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| eXcalibur |
 Oct 23rd 2006, 11:52 PM
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Civilian  Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: October 19th 2006 From: United States Member No.: 12,676 Gender: Male  |
QUOTE(GuNdj @ Dec 7th 2004, 2:54 AM)  I third the motion. Great episode! I was concerned that being a time travel episode they would screw it up, but luckily they didn't and instead pulled it off wonderfully. Although the nitpicker in me is feeling a little squirmish as it kind of contradicts an episode of SG1 involving time travel as well as not explaining why all the Ancients are all speaking English instead of Ancient! LOL, they could have at least shown them giving Dr Weir a translator or something before they started speaking. But that stuff's material for another forum, and not that important anyway. One thing I think that was missing from the episode that would have made it even better, was showing the transport ship being taken out. It would have made it more emotionally moving to see the people that were about to die as well as being extremely cool looking! I wanted to know what their transport ships looked like.  Best episode of Atlantis so far. [edit] Forgot to mention that the Back to the Future references were great too! Love those movies. Janus's ship has a flux capacitor! That had me laughing pretty intensly. So I'm a newcomer to the forums, but I agree - great episode. Not why I'm writing though. I also had a nitpick about Dr. Weir being able to communicate with the Ancients. While there's probably something to be said for the idea that the Ancient (Altaran?) language was an ancestor of (modern) English (one potential explanation for why everyone in the Milky Way can speak English), I still think 10,000 years prior that derivation wouldn't yet have occured. Certainly not enough for the communication that occured in While I Sleep. So, I'm thinking the translation device or at least some reference would have been cool (like in SG1's "The Nox"). |
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| Dafmeister |
Oct 24th 2006, 4:18 AM
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General  Group: Moderators Posts: 11,926 Joined: April 10th 2003 From: North Wales, UK Member No.: 1,340 Gender: Male |
There's a thread about the Ancients' ability to speak English before the language ever evolved somewhere in the Atlantis forum.
There were rumours that the Atlantis team would be using universal translators during the show but it was dropped before the show went into production. I guess TPTB could explain it by saying it was one of the languages the Ancients could speak originally and they spread it among Humans after they returned to Earth. |
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