Stargate continuity

[watervole]

I'm starting to remember why  I gave up on this novel. I started writing when Stargate had only five seasons, and the more extra seasons that were broadcast, the harder it got to write for the series.  Not only did I get Jossed, but the internal continuity of the series got so mind-bogglingly complex that it became impossible to navigate, or to research fully.

I'm just struggling with the concept of a half-ascended being (Anubis).  What exactly does that mean?  Can he be killed?

Suggestions?  I thought of a way of getting the System Lords to unite against him, but can I actually kill him...

The good bit is that Scriviner (which I have just bought after trialling it) makes it massively easier to organise plot threads and keep track of all the characters.

Comments

[kerravonsen]

I remember us discussing this years ago, and I vaguely recall that we touched on the possibility that Anubis wasn't half-ascended, but half-descended. And that it was his host that was the ascended part.

[watervole]

Wouldn't work. Got Jossed by an episode in which Oma da Sala has to battle the ascended part of Anubis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(Stargate_SG-1)

I don't think I've ever watched that far into the series.

[kerravonsen]

Well, if all else fails, you could declare that you are ignoring later continuity because you started writing the story before any of that had happened. I know it's preferable to take ALL canon into account, but sometimes it's not possible, especially when canon itself is inconsistent.

[watervole]

I'm considering that approach. The whole half-ascended thing is stupid, so I may just state that I'm ignoring it. And I may ingnore Oma being able to ascend other people, because that's daft too.

[cdybedahl]

In the show, Anubis could not be killed. At all. He ended up locked in eternal combat with Oma Desala (the Ascended who helped Daniel).

[watervole]

In it's later seasons (and in some early episodes come to that), the show came up with some incredibly stupid concepts. (I still remember the episode where Sam calmly added two new, non-radioactive, elements to the periodic table)

Given that ascension (early on at least) was supposed to be a totally enlightened state of being, the idea of being able to ascend other people or to be half-ascended, is daft.

I wonder if I can get away with simply stating that in my personal universe people are either ascended or not and for the purposes of this story (which is rooted in the fifth season before Daniel ascended), Anubis is just a very powerful system lord and not ascended in any way.