Quoted: Anyone else not getting the Atlantis thing. I stopped watching after a few shows. Seems like they " jumped the shark " after the pilot
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Here's the plot line. After the ancients left earth a very very long time ago, due to a plague or sickness threat, they resettled the whole city of Atlantis on another planet in a different galaxy. They of course still considered earth and their homeworld. Over time the sickness subsided, and their descendants, us, reflourished and repopulated this world. Those who left with Atlantis then spent millenia advancing further and exploring their new galaxy until the encountered the wraith. They were a species nearly as powerful, far more numerous who happen to consume the life force of sentient beings as their food source. They are also really hungry. The wraith were defeating the ancients so the final survivior went back through the stargate to earth. That was 10k years ago and coincides with the dawn of the rise in our civilization.
The power sources in Atalantis are however depleated. The SG teams go through the gate trying to either find power cores or a way to build them so they can re establish two way traffic to earth. The gate network is set up so that only the Atlantis gate can dial earth. Along the way, they also seek to educate and find ways to protect the other remaining human cousins and descendants of atlantis from the now re awakened wraith.
So, you got good guys, bad guys, and alot of semi helpless folks who will be helped or harmed by one or the other. Pretty simple really. The wraith are even meaner than Goa'ulds and alot uglier.