Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-262546-20150913044941/@comment-1298029-20151026011101

Also, the fact that it was never explaied why the Wraith didn't just pummel the city shield, water or no, during the 10,000 years they had to try (they would've realized almost immediately that the Ancients had left, what with the defenses no longer being active and all), is precisely one of those plotholes that you have to ignore to enjoy Stargate. :-)

While we're at it, we could also try to explain how such poor schlocks as the Wraith (to support that: casualty exchange rate for BC-304 battlecruiser vs. Wraith hive ship is about 0:15 in favour of the '304... not particularly impressive; in fact about the only thing special about the Wraith is that it takes slightly more bullets to take one down at close range), who get themselves to the brink of wipe-outal (yeah, I know that's not a word) after just 4 years of contending with ~200 very harried humans with very long supply lines trying to man a city they barely understand, how they could ever have defeated the Ancients?

Supposedly the most advanced, most powerful, oldest species in several galaxies, the species that long before coming to Pegasus created stuff like the Dakara device, which can pretty much do anything to anything on the scale of a whole galaxy (we know it can create life, or at least influence its evolution, also decompose Replicators or destroy indiscriminately by atomization most anything smaller than a planet... so it's logical to assume other settings of the wave could do other cool things, like maybe turn all free cosmic hydrogen into Big Macs with X-large fries and post-mix Coke, or more realistically maybe just turn all Wraith into dust or destroy key and unique proteins necessary for the semi-organic Wraith technology to function in any useful manner, thereby rendering all Wraith war materiel immediately useless, at best)?

And while we're at it, how did the Ancients get from Dakara devices and Telchak devices and knowledge repositories to beaming elevators, automatic doors, and tablet-compatible circuit wafers that apparently can be reprogrammed in C#? Sounds kinda like millions of years of de-volution...

If you're familiar with the site TVTropes, look up "villain decay" and "badass decay". The Stargate franchise is basically 15 seasons of this, first with the Goa'uld, then with the Wraith and the Ancients. Don't take me wrong, I love the show, but I find I just have to ignore the illogicality of the show if I want to enjoy it.

/rant. :-)