I love this whole series and have binged it dozens of times, but it requires a tremendous amount of willing suspension of common sense disbelief. How is it that humans, apparently either taken from earth thousands of years before the earliest forms of English language were spoken, or independently evolved in a whole other galaxy after separate creation by the ancients, are miraculously able to converse in modern English with the Earthlings. For that matter, how the hell do wraith, an entirely different species who didn't even know earth existed, naturally speak fluent English? Nobody even has an accent except for the occasional Jersey, New York, or even British accent. Oh, and then there's Michael the wraith/human hybrid with a west Texas accent? Star Trek overcame this anacrony via the "universal translator". No such mechanism exists in the SG1/SGA universe.
Then, how do they come up with 27-30 year old military colonels and apparent leaders in the medical and scientific fields? That just doesn't exist in real life, and is even a difficult sell in fiction. 25 year old Jewel Staite's character of Keller is likable enough, but unbelievable as a supposed "best and brightest" experienced leader in the medical field.
And how do most of these civilizations have clothing styles that parallel western earth societal norms?
Its a fun show, but you'd think the writers would have built something into the cannon to cover all of this.
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