Wraith had tech that rivalled the Ancients - Darts get brought down by small arms fire and the Wraith routinely get outplayed by Earth. Wraith magically summoned lots of numbers - Ancients never bothered to send a fleet to the magical cloning facility to nuke it because they never bothered to find it or wonder where all the numbers were coming from. The Wraith the show tried to paint are not the same Wraith that developed across the entire series... just like the Goauld in SG-1.
My english is so Bad to let me make this following in english sorry ^^ you will need use translator ^^ J ai toujours pensé que le fait que merlin soit revenu dans notre plan d existence est en partie dû également a l homme qu'il était a cette époque. On peut voir a quelle point il semble impassible a ce qu'il ce passe ici et je pense qu en devenant un être élevé, ce passé à agis chez lui comme un "plus jamais ça" il a été passif une fois et il ne peut pas rester à nouveau ainsi face à une menace 100× plus grande . My theory ^^
I love how he spends most of the episode freaking out about dying inside of the shield because he can't get food or drink through it - he can't even take it off because his inherent cowardice makes the gizmo stay on to "protect him" - and in the penultimate scene, someone suggests *he* do something dangerous because the shield will protect him... ...and it *INSTANTLY* drops off like leech burned with a cigarette.
What I love most about this is that they chose to do this test in as public a place as possible, while telling no one at all what they were doing. These two loved to troll.
You slipped a sound track in there I know all to well. PRELUDE TO WAR! Battlestar galactica baby! IM GETTING MY MEN. love that scene. Excellent choice.
Rodney: "Oh hey cool! Personal force shield! *puts on and activates*" Anyone: "So... did you at least find and read the instructions on how to turn it off?" Rodney: "....instructions?" Anyone: "goddamnit Rodney."
When actress Tori Higginson was placed into stasis in the final episode of "Earth 2", the series was canceled and we never learned her fate. At least on Atlantis, we found out how she ended up.