Praise Todd the Wraith

GOOLD?

>>212441960 (OP)
Best bro

>>212441960 (OP)
Better than Michael.

Atlantis will always be a less cool variant of SG-1, but Todd is up there with cool guys like Ba'al for sure.

>>212444444

>>212444404
SGA had the Star Trek TNG effect where you just knew if they acquired anything cool that would help them in the fight against the wraith they wouldn't be allowed to keep it because of one bullshit reason or another
They had an entire episode about them rescuing an Aurora-class starship from the inside of a volcano only for it to get destroyed instantly in literally the first space battle it was ever in (with Michael's forces, you know, a problem they themselves fucking created because they decided to start committing war crimes for no reason)
I almost want to write a fanfic alternate timeline where that Auroara-class ship gets its own ZPM through serendipitous circumstances and becomes the Atlantis team's equivalent of the Daedalus/Apollo

>>212444583
Nah. The whole strength of Stargate is that they have strong defence and weak offence, so the bad guys can't just squash them but to do anything at all can be as tricky as the plot needs without feeling like they are forgetting something important and previously established.

I grew to resent the Asgard plasma beams over the years because of that.

>>212444642
The series as a whole definitely fell apart from a writing point of view when it became less about "solve the problem using good old-fashioned military tactics" and instead "find the ancient precursor macguffin of the week to solve the problem"

>If you don't have to rely on human feeding, the war would be over.
>Perhaps. But then what would we do? Who would we be?
Todd did what seemed to be impossible and actually added some characterisation to the Wraith.

>>212444583
In fairness, they do slowly accumulate cool stuff through the series.
Not all of it gets blown up in a last ditch effort to save the day.
Although SG1 is better at showing this progression than Atlantis.

>>212444642
Asgard transporters are the writer's get out of jail free card.
If someone needs to be rescued from an impossible situation, the Daedalus beams them out.
If the character needs to not get rescued, the Daedalus is busy.

>>212444731
>No hobbies or interests, must feed on humans
is he retarded

>>212445539
It's made quite obvious throughout the series that the Wraith as a species are in a state of perpetual near-starvation due to inflating their numbers to ridiculous levels in order to stop the ancients from extincting their entire race.

So they've spent the last 10,000 years mostly hibernating and only waking up and eating just enough to keep themselves alive before going to sleep again.
The whole galaxy sees them as assholes, rightfully so, but for the Wraith themselves it must seem like some kind of hellish perpetual limbo that has come to define absolutely everything about their culture. Hives, queens, territory, absolutely everything they do is based around the need to feed because they can't afford to waste their limited energy on anything else.

>>212445539
He spent his time shitposting on Wraithchan

>>212444583
they did exactly the same in SG-1 twice, first with a Tel'tak (small cargo ship) and later with a Ha'tak (big tetrahedral ship), both captured by the Tau'ri only to be destroyed in the very next episode.

>>212445160
That's the genius of Stargate. They don't have Enterprise hanging over their heads whenever they are on a planet.

Is this the daily stargate thread?

>>212447712

>>212445160
That's why I like the ring transporters, you need a pair to work like the stargates, one sending and the other receiving. Transporting anything from any point to any other point is too OP.

Surfs up dude

A serpent guard, a Horus guard, and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The serpent guard’s eyes glow. The Horus guard’s beak glistens. The Setesh guard’s nose drips.

>>212450726

What was the one where some lady volunteered to get infected with the worm parasite in some fucked up surgery cause it was dying or whatever

>>212451050
I don't remember any instance where a lady did it, but an old man took it from an old lady once.

I join Atlantis expedition for she

>>212447712

>>212451750
Dr. Weir ranking
Fran weir > original weir > recast weir

>>212442058
WRAITH?

>>212445622
Of course with a lot of things in Atlantis they had a lot of potential until they ran it into the ground.
The Wraith. Michael and the hybrid Wraith. The OG Replicators. They probably would've ruined the Pegasus Asgard if they had more than five seasons.

>>212453186
Actually I just remembered that the basic outline for the abandoned Season 6 was made public and it was the same old, same old regurgitated plots and "somehow Michael returned".

>>212453356
>Michael
>magic baby
>time travel
I would put money on more singing as well

>>212453356
>more michael
Which producer's dick was Trinneer slurping?

>>212453613
I don't fucking know, man
Michael started off as an interesting character but then he really overstayed his welcome

>>212453487
>MUH BABY
>WHERE IS MUH BABY MICHAEL
>MUH PEOPLE
>WHERE ARE MUH PEOPLE MICHAEL
Season 4 is when I stopped watching the show regularly. The double whammy of killing off Beckett and Weir only a few episodes apart at the end of Season 3 marked the beginning of the end for me.

>>212453716
One of the lamest moments of Atlantis was the reveal that super special Michael has somehow single-handedly wiped out the entire evacuated Taranan people for his experiments.
You know those volcano people that numbered in the thousands which the main team went through an entire episode saving. Apparently he somehow had iratus bugs feed on every single one of them them one by one without anyone noticing.

>>212454028
Atlantis had serious issues with their sense of direction but I think that cancelling it and replacing it with Universe was an overly extreme solution.

>>212454101
>>212454028
It was also lazy because instead of the writers solving all of their problems they just tried to wipe the slate clean with a whole new series... which introduced a whole slew of its own problems, too.

>>212441960 (OP)
>Lanteans create the Wraith by accident after experimenting on random people they abducted to achieve immortality if they couldn't ascend
Wraith weren't the bad guys and they even made sure not to wipe out humans

>>212453986
>finally bring Weir back after a season of teasing her continued survival
>she's a replicator in a completely different form that immediately gets atlantis personnel killed by her own incompetence then suicides
I think that was the worst part of season 5.
Though I still thought it was pretty good overall. Shame about the awfully rushed finale.

>you will never be 14 watching The Siege Part 1-2 for the first time again
why
even
live

>>212453716
The first MIchael episode is genuine kino. The second is still good, showing him struggling to be accepted by Wraith society. But the supervillain shit and constantly escaping exploding ships was dumb. I hate when a character comes back to life, they should all stay dead. Especially Daniel.

>>212453356
People get mad at SGU, and it is a master class on how not to make your first season, but SGA core premise largerly ran its course at this point.

Atlantis had such terrible main characters it's shocking it got five fucking seasons
>generic suave protagonist
>space gypsy
>cringy tealc knock-off

The only half-decent character was McKay

>>212454301
>is superior in every way

>>212454448
Was he ever in anything else good? I think I only ever saw him as a one-off mad scientist in Fringe.

>>212454448
He had a recurring role as Russian gangster in Arrow and was a funny guy

BUILT BY ANCIENTS SO LONG AGO
THE STARGATE LAY TILL WE BROKE THE CODE

>>212456269
Good premise, but it was a saturday morning cartoon of the time, so...

>>212442058

>>212441960 (OP)
he was a much better character than halling and i'm glad they got rid of that dope.

>>212454254
look at this guy giving it his all

>>212457896
looks like they copy pasted him couple of times. maybe it's make up? i dunno couple look very similar

>>212458011
mainly these two i guess

>>212458093
could be yeah
i see this guy too now that you mention it

>>212458173
crazy what they could do with ancients video editing technology. making propaganda like that

>>212458011
>>212458093
>>212458173
>>212458278
They copy-pasted a shitload of people. Here's a handful I found, each color is the same repeated face. I don't care to pick through the whole thing, but it seems they had like 10 people and then just copy-pasted all of them to make a big crowd.

>>212458554
Dammit, forgot image.

>>212441960 (OP)
>>212442058
Hello

>>212458590
well done, anon. well done.

Most underrated character of the whole show.

>>212458590
nice

>>212458830
>mercilessly killed off in the most pointless way for no reason after being in Atlantis from the very start
I was annoyed

>>212442058
It's gould

>>212442058
ORIIIIIIIIII

>>212459357
>GOO-AULD

>>212454301
>The only half-decent character was McKay
all he does is whine or brag about how smart he is

>>212459723
Until he learns about friendship and love