Stargate Atlantis {Spoiler Talk} 18.03.05

[Dr. Strangemonkey]

The Wraith are apparently a combination of ancient DNA and some hyper aggressively assimilating insect-type species or ecology.

I'm still not really understanding how or why the wraith work the way they do. The 'feeding' can't be something that really works strictly as nourishment. It may be part of it, but there must be something else going on.

There's also a third threat we haven't seen much of as of yet. The nanobot fear killer is about the only clue for them, but what a bit of foreshadowing that is.

 

[Datt]

Having Time Machines really screw up everything.

Yes but remember the ancient council on Peagus didn't want him to use the Time Machine because they didn't like him messing with the time line. So I don't think that played a major part in the Ancients evolution/ascention. Of course that is pure speculation.

 

[satori01]

I find the Psionic, Energy Draining, and Regenerating wraith to be a formidable opponent, hell, if a monster from a TV show makes me want to stat out a new race and use them at some point down the road in a D&D campaign, something must be working right.

I like the fact that I can not tell one Wraith from another. I like the fact that while there is individuality to each Wraith, there is also a monolithic oneness to them, an ineveitable sense that all Wraith will work in some degree of concert to eat and manage all Humans.

I also like how the show lets the Wraith act like how I often have Trolls act, brazen and unconcerned about physical damage, in most circumstances the primitive technology of must humans simply cant hurt them.

 

[MaxKaladin]

but I'm just babbling ... and I want to see the wraith get a big fat bloody lip and back down a bit

Honestly, while I would also like this the folks I really want to see get a smackdown is the Genai. The writers have done a very good job of making me hate them with a passion.

 

[James Heard]

Conversely I think the Genii are the better bad guy for the Atlantis crew, because they're not only occasionally sympathetic but they're completely human and understandable. In fact, I think a really cool way to end the "wraith are closing in on Atlantis" arc would be for the Genii to come and rescue Atlantis. Why not? They REALLY want what Atlantis has got, and they're not so weird that they can't compromise.


Okay okay. I just think Erin Chambers is better than sliced bread. She makes my dirty old man meter twitter.