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The other thing humanity has going for it that gets treated as special is an adaptation of new technology that others are slower to accept. The Asgard have stagnated (at a highly advanced level, but innovation is difficult for them), the Jaffa have spent millennia bound by tradition and wrestle with the cultural significance of those traditions while seeking liberation, the Goa'uld are technological scavengers, and so on. Meanwhile if SG-1 encounters something in one episode they're usually improving and weaponizing it in the next one, either directly on-screen or "that's been taken to Area 51 where they're taking it apart" or "the White House is sending as many diplomats as they can fit through the portal to negotiate for that Handwavium."
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Kurieg posted:They also genocided an entire race of gods, though it took two tries and two different superweapons to do it. Are you counting one of those as the time they locked Alien Jesus in an eternal stalemate, or does she count separate?
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Bobbin Threadbare posted:Heist movies are kind of a descendant of this kind of story since they also set up a series of challenges the protagonists have to overcome to reach their goal. Yeah, "defeat this very difficult safe combo" is not nearly as exciting as "crack the safe AND bypass the guards AND avoid the pressure plates AND swap in a forgery". And it lets the heist play to a team with various skills rather than one person who does something really well (though now that I say that, "get this one guy to the place they can do something" can be an interesting goal).
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