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[melagan.livejournal.com]

This



is one of my very favorite things to squee over. She's a beauty and full of undiscovered potential.

That she flies, is all bonus.

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[kimboosan.livejournal.com]

It's Friday night and LJ is dead, but I've got nowhere to go and then saw this post and was all, "HELL YEAH!"

I've always been more of a "hard" SF fan; I love ST as a girl for the gadgets and the Enterprise as much as for the characters. I also adore "lost city" tropes and combining the two is just like icing on the cake for me. I really wish the show had spent more time on the city of Atlantis itself, as I'm sure it was fascinating, and how much could the expedition really have explored?

I'm also a sucker for sentient!Atlantis. I prefer stories where the city is particularly alien and strange to ones where it is just a talking person, but I'll take any version in a pinch. What with all the genetic voodoo the Ancients went in for, I cannot imagine that there isn't some biologic AI in the city somewhere.

I really like the design the show creator's came up with for the city, as it is very beautiful IMHO. It does in some ways hark back to traditional descriptions of Atlantis with the various piers and "living mountain" of the central core. I just adore it.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

...how much could the expedition really have explored?

Yes! There's so much that was left unexplored. I would have so loved to have seen more, but it's no bad thing that we have a wide open field to play with.



I'm also a sucker for sentient!Atlantis.

Dear heavens, yes. I've glomped on every sentient Atlantis story I could find.

[stella-pegasi.livejournal.com]

I love the myth of Atlantis, one of my favorite stories from childhood, in addition to being a scifi fan from birth. When I heard the storyline for SGA, I was in heaven; I loved Stargate and I loved the myth. I thought it was going to be really great...little did I know it would become my favorite scifi show. Grew up with Star Trek, Star Wars, etc. Still love SGA the best.

I wish the producers had done more with Atlantis. I love sentient Atlantis; I have included her in several stories. However, mine converses with Sheppard and no one else; she's sweet and I think she likes him. So what's not to like???? Richard Dean Anderson once called the stargate, the best prop ever. I think Atlantis tops it...

Beautiful pic, mekagan. I've never seen her look so pale...all the buildings looked brand new. Nice rendering or model. Wouldn't you love to be travel on her? I'd go in a heartbeat!

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

Lovely, lovely pic. Wouldn't you like to have seen more stories focusing on what was in the city and what she could do? Not necessarily more 'booby trap' stories either, but ones of fun as well.

[calcitrix.livejournal.com]

I love love love stories in which someone discovers a really neat room tucked into a far corridor. Especially if there's a reason that person keeps it to himself (or herself)...um, and then finds another reason to share it.

Heh, I even love it when authors invent crazy stuff just for a plot device. Hmmm...I need Rodney to discover an uneaten pie...MAGICAL PIE ROOM IN ATLANTIS!

ETA: There is, yes or no, a Willy Wonka crossover somewhere?

[tygtig.livejournal.com]

I'm not too big on sentient Atlantis, but now keiramarcos gone and published her Lantean Legacy and suddenly I'm a SUCKER for Atlantis.

Still haven't figured out how to do the nice shortcuts so check out her LJ for it.

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

The City is also one of my favorite character in the show, and as you see, I do consider it as a full blown character of its own ^_^.

Instead of some crappy episodes we had, I wish they had spent more time in this beauty, exploring everywhere. It's the size of a CITY !!! There are millions of things to discover... all the more for fanfic writers to explore \o/.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

I love the stories about discovering new things about the City too. Oh, that elusive ZPM room, where are you?

And the small things. I want Chuck to find the Ancient toaster, gosh darn it.

Thanks for the rec. Atlantis needs more stories. She deserves more stories.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

When I heard the storyline for SGA, I was in heaven; I loved Stargate and I loved the myth. I thought it was going to be really great...little did I know it would become my favorite scifi show...

Exactly so with me as well. I couldn't wait for the new spin-off to start. Squee? You know it. Squee like a big squeeeing thing.

I never expected to be so drawn in so tightly or to love it so hard.

Wouldn't you love to be travel on her? YES!

The pic's a screencap. There is some gorgeous artwork done of the City by artists in the fandom. I'm hoping some of it will get posted here, so we can share her beauty all over again.

[melagan.livejournal.com]

You need to be writing those missy. *tapstoe*

We only saw a tiny percent of the City and in a lot of that we only saw how the expedition converted the rooms for their use, not what the Ancients originally intended the rooms to be used for.

For all we know, Rodney's lab could have been intended as a schoolroom.

I did love that he had a bathtub in his quarters.Thank you writers for giving us that!

[melagan.livejournal.com]

MAGICAL PIE ROOM IN ATLANTIS!

*bustsintogiggles*

[melagan.livejournal.com]

The City truly is a character in her own right. I kept half expecting the gateroom stargate not to engage because she was miffed Rodney wasn't talking pretty to her.

Yes, my mind is a scary place. *g*

[lysambre.livejournal.com]

Heeeeee, I so want to read that !!! ^_^

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

I know, I just can't seem to write at the moment. However, I was up all night trying my hand at podficcing, so I am still having fun. :-)

We only saw a tiny percent of the City and in a lot of that we only saw how the expedition converted the rooms for their use, not what the Ancients originally intended the rooms to be used for.

That's what I would have liked to have seen. I wouldn't have minded an ep where they showed us a slice of life from the city as it had been--only all the parts were played by cast--wouldn't that have been fun for everyone? To take a different role for an episode?

[sgamadison.livejournal.com]

I sort of envision the City as having the comprehension and mentality of a big dog. Not sentient enough to converse directly with anyone, but to react to situations (surprise! A previously hidden set of blueprints for an awesome fighter comes to light!) on a limited level.

I have no idea why a dog comes to mind...