advent_atlantis, posts by tag: all things ancient - LiveJournal

Sorry to be posting so late this weekend, especially when I had an entire rant against the Ancients stored up.

I kind of think the Ancients were asses. Mostly, I feel this because of how SG-1 went this season: they find out the Ori are coming to eat our souls and to take out this galaxy's Ancients once and for all. But, even though their survival is on the line too, they send Orlan, who starts breaking down shortly thereafter. And! They're not going to help him reascend. But someone, probably Daniel, says that the Ancients will probably only take more direct action when it does come down to their asses on the line. So yeah, forget us mere mortals.

But they're kind of iffy in Atlantis too. Just the entire concept--they abandoned Pegasus, and all its human inhabitants, to the Wraith. I'm kind of fuzzy on how humans got to Pegasus; in Rising, the monologue by the hologram lady makes it sound like the Ancients established the human populations there. (Which makes me think of ants carrying their pet aphids around with them...) But I could be completely wrong about that. Anyway, then it gets established that the Wraith likely evolved from iratus bugs feeding on humans and picking up their characteristics. And the Ancients, who are fully aware of how badass the Wraith are, abandon the humans to their fate forever. I mean, I can understand them giving up (after a couple of centuries, who wouldn't? Well, obviously not the French or English...) but they could've come back after they ascended. Especially if they did put populate the galaxy with humans. But they just abandoned them! That's what bugs me the most, that they don't help humans at all, even in cleaning up their own left over crap.

Come on, the Asgard aren't even from this galaxy and were dealing with their own shit, and they still found time to help us out.

And that's my two cents.

Does anyone think that if they have the choice, they wouldn't want to Ascend? Those folks don't exactly seem like the most...openminded bunch. Maybe if, like Daniel Jackson on SG-1, my only other option was death then I would consider it. In the Stargate universe, we've only seen a few people who have Ascended, and all of them have been outcasted because of their desire to "meddle" in the affairs of humans.

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To you, what's the coolest Ancient thing you've seen on the show?

For me, it's the architecture of the city itself. I love the whole gothic look to it, spires reaching to the sky, stained glass allowing light in but filtering it, colouring it. I'm in love with the look of that city.