Atlantis fen need to know these things.
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castaliaI know it's still early in the fandom, but there are things about the Atlantisverse I need to know and wish TPTB would tell me already. There's fic to be written, and I don't want to get Jossed all to hell.
Want a few for-instances? Ok.
- Bathrooms. Yeah, I know, this comes up in every sci-fi show set in space. We never saw Trek bathrooms until Archer's shower in Enterprise (a favorite Ookla the Mok filk of mine is all about this lack, complete with the line "soon I'm gonna boldly go where no one's ever gone before", hee), and the only show I can recall to actually design space facilities was Firefly, and they got mocked for it. Still, how are the Atlantis people taking care of business? Are there showers? Toilets? For that matter, toilet paper? Did they pack anything? They seem clean, shaven (hush, nos), and the women have makeup and have curled their hair. Have they found power outlets or is everything battery powered? How are they plugging in their hairdryers and curling irons? Inquiring minds want to know, s'all I'm saying.
- The Atlantis crew. Is that what we call them? Can we call them Atlanteans now? Something else? How about the mission teams? Do they have designations ala SG teams? Are they going to start calling Shep, McKay, Ford and Teyla "AG1" or something?
- Also, how many people are there in Atlantis? Did they ever say? So far they've lost only Sumner, so that's not too bad, but how many did they bring? What's the ratio of scientist types to military? Is everyone either a physicist or an anthropologist/archaeologist type? Are there biologists and chemists (though Carson seems to play in these fields too, not to mention genetics), linguists, engineers, psychologists (c'mon, they have to have a shrink somewhere, it's a law in space), seamstresses, hairdressers (hey, Teyla got her hair cut, there must be one), random-people-who-cook-clean-and-do-laundry? Who's doing all the dirty jobs that have to be done in any society? They brought the "best and brightest" - does that mean they grabbed some guy out the SGC mess and said "Ok, you're the best person on the planet at heating up processed food and ladleing it onto tin trays, plus you have no family. You get to come to Atlantis, yay!"?
- The planet Atlantis is on, does it have a name? It must have an address in the dialing computer, right? Is that all they're calling it? What about the mainland? Like![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nostalgia_lj mentioned, we're not gonna call it Atlantica. That's just stupid, yo. Everyone agreed Ford didn't get to name anything.
- Those nifty little Dell Inspiron laptops (which look exactly like mine, except mine's blue and silver, heh), are those running only on battery power? I never see them plugged into any walls. Are they on a network? Can they actually talk to other computers? It's not like they have a local ISP in Pegasus.
- In the same vein, how is everyone doing all their research? Did they bring *everything* ever written with them in digital format? Science relies on archives, people borrowing what other people have written and expanding on it. You have to have *references* - dusty journals and PDF files of articles and the types of books you have to pay out the arse to own b/c no one reads them but us scientific types. Scientists have a nifty way of knowing a lot of stuff, but only about their pet subject. I'm sure even Sam had to go look something up occasionally b/c it wasn't her specialization (though TPTB clearly want us to think otherwise).
- The different colored uniforms. From what I can tell, we only have red, blue, black, and yellow. Weir gets red, b/c it is obviously her "I'm in charge so only I get to wear this color, nyah" right as leader. McKay gets blue, and so do all the rest of the scientists (no matter what discipline?). Shep, Ford, and all the military types get black (oh well, the US military never has been creative when it comes to color). Beckett and his staff are the only ones in yellow, so yellow = medical. Is that it? Is this like the colors in Star Trek that I never could keep track of b/c they seemed to keep changing?
Edited to add: Argh, I missed one! There's a random guy with green! Green! WTF? What's green for? He's the Asian guy in 38 Minutes, and he seems to share Chevron Guy duties with Grodin, but Grodin's in blue and this guy gets green. His shiny shirt is a strange pale green. I have no idea what it's for. Also, Weir isn't the only one with red - random background people in the control room are in red. So if red isn't for "person in charge", what's it for? Argh!
- Related to uniforms, those shiny shirts they wear underneath. Weir's is always red, matches her uniform, and isn't as shiny. She and Shep both have the less shiny ones that zip up instead. Everyone else has the shiny shirts that remind me of the material used to make soccer/football jerseys. They have high necks, strange lines, and aren't the most flattering things on some of the actors. They seem to have an endless supply of these, and everyone except Weir (and her endless civilian clothes closet, ala Buffy) wears them a lot on and off-duty. McKay's is blue, also matching his uniform, but instead of yellow to match, Carson gets a pretty silvery-grey one. I like the silver shirt, it's a good color on him (much prettier than a washed-out yellow, so yay).
- Amusingly, these military types (and scientists who are on mission teams) don't seem to wear combat boots. They have fancy Reeboks instead. What's up with that?
- Everyone has the same watch. They're big and bulky and I'm not sure I like them. How'd they decide what time it is in Atlantis? How long are the days on Atlantis? Months? Years? Did the Ancients leave old versions of calendars lying around so they'd know?
- Did Daniel finally figure out the entire Ancient language and teach it to everyone? Is he the author of The Language of the Ancients for Dummies"? Weir and McKay seem to be fluent already, and presumably others, b/c I'm sure those two can't spend all their time translating the Ancients' notes for everyone.
- Because I am a huge geek and want to know where everything is, what's the layout of Atlantis? We've only seen Shep's room, Ford's, a tv room above the Gateroom, rooms for the Athosians who aren't there anymore anyway, the infirmary, the Jumper Bay, and a few scattered labs and corridors. Who decided who got which quarters? Did the main staff get first pick? How do you get from the Jumper Bay to the Gateroom? Obviously there's a way, and it must be close by. From Suspicion, it looks like the infirmary is pretty close to the Gateroom, and it would make sense to have it nearby in the event of injury (it always seemed like Janet had to go so far on SG1, which isn't practical).
- Also about the infirmary, what all do they have? Obviously the basics, but how much equipment do they have and how specialized is it? Are there going to be injuries they can't fix? Carson appears to have all the toys required for playing around with genetic material, and they brought a lot of O2 with them, but they used up quite a bit of that on the Hoffans. How do they plan to get any more? They can't have an endless supply of bandages, medicines, IV solutions, and blood. And yet, they try to trade medicines for food. Morons. What happens when you run out? What are you going to do when something breaks and you don't have a replacement part? Dude, someone drops a microscope and you're screwed.
- Somewhere down the road, are all the women in Atlantis going to resort to sticking cloth rags in their panties once a month? Are they all taking some sort of drug so they won't have to deal with it?
- Please tell us more about how the Wraith do what they do. Before they killed Steve, did Carson take a sample of that chemical they inject? Where is the chemical manufactured? Is it injected by the strange growth thing on their index fingers? If the Hoffan drug mixed with it and caused that lethal mutation, shouldn't they be studying that to see if they can reproduce the effect? If they can, I'm thinking poison bullets here. That would be cool.
- The Ancients had human physical bodies, right? So they must have had hygiene facilities, their own hospital/infirmary/whatever, food production, seamstresses and hairdressers, right? I'll bet they even had a janitor. Is the Atlantis crew going to find replicators, kitchens, magic healing devices, salons, and an indoor garden (now dead, of course) in the city? Let's see them explore the city some more, please!
- McKay's almost depleted their coffee supplies, but how are they making it? Is it (ick) instant? Did the Ancients have stoves and ovens? Has everyone been boiling water on camping stoves? Are there Atlantean microwaves? Did they invent battery-powered coffee pots? (does such a thing exist???)
- What's up with the military command structure? Sheppard gets to be in charge now that their only colonel is gone, but are there any other majors? How about captains? Ford is now second-in-command, and he's only a lieutenant. Are there other lieutenants? Surely they brought more officers than that. We have Sergeant Bates, so that's one NCO (but he's both Head of Security and leading a team as well). Are there privates? Airmen? Whatever? Is everyone either Air Force or Marines? Who answers to whom? Carson told Sumner he didn't answer to him, but to Weir. Bates ordered Rodney to go through Teyla's stuff. Who has what authority here?
- Did everyone get lasik surgery before coming on this trip? Contacts would be a bitch to deal with, especially once you ran out of solution. But Zelenka has glasses. What happens if he breaks them? Did they bring an optometrist along?
- How did Shep get his football recording to work? Is it on DVD? Did he find an Ancient version of a VCR or DVD player? Did they have to adapt something? Was that an Ancient tv/vid screen, or did they bring their own from Earth?
- What is everyone doing for recreation? I doubt there's cable in Pegasus. I know half the crew are big geeks and will probably just want to play with technology on their off-time, but what about other things? Books? Games? Music? In between saving the galaxy and screwing it up, these people are going to get bored.
- Are there fraternization rules? People being people, someone's going to have sex eventually. I kinda doubt they're equipped to deal with pregnancy and STDs out there. Do their supplies include condoms and birth control? All the more reason to encourage the gay sex!
- What controls the atmosphere/environment in Atlantis? Is there a heating/air conditioning system? Does everyone have personal controls in their quarters so that if some like it hot, some cold, and some a happy medium, there isn't any bitching?
- How many bullets did they bring? You're shooting a lot on missions, what're you gonna do when you run out? Did they bring a gunsmith and someone who knows how to make bullets? What about other weapons? Does Ford have other ordnance to play with besides stun grenades and tazers?
Um, I'm sure there's more, but this is getting long-winded as it is. I can't help it; I'm a nosy bint who wants to know everything about a universe and how it works. I'm sure they'll get around to telling us some of these things eventually, but dude, impatient.
Discuss?
Want a few for-instances? Ok.
- Bathrooms. Yeah, I know, this comes up in every sci-fi show set in space. We never saw Trek bathrooms until Archer's shower in Enterprise (a favorite Ookla the Mok filk of mine is all about this lack, complete with the line "soon I'm gonna boldly go where no one's ever gone before", hee), and the only show I can recall to actually design space facilities was Firefly, and they got mocked for it. Still, how are the Atlantis people taking care of business? Are there showers? Toilets? For that matter, toilet paper? Did they pack anything? They seem clean, shaven (hush, nos), and the women have makeup and have curled their hair. Have they found power outlets or is everything battery powered? How are they plugging in their hairdryers and curling irons? Inquiring minds want to know, s'all I'm saying.
- The Atlantis crew. Is that what we call them? Can we call them Atlanteans now? Something else? How about the mission teams? Do they have designations ala SG teams? Are they going to start calling Shep, McKay, Ford and Teyla "AG1" or something?
- Also, how many people are there in Atlantis? Did they ever say? So far they've lost only Sumner, so that's not too bad, but how many did they bring? What's the ratio of scientist types to military? Is everyone either a physicist or an anthropologist/archaeologist type? Are there biologists and chemists (though Carson seems to play in these fields too, not to mention genetics), linguists, engineers, psychologists (c'mon, they have to have a shrink somewhere, it's a law in space), seamstresses, hairdressers (hey, Teyla got her hair cut, there must be one), random-people-who-cook-clean-and-do-laundry? Who's doing all the dirty jobs that have to be done in any society? They brought the "best and brightest" - does that mean they grabbed some guy out the SGC mess and said "Ok, you're the best person on the planet at heating up processed food and ladleing it onto tin trays, plus you have no family. You get to come to Atlantis, yay!"?
- The planet Atlantis is on, does it have a name? It must have an address in the dialing computer, right? Is that all they're calling it? What about the mainland? Like
nostalgia_lj mentioned, we're not gonna call it Atlantica. That's just stupid, yo. Everyone agreed Ford didn't get to name anything.- Those nifty little Dell Inspiron laptops (which look exactly like mine, except mine's blue and silver, heh), are those running only on battery power? I never see them plugged into any walls. Are they on a network? Can they actually talk to other computers? It's not like they have a local ISP in Pegasus.
- In the same vein, how is everyone doing all their research? Did they bring *everything* ever written with them in digital format? Science relies on archives, people borrowing what other people have written and expanding on it. You have to have *references* - dusty journals and PDF files of articles and the types of books you have to pay out the arse to own b/c no one reads them but us scientific types. Scientists have a nifty way of knowing a lot of stuff, but only about their pet subject. I'm sure even Sam had to go look something up occasionally b/c it wasn't her specialization (though TPTB clearly want us to think otherwise).
- The different colored uniforms. From what I can tell, we only have red, blue, black, and yellow. Weir gets red, b/c it is obviously her "I'm in charge so only I get to wear this color, nyah" right as leader. McKay gets blue, and so do all the rest of the scientists (no matter what discipline?). Shep, Ford, and all the military types get black (oh well, the US military never has been creative when it comes to color). Beckett and his staff are the only ones in yellow, so yellow = medical. Is that it? Is this like the colors in Star Trek that I never could keep track of b/c they seemed to keep changing?
Edited to add: Argh, I missed one! There's a random guy with green! Green! WTF? What's green for? He's the Asian guy in 38 Minutes, and he seems to share Chevron Guy duties with Grodin, but Grodin's in blue and this guy gets green. His shiny shirt is a strange pale green. I have no idea what it's for. Also, Weir isn't the only one with red - random background people in the control room are in red. So if red isn't for "person in charge", what's it for? Argh!
- Related to uniforms, those shiny shirts they wear underneath. Weir's is always red, matches her uniform, and isn't as shiny. She and Shep both have the less shiny ones that zip up instead. Everyone else has the shiny shirts that remind me of the material used to make soccer/football jerseys. They have high necks, strange lines, and aren't the most flattering things on some of the actors. They seem to have an endless supply of these, and everyone except Weir (and her endless civilian clothes closet, ala Buffy) wears them a lot on and off-duty. McKay's is blue, also matching his uniform, but instead of yellow to match, Carson gets a pretty silvery-grey one. I like the silver shirt, it's a good color on him (much prettier than a washed-out yellow, so yay).
- Amusingly, these military types (and scientists who are on mission teams) don't seem to wear combat boots. They have fancy Reeboks instead. What's up with that?
- Everyone has the same watch. They're big and bulky and I'm not sure I like them. How'd they decide what time it is in Atlantis? How long are the days on Atlantis? Months? Years? Did the Ancients leave old versions of calendars lying around so they'd know?
- Did Daniel finally figure out the entire Ancient language and teach it to everyone? Is he the author of The Language of the Ancients for Dummies"? Weir and McKay seem to be fluent already, and presumably others, b/c I'm sure those two can't spend all their time translating the Ancients' notes for everyone.
- Because I am a huge geek and want to know where everything is, what's the layout of Atlantis? We've only seen Shep's room, Ford's, a tv room above the Gateroom, rooms for the Athosians who aren't there anymore anyway, the infirmary, the Jumper Bay, and a few scattered labs and corridors. Who decided who got which quarters? Did the main staff get first pick? How do you get from the Jumper Bay to the Gateroom? Obviously there's a way, and it must be close by. From Suspicion, it looks like the infirmary is pretty close to the Gateroom, and it would make sense to have it nearby in the event of injury (it always seemed like Janet had to go so far on SG1, which isn't practical).
- Also about the infirmary, what all do they have? Obviously the basics, but how much equipment do they have and how specialized is it? Are there going to be injuries they can't fix? Carson appears to have all the toys required for playing around with genetic material, and they brought a lot of O2 with them, but they used up quite a bit of that on the Hoffans. How do they plan to get any more? They can't have an endless supply of bandages, medicines, IV solutions, and blood. And yet, they try to trade medicines for food. Morons. What happens when you run out? What are you going to do when something breaks and you don't have a replacement part? Dude, someone drops a microscope and you're screwed.
- Somewhere down the road, are all the women in Atlantis going to resort to sticking cloth rags in their panties once a month? Are they all taking some sort of drug so they won't have to deal with it?
- Please tell us more about how the Wraith do what they do. Before they killed Steve, did Carson take a sample of that chemical they inject? Where is the chemical manufactured? Is it injected by the strange growth thing on their index fingers? If the Hoffan drug mixed with it and caused that lethal mutation, shouldn't they be studying that to see if they can reproduce the effect? If they can, I'm thinking poison bullets here. That would be cool.
- The Ancients had human physical bodies, right? So they must have had hygiene facilities, their own hospital/infirmary/whatever, food production, seamstresses and hairdressers, right? I'll bet they even had a janitor. Is the Atlantis crew going to find replicators, kitchens, magic healing devices, salons, and an indoor garden (now dead, of course) in the city? Let's see them explore the city some more, please!
- McKay's almost depleted their coffee supplies, but how are they making it? Is it (ick) instant? Did the Ancients have stoves and ovens? Has everyone been boiling water on camping stoves? Are there Atlantean microwaves? Did they invent battery-powered coffee pots? (does such a thing exist???)
- What's up with the military command structure? Sheppard gets to be in charge now that their only colonel is gone, but are there any other majors? How about captains? Ford is now second-in-command, and he's only a lieutenant. Are there other lieutenants? Surely they brought more officers than that. We have Sergeant Bates, so that's one NCO (but he's both Head of Security and leading a team as well). Are there privates? Airmen? Whatever? Is everyone either Air Force or Marines? Who answers to whom? Carson told Sumner he didn't answer to him, but to Weir. Bates ordered Rodney to go through Teyla's stuff. Who has what authority here?
- Did everyone get lasik surgery before coming on this trip? Contacts would be a bitch to deal with, especially once you ran out of solution. But Zelenka has glasses. What happens if he breaks them? Did they bring an optometrist along?
- How did Shep get his football recording to work? Is it on DVD? Did he find an Ancient version of a VCR or DVD player? Did they have to adapt something? Was that an Ancient tv/vid screen, or did they bring their own from Earth?
- What is everyone doing for recreation? I doubt there's cable in Pegasus. I know half the crew are big geeks and will probably just want to play with technology on their off-time, but what about other things? Books? Games? Music? In between saving the galaxy and screwing it up, these people are going to get bored.
- Are there fraternization rules? People being people, someone's going to have sex eventually. I kinda doubt they're equipped to deal with pregnancy and STDs out there. Do their supplies include condoms and birth control? All the more reason to encourage the gay sex!
- What controls the atmosphere/environment in Atlantis? Is there a heating/air conditioning system? Does everyone have personal controls in their quarters so that if some like it hot, some cold, and some a happy medium, there isn't any bitching?
- How many bullets did they bring? You're shooting a lot on missions, what're you gonna do when you run out? Did they bring a gunsmith and someone who knows how to make bullets? What about other weapons? Does Ford have other ordnance to play with besides stun grenades and tazers?
Um, I'm sure there's more, but this is getting long-winded as it is. I can't help it; I'm a nosy bint who wants to know everything about a universe and how it works. I'm sure they'll get around to telling us some of these things eventually, but dude, impatient.
Discuss?
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Date: 2004-09-01 07:51 am (UTC)word.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:06 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-01 09:36 am (UTC)I liked that toilet scene in Firefly. It was quick and yeah, not crucial to plot, but hey, it was nifty.
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:20 am (UTC)I think they're actually ultra-cool, very expensive hiking boots. The girls may wear a version that's shaped more like a tennis shoe than a boot, but other than that it's the same.
Word to everything else.
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Date: 2004-09-01 09:37 am (UTC)Lo, Beware Fanon! aka I missed my coffee this morning
Date: 2004-09-01 08:32 am (UTC)- The Atlantis crew: The Atlantites, The Atlantitians, The Atlantese. It all sucks. Possibly, "Those losers that got stuck on the other side of the galaxy and that we're not in a hurry to get back, and hey! Jack you're feet are cold!"
- Those nifty little Dell Inspiron laptops: I want one, do you like yours? I can just see them now, you know they would abuse a network.
- The different colored uniforms: Very treky. As for the military, did you know the Navy has already designed uniformsfor the Space force when they get to go into space? You know what color they are? Black.
- Did Daniel finally figure out the entire Ancient language and teach it to everyone? I figure it came with the Jack-download. How Weir and Shep learned it, beats me, though at least Weir as a diplomat should have some language skills.
- In the same vein, how is everyone doing all their research?: I figure Daniel and a Xerox had fun before this mission started, but showing research is boring (well, not really, but this isn't the Jossverse. Wow, I wish this was the Jossverse, that would be so cool.)
- Also about the infirmary, what all do they have? How do they plan to get any more?: They gave away CHOCOLATE, John Crichton would so be kicking them. Also, what happens when they run out of condoms. Birthcontrol is all well and good, but alien STDs are nasty.
- Let's see them explore the city some more, please: The city reminds me of Myst. Aka the city is really cool. More city!
- McKay's almost depleted their coffee supplies: Daniel helped pack, there will be good coffee.
-Did they bring an optometrist along: I'd hope so, or at least a lens maker. You'll need them for micro scopes and that sort of thing too.
-- How did Shep get his football recording to work? Is it on DVD: Of course, Jack isn't going to let them meet Ancient with out proper DVDs (Teal'c sent Star Wars).
Re: Lo, Beware Fanon! aka I missed my coffee this morning
Date: 2004-09-01 09:44 am (UTC)Noooo! What about the fish? For that matter, are there any fish? I want to see fish. Huuuuge fish. And squid. There should totally be alien squid.
The Atlantis crew: The Atlantites, The Atlantitians, The Atlantese. It all sucks. Possibly, "Those losers that got stuck on the other side of the galaxy and that we're not in a hurry to get back, and hey! Jack you're feet are cold!"
Lol. That's a bit long ;)
- Those nifty little Dell Inspiron laptops: I want one, do you like yours? I can just see them now, you know they would abuse a network.
Love it. Mine's slightly outdated now (of course), the 5100 model, but the entire series is pretty cool. I've been totally happy with it so far.
- The different colored uniforms: Very treky. As for the military, did you know the Navy has already designed uniformsfor the Space force when they get to go into space? You know what color they are? Black.
You're kidding. *headdesk*
- Did Daniel finally figure out the entire Ancient language and teach it to everyone? I figure it came with the Jack-download. How Weir and Shep learned it, beats me, though at least Weir as a diplomat should have some language skills.
Yeah, Weir's bio says she's fluent in like, 5 languages or something. And McKay's just a genius, so that's cool. Still, that was fast.
- In the same vein, how is everyone doing all their research?: I figure Daniel and a Xerox had fun before this mission started, but showing research is boring (well, not really, but this isn't the Jossverse. Wow, I wish this was the Jossverse, that would be so cool.)
Eep. As long as it's not Jossverse relationship-wise. Everyone was frelled up in those series, yo.
They gave away CHOCOLATE, John Crichton would so be kicking them. Also, what happens when they run out of condoms. Birthcontrol is all well and good, but alien STDs are nasty.
Lol! I can see the crossover now. *g* I'm hoping they'll be smart and sleep with any aliens just yet. Never know what diseases you'll get, or how easy you might get pregnant (I'm thinking Trip on Enterprise here).
The city reminds me of Myst. Aka the city is really cool. More city!
Ooh, yes, it kinda does. Everything's so pretty. SG1 eps where they never leave the base are kinda dull visually, but eps set entirely in Atlantis could kick ass.
Of course, Jack isn't going to let them meet Ancient with out proper DVDs (Teal'c sent Star Wars).
Heh. I'll bet Jack sent The Wizard of Oz.
Re: Lo, Beware Fanon! aka I missed my coffee this morning
Date: 2004-09-01 03:20 pm (UTC)-Not at all kidding about the Space uniforms. And if you end up at ECU, you should take Dr. Dudley's Sea Power class (which I should be writing a book review for at a moment) he spent a good portion of class talking about why the Navy gets to be in charge of space if we ever make it there and how they've already claimed it and everything. Kinda funny.
-Joss and Rockney O'Bannon. Eek!
Re: Lo, Beware Fanon! aka I missed my coffee this morning
Date: 2004-09-02 09:12 pm (UTC)Ooh, coool. I keep going over to the ECU website and looking at the courses to decide which ones I'd want to take. So many look so much fun!
Sometimes I wonder if the Navy gets to claim space just b/c of Star Trek. Maybe the Air Force is jealous.
-Joss and Rockney O'Bannon. Eek!
Yikes!
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Date: 2004-09-01 08:40 am (UTC)They pee in the sea!
- The Atlantis crew. Is that what we call them? Can we call them Atlanteans now? Something else? How about the mission teams? Do they have designations ala SG teams? Are they going to start calling Shep, McKay, Ford and Teyla "AG1" or something?
Yeah, that one's already been asked of me when in sort-of-beta mode. Shep's called his lot his "team" at least once, but... err...
Also, how many people are there in Atlantis? Did they ever say?
Umm... err... don't think so.
So far they've lost only Sumner, so that's not too bad, but how many did they bring? What's the ratio of scientist types to military?
So far I'd *guess* there's more scientists, and the Athosians certainly drag it over into civvie-majority, I reckon. Dude, Shep's the highest-ranking officer, so how many of them can there be?
Who's doing all the dirty jobs that have to be done in any society?
The Athosians are for cleaning and sex, yo.
It must have an address in the dialing computer, right? Is that all they're calling it? What about the mainland? Like
Fuck knows... so far I'd say they're gonna stick with "Atlantis" and "the mainland". For naming is EFFORT.
- Those nifty little Dell Inspiron laptops (which look exactly like mine, except mine's blue and silver, heh), are those running only on battery power? I never see them plugged into any walls. Are they on a network? Can they actually talk to other computers? It's not like they have a local ISP in Pegasus.
They communicate with magic. No, really, they do it in 38 Minutes so it MUST be magic.
- The different colored uniforms.
This is so they know who to eat first when the food runs out.
- Everyone has the same watch. They're big and bulky and I'm not sure I like them. How'd they decide what time it is in Atlantis? How long are the days on Atlantis? Months? Years? Did the Ancients leave old versions of calendars lying around so they'd know?
I assume they just stayed on... Colorado's EST, right? Which you could do if the day's near *enough* to 24 hours, with the odd adjustment every now and then. ("Right, we've got to lose an hour, so everyone just sleep more, k?")
- Did Daniel finally figure out the entire Ancient language and teach it to everyone? Is he the author of The Language of the Ancients for Dummies"? Weir and McKay seem to be fluent already
Weir I could give the headstart that she knows Latin and they seem to be related in some way. Err... MAGIC! MAGIC! *flails*
Who decided who got which quarters? Did the main staff get first pick?
ooh! There's canon! Ish! Living space they seem to have just set up wherever they could. There's a line in Hide And Seek about Shep being a lazy bitch about okaying enough rooms.
How do you get from the Jumper Bay to the Gateroom?
MAGIC!!!!!!!
And yet, they try to trade medicines for food. Morons. What happens when you run out?
They're so damn blase about that right now. I hope they start getting a bit more paranoid about supplies once they realised they are STUCK THERE FOREVER!!
Somewhere down the road, are all the women in Atlantis going to resort to sticking cloth rags in their panties once a month? Are they all taking some sort of drug so they won't have to deal with it?
When the tampons run out... err... I think it's gonna have to be rags. ><
Please tell us more about how the Wraith do what they do.
FUCKING MAGIC!! DAMN YOU!
Before they killed Steve, did Carson take a sample of that chemical they inject?
I like to fanon that they totally kept bits of Steve. And hopefully a sample of the Hoffan vaccine.
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Date: 2004-09-01 09:56 am (UTC)Nooo! Bad! The poor possibly non-existant fish...
Also, how many people are there in Atlantis? Did they ever say?
Umm... err... don't think so.
I suppose we could always take caps of the embarkation room and do a head count ;P
Fuck knows... so far I'd say they're gonna stick with "Atlantis" and "the mainland". For naming is EFFORT.
Hey PTB, make a bloody damned effort now and then!!! *shakes fist*
They communicate with magic. No, really, they do it in 38 Minutes so it MUST be magic.
Right, they were able to send messages from their computers to those little handheld thingies McKay loves so much. Dammit, how's that work? Even cell phones seem like magic to me, so this...ow.
I assume they just stayed on... Colorado's EST, right? Which you could do if the day's near *enough* to 24 hours, with the odd adjustment every now and then. ("Right, we've got to lose an hour, so everyone just sleep more, k?")
Well, I think that's Mountain whatever time. Several hours behind EST. But I like the adjustment thing...go sleep for an hour, hee.
ooh! There's canon! Ish! Living space they seem to have just set up wherever they could. There's a line in Hide And Seek about Shep being a lazy bitch about okaying enough rooms.
Whee, canon! Shep as lazy bitch = amusing. Now if they'll just tell me where those rooms *are*.
They're so damn blase about that right now. I hope they start getting a bit more paranoid about supplies once they realised they are STUCK THERE FOREVER!!
When the tampons run out... err... I think it's gonna have to be rags. ><
Ew, that's gonna be fun. Lizzie's gonna be so bitchy...;P
Please tell us more about how the Wraith do what they do.
FUCKING MAGIC!! DAMN YOU!
*dies*
I like to fanon that they totally kept bits of Steve. And hopefully a sample of the Hoffan vaccine.
I want to think Carson thought ahead, saved the corpse after the autopsy, and stuck the entire thing in the freezer so he can take it out later and play with it whenever he wants.
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-01 01:38 pm (UTC)*dies*
*is totally ded*
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-01 08:40 am (UTC)McKay's almost depleted their coffee supplies, but how are they making it? Is it (ick) instant? Did the Ancients have stoves and ovens? Has everyone been boiling water on camping stoves? Are there Atlantean microwaves? Did they invent battery-powered coffee pots? (does such a thing exist???)
I wonder if the Athosians are more hi-tech than they seem or if they've been having bonfires in the city...
What's up with the military command structure? ... Surely they brought more officers than that. ... Who has what authority here?
Lizzie should totally be bitchslapping people more. Bates I have to assume was ordering with Lizzie's authority rather than military. (But is McKay still on the USAF payroll? And does that even matter since no fucker is getting paid? And are their bank accounts still getting the wages? "We is home!"/"Dude, I have $130,000 in the bank!"/"Coooool!")
But Zelenka has glasses. What happens if he breaks them? Did they bring an optometrist along?
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi tells us that you can MacGuyver them with string and wire if it gets down to it. But err... mainly he's fucked, yeah.
How did Shep get his football recording to work?
His... sheer sexual charisma?
What is everyone doing for recreation?
Sheppard.
Are there fraternization rules? People being people, someone's going to have sex eventually. I kinda doubt they're equipped to deal with pregnancy and STDs out there. Do their supplies include condoms and birth control? All the more reason to encourage the gay sex!
We had a discussion on the Shep/Weir list about... wraithskin condoms...
Please tell us more about how the Wraith do what they do.
FUCKING MAGIC!! DAMN YOU!
Before they killed Steve, did Carson take a sample of that chemical they inject?
I like to fanon that they totally kept bits of Steve. And hopefully a sample of the Hoffan vaccine.
McKay's almost depleted their coffee supplies, but how are they making it? Is it (ick) instant? Did the Ancients have stoves and ovens? Has everyone been boiling water on camping stoves? Are there Atlantean microwaves? Did they invent battery-powered coffee pots? (does such a thing exist???)
I wonder if the Athosians are more hi-tech than they seem or if they've been having bonfires in the city...
What's up with the military command structure? ... Surely they brought more officers than that. ... Who has what authority here?
Lizzie should totally be bitchslapping people more. Bates I have to assume was ordering with Lizzie's authority rather than military. (But is McKay still on the USAF payroll? And does that even matter since no fucker is getting paid? And are their bank accounts still getting the wages? "We is home!"/"Dude, I have $130,000 in the bank!"/"Coooool!")
But Zelenka has glasses. What happens if he breaks them? Did they bring an optometrist along?
Post-apocalyptic sci-fi tells us that you can MacGuyver them with string and wire if it gets down to it. But err... mainly he's fucked, yeah.
How did Shep get his football recording to work?
His... sheer sexual charisma?
What is everyone doing for recreation?
Sheppard.
Are there fraternization rules? People being people, someone's going to have sex eventually. I kinda doubt they're equipped to deal with pregnancy and STDs out there. Do their supplies include condoms and birth control? All the more reason to encourage the gay sex!
We had a discussion on the Shep/Weir list about... wraithskin condoms...
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:00 am (UTC)I was wondering that too, b/c they have that weird firestarter thing, yet they live in huts.
Lizzie should totally be bitchslapping people more. Bates I have to assume was ordering with Lizzie's authority rather than military.
That makes sense. Still, they need to have all that clear. And if there's no real consequences if you step out of line, what keeps these people from pulling a mutiny?
(But is McKay still on the USAF payroll? And does that even matter since no fucker is getting paid? And are their bank accounts still getting the wages? "We is home!"/"Dude, I have $130,000 in the bank!"/"Coooool!")
LOL! Maybe their families get the money. Dude, I'd insist on getting paid *somehow*.
What is everyone doing for recreation?
Sheppard.
*snorts*
We had a discussion on the Shep/Weir list about... wraithskin condoms...
See, you 'shippers are weird, yo :P
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Date: 2004-09-01 01:11 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-01 01:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-02 07:11 am (UTC)Sheppard.
-bows to your brillant deductve skills-
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Date: 2004-09-01 10:38 am (UTC)I'm possibly hallucinating, but I thought they they mentioned sometime that the 'day' on the planet was... um, longer than on Earth. I'm thinking of Lizzie. Or possibly making it up.
Powerwise, I was thinking about this earlier. Bar having a giant hamster wheel hooked up to their equipment and making people run on it, how about solar power? I've got some very nifty travelling gear that is sun-powered, including a battery charger, and a solar-powered portable shower. That last one is so very fabulous. It's literally just a plastic bag with a tube and a head. On a bigger scale, you can store the power generated. Because they possibly didn't think that the city was actually going to be underwater when they first got there.
I'm just glad Carson's shirt isn't yellow. Becauuse he's a gorgeous, gorgeous man, but that striped jacket thing is hideous. I keep wanting to tear it off him, and not just for fun, sexy times, either.
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Date: 2004-09-01 12:10 pm (UTC)Word about Ford. A lieutenant second-in-command? And a 24 year-old one at that? I boggle. He *is* just a big kid.
Hmm, intriguing re the solar power. Maybe that's why so much of the outside of the city is made out of that crystal-looking stuff? Crystals seem to be a big part of alien tech.
I'm just glad Carson's shirt isn't yellow. Becauuse he's a gorgeous, gorgeous man, but that striped jacket thing is hideous. I keep wanting to tear it off him, and not just for fun, sexy times, either.
Heh. Sometimes I think those look good, and other times...yeah. I think it's the way the colored bits are situated - they sort of come down over the chest area, and make it look like a saggy bra or something *g*
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Date: 2004-09-01 02:08 pm (UTC)In "Fail Safe" of Sg-1 (I think!) Sam brought some minion engineers w/ her to fix a cargo ship, and one of them asked where the bathroom was, to which she replied, "This way." We never saw the bathroom, but apparently, its over there somewhere. -points random direction- I'd like to assume that the Ancients had/have high-tech bathrooms w/ flushers shaped like chevrons... or something like that...
I'm not keen on my Roman mythology, but as I learned from Daniel, the Ancients are the people who taught the Romans (possibly inspiring their society), and I believe the calendar, etc is based off of Roman myth. So, perhaps its not too confusing for the Atlanteans... I dont know...
I agree w/ the need for a shrink. Or perhaps Sheppard has a bar tender complete w/ supplies stowed away somewhere... Personally if I were to live in a diff. galaxy, I'd bring an improv-comedian, a portable Ryan Stiles, brillant.
And fun thought, if they are all on the same computer network, do you suppose they somehow IM each other at night? A fun conversation, indded.
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Date: 2004-09-02 01:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-02 07:09 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-02 07:17 am (UTC)You realise, of course, there is only one appropriate response.
*Grabs lauraspeak and slaps a big red "COWRITER" label on her*
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Date: 2004-09-02 07:28 am (UTC)<.<
*PouncetackleBRAINSTEALrunawaycackling*
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Date: 2004-09-02 08:39 am (UTC)*smacks Canth for running amock in my journal*
:P
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Date: 2004-09-03 08:53 am (UTC)but such is what happens in a college library... right? ha.
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Date: 2004-09-02 09:18 pm (UTC)high-tech bathrooms w/ flushers shaped like chevrons
Hee!
And fun thought, if they are all on the same computer network, do you suppose they somehow IM each other at night? A fun conversation, indded.
They've got to have a way to send messages, surely. Too much potential humor there which shouldn't be wasted.
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Date: 2004-09-03 09:07 am (UTC)mmm, IM conversations. a fun ongoing post for everyone! heh.
That's a genius idea....
Date: 2004-09-02 01:44 pm (UTC)Is there an LJ Comm for Atlantis fic contests? We should submit the "IM conversations in `Lantis" idea.
Shep would have to be "Shepwhore"... Ford is "IHaveTooManyHats"..."StickFuQueen" is Teyla. "AllYourBaseBelongtoMe" -has- to be someone. Has to.
*continues to brainstorm random names*
~Lucia
PS: Check out da iconage! Not as cool as my trenchcoat one, but what have you.
Re: That's a genius idea....
Date: 2004-09-02 09:22 pm (UTC)Shep would have to be "Shepwhore"... Ford is "IHaveTooManyHats"..."StickFuQueen" is Teyla. "AllYourBaseBelongtoMe" -has- to be someone. Has to.
I think we've already covered these angles over in
Nice icon! I love that pic of McKay.
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Date: 2004-09-04 06:44 am (UTC)So, you ask, why are the placebo weeks in there? Because the people who developed it wanted it to seem more "natural".
Go to NoPeriod (http://www.noperiod.com) for more info.
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Date: 2004-09-04 06:41 pm (UTC)Thanks very much for the link. I'm going to have to look into this...
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Date: 2004-09-04 10:02 pm (UTC)If the Atlanteans are vising another planet, what do they do if the DHD happens to fall through the floor into the ocean, and they need to dial home manually? The Pegasus gate glyphs don't actually spin, the Pegasus gate glyphs are digital. So is there a way to dial home manually, or are they just Ernestified there for 50 years...?
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Date: 2004-09-04 10:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-09-20 01:38 am (UTC)