Batman wrote:Excuse me? The concept of the Wraith doesn't change at the very least until the end of season 3?
Their entire gimmick to begin with was apparently as evil, shadowy space vampires with the ability to mentally mess with people, with 'ghost' images. Thus the name 'Wraith'.
Guess that was too hard to write, so they became merely impossible to gun down for a few episodes.
Then that was too hard, so they were re-written into hordes of undisciplined vampires who could be killed by the dozen by one person. Sorta like the Jaffa, but with even less competence.
Batman wrote:Excuse me? The concept of the Wraith doesn't change at the very least until the end of season 3?
Their entire gimmick to begin with was apparently as evil, shadowy space vampires with the ability to mentally mess with people, with 'ghost' images. Thus the name 'Wraith'.
Guess that was too hard to write, so they became merely impossible to gun down for a few episodes.
Then that was too hard, so they were re-written into hordes of undisciplined vampires who could be killed by the dozen by one person. Sorta like the Jaffa, but with even less competence.
All of which is perfectly in line with the initial portrayal of the Wraith?
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Batman wrote:Excuse me? The concept of the Wraith doesn't change at the very least until the end of season 3?
Their entire gimmick to begin with was apparently as evil, shadowy space vampires with the ability to mentally mess with people, with 'ghost' images. Thus the name 'Wraith'.
Guess that was too hard to write, so they became merely impossible to gun down for a few episodes.
Then that was too hard, so they were re-written into hordes of undisciplined vampires who could be killed by the dozen by one person. Sorta like the Jaffa, but with even less competence.
All of which is perfectly in line with the initial portrayal of the Wraith?
The Wraith are still the same in the portrayal. It's not like their character got changed.
What I meant was, they lost the reason for their name (the weird phantasm psychic illusion powers), and became steadily and steadily more cannon fodder. I thought it was kind of distracting that there were only two types of wraith characters: The complete told who wanders into bullets and is tricked by the easiest ploys (most of them) and the occasional on or off screen manipulative or inventive supervillain (the unseen wraith engineers who can miracle out new adaptations, or the Keeper in the season 3 finale).
Yeah, only when I watched the first episode again recently did I remember the Wraith had the power to create illusions. Apparently the writers just dumped that idea.
Vympel wrote:Yeah, only when I watched the first episode again recently did I remember the Wraith had the power to create illusions. Apparently the writers just dumped that idea.
They haven't dumped it, they just don't use it on the Atlantians.
It only really works on primitive societies anyway.
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