The Replicators were always my favorite antagonists.. Not evil like the Goa'Uld or the Ori... Just a completely different form of intelligence that was concerned with it's own survival and propagation... Nothing more, nothing less.
@eviltreemonster ...or the Tyranides in W40k (infinitely much more menacing than xenomophs since they invade planets by billions), but yeah, basically replicators are not that different from wasps or ants.
The SGC finally get some good gear to defend earth from the Goa'uld. A mothership and a fleet gliders, but within about two episodes it's all destroyed and they're left with a cargo vessel.
yea tell me about it. They should have keeped the hatack mothership on the far side of the moon from earth. Then gone off on missions trying to obtain more of them. But no had to lose it early.
Blame the studio, having their own ship means they'd have to use it for a lot of plots to make sense & that means graphic renderings with CGI which was expensive. They were too tight fisted for fun stuff to happen.
I created the idea that they perform operations and pick off system lords to steal their fleets. Could use a Tok'ra to play off as a system lord. Build up their fleets like Apophis did.
To be fair, a mothership might have been overkill at the time. Working their way up from a death glider to cargo vessel is much more safer. It would be like going from a grenade to nuke. There was probably a higher chance of them triggering something accidently and causing something horrible.
The CGI with the replicators chasing SG1 with the moving camera holds up pretty good here (though this video seems to be SD upscaled poorly so it sadly doesn't look too good here).
I love how when Carter says the ship has reached 800 times its maximum speed all the banter evaporates and the General's voice kicks in and starts giving orders.
@@indrajeet that doesn't necessarily help. Burned up or not, that is still mass and energy entering the atmosphere. Its spread out a bit more, but depending on the tech level of the civilization, it might not matter. Its going to be a hell of a shockwave.
How could BTW his personal shield protect him from the Replicators? A Goa'uld personal shield is supposed to only protect the user from fast moving objects like Staff blasts or bullets
@@325133 Probably you are right (also because we don't see his corpse) and you are not the only one who has this doubt (an Internet site I have seen, in the "unanswered answer" section tell the same thing), and also Jack has some doubts about Apophis death, but however we do not have any further news from him. Any further appearances of him are either allucinations of Teal'C or uses of alternate versions of Apophis, not the "normal" Apophis.
Well that's the end of my favorite Stargate villain of all time Apophis... If only he lived a little longer. I would love for him to be around more episodes and be the top villain and see his reaction of Anubis return
The only thing that ever bugged me about this was, why Apophis didn't just leave the bridge with his personal shield up and make it to the cargo bay much earlier and make his escape. I mean his shield is stopping the replicators from getting to him, unless it requires him to stay still to stop the replicators from passing through the shield, like any other slow moving object previously established in the show.
The shield prevents him from moving I remember asking the same question and it was approached to me that the problem with goauld shield while powerful the user had to be stationary.
What, the automatic weapons with infinite ammo didn't bother you? That's always been a pet peeve of mine. They're always doing "spray & pray" full auto fire. All that does is wipe out the mag very, very quickly. Watch a video of real combat troops in action. They use aimed semiautomatic fire.
Possible but very unlikely. When Thor’s infected ship burned up in Earth’s atmosphere and crashed into the ocean, one survived. A massive explosion like that would probably incinerate/vaporize all of the replicators.
If the ship has reached around 800 times it's maximum speed, that's still almost two months travel time if Jacob was correct it would have taken 125 years at normal max speed.
800 times its max speed means they'll be in the milky way pretty soon?....... uhhhh Jacob...... it'd take a normal mother ship 125 years to move from 1 galaxy to another so 800 times faster still gives you months. I realise that it was still being enhanced but it's reasonable to assume that at their current rate of acceleration then even pessimistically they'd still have days before it'd get back to the milky way.
Previous max speed might be a bit misleading. Like in real life, movie technology is sometimes subject to high performance degredation. Lets say you have a car. Its actual total max speed that you can possibly get out of it is lets say 120 mph. To go 1200 miles would take you 10 hrs, lest just assume instantaneous acceleration and braking. But the machine isnt capable of sustaining that speed for that long, and it will either default down to a lower performance or simply break altogether. But lets say you can operate the car at 60 mph more or less indefinitely. That trip would take 20 hrs. Now assuming your goal is to always have a car and thats the ONLY way to get around. You are gonna calculate based off your highest sustainable speed, particularly if a trip even at your true max speed is longer than your ability to sustain that max speed. So while the number of x years to move between galaxies might be accurate given the ships nominal top speed, the travel time given 800x the true top speed might have been much shorter.
@@metamorphicorder In the episode where Teal'c and O'Neal are stuck in the F-301 Jacob pushes his transport ship to 130% Speed. This along with I'm pretty sure that the replicators increased the motherships speed by 800 times in a hour or so. Who knows how much faster it got before it came out of hyperspace.
800 times faster would mean about 57 days. However, the speed of the ship kept increasing. After Carter saw that the ship increased its speed 10, 20, 30 times and kept increasing, two minutes later the speed increased by 800 times. Assuming it all happened in real time, the entire trip took about two minutes, so in theory it should have only reached ~2000 times faster, assuming it didn't just increased exponentially, which could have, given that the replicators could do all kinds of crazy stuff. However, given how alert the scene was, it's likely that more than two minutes passed, the entire trip was probably just under an hour, so by that time the ship was no doubt moving >100,000 times faster if not more, meaning that after a few minutes or hours, depending how fast the replicators throttled the engines, they were back home.
The way the personal shield worked previously yes they should. I assume he modified it so they couldn't but it came at the cost of rendering him stuck there unable to do anything while the ship crashed
Aris Boch used a type of personal shield that could also block slow moving objects, so I imagine that technology exists, but since it would block air, it won't be very useful unless you also carry a breathing apparatus.
Big plothole. A P90 has a rate of fire of 15 rounds per second and a magazine of 50 rounds. Which means that SG1 should have run out of ammo after 3 and a third seconds, yet they keep firing a lot longer than that
They could be an attempt at adaptation by the Replicators to defend themselves against ballistic weaponry. Let the wings take the damage so the core body remains intact. They do resemble shells more than actual wings after all.
they could have removed the crystals without shooting them, and the forcefield device is designed too allow slow moiving objects to pass through, so much does not make logical sense :(
If they removed the crystals and didn't escape, the replicators could have retrieved them and fixed the ship. They needed to destroy the replicators no matter what.
