Ah-ha! A person with real canon knowledge! You have revealed yourself, and now you are mine. Or at least, I'm hoping you'll be my answerer-of-questions.
The advance knowledge of the power problem explains much, so that's good to hear. But what was the deal? Why was power such a problem? It's just a wormhole, right? So why couldn't the SGC dial up Atlantis from the other end to bring them home? And why do they have enough power to visit all those other planets the team goes to but not enough to get home?
Vid recs - well, OK, I'll try. I don't have bunches, yet, but I like: Derry's vids (http://www2.streamload.com/Nodes/Node.asp?cxInstID=44259714&nodeID=981930892) (especially "Dumb Things" and "Hey Boys," and "One Night in Bangkok" is the best SGA song ever), and Mamoru's (http://www.blacksheep69.com/) (especially "You Can't Take That Away From Me," though the effect can get a little nauseating for those prone to motion sickness, and "Falling for the First Time"), and Purpleyin's (http://elnino.is-a-geek.com/hannah/vids.html) (I like that she vids under-vidded characters, like Ford and Beckett and Bates). I also have a couple of individual vid recs, if you want them. But keep in mind that I don't know the canon, so these are the vids that are most transparent or useful to a newcomer, not the ones that are most meaningful to a canon fan.
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The advance knowledge of the power problem explains much, so that's good to hear. But what was the deal? Why was power such a problem? It's just a wormhole, right? So why couldn't the SGC dial up Atlantis from the other end to bring them home? And why do they have enough power to visit all those other planets the team goes to but not enough to get home?
Vid recs - well, OK, I'll try. I don't have bunches, yet, but I like:
Derry's vids (http://www2.streamload.com/Nodes/Node.asp?cxInstID=44259714&nodeID=981930892) (especially "Dumb Things" and "Hey Boys," and "One Night in Bangkok" is the best SGA song ever), and Mamoru's (http://www.blacksheep69.com/) (especially "You Can't Take That Away From Me," though the effect can get a little nauseating for those prone to motion sickness, and "Falling for the First Time"), and Purpleyin's (http://elnino.is-a-geek.com/hannah/vids.html) (I like that she vids under-vidded characters, like Ford and Beckett and Bates). I also have a couple of individual vid recs, if you want them. But keep in mind that I don't know the canon, so these are the vids that are most transparent or useful to a newcomer, not the ones that are most meaningful to a canon fan.