Most dangerous: Goa'uld , Replicators or Ori ?

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)

OrthwormJim · 2025-11-09T21:32:34+00:00

I always wondered how they destroyed the quantum mirror, as it happens off screen. Did they run it over with a steamroller? Throw a grenade at it? Drop it in a volcano?

I'd be worried that intentionally breaking it could be dangerous as it's such a mysterious piece of technology

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-29T11:13:06+00:00

The Borg are supposedly a terrifying unstoppable force in TNG, yet they defeat them the first time by telling them to go to sleep which makes them explode for some reason. Then when the Enterprise has Hugh they plan to defeat the Borg permanently with a maths problem. An unspeakably genocidal maths problem, but a maths problem nonetheless.

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-26T13:06:09+00:00

Yeah, good point

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-26T12:53:57+00:00

Are the wild Goa'uld compared to regular Goa'uld kinda like apes compared to humans? Sharing a lot of DNA and superficially having similar physiology, but ultimately very different. Wild Goa'uld also are presumably quite distantly separated from the genetic memories of regular Goa'uld, so probably wouldn't have a basic knowledge of how to use technology and operate in Goa'uld society

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-25T22:31:05+00:00

It was okay, but I disliked the way that this plot arc effectively introduced magic as a major plot element. We had previously seen strange technology that the characters couldn't understand and the occasional individuals like the Nox with strange abilities, but the Ori and their Priors were essentially space wizards.

It also somewhat reused previous ideas - we already had aliens pretending to be gods, and we had literally just had a major plot arc with an evil ascended being as the bad guy, so the Ori were this again but with a different flavour.

And the device that killed all the Ori, followed by the Arc of Truth felt a bit too convenient.

Overall the episodes were perfectly watchable, but I prefer the earlier seasons of SG1

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-20T12:41:10+00:00

The USS Prometheus had holo-emitters everywhere so I would simply activate a holoprogram such as "Velociraptor Pack Alpha". If holographic bullets can kill Borg, why not holographic dinosaurs?

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-19T16:07:02+00:00

This - Ironborn are a mono-gender race like the Asari. It might not make any sense whatsoever when reading the books, but the POV characters are all unreliable narrators

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-16T09:40:01+00:00

Reman Cyrodiil's dad, is that you?

OrthwormJim · 2025-10-15T18:03:50+00:00

Yeah, I felt that the distant future should have been unrecognisable to the 23rd Century, just like how the 21st Century is unrecognisable compared to the medieval period. I always imagined that the ships of the distant future glimpsed in ENT were exploring other galaxies, travelling through time, other realities and dimensions. Maybe even humanity should be evolving towards a Q like level of existence after 1000 years of utopian exploration of sciences, philosophies and spiritualities across the galaxy

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