Stargate Atlantis Tomorrow 422
BadDream writes "I read an old slashdot article about Stargate Atlantis comming this summer. Well its summer, and guess what starts this friday." You can also enter to win a walk-on role on SG1, but I call first dibs, no cuts.
hmph. (Score:3, Funny)
Not that I'm bitter.
I feel your pain (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I feel your pain (Score:5, Funny)
I don't like Farscape, so I enjoy making fun of it to rile up the hardcore fans. Unfortunately, the common alternative is a dude with a bumpy head. So.. well shit, I wish my fav scifi shows had muppets for aliens, too.
Re:I feel your pain (Score:3, Interesting)
Hehe. Okay, you got me. I can't help but reply to this. I've been an avid science fiction reader for over 15 years. In my opinion, Firefly is easily the best science fiction that's ever been on tv, and it rivals anything that's ever been in cinema.
The "western in space" thing is an unfortunate quote from Joss Whedon, the creator, that people like you have been taking him to task for ever since. Here's the thing: every science fiction show you can name is a wes
Re:hmph. (Score:5, Insightful)
Stargate has a huge, insanely loyal following. It deserves it. I didn't discover SG1 until sometime in season 5. Once I got the dvds, I could not stop watching them. SG does such an incredible job of building upon previous storylines, it's like one continuous movie. Some of the episodes, like 'Window of Opportunity' (The time ripple), 'Upgrades' (The super-arm bands), 'Jolinar's memories'/'The Devil you know' (Sokar) are so damn good, and really funny.
In an interview with the writers on the Stargate documentary (the one they aired before season 7 premiered), one of the writers said something to the effect of "Stargate is actually a comedy, we've just managed to keep it a secret for 7 years". It really is funnier than any given sitcom. Whether that reflects greatly on the SG1 staff or just makes the recycled sitcom writers look even worse is up to you.
Re:hmph. (Score:5, Funny)
Indeed. [/Teal'C]
Re:hmph. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:hmph. (Score:5, Informative)
Also, did you even see the fan effort to bring back Daniel [savedanieljackson.com]? That was just for one character.
Yes, the test of loyalty has come and gone; SG-1 passes.
Re:hmph. (Score:3, Insightful)
I guess that's a good and bad point of TiVo, especially with DirecTV. You can't miss a show, because it'll always record it. I already have it set to keep the Atlantis shows. I won't be rushi
Re:hmph. (Score:4, Funny)
Whaddya mean, "sexual themes"? It's not like any other science fiction franchise has had to resort to coed back rubs, [celebritym...rchive.com] nubile aliens in skintight uniforms, [univie.ac.at] lesbian kisses, [stanford.edu] sex with androids [livejournal.com] or women dressed in tinfoil [sherylfranklin.com] to keep an audience....
Oh.. wait. Never mind...
Re:hmph. (Score:3, Insightful)
haven't had to resort to over sexual themes to achieve this success!
Just curious, what is wrong with over sexual themes? Lexx is one of my favorite SF shows ever and it is just one big over sexual theme. I also tend to enjoy classic Star Trek more than the newer ones just because all the classic episodes had all kinds of hoochie girls in ultra short skirts while all of the newer Star Treks are just way to god damn politically correct.
Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:4, Interesting)
It had me thinking of an Ask Slashdot question: what would you do if you won the Stargate walk-on drawing? Obviously, they're not giving some random fanboy/girl off the street a talking part, but is there something you could do to make the director's job easier? Keep your mouth shut, or be knowledgable about the show and its premise? Walk on, walk off, say goodbye... or be noticable in the scene? What could a fan of the show, given the opportunity to be ON the show, do to make the show better?
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:2)
They'd probably judge it by how good you were. I kinda feel sorry for them. They'll get some 300 pound completely geek freak that wouldn't even fit into a SGC uniform, that they couldn't even have as an SGC soldier extra.
If they were *LUCKY*, they'd get someone with at least a little acting experience and ability, but I kinda doubt it.
I'd love to get the walk-in part just for the sake of meeting the folks, and walking around the sets for a few minutes. If they'd let me talk, all the better. A
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, they are. All the filler people just standing/walking around in the background cost too much if they're all 'real' actors who have to get paid union scale. Extras are just people off the streets who have spare time, from the acting equivalent of temp worker agencies, contest winners, non-actor friends of the regular actors, etc, etc..
but is there somethi
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:3, Informative)
Yes, they are. All the filler people just standing/walking around in the background cost too much if they're all 'real' actors who have to get paid union scale. Extras are just people off the streets who have spare time, from the acting equivalent of temp worker agencies, contest winners, non-actor friends of the regular actors, etc, etc..
Actualyl most extras do
Re:Win a chance to be on an episode (Score:2)
70% Funny
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Stargate rules (Score:5, Funny)
...and last but certainly not least... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Stargate rules (Score:5, Funny)
wormhole opens!
Re:Stargate rules (Score:5, Interesting)
Do not hit golf balls through the Stargate.
Ah, one of my favorite episodes ever. I'm a little disappointed that they never used Jack O'Neill's and Teal'c knowledge of the ancient language again. They reached the point that they knew it better than Danny boy, after all, since they were effectively the ones who translated the inscriptions.
I've been patiently waiting for Mr. Jackson to start struggling with a translation and Jack walk up and say "No, that's 'keep your arms and legs inside the tram car while gating'" then look over to Teal'c for his confirmation, where he'd get the little head nod and "indeed."
But thats just me :^D
Re:Stargate rules (Score:2)
Mostly.... Don't you just love paradoxes?
Re:Stargate rules (Score:4, Insightful)
No, this very specifically is not what happened. The Tokra made a comment becoming concerned that they could not reach Earth, and were becoming concerned enough that they almost sent a ship to investigate. So Earth and everywhere else involved "snapped back" to the present. It was the download knowledge of the Ancients that was erased from Jack's brain; this was learned naturally.
Mostly I just love how the series blindly ignores these paradoxes with a wave of the hand, and occasionally a wink. We got more entertaining things to do that come up with midiclorian theories. Stuff just is.
Re:Stargate rules (Score:3, Interesting)
SG-1 does a pretty good job of this overall. It's not perfect (most recent pet peeve: A planet rich in neutronium... yeah, sure!), but only a masochist still expects perfection from a TV series. It does as well a
Re:Stargate rules (Score:3, Informative)
First, I don't think any Sci Fi show is realistic, that wasn't my point. A Sci-Fi show establishes its universe; Magic is real, communism works, Reagan caused the fall of the Soviet Union, whatever. Once it establishes this "reality", it should try to remain consistent with it. I don't care that Zat guns stun with one shot, kill with two, and make things disappear with three. Thems the rules, don't bore me with how Steinbe
Re:Stargate rules (Score:4, Informative)
Most officers aren't exactly stupid.. Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe you must have a bachlors degree to get any sort of officer rank, no matter how talented you may be. Being dumb, and playing dumb are two different things. For example, walk into my office when I don't want to cooperate and ask me anything. I may have forgotten even my own name. Sometimes it's safer to be like that. Dumb people don't know anything and aren't worth bothering for information. Not so smart people get bothered all the time. Playing dumb has helped me out of plenty of situations. I don't know anything unless I want to.
Ok, so O'Neill doesn't have a grasp of astrophysics, (or plays like he doesn't). No one's going to ask him to do anything like fix a DHD. But he is responsible for being a military leader, so he does that effectively. You've never seen him trying to figure out which end is the working end of a P90.
The show would be pretty boring if every alien spoke a different language. Every conversation would be through Jackson, and that'd get old *REALLY* quick. Well, it would have been harder for that year that he was dead too.
Re:Stargate rules (Score:5, Insightful)
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But just as I still recognize a little French here and there from time to time, I would expect them to say something once or twice, like reco
Re:Stargate rules (Score:5, Funny)
"That would be bad", as Egon might say?
Forget the Goa'uld (Score:3, Informative)
Do not invite the goa'uld over for 'tea.'
Once you see the Pilot, I think you'll find that you ought not to invite the Wraith over for tea either... these pics might show you:
Eating time. [gateworld.net]
After eating [gateworld.net] (or whatever has happened to the poor bloke).
Re:Stargate rules (Score:4, Funny)
SG-1 Continuity? (Score:3, Interesting)
This looks like a great place to pick up the series, but i have to ask all you SG-1 fans... how friendly do you think Atlantis will be towards new viewers?
First post?
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Informative)
From what I know, during the premier they get off to Atlantis, and then goof up and get themselves stuck there - it's mostly autonomous from the original show. I do recommend you hunt down the Stargate Atlantis Lowdown on bittorrent or something (it aired last week) that should bring you up to speed on what's happening with the main Stargate storyline and universe. They're spending their time in another galaxy, no Gua'uld, new bad guys, new stuff going down. Should be fun :)
One of the things the writers mention is that for it to work as simultaneous shows, the one thing they _don't_ want to be doing often is invite the crew from show B to save the guys on show A. Regardless which show is A and which is B.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:4, Interesting)
I don't think that's right. I've seen previews where Doctor Weir is telling the troops that they're not sure if they can get back, but they're going to find new technologies to defend Earth. I think the idea is that SGC will occasionally open a wormhole and they'll exchange data via radio.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:3, Informative)
So as they don't have the power readily available in the Pegasus
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:3, Informative)
Wasn't destroyed, the SGC was just unable to ever getting it working again until later when they were contacted from another universe by Dr. Carter and one of the guys who was killed in the original episode.
They brought it to the other universe and it was used to dial the Asgard to save the planet from Apophis.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:3, Insightful)
actually, the problem is that it takes so much energy to get them from earth to the new gate, that they have no idea whether the other gate will support it coming back the other way.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:2, Interesting)
Someone else made the comment that you can figure out 90% of what's going on just by watching one show. I disagree. I got into SG-1 in about the 4t
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:4, Interesting)
--To me, what makes SG1 work:
Richard Anderson (O'Neill)
Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter)
(To a lesser extent)
The hot doctor - Teryl Rothery (Doc Frasier is now dead, unforch)
Teal'c
Dr. Daniel Jackson (Michael Shanks)
General Hammond (Don S. Davis)
--Without *any* of the "original crew" (Hey, how about bringing Kurt Russell or French Stewart into Atlantis?) signing on, it's a 50/50 chance the show will struggle. IIRC, they had to bring Michael Dorn (Worf) onto DS9 before the ratings started to climb back up.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:3, Interesting)
I must say that I MUCH prefer this method of watching/paying for TV. Screw commercials and schedules-- I want everything on my own terms, in high quality, from now on. Now if only they'd start doing releases on the same day as the show first runs or the movie opens, I'd be very happy.
But I digress. Netflix, for $20/month, will get you through the first six seasons (they don't have
Something is missing here... (Score:2)
If you mean "you're putting your DivX on Bittorrent," no. I'm too lazy for that. And if I wasn't, I'd use xvid.
If you mean "You're paying for your own DivX Bittorret," it's sorta like that, except I get non-recompressed DVD quality, minus all the illegalness.
If you mean something even more bizarre, like "I'm paying for bittorrent with DivX" or "You're playing your DivX on Bittorrent,"
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm worried that I'm not going to like Atlantis, though. One of the things I liked about SG-1 was the characters seemed much more "real." Take a look at the Atlantis cast and they all look like Hollywood pretty boys (and girls). On SG-1, well, there's Richard Dean Anderson, who looks pretty much like a normal guy. His character jokes around too much for a Colonel in the Air Force (B. General, now, actually). Before they made him start working out and cut his hair, Michael Shanks did look like a befuddled scientist. Amanda Tapping is cute, but not exactly a starlet. Chris Judge looks big and mean, and has a misshapen head (Don't tell him I said that!). The dude who plays General Hammond is probably one of the best charicatures of career military on TV.
Now flash foward to Atlantis. The leader is a slender civilian woman with high cheekbones. The military commander has spiked hair, and looks like he's just about old enough to have finished basic. Then there's the Atlantean chick who looks like a bit character from Xena: Warrior Princess. It just seems fake... It reminds of one of the best episodes of SG-1, in which Jack (Anderson's character) served "undercover" as a technical adviser on a TV show that seemed too similar to the real Stargate project so he could find out what was going on. They called the fake show "Wormhole Xtreme!" and it was loaded with bad acting, casting, cheap sets, and cliches. I'm afraid Atlantis is going to be the real Wormhole Xtreme!
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Insightful)
The role of Samantha Carter (played by Amanda Tapping [imdb.com]) is a great boost to women. WE NAMED OUR DAUGHTER 'CARTER' AFTER HER (and the president).
I recognize that they give Carter too many responsibilities (being uber-brilliant and super-soldier). My wife commented that they got rid of the Dr. Janet Frasier (played by Teryl Rothery [imdb.com]) to make sure the show wasn't too heavy with women in top positions, that would be threatening.
I doubt my wife is correct, but she makes a good point. Are they going to replace and add characters to regain the male / female balance on this show?
One of the PREMIER COOL things that shows like Stargate do, IMHO, is allow stodgey males (young and old) to VIEW women soldiers, and thus experience them as highly capable, rough-and-tumble, smart, and fallible human beings.
Just seeing a woman in a role allows you to change your preconceptions of what roles people should be in. That goes for having a handicapped person (amputee, maybe) working in the SGC as a technician. The part would be small, in the background, but it would make a big difference in how people saw people with physical limitations.
The original Star Trek put a black woman in a senior leadership position (Lieuntenant Uhura, communications officer, okay, it isn't a huge department, but it's important, and it's on the bridge). That redefined what was possible for black women both on TV and off.
I hope Stargate continues to push boundaries and explore what we perceive as normal.
Of course, they could just ignite a firestorm and introduce a Gua'ould named Jesus. Or another namd 'Moshe' (Moses). Or another named, 'Siddhartha'. Or 'Mohammed'. I would recommend they stay out of that territory, though, there'd be LOTS of pushback from their fanbase and zealots alike.
-- Kevin J. Rice
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Insightful)
Personally, I'd like it if they did this. It'd make more sense that these religious figures were actually aliens than the superstitious BS that organized religions ask us to believe.
Re:SG-1 Continuity? (Score:5, Informative)
The problem is that it wouldn't work in terms of the story. The mythologies the Gau'ould pretended to be are ancient...like 3000 B.C. and earlier. In the movie, Ra first came to the Egyptians in 8000B.C. This is all far back enough in time, with few written records, that the acts of these "gods" could be written off to superstitions and what not. That's really not the case with Jesus and Mohammed, who existed only 2000 (or 1400) years ago. I think I've got that right...Mohammed was around in 600AD, right? There are too many written records from those times, that the acts of the Gua'ould would be well-known.
Anyway, I also don't think the stories would mesh well, either. I don't seem to recall any stories about Jesus killing people with a flick of his hand or commanding people worship him or be destroyed. If the Stargate writers did something like this, it would seem like a stretch and a gimmick, as the story of Jesus is nothing like the stories of the angry, vengeful gods of ancient mythologies.
Actually... (Score:5, Interesting)
Jesus would be an interesting character to do. Look at the old testament, lots to pick from there... fall from Paradise (forbidden knowledge about the Gau'ould), destroying whole cities (Sodoma and Gomorra), tower of Babel (slaves uniting and revolting?). Sounds like the work of a Gau'ould to me. From afar, he played with them like toys. Oh and don't forget the chosen people with Abraham. Particular breed of human hosts?
Then something big happened. Make up a good story. Senile like Lord Hu, had a "religious experience", touched by the Ancients, take your pick. Or better yet, Jesus is the human host after the parasite died. He still commands the Gau'ould devices to perform "miracles", but is the good guy. He regrets all that has been done in the past, and tries to take on all human sin as absolution.
Of course, you're about to screw up the whole trinity thing (with the Holy Ghost being some Gau'ould magic), rewrite the Bible since Creation, claim that neither "God" nor Jesus is of the divine, that Christianity is worshipping an evil alien and a plain human and that the Jews are equally wrong too. Oh, and the muslims will be pissed already, since they claim to decend from Abraham too. Any more we could piss off?
[Keeping asbestous suit on]
New Slashdot tag line? (Score:4, Funny)
This is what confused me... (Score:3, Funny)
I mean, I don't know about you, but without McGyver it just won't be the same.
Re:This is what confused me... (Score:5, Funny)
Your nerd privileges have been revoked. You must now go hang out with the jocks.
Re:This is what confused me... (Score:5, Funny)
Your nerd privileges have been revoked. You must now go hang out with the jocks.
It's not _that_ bad. He should just have to hang out with the Band geeks, and learn their lingo before returning.
- Ombrurshure
- 8th position trombone
- 26-inch step
- split reed
- 7th-grade oboe
- bassoon strap
- 2nd chair blues
- tight embrasure
After all, the jocks don't respect nerds, but band geeks cross many high school subcultures [wikipedia.org].If the writers at Sci-Fi's Stargate shows understood their target audiences, they would feature many references to the above and other in-jokes from high school subcultures that could be dropped in to make for greater entertainment value.
Re:This is what confused me... (Score:5, Informative)
So... seriously was the whole ignorance thing supposed to be funny, or was it just the belief that Richard Dean Anderson actually is McGyver (who I'd like to mention was extremely anti-gun, unlike Jack.)
You ruined the whole sries for me! (Score:2, Funny)
SciFi's Battlestar Galactica (Score:2, Offtopic)
Re:SciFi's Battlestar Galactica (Score:3, Informative)
Love the commercials (Score:2, Redundant)
Re:Love the commercials (Score:3, Interesting)
I also liked the people who do the flips across the stage and carter and teal'c flip the pads over to show 10's.
On a side note, did anybody else notice that in the "pumper" for "New Order" they stated that "Finally the replicators will be destroyed". Needless to say, not only did the replicators get away, but it looks as though they've become even more distructive since it looks as though they've become se
Sorry... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Sorry... (Score:2)
someone is forcing him to see Catwoman.... oh god.... oh god no!!!!!! its torture!!!!
a walk on role? (Score:3, Funny)
thank you, ill be here all week. don't forget to tip your waitress
Re:a walk on role? (Score:2, Funny)
staring - To look directly and fixedly, often with a wide-eyed gaze
starring - To play the leading role in a theatrical or film production
So yeah, a staring role would probably be what you get as a consolation prize. You and everyone watching at home.
Re:a walk on role? (Score:3, Insightful)
Now I know what I will be Torrenting on Saturday. (Score:2, Funny)
Is there a TVAA?
I'm bummed dudes (Score:5, Funny)
*looks around* What am I doing still posting on /.
*grabs keys*
Re:I'm bummed dudes (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I'm bummed dudes (Score:4, Funny)
BTW, 'Netflix' is your friend. And any gaming habits can continue only if you're wearing headphones. If you're ambitious, you'll learn to rock the baby with one foot while fragging aliens at 3am.
The good news is that if you're an attentive dad, you're gonna be busy and having enough fun that you won't big-M *MISS* these shows. You just won't see them anytime soon.
(Heh... Call her a cab... I'm still laughing about that reply. While you're at it, call and reserve yourself a bed at the morgue).
Obligatory Lame OT buster: Did I mention Stargate on DVD has some cool supporting material? Lots and LOTS of commentary, featurettes, etc.
Re:I'm bummed dudes (Score:5, Funny)
Also, why doesn't this guy have a laptop with wifi?
Otherwise, you'll be in there holding her hand and she'll be all like "I can't believe you made me have this f*ing baby, you bastard!". Then there's the squeezing your hand until it looks like a turnip.
Just imagine how happy his wife will be when she's like "Honey, it's a girl!" and he responds with "Honey, I got a +5 funny!!!"
And me without my own uniform (Score:4, Informative)
Damn, they're surely gonna kick me out of the club now.
Re:And me without my own uniform (Score:4, Funny)
Is it just me... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Is it just me... (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Is it just me... (Score:2)
Feh! (Score:5, Insightful)
I still want Crusade [scifi.com] back. :(
Re:Or (Score:4, Funny)
Spoiler! (Score:3, Funny)
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ST's Brannon and Braga sent through Stargate (Score:5, Funny)
The trip was actually an elaborate plan by a group of serious Star Trek fans -- fans who only wish that their franchise would have as much life again as the Stargate franchise appears to enjoy.
Brannon and Braga were "invited" to the "set" of Stargate SG-1 under the pretense of a review of the show's innovative special effects. In reality, the Star Trek fans begged the Stargate crew to actually build a REAL Stargate and send the duo out to the far reaches of our known galaxy, where they met the REAL G'hould (sp?) enemy depicted in the show.
According to reports from the set, the two reported back from the other side of the REAL working gate, pretty much screaming their asses off and begging to be sent back. After being ass-whipped by a lesser G'hould god named Lohr Atana (a.k.a. Frank the Destroyer), the Butchers of ST were sent back through the G'hould Stargate to Earth -- without a GDO.
Had Brannon and Braga actually ever shown an ounce of consistency with some of their ST storylines, they would've remembered such key AND CONSISTENT plot elements as the GDO, the code, the iris, etc. and asked for a GDO transmitter before being sent through the Stargate.
The last "communication" ST fans at the Stargate SG-1 set had with Brannon and Braga was the dull thud of their bodies slapping up against an improvised iris on the REAL Stargate. A few minutes later, the Stargate was reactivated, and Frank the Destroyer sent a handwritten note asking the crew to never send idiots like that to his domain again or suffer enslavement at the yada, yada, evil bad guy bullshit talk, yada.
After the REAL Stargate was dismantled (at the request of SCI-FI CHANNEL lawyers insistent on not actually allowing Frank the Destroyer free access to Earth and our solar system), the cast and crew of Stargate SG-1 treated the elated ST fans to a catered party and autograph session.
Plans are in the works to have the ST: Enterprise crew find a Stargate in the third season of the poorly rated show so they can travel back through time and save themselves from cancellation. Brad Wright, of Stargate fame, will direct the pilot episode of Stargate ST-1: Enterprise.
Gay-ass pop music will NOT be used in the title sequence and credits of the revamped show. Some of the ST fans at the SG-1 set have vowed to send the guy that sings the current theme song through the REAL Stargate as well. They are negotiating rights for a legal transfer of liability for said Stargate with SCI-FI CHANNEL lawyers.
IronChefMorimoto
Sorry but it'll suck (Score:3, Insightful)
And the villans, these wraith things. Are we really to believe these creatures who killed the ancients are stupid enough for a lesser lifeform (humans) to fool like what happens to teh Ghou'ld every week. Come on now. At least tehy were parasites.
Quick question.... (Score:3, Interesting)
Was anybody else bothered by the fact that Dr. Elizabeth Weir was played at the end of the 7th season by a different actress? All the character development was done by Jessica Steen, who did a bang up job with a hard role to play, so much so that a lot of us were really looking forward to seeing her in SG:A. Now they bring in a replacement, Torri Higginson, who looks and acts nothing like Jessica Steen. I don't know the reasons behind it, but they should have cast somebody in the first place they were happy with and wanted the role. Having the actress swap created major cognitive dissonance for me watching the 8th season opener - from a purely aesthetic perspective, I could barely stand to watch Higginson, she didn't play the same character at all that Steen played.
Anyway, I don't mean to sound like a fanboy bitch, I'm not a nutcase zealot about this stuff. I just think this issue was not handled well by the show producers. Maybe I am noticing it in particular because they usually handle these kinds of things so well on SG1 that it's one of the few sci-fi shows that I find easy to achieve suspension of disbelief with. Please, SG1 production team, don't do this to us again. I just hope going into SG:A that Higginson does a better job developing this character, or I don't know how I'll be able to watch the show.
As it is, I'm desperately afraid that Teal'c with a fuzzy head and O'Neill in charge of SGC is going to fundamentally change the 8th season for the worse. Come on guys, remember what happened when you tried to kill off Michael Shanks? Did anybody like that season?
Alright, now I've gotten this off my chest. I hope Season 8 is as good as SG1 has generally been and I hope that SG:A doesn't sully the name with a crappy spinoff.
Re:Submission practices (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Submission practices (Score:2, Funny)
You must be using Firefox, as I've heard it fails at rendering invalid HTML.
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Re:Correction (Score:3, Funny)
Accidents happen? Nope. Not to grammar nazi's
Re:Correction (Score:3, Funny)
Now, since you're just begging to be grammatically corrected, the word should be "Nazis." Its a proper noun, and is plural, not possessive. =P (And yeah, you also forgot a period.) All in good fun =)
Re:Correction (Score:2)
There we go; I closed the tag on that one.
And I'm a grammar nazi, not an HTML-strict Nazi.
Re:Correction (Score:2, Funny)
As in my personal opinion: Sheesh I can't stand you damn grammer nazis!
Re:Correction (Score:4, Funny)
Grammar.
Re:That link has flash (Score:5, Informative)
This doesn't look very promising, imho.
-s4xton
Biased review (Score:5, Insightful)
There's very little difference in storytelling or production quality between SG1 and crap like Andromeda? I beg to differ. SG1 has a bigger budget than a lot of other made-for-cable properties. It also got its start on Showtime, so they had a good seed to start with -- freedom to do storylines that you couldn't get away with on basic cable channels, money to make good sets and props, etc. SG1 also has a lot of very competent people writing for it, and does a much better job of preserving continuity than even shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation and its follow-ons.
OK, so this writer is apparently confused enough that he doesn't understand, or care to understand, the internal reality of the show. Fuel? But in addition to that, he takes a swipe at an entire genre of fiction, showing an incredible bias that should have recused him from writing this article in the first place. And what, pray tell, is dumb about a scenario in which scientists and explorers go on a one-way mission? It's been done before, and has been proposed seriously for manned missions to other planets in our own solar system. But since all of science fiction is apparently "silly," any ideas it puts forth must not be worth taking seriously.
Never mind that science fiction has predicted technologies decades in advance of their introduction.
WTF? Seriously, WTF? An inventive mythology has never been the strongest element of the Stargate universe? Gee, that's funny, since the show (and the movie it's based upon) has all of the collective mythology of the entire human race to draw upon, blended together with a sprinkling of SciFi concepts to make something new and (somewhat) original. I'd like to see what this author's idea is of a truly inventive mythology.
And yeah, I know, there's better SciFi out there, most of it in print form, stuff that's really mind-blowing (and some stuff that simply can't be done on SG1's budget, which is why the good SF books never make it to the small screen, let alone the big screen). But I sincerely doubt that this author has read/seen any of that material.
I wouldn't be basing my opinions of Atlantis on the scribblings of one mentally stunted writer from a podunk newspaper who tacitly admits in the first three paragraphs that he despises science fiction.
Mod this guy up, he's right. (Score:3, Insightful)
I don't know why on earth someone that obviously doesn't like Sci-Fi in general would even think about reviewing a Sci-Fi show. And he doesn't even *attempt* to hide it.
I think that SG-1 is one of the most well thought out Sci-Fi shows ever, if not THE most. The continuity is unmatched, the 'world' of SG-1 is believable and ties in very creatively to ancient human history.
The character development has been really top-notch, and the actors have done an excellent job in the last seven yea
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Re:Boycott Stargate... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:So? (Score:2, Insightful)
I've never found any compelling reason to watch movies or television, aside from entertainment value. Even informational programming, such as documentaries, is much more lightweight in content richness than a book on the subject.