Home Week

[em_kellesvig]

Thinky thoughts:


1. As an opening shot, this one provides a great example of foreshadowing. It not only establishes where the team has gone exploring, but also sets up almost everything the viewer will need to know about why the story turns out the way it does.



2. Carelessness, skeevy Ancients, or evolution? If you know anything about SGU, then you may know about the concept of automated seeder ships that went out and placed stargates on viable planets. I have a couple of questions about this idea in the Pegasus Galaxy.

First, the hologram lady in "Rising" said the Ancients seeded human life throughout Pegasus. That implies some care and forethought. However, not every planet with human life on it got a ground-based stargate ("Instinct" and "The Game" for example). Nor did every planet capable of supporting life get a stargate; M35-117, which became Atlantis' new home, didn't have one. Did the Ancients employ that same technique of random stargates on random planets in Pegasus or did they put some thought into it?

If they did put some thought into it, why put one on M5S-224, a non-viable planet with a non-humanoid species already in residence? And who built the structures around the stargate? Probably not the mist-people. It makes me wonder about the purpose of those structures and the presence of the gate. An Ancient running experiments on the power generated by the mist-people? Did that Ancient (or those Ancients) know or care that the mist-people were sentient? Were they sentient at that time or still evolving? (Two million years is a long time. For comparison, as a genus, humans started evolving ~2.5 million years ago; as a sub-species, Homo sapiens sapiens have only been around for 200k.) Did the Ancients build the structures at all? There's no indication they're of Ancient origin.

Maybe, at one time, the planet was viable, a seeder ship dropped off a stargate, humans built those structures, then left when the place became uninhabitable, leaving the mist-people to develop under conditions suitable to them. Hmmm.



It's interesting how one CGI establishing shot can generate so many questions.



"Home" 1x09

Comments

[syble4.livejournal.com]

The question this episode always raised in me was - if they were mist people, does that mean our heroes breathed them in too? I would have thought Rodney would have worried about that. ;)

[em_kellesvig]

I think not as the "mist" wasn't actually mist, i.e. water vapor. That's why Rodney said it was okay to take their helmets off. You know he wouldn't have done that if there'd been any danger. :)

[melagan.livejournal.com]

This is one of the things that I heart so much about Atlantis - they left questions for us to answer and because it's sci-fi the possibilities are vast.

You know me, I love exerting a little imagination :)

[that-which.livejournal.com]

There's a story I really love called Or Something Like It (http://semivowel.livejournal.com/4505.html) in which Rodney compares the surrealness of something to being "interpenetrated by sentient mist," which makes me laugh.

[em_kellesvig]

Your imagination is vast. I love when you exert it. :)

[spikespet7.livejournal.com]

well 10,000 years have passed.....could be they evolved. Maybe the planets they did not put gates on was protection...could be they where the last planets they populated and thus only used spacegates for their protection....thinking they would be ignored. Ancient Prietess 'C' did not have a gate on her planet if I'm not mistaken.

Kimber

[em_kellesvig]

Hmmm...good thinky thoughts! Didn't Chaya's planet have a space gate, though? And the Wraith didn't need gates to cull; they had ships.

[spikespet7.livejournal.com]

yep it did have spacegate.... could be easier to run if you see the darts coming from the sky than staring low when coming out of the planet gate, hmmmm Rodney should research that, LOL.

Things that make you go hmmmmmm


Kimber