SGA 510/511 - Did anybody else ...

[patk]

... got the idea that the Atlantis-gate exploding would have been *the* opportunity to cut off Atlantis from earth even more and make their situation more suspenseful and dangerous again?

I mean, the Atlantis-gate has this unique crystal that makes it the only Pegasus-gate which can access earth's gate - and here it blew up. Now, putting another gate in its place would allow the Atlantis-people to gate around in Pegasus but, since it would lack this certain crystal, it wouldn't allow contact to earth, neither outgoing nor incoming, no gate-travels to or from earth, no messages via gate-contact - no instant help, not even the possibility to cry for help.

The Daedalus would remain the one and only possibility of contact to earth at all and we know that, once the ship has left, it will take at least 6 weeks until they're gonna see it again. At least - which means, if something unexpected happens that hinders or delays the regular runs, nobody on Atlantis would know about it, nobody would know if the ship will ever return.

And, of course, Atlantis would search and look for either a new crystal or for the information on how to build one to make their gate earth-accessible again. Possibilities! Possibilities!

*Sigh*

Too bad they didn't jump on that chance. Ah, hell, hope the one or other fanfic-author will do it. It's the perfect set up for Atlantis growing independent and secede from earth slowly in S5.

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[simboo]

Yeah, someone pointed that out to Mallozzi in his blog and he said the crystal was somewhere save. They keep it in a safe and only get it when they need to dial Earth? As if. *snort*

Also the writers would have to come up with ideas on how Atlantis gets by. You know, not running out of food and ammo and stuff like that. They couldn't keep relying on the Daedalus alone. I don't think the writers want to deal with stuff like that. Maybe also because it has been done already.

Hey, they could end the show like they started it. Atlantis with no contact to Earth. But this time the people on Atlantis are not really that unhappy about it. ;)

That said, I love seceding stories!! :)