Rihards Online

So I watched Atlantis – The Return Part 2 a few days ago, while it’s a pretty good episode over all, one thing has been nagging me ever since, and probably will for a while. It’s Teyla Emmagan, one of the characters that I actually like in Atlantis, even though she was labelled as the Teal’c of Atlantis, which is fair enough, there are quite a few similarities between the two characters. But there are also many things that set them apart, and a female character never hurts(I bet Star Trek fans will have something to say about this and Voyager).

That is what has been nagging me. Time and time again the producers and writers love doing things to characters that don’t really make sense. And they do it to appeal to a wider audience, so you must have super stunts, and all sorts of action sequences with unrealistic and “rad” moves. First we find out that Teyla happens to be an opera singer and now she turns out to be a Trinity from the Matrix trilogy re-incarnate? Do we really need this?

While I don’t really have anything against good action sequences. I actually love them, but do them when it makes sense, and how it makes sense. What we see here doesn’t build her character at all, it demolishes it, as it stands right now, I wouldn’t really care if they got rid of that character in the next episode, and bring in someone new.

The writers and producers should really watch some BSG and bring in some character development from there. I really wish there was more character development in Atlantis. They don’t have to turn it into a scifi drama show, but some character development would go a long way to improve the show.

Played some more Gothic 3 today. Until today I hadn’t really though much about this, but the inventory system is really funny in Gothic 3. Well maybe funny isn’t the right word, but with the items that I currently have in my inventory I could arm a whole army, I’d just need to find people for it.

You see, Gothic 3 doesn’t have any limit on how much you can carry in your inventory unlike certain other games. Each to his own of course, realists will say that that isn’t realistic and that you should only be able to carry this many items, or this much weight in total based on your character’s strength or whatever. But nah, not me, I find this system of carrying as much as you want great.

My character right now after a few hours of playing has(and this is after selling almost every single item I didn’t need, to be able to buy the paladin armour), 113 shields, 145 swords, 2,087 arrows, 1,633 crossbow bolts, 289 orc axes, 203 orc swords, 28 axes, 30 pikes, 35 magic rings, 17 magic amulets, 118 magic scrolls, 817 bottles of booze, 103 bottles of wine, 1,341 potion ingredients, 408 food items(fried meat, ham, and other foodstuff), 159,000 gold pieces, 73 gold and silver cups, 478 animal trophies of various sorts. Talk about enough stuff here for arming, feeding and paying for an army.

One funny thought did occur to me while thinking about this and Gothic 3 mods, someone ought to make a mod that takes all your inventory items and sticks them around your character. Much like in Katamari Damacy and instead of walking your character would roll around.