#atlantis (2009)

[zegalba]

The Space Shuttle Atlantis seen in silhouette during solar transit, May 12, 2009.

[lonestarflight]

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– Space shuttle Atlantis on Launch Pad 39A is viewed across the lagoon at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Atlantis is targeted to launch May 12 on the STS-125 mission to upgrade NASA's Hubble Space Telescope."

Photo credit: NASA/Jack Pfaller

Date: April 18, 2009

NASA ID: KSC-2009-2756

[imholdingoutforahero]

Disney Princesses and Heroines fantasy pins by kikrox2_thepinister

📷 @its.about.the.pins 🖼 @charlietheblueberry

[thecreativemillennial]

Happy 58th birthday to Tamlyn Tomita

[spockvarietyhour]

Vegas Sheppard's Palm Centro (i thinnnnk. I couldn't find an exact match with a quick search but the key arrangement is definitely a palm phone and the release is right)

[fl3shm4id3n]

In all honesty Jake pulled a Milo Thatch, Milo from the movie Atlantis is the original dude who betrayed his own to stay with Kida. IT WAS MILO WHO DID IT FIRST.

[casualfruit]

Avatar vs Atlantis: The Lost Empire

I’ve seen a handful of people saying that these movies are basically the same, and I’m taking it upon myself to educate the masses about why this is false.

Now it’s true that, in broad terms, they are similar movies. A group of explorers “discover” a blue indigenous people whom they plan to murder in order to get a special rock. The white male protagonist falls in love with an indigenous woman and decides to protect her people from violent exploitation, and after they defeat the bad guys, he stays with her and is accepted into the indigenous community.

However, this description does not take into account the circumstances of the “discovery” or the motivations of the protagonists, which end up making them into rather different movies.

In Avatar, Jake Sully is a marine who decides to sub in for his dead twin brother to inhabit a modified Na’vi body. The avatar program was created in order to convince the Omaticaya to leave Hometree so an unnamed company can dig up the minerals underneath. He knows this from the beginning and has zero qualms about it for at least half the movie. He gives the company detailed information about Hometree to help them with their plans, knowing that this will completely upend the Omaticaya way of life and probably kill hundreds of them.

In ATLE, Milo Thatch is a linguist and cartographer searching for what he believes to be a completely dead civilization. He, along with the rest of the crew, is shocked to find an actual city with actual people. He even says at one point that he didn’t expect to find much more than some broken pottery. He immediately defers to King Nedakh’s judgement, insisting to Rourke that they should leave the Atlanteans alone, and tries to follow their customs for the short time they stay. He had no idea about Rourke’s plan to steal the magical crystal that has kept the Atlanteans alive for thousands of years - and as soon as he learns of this plan, he immediately tries to stop it. No questions, no hesitation, no regard for what this decision will cost him.

Jake only starts respecting the Omaticaya once he builds a relationship with Neytiri. Milo respects the Atlanteans regardless of his attraction to Princess Kida.

And another thing - Milo does not become the new king of Atlantis once King Nedakh dies. Based on his clothing and tattoos in the last scene, he doesn’t have any particularly high status. Kida becomes queen, and Milo stays as her friend and presumably teaches (re-teaches?) her how to read Atlantean.*

Jake, despite being a traitor and colonialist who knows barely anything about Omaticaya culture - despite being directly responsible for the destruction of their home and much of their people - gets to be king because he can fly the giant dinosaur.

* If you feel icky about this plot point, I don’t blame you. It is weird that in over 8,000 years they never rediscovered their own language, especially considering it’s all around them. However, I still don’t think this gives ATLE the same level of white savior-ness as Avatar because of all the aforementioned reasons.

[hepbaestus]

Thoughts on Atlantis The Lost Empire (2001)

I've got notes to write so I'm going to be watching Atlantis The Lost Empire (2001) and writing whatever comes to mind.

Cool intro my dudes

A quote from Plato, noce

Sucks that the mother got kidnapped

He looks like such a nerd

In Ireland of all places???

I love that the call is completely in gibberish

He's such a dork, I already love him

Awww poor Milo

Milo James Thatch - such a basic middle name

Ooooo she's hot

Don't tell me the book gets knocked into the fire

"Busted him out of a Turkish prison." Jesus

I like those four basic food groups, "beans, bacon, whisky and lard."

The music is chef's kiss🤌🤌

"get back I've got soap" and the dude hisses, is one of the best lines I have ever heard

Dr. Sweet understanding everything Milo is saying is a bloody miracle

Oof putting all the pressure on Milo

Milo 🤝 me, not knowing how to drive

Aww isolating Milo

No. The history. The archaeology of the place, ruined by the explosives

I love the DIY explosives

Ugh the French guy

Chiropractor Dr. Sweet

The Origin Story™ of Milo Thatch

Explosive guy's family owned a flower store

She's pwetty. I'm so gay.

That bridge does not look stable

20 questions time baby

Atlantis lore

Man's is crushing on someone quadruple his age and just had a mini crisis about it

"Looking good" ugh that line

Atlantis is surviving not thriving

Adventure-capitalist. What the fuck

Milo's giving out too much information

Pretty woman is evil. Hot.

Man's isn't wrong about the empty building thing

Don't beat the old man!!

He really can't count; 1,2,9,10??? Missing just a few numbers there

She's walking on water, is she Jesus??

Please tell me this is how she's reunited with her mother

Oh that's not at all ominous

Not his photo of him and his grandfather!!

They're also grave robbers?? Nice.

Of course, the classic important info-dumping before death

"I didn't say it was the smart thing." That's hot

RIP hot lady

or not nvm

Serving the killer blow, makes her even hotter

The intricate details of the magic, oml

They have giant guardians??? Oh wow

Oh wait they're the old kings of time

Awww she got her childhood bracelet back which her mother took

The explosive guy's humour is impeccable

"oh you're getting the bill." Classic American humour

Milo's now the token white guy in Atlantis

Will I be watching the second film? Yes. Yes I will be.

Overall score: 7/10

Recommendations welcome!

[thecinematicbandicoot]

Avatar: The Way of Water - Under the sea and over the moon

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By Jose Anguiano – Cinematic Bandicoot December 17th, 2022 13 years ago… That’s half the planet’s reaction to James Cameron’s “Avatar” in 2009 – a wonderous technical achievement with an unoriginal “Dances with Wolves” retread. In spite of its elementary school writing, the movie broke box-office records and secured a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars. Afterwards, Cameron spent a decade…

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TOP 10 TV SHOW FANDOMS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS, SINGLE CATEGORY VERSION (2009-2022)

If you want to see the TV Show bar chart with the multi-category fandom tags included, please check this post.

To make these bar chart race, all series titles in the TV Show Category on November 29 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, manually filtered for fandoms belonging in only one category and then inputted to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Locked fanworks aren't included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.

Jossverse was in the top 10 from 2010-2017 (Top 2 in 2010 and 2011). In 2018, it was removed from the TV Show fandom list and works tagged with it show up in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV) instead so I’ve excluded it from the bar chart.

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t mess up anywhere! 🙏

ETA: About Doctor Who: Doctor Who actually has 2 tags with ranked higher (Higher than Doctor Who (2005) even) on the list. Unfortunately, they were both multi-category tags: Doctor Who & Related Fandoms was also in the Other Media category thanks to the Doctor Who (Big Finish Audio), and the other tag Doctor Who was also in Books & Literature thanks to Doctor Who - Various Authors. You can see them rank in the top 10 TV Shows multi-category bar chart race linked above.

About Stargate: The Stargate - All Media Types tag is actually interesting because unlike most All Media Types tags, it’s only listed in the TV Show category. That’s why it still turned up in this list. This might just be a lack of tagging its other categories (like Books & Literature) on AO3, however. Now that I checked its subtags, it actually had at least 2 Book & Literature only subtags: Stargate Atlantis: Legacy Series - Various Authors and Stargate SG-1 - Various Authors. So it probably should not have been in this bar chart race. Apologies for the oversight.🙏

[jackandhisspacemonkey]

STARGATE SG-1 (1997–2007) "1969" STARGATE ATLANTIS (2004–2009) "The Defiant One" STARGATE UNIVERSE (2009–2011) "Blockade"

[thedespot]

My Favourite Disney Men:

Mulan (1998) - Li Shang

Lilo & Stitch (2002) - David Kawena

Atlantis (2001) - Milo James Thatch

The Princess & the Frog (2009) - Prince Naveen

Big Hero 6 (2014) - Tadashi Hamada

[lonestarflight]

"CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. –– On Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the payload canister is lifted toward the payload changeout room, or PCR, on the rotating service structure. The red umbilical lines are still attached. The canister's cargo of Hubble Space Telescope equipment will be deposited in the PCR and later transferred to the payload bay on space shuttle Atlantis, at right. Atlantis' 11-day STS-125 mission to service Hubble is targeted for launch May 12. The flight will include five spacewalks in which astronauts will refurbish and upgrade the telescope with state-of-the-art science instruments. As a result, Hubble's capabilities will be expanded and its operational lifespan extended through at least 2014."

Photo credit: NASA/Kim Shiflett

Date: April 18, 2009

NASA ID: KSC-2009-2784

[aceofwhump]

any good tied to a chair whump scenes?

Ooooh my dear nonny I am about to go crazy. I love a good tied to a chair scene and I have MANY recs for you. In fact I have an entire tag for you to peruse should you like to: https://aceofwhump.tumblr.com/tagged/tied%20to%20a%20chair

Jaskier in The Witcher 2x05

Leverage Redemption 1x09

National Treasure: Edge of History 1x08

The Mentalist 2x23

The Umbrella Academy 1x04

Alice (2009)

Supernatural 12x01

Manifest 2x10

Stargate Atlantis

Criminal Minds

The Magicians 1x09

Once Upon a Time 4x16

[lesbiandarvey]

STARGATE ATLANTIS (2004-2009); created by Brad Wright and Robert C. Cooper. Starring Torri Higginson, David Hewlett, Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, Jason Momoa, Rainbow Sun Francks, Paul McGillion and Amanda Tapping

for @tvarchive​’s television appreciation week, day 4: sci-fi

[3-fries-short-of-a-happy-meal]

Happy New Year!!

2024 will bring:

30 years of the original Stargate movie! (October 28, 1994)

27 years of Stargate SG-1! (July 27, 1997)

20 years of Stargate Atlantis! (July 16, 2004)

15 years of Stargate Universe! (October 2, 2009)