#stargate thoughts

[mylittleredgirl]

today's stargate thought is how much i LOVE that everyone in the pegasus galaxy uses the stargate.

like all through SG-1, 90% of the cultures we meet either have no idea what the stargate is or believe it's reserved for godly use only. basically no one but us uses it to explore. for the first few seasons, it took so much math to calculate the stellar drift that all the supercomputers in the SGC could only spit out a few addresses a month. even the super-advanced aschen thought it only went like ten places!

so it was such a genius choice to make stargate travel so common in pegasus that no one even remarks on it. yes, demons pour out of it sometimes and try to eat you, but the rest of the time it's like hopping on the light rail. people use it to go shopping. teyla has personal friends on fifteen planets. the first twelve-year-old john sheppard meets knows more valid gate addresses off the top of his head than SG-1 knew after like four months of gate travel and that will always always delight me.

[giocchan94]

I was listening to The “There's no place like Terra” podcast, to the commentary about the Stargate SG1 episode “Abyss”, the one where Jack is tortured by Ba'al and Ascended!Daniel trys to help him to escape by ascension. And it got me thinking.  Daniel is so adamant to not break the rules of the Ascendeds and I don't think it's just because it's proibite or because he’s scared of what the Ascendends could do to him.  He says “I'm not more qualified to play God than the Goul'ds are” (or something like that) and I think that the prime reason to why he refuses to help is because he's terrified by himself. He's terrified that if he breaks the rules and start to use all the power that he has for his own porpouses, he will become dangerous, because that's what Sha're's kid shows him in a dream during the episode “Absolute Power”. More than the Goul'd knowledge, the intere porpouse of that episode was to show what absolute power can do to a person, even a good person like Daniel. And Daniel saw what could happen and I think that could be a big reason why he's so esitant to use the power that he has. Because if he thought that the Ascendeds were simple wrong to choose to not intervene, he would have not give it a shit about the rules and he would have tried to do something. Instead he accept them, probably because he thinks that he needs those rules to keep himself in check, so that he never become that person in that nightmare.

[definitelynotarabbit]

I don't think we talk enough about how Stargate's wraith aka space vampires had one of the most outside the box vampire powers to ever grace TV. Like kudos to whoever said "hey fuck it we're gonna take one of the most one dimensional villain races we've ever made which can very accurately be described as space vampires and just completely blow that idea out of the water with a single scene showing that they have miles more depth than you could ever guess".

I mean come on why am I not seeing more vampire fanfic where the vamp can give life in the same manner that they can take it?! It's such a groundbreaking idea in a trope that short of this the most recent big change of pace was glitter.

That single scene where it looks like Todd just killed John but then he turns around and gives him back more years than he took? Mwah chefs kiss. Possibly the most efficient story telling I've seen.

Anyway I support queer agenda that episode suggested and am eternally devastated that Todd didn't become a Teal'c level character but with extra gay because telepathy.

[sga-owns-my-soul]

john, reading sg1 reports about daniel ‘i’m not military they can’t court martial me’: this is brilliant i need a non military on my team

john, adding a scientist and a pegasus native to his team: we will be Unstoppable

[staybeautifulmp3]

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

[anguishmacgyver]

[fircyca]

[fighting-naturalist]

You know, I don't think it's the artifact. He gets nervous like that every time he's around you. Maybe a crush?.

[anavar-immela]

[sga-mcshep-4ever]

McShep out of context.

[spockvarietyhour]

The number of times characters have to be brainwashed on Stargate to make a good point or even a point from a different point of view...

[mylittleredgirl]

imagining a universe where the stargate program isn't classified and the edit wars about whether daniel jackson's wikipedia page, at any given moment, should be in present or past tense

[the-mushroom-faerie]

where's that cop show scene where the one guy was like "if I run at the police chief he will catch me no matter what watch this" and the police chief was like "no no I've got a cup of coffee!!" and drops the cup of coffee to catch the guy

because that's Vala and Teal'c right there

[theiravshade]

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Stargate SG-1 | Mobius Part 1

[sga-owns-my-soul]

If you're still accepting random stargate headcanons/thoughts I have one to share.

So, I was thinking about periods and wondering what the ladies of the first expedition did or had planned for their periods given that they thought it was gonna be a one-way trip. Obviously, people have been having periods way before pads and tampons were invented and they probably just used menstrual cups, fabric, or another reusable method to reduce waste. The ladies of Atlantis are wicked smart and could figure out a solution easily enough.

But I was thinking that the men they worked with (especially when they were still cut off from Earth) learned to just get super chill about periods because their female colleagues would talk or complain openly about their cycles, if not directly to them, at least in front of them. And compared to the wraith and all the other weird shit they deal with, having a period is really boring.

I'm imagining Rodney going from an uncomfortable "ew I don't wanna hear about that" attitude about menstrual cycles to a "idgaf" or possibly even "holy fuck you go through that each month?!" attitude within a year of living there. Working closely with women and being led by a woman probably just created a really mature environment around periods and even new arrivals learn to be chill about it. Carrying around pads/tampons/pain meds in tack vests becomes common for everyone. Stuff like that.

I spend a lot of time thinking about the mundane things that probably happen in Atlantis.

first of all i am Always still accepting niche sga headcanons i love these please keep sending them 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

second i LOVE this okay i think way too often about the athosians trading period tips and tricks with the atlanteans. sharing ideas and different pain killers and stuff i just love this idea

also the men would be so fucking chill about it bc between elizabeth and teyla everyone who wasn't already chill has either been scared or beaten into being chill about it 😂

ALSO honestly the women in the city explaining to rodney in intense detail what periods are like he would be like. horrified by them. just gives him one more reason to hate the human body. he keeps telling carson to "find a cure for periods" (john says there's probably an ancient machine for that and rodney yells at him that they wouldn't be able to trust it bc it would probably remove vital internal organs too or give you cancer or something)

also the idea of them making period products standard in the tac vest is honestly so fucking amazing and i'm going to believe that this is canon

thank you for the headcanons friend!!!! please feel free to send more if you want!!

[justplainmels]

6.13 | Sight Unseen

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