#we want stargate

[mushroom-through-the-stargate]

literally cannot stop thinking about the return. like imagine being the sgc right? you send a group of second-bests; people that are really good at their job, but you can risk sending to another galaxy with a chance of not getting them back. and about 80% of them are people who don't really Work Well In The System. you dont hear from them for a whole year and consider them lost, and then you get an email that they need your help Right Now or they'll Die. alright whatever you send a ship and a zpm they win the battle everyones grand. using that ship you keep sending new people there, and these people know they can go home at any time. its just another rotation to them. but they start writing home and saying that the original crew are..... weird. there are interesting rules and habits and recreational activities and food. and the most weird is their connection to the actual city. you take note of these letters about the original crews Weirdness but otherwise dont really care. and then the ancients come back!! and they kick everyone out of atlantis. well, that sucks, but it was a resource sink anyway and all you really got out of it was another interstellar war you weren't prepared for. you take this as a sign you shouldnt have gone out there in the first place and carry on with your day.

except the original crew are fighting back. theyre complaining and rallying and saying its not fair and they should get to stay. what the fuck. you tell them its out of your hands and bring them home. and they're all acting like depressed little lizards, and oddly enough Elizabeth Weir - the token "normal person" you had put in charge of these outcasts - is the most depressed of the depressed little lizards, and she doesnt leave her house the entire six weeks. and the one time she does leave her house, she, her flagship team, and the fucking DOCTOR of all people steal the weird little ship and go fight the replicators to retake atlantis.

fine. whatever. they can have their city in another galaxy. its not like they ever listened to you in the first place.

[fighting-naturalist]

[fircyca]

[sga-owns-my-soul]

do you ever think about the ancient genii? cowen said they were a major superpower in the galaxy and were spread far and wide before the wraith fought back. and there are abandoned genii bunkers on multiple planets (its heavily implied that the trio one wasnt the first one they found). but how could the rest of the galaxy (like the athosians) believe the farmer act? did the ancient genii go by a different name? did everyone believe they had been wiped out and were clawing their way back up the socioevolutional chain? theres a huge gap in that lore and i want to KNOW

the writers were so bad for giving us the coolest fucking set up for a pegasus society and then Never Elaborating again. as much as i love the war crimes they could've just made a show exploring different cultures in pegasus and it would've been just as cool to watch

anyways i think after they got wiped out, for the longest time the genii were just simple farmers. it probably takes a hell of a long time to rebuild to that point and even with the bunkers and what not in place, i think the demands of their remaining people meant they were forced to focus on basic survival for a while. however i think when they finally regrew to a point of being able to continue their work, they decided it was safer to keep it all a secret. harder for the wraith to know they're a threat if no one in the galaxy knows they're a threat ya know?

[sassycordy]

somehow these are the two guys in charge of the military & science divisions lmfao

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[aenslem]

...what if we could jam that signal? Even for just a few seconds, that might give us the time that we need. STARGATE UNIVERSE (2009–2011) ⤷ Deliverance

[all-that-jazz-93]

There are plenty of shows I don't watch because I'm just not interested. But on the other hand, there are also a lot of shows I don't watch because I know I'd get way too into them, and I just don't have the time

[lurking-latinist]

a) why does Stargate keep going out of its way to require child guest stars? Many shows will bend the plot to avoid having to have one for too long; they seem to bend the plot specifically to include them. Most of them are pretty good, but—why?

b) Specifically, why did the alarming young lady in 2x10 “Bane” have a biohazard symbol on her baseball cap? I mean it fit the plot of the episode but how did she know? Is she just a big fan of biohazards and that’s why she got along so well with infected!Teal’c?

[disappearinginq]

I hate that people on a whole don't understand a narrative. Like...your English/literature teacher should've flunked people over this.

Probably the people who understand it best are the ones marginalized in life, because hey, we see ourselves in those characters. Other people have the luxury of just going "eh" and moving on.

But when hugely popular shows and movies and even books keep killing off their marginalized and suffering characters as the "only way this could've ended" I want to reach through a screen and choke them out because stop telling me the world is better without me in it., Or I will take you with me, and we'll see who's mourned.

It's not even just Bury Your Gays. In Outer Banks, they kill of the kid who is told from season 1 that you'll never make anything of yourself. You will always be poor, homeless, unloved, and alone. And then spend three and a half seasons showing you that this character absolutely will beat his own narrative - he finds friends that are his family, he finds a life he loves with the people he loves and they love him back, and then - they kill him. BUT THE RICH BITCH FUCKING PSYCHOPATH GETS A REDEMPTION ARC? I don't care how good the actors are, the narrative has now wildly swung from 'you can make it if you don't give up' to 'don't even bother - life will find a way to beat you down to where you belong' and airing two days after the catastrophic American elections - where the billionaires and greed and hate win?

The Umbrella Academy had three seasons of fun, quirky, broken people who tried so hard to fix their mistakes, to fix what they broke, and canonically, are representing marginalized groups that never get the happy endings. But dammit, this family tried. They didn't always get along, they were dysfunctional, but they still came together in the end, and loved one another despite the bad they have done. And then - the narrative again spins a wild one eighty and the story ends with "the world is better without you in it - die". Which is a very real narrative a lot of us live with.

The MCU - kills off Iron Man/Tony Stark, one of the very first popular characters who suffers from extreme CPTSD along with an alphabet of mental disorders; Loki, who is the adopted child and queer across the board, loses absolutely everyone and everything; Steve, who while he isn't dead, his character most certainly is because he goes from the one who does sacrifice everything to making a selfish, personal decision that winds up fucking over everyone; Bucky, who again isn't dead but he is openly blamed for the things he did while he was a prisoner and a mind-controlled assassin for the bad guys against his will by his mental health professional. And the narrative is "no, you should sacrifice yourself so the rest of us who treated you like shit can live a better life."

The stupidity of wanting to punish your audience who is punished enough in the real world often enough we don't need it or want it in fiction is just...mind boggling. And when those are the real words used by writers to justify their shit decisions?

I hope your death serves a narrative purpose, since you seem to think that is the noblist way to go.

[kaezerdoodles]

HEAR ME OUT:

Danny likes Star Trek

Dani likes Stargate

Dan likes Star Wars

[fighting-naturalist]

idk i just thought he looked real pretty lit like this 🤷‍♀️

[hooded-and-cloaked]

Rewatching Sherlock and thinking about a McShep Sherlock Holmes AU.

[sga-owns-my-soul]

🥺🥺🥺 my partner sent me $100 randomly with the message "treat yourself" and when i asked him what it was for he just said "you deserve it"

Y'ALL THIS MAN

[autistic-danieljackson]

It’s finally time for Sunday I’m already crying 😭

[aenslem]

what a punch