Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season 430
An anonymous reader writes "Farscape may or may not have been cancelled [does anyone know?], and Enterprise is so politically correct I can barely bring myself to watch it, but with MacGyver onboard, it looks like Stargate SG-1 will be back for a seventh season."
Enterprise politically correct? (Score:4, Informative)
Really? I've just started watching them and feel it's no where near as PC as TNG or Voyager. I guess if you compare it to something like Firefly... OK.
Just how bad is Andromeda?!?! Or is just me who thinks it's shite?
Cool, I just found out... (Score:5, Informative)
andromeda sucks goatse.cx (Score:3, Informative)
The reason Wolfe was fired was because Sorbo (Hercules) thought that he was too smart and that the Andromeda should be made more episodic and less about science-fiction and story arcs. Now it's about Dylan Hunt, Hercules of space.
The cool characters like Rev Bem, Tyr, Trance, etc have been discarded or destroyed in favour of Sorbo.
Re:Question about SG TV series (Score:2, Informative)
in fact, it's almost as much of a story arc as babylon 5, except that they are making up as they go along.
It's alot like star trek, with a little more action, just as much moral debate, and probably just as much drama.
Re:Question about SG TV series (Score:5, Informative)
Helpful Links (Score:1, Informative)
Posted anonymously so I don't get marked as karma whore.
Re:Question about SG TV series (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Aah.. MacGyver.. (Score:2, Informative)
Heck and they even make McGuyver-inspired flat-rolls of it you can stick in your pocket now--they're quite useful, too!
Re:Question about SG TV series (Score:5, Informative)
It doesn't really have a strong arc in that if you miss an episode you're lost for weeks. There's a few arch enemy races that are always lurking ready to pop up into some episode. There good aliens too who help out, sometimes.
They avoid "techno-bable" by just accepting that there are aliens out there who make cool stuff we humans just can't understand. "We don't know how that works," is a frequent line.
Another key success factor is the great cast. Anderson gets some great one-liners and brings a good dose of humour to the show. Tapping and Shanks are totally convincing as the shows eggheads. The supporting cast could easily lead in their own series.
I sure the show syndicated because there's money to be made.
Re:Good! (Spoiler?) (Score:5, Informative)
That episode is a 'time loop' episode...not only do they play golf though the stargate, but at one point Jack starts tossing some balls...then cuts to the next day...Jack and Teal'k are both tossing balls up in the air...cut again, and they're juggling perfectly. It's absolutely hilarious.
That episode is one of the all time best...the plot is, basically, that they need to learn an alien language to figure out how to stop the time loop Jack and Teal'k (Actually, the entire planet, and a few other planets are caught in a screwed up time travel experiment, but only Jack, Teal'k, and one other guy know it.) are caught in...but Daniel can't deciper an entire language in the eight hours or so the time loop is over...so Jack and Teal'k have to learn it. Which learns to a great scene where Jack corrects Daniel on some obscure alien language point.
And the straight forward time travel cliche episode was funny, too. it's called '1969', and that should give you some clue as to why it's funny.
Re:Where? (Score:1, Informative)
WGN, late morning. (don't remember the exact time, sorry.)
Re:There are several good reasons for no machine g (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Good! (Score:3, Informative)
2. Nope. The splash forms, takes out a load of rock/dirt/whatever but when you go through where are you going to go. You're underground and you can't go back. (They did an episode on this). If you fall back into the event horizon of an outgoing gate you die. Gates are one way (Except for the bizarre first episode but we'll forgive them for that.)
3. They activate the iris after the gate has formed but before people come through. When people do come through they hit the iris very, very fast. The SGC has had practice at identifying people based on the smears left over on the iris.
Leave Harry Blackmun alone (Score:2, Informative)