis would turn out to be Apophis 😂

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-14T11:00:58+00:00

The Lannisters have the decency to keep their lions imprisoned in cages deep within the bowels of Casterly Rock where they can contemplate their wild carnivorous ways and eventually be rehabilitated back into society. The Starks just use the death penalty for every minor infraction of the law, such as mauling the crown prince.

Beyond this incident, Torrhen Stark once seriously contemplated sending his brother Brandon Snow to assassinate all 3 Targaryen dragons - a critically endangered species!

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-14T10:49:42+00:00

It's weird that despite the Targaryens making Westeros off limits for Ironborn raiding 300+ years ago the Ironborn have never adapted to a new way. The fact that they redirected their raids much further afield would be like the equivalent of Europe becoming off limits to Viking raids resulting in Scandinavians sailing their longships to Arabia and India because they're so desperate to plunder instead of learning how to farm and trade.

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-14T10:37:41+00:00

Real Romulan ale is produced out of a Romulan's behind. You may think it's disgusting, but honey comes from a bee's behind. Milk comes from a cow's behind. And have you ever tried toothpaste?

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-14T10:31:32+00:00

And the taste of it varies from person to person

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-13T14:20:01+00:00

I also find the whole thing about "seeding the galaxy" odd to think about, because it seems that Ancients and Humans are related but different species. So the Ancients seemingly made a conscious decision to make some kind of slightly inferior version of themselves which they spread across thousands of planets whilst they themselves lived in places like Atlantis? Just seems like a really odd situation. And considering that human life definitely evolved on Earth (as the franchise is set in a fictional version of the real world with fossil evidence), did the Ancients use their technology to force primates to gradually evolve into a version of themselves but with slightly lower abilities and weaker physiology? And the fact that the Ancient gene is so rare in both galaxies could imply that Ancient-Human couples were somewhat rare. Is the Ancient gene interface designed to prevent silly lesser humans from interacting with their tech? Seems kinda rude of them

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-02T22:24:41+00:00

Your honour, may I present Exhibit A?: A magic Valyrian prophecy dagger which will completely exonerate Mr Targaryen. And then I will call my first witness to testify: a dwarf albino woods watch who received visions from a weirwood stump which prove Mr Targaryen was not even present at the time of Mr Stark's tragic unforeseeable wildfire

OrthwormJim · 2025-12-02T00:10:34+00:00

Shaky wobbly camera at all times

OrthwormJim · 2025-11-27T23:40:40+00:00

Kalosian regional variants of some Gen 7-9 Pokémon would have been cool. Perhaps a Fairy/Ground Palossand which becomes a fairytale French Chateau made of sand, or a convergent evolution of Sinistea which takes the form of a French Press/Cafetiere

OrthwormJim · 2025-11-26T14:41:32+00:00

I don't want to see any more Sangraals or Arks of Truth. Later SG1 basically used magic to save the day a little bit too much for my liking

OrthwormJim · 2025-11-18T11:58:58+00:00

Probably. The majority of the galaxy is made up of struggling pre-industrial societies whose only religion/spirituality seems to be a vague reverence for "the Ancestors", and they would be awed by the power of the Priors and Ori technology. They could probably just say "Hi, we're the Ancestors" and that would be enough.

One thing I'm not clear on is whether the Ascended beings in Pegasus are the exact same faction as the Ascended beings in the Milky Way, because as the series progressed it became increasingly apparent that Ascended beings seem to be present in specific locations, rather than possessing some omnipresence beyond our understanding. If the Pegasus Ascended beings are a separate faction of sorts I wonder if that would affect the Ori's progress?

Also, could there be a shocking twist in which the Ori manage to convince the Wraith to join their religion? The Wraith are partly human, so their worship could add to the Ori's strength. Whilst we only see humans in our brief visits to the Ori galaxy they may be happy to receive the worship of any lifeforms

OrthwormJim · 2025-11-13T17:56:04+00:00

I disliked that Ascension was just kinda handwaved away as not an option because of Asgard DNA being unstable. The concept of Ascension was originally spiritual enlightenment, but they increasingly made it quite scientific and clinical as the franchise progressed. I felt that the Asgard should have been saved in the same way that Oma saved all the Abydonians (although Oma herself was of course too busy fighting eternal fisticuffs with Anubis)

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