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Stargate SG-1 Gets A Seventh Season
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."
The best science fiction shows on television never seem to make it... I suppose I just have an odder taste than most.
Since the show sucks now that they killed off Daniel. Oh well, it was good until then. I'm guessing this will probably be it's last season.
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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?
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Farscape is still cancelled, but some people are trying to save it, and the jury is still out. It's a dead man (show) walkin' but it's not over till the switch is thrown.
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I havent sat down and watched an episode of SG-1 yet. Seeing MacGyver without his mullet just un-nerves me.
That means we'll probably have to wait yet another year for the MacGyver Reunion Special, or the Richard Dean Anderson E! True Hollywood Story. Oh well, I guess there's always of catching him on the old reruns of General Hospital on Soap Network.
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Hi,
I have never watched this show but am curious how it compares to the Star Trek and Babylon 5 series in that does it have a story arc and continuity between each episode? I think the show started on the Showtime network, didn't it? How did it become syndicated?
Thanks.
for those of us that did not watch it from the get-go, it did not make much sense.
that is the best way to guarantee your show will have a short run: confuse the new viewers.
Farscape was super cool for a season or two when they really did romp around the universe and see what was out there.
Unfortunately near the end it degenerated into self-introspection and self-pitty that was made two billion times more annoying for criton's (sp) whining, indignant yelling.
If they could fire the writers and get people who had imagination and drive to explore the incredibly vast universe then sure, bringing farscape back would be a great thing. But as it stands now, it's a mercy killing, putting it down before it becomes a parody of itself and another star trek universe where they're more interested in psycoanalyzing everything than exploring.
Rumors have it that in the 1st episode of Stargate next season, MacGyver builds a new stargate out of three tablets of XTC and a paper clip, and Kurt Russel (from the original StarGate movie) comes back as Tango and gives MacGyver some Cash.
Best of all, the show has a memory... every episode takes into account EVERYTHING that has happened in previous episodes, something that happens in real life but rarely happens on TV. Looks like the Enterprise people are starting to understand that... pity they haven't figured out how to write interesting stories, though.
I had my doubts about Michael Shanks leaving, but the show doesn't seem to have suffered. I'm very, very pleased that it's continuing... but I hope that the producers will have the good sense to pull the plug when they start to run out of steam.
--Larry
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
Just wait long enough; eventually we will begin to see photon guns made out of chewing gum and rubber bands....
Besides perhaps Firefly, SG-1 is the best sci-fi show on TV. ALthough I certainly hope they bring Daniel back somehow after they killed him.
Firefly in my book is the sleeper hit of the season by the creator of Buffy, and it has only gotten better with each of its first five episodes. Unfortunately, ratings continue to dwindle. Nielsons for first 4 eps have been in order: 4.0, 3.6, 3.3 and 2.7 for the "Jaynestown" ep after a two-week gap. Folks, this is bad. USA Today ran an article on droopy shows on Wed Oct 23 which had a Firefly photo and wrote it up pretty good; also Robert Bianco who writes up the USA TV stuff has given Firefly two recommendations this week, one in an article about which shows to watch at what time during the week and also on last Fri's "Best Picks" box over the TV schedule. If this press didn't help "Out of Gas" when the ratings come out next Wed, then that title may be prophetic....(sniff). This show is TOO GOOD to let this happen!!! Watch it!!! Spread the word about it!!!
Look at it this way: do you think that a phenomenon like Doctor Who (which ran for about 30 YEARS) would ever happen in North America? Only the Beeb would think of doing that (and THEY had to stand up to Mary Whitehouse and her censorshit brigade).
No, here in the land of Hollywierded entertainment, if it isn't a smash success within it's first week it gets canned. If it is too 'cerebral' (meaning the viewer has to remember what happened the week before) it gets dumbed down. That doesn't quite explain how the X-Files survived, but in general it's a good rule of thumb.
The best TV sci-fi doesn't happen in north america. American execs don't have the balls to tell a good story.
Enterprise is so politically correct I can barely bring myself to watch it
Yeah if you want a good idea of how overly PC that show is, this season of enterprise had the first mention of actually GOING TO THE BATHROOM (on the minefield episode) ever on star trek.
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You can get Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD.
according to this websight http://www.farscapeworld.com/helpfarscape.shtml
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Andromeda is total shite. It has become Hercules in Space and any depth to the show was destroyed when they fired Wolfe.
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.
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I think the writing in Firefly is really good, but the setting is crap. They put too many western elements in it. I guess they were going for an origional setting, something to set it apart from the other sci-fi shows.
But I grimace every time I see someone pull out an ancient six shooter. Funny thing though is that they do some things really right. I love how in space there is no sound.
someone picks up Farscape although stores like this make me lose hope.
I think SG-1 has more of a "formula" than Farscape... and as another poster mentioned it is great how true to past episodes they are. They never break the "SG-1 Reality".
Farscape on the other hand is much more on the edge. The first couple seasons were pure genius but honestly this season felt more like the writers were making things up as they went. The best series have some kind of continuity. Anyone have any idea what changed?
Anyone else head about this? Apparantly theres some new saturday morning cartoon called Stargate Infinity, i just got the first ep off kazza, but i havn't been bored enough to watch it cuz the quality is shite. Speaking of shitty quality anyone else seen the pilot for firefly? Why didn't they air that!?!??
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
Farscape is/was uneven from episode to episode, but the good ones were amazing. Soooo many TV shows are just plain mediocre, with nary a flash of brilliance. Also, Farscape was the first strong break with the threadbare Star Trek straitjacket to make it on the air. I loved the substitution of largely organic technology for electrical, and was rather fond of Moia (in a platonic way). Aeryn's cool, too. Trek never really pulled it off I think with strong female characters, so rare in scifi.
... I just keep expecting him to "leap," you know?
I'm surprised to hear of the cancellation, but true it is -- see the horse's mouth. However, I doubt it's dead. Farscape has the backing of the brand-name Jim Henson Company, a great premise (IMHO), and a solid library of four years that breaks the magic 88-episode threshold needed for successful post-series syndication.
I bet they'll go to syndication, as all the modern Treks have done, and maybe even score a better channel than SciFi, which can have John Edward for all I care (gag). Keep an eye on UPN. The Farscape season was not set to start until February, being from Australia and all, so there's time.
Enterprise is in its childhood. TNG was VILE for its first three seasons and would have rightfully died if not for the intervention of the Borg and a stunning season-end cliffhanger ("Best of Both Worlds"). I think it will show some decent character development, and I appreciate that they've deprived themselves of 3/4 of the technology that yielded too many pat technobabble solutions on shows like Voyager. Scott Bakula annoys me, but I guess I can get used to him
Yes, I watch too much TV, but mostly science fiction.
"that is the best way to guarantee your show will have a short run: confuse the new viewers."
Makes you wonder why the broadcast industry's so anti-Tivo, doesn't it?
First season was cool and funny... but as soon as they changed the title theme from cool riffs done by the guy from Rush to the "Hercules in Space" orchestral wailings... everything else seemed to begin to suck as well. My understanding was that some of the good creative talent was kicked out. Can't watch it anymore.
Enterprise
The captain strikes me as whiny... I prayed for the dog to die in one of the more recent episodes. But a lot of the episodes have a cool spooky atmosphere.
Odyssey 5
The science sucks... but the dialog is great. "Praise Jesus... and fuck you."
Firefly ... except... I do like how every explosion in space is not accompanied by these nifty sound effects that noone should hear. I also like how the captain has no objection to just outright killing defenseless bad guys.
Great funny dialog... poor science... (Still using gunpowder, but somehow they have excellent gravity generators and inertial dampeners)
Farscape
I loved the show... but it seemed to go down hill in the fourth. The end of the second season was fantastic. I liked how they never tried to explain the science... and especially how the aliens looked more like the guys in the mos eisley cantina that stupid trek aliens with head and nose ridges.
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I've already spent £500 of SG1 dvd's - and with another season to buy?!? /me goes off to celebrate
Since I don't have cable, this is the best show on TV other than re-runs of the nanny! ;-)
No really... I do like SG1 even though it is a little silly at times. I really think their super acurate P90's rule..........
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The other commenters obviously live in a country with a half decent
In Australia - not only is cable TV way overpriced (and broadband charges seriously suck even before you put in installation and new modem cost), we simply do not get decent sci-fi.
How many seasons of Farscape have been made? Most of the episodes were shown I think but some episodes were missed (dropped for sport) and never reappeared. And it was made less 100km from where I am sitting.
Voyager is still in season 6!!
Cable TV is seriously screwed. But the gov and regulators look about to stuff up the commercial fix being proposed.
What about Space-Above and Beyond (simple storyline but done semi-well even if a bit corny)?
Not only do the programmers (TV schedules - not the nice people who write code) - have seriously lousy taste, they do not seem to manage to get it - put the show on same time each week.
Thankfully we have 3 hr video tapes - show can start anywhere between 30min and an hour late, then run for 1hr10min with the ads. Also 11pm Tuesday or Thursday is not what I would call an audience friendly time.
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Not just new viewers...I hate it when there is a series I like and then I miss one episode and it just seems as though I missed so much I can never get back into it.
Intensely so, if I may add. The stories tend to be silly, captain Archer's dog is annoying, the captain himself is a nitwit, and the science component is minimal. Oh, and the title song is ridiculously out of place.
I hope this show will die a well-deserved death soon.
This, they hope, will segue directly into filimg a 'feature'. Smith said this a couple of times, but he emphasised the feature is not yet 100% certain. After that, the spinoff.
I really think loosing Shanks was a horrible blow to the show and the story, but you have to admit they have been doing well with the direction things are going.
I wonder though how well they can do a movie. Very very few TV->Movie moves have gone well if not simply OK, I would hate to see them fall into this pit. I'm starting to wonder if it's possible to do the TV->Movie transition.
As for the spinoff I don't think it will go anywhere. I watch SG-1 but I don't think I would watch it if not for the current cast. Guess I'll see...
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The captain strikes me as whiny... I prayed for the dog to die in one of the more recent episodes. But a lot of the episodes have a cool spooky atmosphere.
Let me get this straight: that episode featured a main plot of the dog getting sick and a subplot of Capt. Archer fantasizing about his super sexy vulcan science officer and you wasted your prayers on the fuckin' dog?!?
Man, I was on my hands and knees praying that T'Pol was going to help our dashing captain get "Long And Prosper"!
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They are starting to loose me a little. The show started off in one direction that was great. The asgard were a cool edition but once they developed these ideas I started to loose interrest. I mean the mystique and wonder of all these invincible people starts to dissappear. I mean the asgard can't even get jiggy to save their race.
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Space Above and Beyond was a fresh break from star trek when it came out. Yeah, it was pretty corney, but the plots themselfs were still intresting enough. A lot of the shows make humans the peacefull tree huggers of the galaxy. It was nice to see humans as a whole whopping some ass for a change.
Um, what the hell are you doing here then!?
My problem with S.T. Enterprise is that, more than any Trek since TOS, its Captain expects things to go his way and it usually portrays foreign cultures as inferior. The societies that do have higher tech are shown as either evil or condescending; Archer calls genetic engineering one's own race a deal with the devil and he believes that humans are entitled to all Vulcan technology. And almost no time is spent showing the ways that their cultures are superior to human ways. The only really redeeming moments were when he did an elaborate apology dance to get some equipment, and when he refused to help either side on the Desert Planet.
Ultimately, Enterprise reminds me of USA today: ignorantly pushing itself on the world and expecting to get better treatment than anyone else. I suppose that's what now gets high ratings in terrorized USA, but it sure doesn't live up to the best of sci-fi, or even the best of Trek. The Q and the Borg are races that humans should look up to!
Does anyone else find it strange that Richard Dean Anderson is on a show where he is constantly shooting people with a gun? He used to really be against guns (or for methods other than using guns). I guess you go where the money is. He is (was?) on the board of directors of "Handgun Control, Inc."
Here's a tidbit I found quite funny (from imdb.com bio):
Would have played professional Hockey except he broke both of his arms during a game.
He then turned to acting.
Hahahahahaha. That is phrased hillariously! He actually didn't break both arms in the same game, though. It was a couple weeks apart.
Oh well. Stargate SG1 sucks. Does WGN still air MacGyver episodes? They used to a couple years ago.
No offense to you my good man, but if for some reason you're actually interested in FireFly, I suggest heading out and picking up some Cowboy Bebop episodes (not sure if it's still on Cartoon Network: Adult Swim? - I'm in Canada, what do I know). After watching this Japanese classic you'll realize that a) it's great, and b) FireFly is a horrible rip-off. As for SG1, I've yet to see it.
Wow, someone actually remembers that show other than me? Profit was great! I can't believe it was taken off the air after 1 season - curse you Fox Broadcasting.
"loose" is an adjective describing your mother. "lose" is the verb you want.
Good engineers write better than that.
My favorite scene in the whole series was when Jack and Teilk (sp?) were driving golf balls from the platform into the operational star gate! Now that was something very unexpected from the writers... I couldn't stop laughing for like 5 minutes.
Feel lucky that you were never subjected to "The Starlost" down under like we were up here in Canada.
What, never heard of it? Most ppl that did tried to forget it. It was a 'Noah's Ark in space' because Earth became uninhabitable, the ship was launched hundreds of years earlier so everyone on the ship forgot it was really a spaceship, and the 'heros' were these Amish-like characters, all filmed on a budget that could not have been more than $10,000; I think the FX were filmed with some guys camcorder.
They didn't exactly hit the reset button. There hasn't been any resolution to the temporal cold war. We still don't know how things are uptime after Archer got back to the 22nd century, we don't know who the "mystery man" is that the Sulliban are working for, and we really don't know who Daniels is. As far as the "treknobabble" is concerned, I think that this show has been pretty light on technological fixes to storylines, and Daniels has resoltutely refused to explain anything about how his stuff works. I think the show is watchable now; you just seem sour.
When you realize TV networks are in the business of selling ads, not the business of entertaining viewers, their decisions make more sense.
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Thank you! I saw that show a few times as a kid. For some reason parts of it stuck in my head and I've been wondering what the hell it was for something like 25 years.
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.
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Two minor points of Starlost trivia: Harlan Ellison came up with the concept, and Ben Bova was credited as an advisor. Harlan would have nothing to do with the series by the time it made it to production; the credits list "Cordwainer Bird" as having conceived the series. That's Harlan's personal codename for "GOD, THIS SUCKS, STAY AWAY". Bova later wrote a savagely satirical and very funny novel called The Starcrossed (plot summary).
--Larry
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence
The rumors are that the movie will set up a spinoff series, akin to the way the Showtime movie set up the series. (Not the original movie, since in that movie there was only one Go'uld and he was killed.)
*** SPOILER ALERT ***
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The expected premise of the movie is the final battle with the Go'uld, closing the original series, and the discovery of the "ancients" who were behind the Atlantis legend, setting up the spinoff series. According to Plato, Atlantis disappeared beneath the waters of the sea, but as countless primitive cultures have pointed out the event horizon of a stargate looks a lot like a watery surface. It's not hard to connect the dots and believe that the Ancients left earth through a stargate and later generations morphed the story into Atlantis disappearing under the ocean.
Since it would be a very short series if humans immediately hooked up with the Ancients, I expect the spinoff to follow a human team searching for evidence of where the Ancients went. We might even see the 8th lock used on the gate again, or dare we hope even the 9th?!
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. -- H L Mencken
While I am not an avid watcher of the show, I have seen a few episodes and the movie. The writing, acting and directing are excellent.
;)
I have started watching more of the show, though, due to the fact that I recently joined a team working on a Stargate: SG1 first person shooter. So far the its looking awesome! We are always looking for input, though.
If any other Stargate: SG1 fans out there are interested, you can find information about the game at our website.
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We know the Japanese never ripped off anything. (*cough Cyberpunk, large combatative robots, animation..*)
Which brings up an interesting point-- Where are all the freakin MacGyver reruns?!? That was the best show when I was growing up... Every other bad show and it's mother seem to have reruns, but Mac? NoooOOOOoooo...
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I've got every ep of Enterprise in SVCD format
because the Austin TX UPN station has about 100W of transmit power and DirectTV wont carry them as a local channel.
Got all of Farscape and Firefly too.. Now if only I could upload them back into the Tivo..
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No, no. Best moment was in the "Carter gets her own pet alien" episode. O'Neill and Teal'c show up at Carter's door with pizza and and Star Wars on video. Teal'c says he's seen it nine times. O'Neill says that if Teal'c likes it, it has to be good. Carter starts to give some excuse about how it's not a very good time, then stops mid-sentence to say, "You mean you've never seen Star Wars?" O'Neill kinda shrugs and says, "Oh, you know me and 'sci-fi.'"
Cracked me up.
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I don't know, Star Trek the Next Generation might have been like USA Today (generally interesting and harmless, but vapid and shallow.) But Enterprise is more like the National Enquirer (Man has sex with big titted vulcan: Says love child will be named Spock.) Now SG-1 is more like the Wall Street Journal, but still not as good as Babylon 5.
P.S. This is niether a Troll or a Flame, just a poor attempt at humor.
They actually had an episode where they tried to use a gun out in space. They had to bring along a space suit so the gunpowder could get oxygen, and they only got one shot. Now it still doesn't explain why they don't have a rail gun, or some similar weapon, but then again most merchant ships on earth's oceans don't have ship mounted weapons either.
i thought the movie sucked but the plot had interesting ideas. like sliders with indy. anyone else know of good scifi like this?
anyone know about witchblade?
I'm glad SG is on the Sci-Fi Channel instead of Show time. Its G to PG rated plus the show last no longer than 45-50 minutes per episode. Thats fits nicely with the commercial driver cable/TV channels.
I think Enterprise should be cancel and bring back ST simular to DS9( which I believe has the most number of seasons). I've seen re-runs of ST, TNG, Voyager but never DS9.
BRING BACK CAPTAIN SISKO!!!!ls3
Gun powder doesn't need oxygen. The oxidizer is built-in.
I just saw the John de Lancie episode "Cui Bono" and was surprised to find that it was, well, okay. Not great, but also not as utterly rotten as the rest of Season 3 has been. For those of you keeping score, that's a *big* trend upwards. Sorbo actually shut up for large parts of the show, and the rest of the crew got to do actual stuff.
Also, Rev Bem is coming back this season. No clue if it's a guest appearance or a recurring role.
So maybe there's a tunnel at the end of... er, that is, a light at the end of the tunnel. We can hope.
Whiny capt Archer is part of it. Another thing that bothers me is that DePaul the Vulcan is such a point of contention and conflict. She plays a detractory role, rather than a supporting one, which always gives me a headache. It is possilble to illustrate people's differences without this kind of crud. Look at the relationship played out between Spock and Kirk. And even the little tantrums McCoy had at Spock from time to time still had an element of friendship behind them. It was fun to watch the interplay between them. On Enterprise, though, too many people have serious issues.
The plots on Enterprise don't interest me. It just rubs me the wrong way in so many of its aspects I doubt I could articulate them all.
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I have the overpriced cable tv and the cable internet service from hell "yes I am talking about tel$tra!).
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The schedules are actually getting worse, with the cable guide (channel 13) even showing errors, and just plain phantom shows.
With the FTA tv channel 9 uses any excuse to avoid showing SciFi, when they actually bothered to show farscape, they put it on late night, with no trailers etc, and would replace it with anything else they could think of, usually sport. Moving on they used the same late night slot for enterprise and now voyager. Both being cancelled at no notice for anything else.
As for channel 7, well they replaced SG1 a week back with a extra long "Home and Away". I rest my case! At least when there is nothing more important (soaps etc) are showing the current season SG1 in prime time.
Back to the cable, we do have some SciFi, with Fox8 showing
"Earth Final Conflict", which is at best just about viewable, even with fox8 repeating the last season as a filler inbetween anything else.
"Andromeda", herclues in space. If they killed off kevin sorbo, it would be 100% better.
"Farscape" yes fox8 is showing season 2, in prime time. Well done on that one. We are only 2 seasons behind.
Another cable channel TV1 has more Sci-Fi, just nothing even close to recent. So far we have.
Lex. I never figured this one out.
SG1. reruns for season 1. A good start but what about the other seasons.
Original star trek. Classics.
star trek TNG. season 3 was the latest they sort of showed.
star trek DS9. no ideas what season it is, maybe one or two
star trek voyager. Maybe season two
babylon 5. season one, when they used to show it.
deep quest. another one I never figured out
thunderbirds. reminds me of childhood in the UK
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In short there is minimal to no recent SciFi available here.
The really sad thing is that farscape was made here, very close to where I live, and channel 9 actually was involved in it, then canned it for some reason best known to themselfs.
For the other farscape fans, the sets have been trashed, it was on channel 10 news a while back.
I hope another channel picks it up sooner rather than later.
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... I mean really. It is in the 6th season, going into the 7th season. Do we really need to define the races and what the stargate is every episode? There just isn't a practical way to do something like that. This show is not giligan's island where a 30 second song can give you the entire background information.
There's 2 schools of thought. Each singular show has a singular plot or the series has continuity. I think they walk the fine line between those schools, and are barely on the continuity side.
I really like the witty comentary of Jack O'Neal. My favorite line is when some random bad guy was talking about his badass master after he knocked Jack down on the ground:
Bad Guy: You don't even know what [badguy's name] is capable of!
Jack (lying down on the ground): You... BASTARD!... You ended... that sentance with a preposition!
It's just so clever. =)
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I think with the addition of Roger Engels as the head writer the upcoming season(s) should prove more interesting.
This from a quivering limp AC!
Actually any gun with sealed cartridge ammo should work in space. I'm surprised how many
people seem to operate from the misconception that bullets need ambient oxygen to operate.
By that same logic chemical rockets shouldn't
operate in space either. As someone on usenet
mentioned recently, you may have heat disipation
problems on something like an aircooled automatic
rifle(M16 etc).
Not since the original Star Trek have I so enjoyed a sci-fi series. It really had everything - imaginative writing ( kudos to Harlan Ellison for his consultations), great acting, humor and character development. Sorry gang, but most of the other shows mentioned on this page simply don't rate.
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Actually, friend, you should have realized by now that we watch (and talk about) shows like Stargate to escape those sorts of aspects of reality.
I hereby christen thee the "Go Outside" troll. Let's see if you can keep it up, and not burn yourself out like the "Get a real computer" troll did a few weeks ago.
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I never understood that. I can only guess they threw in the requirement for having oxygen around the gun as an additional complication to be solved. Which leaves the question of how did Jayne work the trigger through the suit?
Sounds like the writers didn't do their research. Most bullets contain an oxidizer. They have to, as the firing caps are basically airtight packages, IIRC. Granted there probably isn't enough oxidizer (if any) mixed with the powder that's packed into the rest of the shell casing to effectively fire a bullet, but that is an economic, not technical issue.
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The more I think about it, the more farsical the Firefly universe seems. As other authors have pointed out, my earlier post on gunpowder not working in a vacuum is not correct (even if it is how they explain it in the show.) But as I said, there are many reasons why a gun wouldn't be useful on a space craft. For one, a differential velocity of several hundred miles per hour would be trivial compared to the speeds at which space craft normally travel. Surely in order to travel through space, one would have to build a craft which could deal gracefully with small debris traveling at large velocities.
Coming back to topic (*cough*), this is just what happened in Stargate SG-1 with regards to the Asgard - a highly evolved extragalactic civilization - and the Replicators - just like it sounds, a bunch of erector-set robots that simply kept "eating" the Asgard's technology and reproducing themselves. (Where is Bill Joy when you need him?) The replicators were (for some twisted logic reason) "immune" to the Asgard's energy weapons and other defenses, but sure blowed apart pretty when hit with SG-1's MP-5s and P90s!
All that being said, Stargate sucks without Daniel Jackson. We used to play a drinking game where we'd watch Stargate and drink whenever we'd hear Teal'c refer to him as Danieljackson (as though it were one word). Now we're just sober, and what fun is that?
Carthago delenda est!
Oh yeah; BTW, the Lone Gunmen are dead, in case you didn't hear :)
Money and commercialism will kill the show. Sooner or later it will become just another "Enterprise". The Dark Force is just too strong.. So why struggle to get your new fix of fun and intriguing sci-fi? Be grateful for what you've got!
Btw, farscape is probably one of the only shows I've seen recently that makes it worth having a TV. Too bad they won't air it where I live. However, I can live without it. Life is so much more than some TV-Show-Fix.
If you're addicted to something, it's your own problem.
Damnit, I wanna see an episode where Anderson breaks out his trusty roll of duct tape!! ... Aww, c'mon.. at least the Swiss Army Knife!
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Governments. Corporations.
These are perfect examples of how cooperation is beneficial.
OMG Its really sad but I remember that, it was playing on sat tv, at some horrible hour of the morning.
I do think that the $10K budget was being a little optimistic, I am thinking more like $10 for the whole series.
There was another terrible SciFi that I came across, the name escapes me. It was a sort of mash in space thing, that must have had a $20 budget.
I miss the dolby digital sound of SG-1 on commercial free Showtime, but will settle for new episodes. It has become one of my favorite shows, and although I enjoy the earlier season shows, I am looking forward to new episodes. The toughest acting job must be Tealk ( not sure how they spell it) - that guy walks around the entire show with a disgusting look on his face. However, the witty humor of the O'neil really adds to the show.
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Very happy to see this :)
SG-1 is definitely the best Sci-Fi on TV at the moment, so more of it is definitely a good thing!
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I like SG1. Latest seasons are really cool. Hope there's gonna be season 8, 9, 10 an so on :) Another movie wouldn't hurt either.
Through the zipper in the pants.
My question is, why does everybody speak English? I mean, Daniel Jackson is the language guy, but they don't really need him. Even the displaced foreign Earth cultures speak perfect English.
I just saw an episode the other day where they arrived on some planet, and MacGuyver says "hey D, find a way to communicate with these guys" (and I tough they might finally confront the issue), to which the aliens respond in English. WTF???
Stargate SG-1 is a pile of shit.
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In the worst episode ever
As a relatively new viewer to SG-1, are new shows being aired currently? I saw a couple this season that I thought were for a new season, but with all the back and forth of episodes (i.e. Sci-Fi channel)
I wasn't sure. I don't see any episodes listed on
Showtime and Sci-Fi seems to be re-running shows from
the beginnning, so where are the current episodes being aired?
This used to be excellent, with proper stories for each episode, each series and the whole arch, decent plot development, proper character development and decent plot turns. However it all started going down hill when they introduced all the new age mysticism junk, when Daniel Jackson 'transcended'.
Best Sci Fi show on television in a long long time. MacGyver with Guns nothing can beat that. /me does a dance a joy.
Yeh, right... as a member of the anti-gun actors guild of canada, "Mr. McGiver" is one of the biggest hypocrites of all time.
... yeh right! Total f'ing bull-shit.
Let's see, make money on "action" show featuring lots of weapons, shooting, death, and mayhem. Hate guns, violence, etc.
So, that would be one of those DO AS I SAY, but NOT AS I DO
The should start producing version 8 instead of 7, they would not want to be behind MSN!
I didn't think it possible but yes, Firefly is worse than Andromeda. It seems when you here a show being hawked as, "...from the creators of..." something good, the show will suck.
Ya Sure! You Betcha!, The_THOMAS
Too bad they got shut out at the Emmys for the 3rd year in a row. Maybe its because the special effects work is done in Canada, and not the US.
People use "politically correct" to mean just about anything they want to now, so can we come up with some variations that actually mean something again?
Every time I've seen "Enterprise" it's done a stupid "Perhaps one day we'll have a... a 'directive' to use in interacting with new civilizations..." thing that makes me just cringe, it's so predictable. It makes the history of the Federation look pat and boring. It's not that great a show, okay.
But "politically correct"? What does that mean? Does that mean the vulcan woman isn't wearing her form-fitting uniform any more? I have no idea. Basically the only meaning it has any more has to do with the person who says it, not the noun it's modifying...
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
Speaking of great science fiction vs. bad science fiction... How many here thought Sliders was a great show, and how many here thought it sucked? I'm curious to see what the general consensus is. I'll reveal my own thoughts after a good number of people respond. No trolling please, just a simple, "Yeah I liked it" or "No, I didn't like it" will be fine. Thanks!
Just kidding.
Stargate has a lot going for it (excellent chatacter development, self-consistent stories and technologies, some actual creativity on the writing staff!)
As does Firefly (some of the best dialogue on TV this side of The West Wing, a captain with some balls, BABES!).
Enterprise manages a good show every now and again (T'Pol's grandmother episode, Shuttlepod I, the season one cliffhanger, the one where they had to wake Phlox up to work on Mayweather).
Farscape was just odd beyond words most of the time, which I loved (but it had some real dudes mixed in, let's be honest).
But Babylon 5 was just magnificent storytelling.
All you people that think the conclusion of the Shadow War was a let-down, YOU DIDN'T GET IT. I felt the exact same way when I first saw it, then after a few days of thinking about it I realized just how brilliant it actually was. And how daring it was: No technobabble-of-the-week way to defeat the Shadows and the Vorlons, no temporal reset to make it all go away, no religious hero coming down from Heaven to save everyone's ass. It might not have been as glorious as some would have wanted, but it couldn't really have ended any other way, and that in and of itself makes it perfect.
I'll say this about Babylon 5: no other show or movie has ever made me care about certain characters the way it did. I mean, I was quite literally fighting back the tears when you see what happend to Londo in The Fall Of Centauri Prime. To have seen the evolution of that character (my God, the character development!) and how he finally wound up, you can't help but feel a profound sense of sadness at what he allowed to happen (not that he had a choice except death I suppose, but still...)
Stargate can't do it. Firefly won't. Farscape doesn't have the chance to any more, Enterprise... don't make me laugh!
The happiest day of my life will be three years from now when I have the entire B5 series on DVD sitting on my shelf. And the week I make my kids watch it with me, non-stop from start to finish, nothing will match it.
You have seen greatness, and you have not recognized it. Go watch Survivor: Iraq or The Batchelor 163... you don't deserve to watch Babylon 5!
If a pion (n-) collides with a proton in the woods & noone is there to hear it, does lamdba decay into the source pa
(I won't say Americans, since the US is not the only country on this continent)
America is not a continent. North America is a continent. South America is a seperate continent. Generally, "America" is used as a shorter way of saying "the United States of America." Just as "China" is a shorter way of saying, "the People's Republic of China."
So while it's ok to say "people from the People's Republic of China," or "people from the United States of America," most people will probably continue to say "Chinese" and "Americans." And they're right, too.
Sorry for the off topicness.
Many modern guns wouldn't work in a vacuum, but not due to lack of oxidizer. The lubricant would freeze solid, or evaporate, and any moving parts would vacuum weld to each other.
The happiest day of my life will be three years from now when I have the entire B5 series on DVD sitting on my shelf. And the week I make my kids watch it with me, non-stop from start to finish, nothing will match it.
You know, karma and kids being what they are, your kids are going to grow up to be hardcore Trekkies, and probably Renaissance Faire wibbly eared elf lovers as well.
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You're right about the show, though. Even if you can't even spell your own fucking name.
You also forgot the recent episode where Dylan and crew end up on the Beleraphon (sp?) fighting the Ogami. The scene where Dylan is helping the Captain repell the invasion, talk about long.
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The bloody scene lasted almost the entire length between the commercial breaks. Endless shots of Dylan jumping through the air shooting at Ogami, ducking under Ogami fire and taking them out from around corners. The small amount of dialouge that *was* there basically consisted of "Watch Out!", "Thanks for saving my ass!", "Whoah!!! Who's the babe!!!" and other such tripe.
Okay, okay, I'm paraphrasing quite a bit here, but I was starting to fall asleep; pretty explosions can only hold your attention for a short time.
I guess this is what they meant by this season being more 'action' oriented. It's a shame. The show was never "Excellent" but it didn't totally suck either. It had some interesting ideas and the concept had promise if excecuted right.
Yet so far this season, every episode has had some kind of excessive action sequence where Dylan is fighting against a number of bad guys, by himself no less, or with someone who is essentially innefectual; that in the end really served no purpose other than fill time and/or Kevin Sorbo's ego.
As I watch this show I have to wonder just what the hell Sorbo was thinking when he thought that *this* is what people want to see. I agree with the guy above, this show is quickly turing into "Hercules: The Space Journeys".
What's next? Lucy Lawless showing up as "Xendromeda" the evil High Guard warship who, in retaliation for The Fall, Nova Bomed a number of Nietzschean solar systems. Then after a rousing guilt tripping speach from Dylan she suddenly feels oh so guilty about it and devotes her life to making amends for her sins.
Or how about this for a really interesting plot twist. That big old "Scary God of the Magogg" is really good old Ares in disguise.
but when they moved to the Sci-Fi channel I quit watching it.
I hate the Sci-Fi channel. They USED to be good but they have too much LOW RENT CRAP on there now and so damn many commercials that you forget what you where watching!
they should have a "To be Continued" tag just before every commercial break. Damn, they run 45 minutes of commercials for a one hour program and you get 15 minutes of program. Just what hits the cutting room floor we may never know, but *I* know that I have been turned off to the Sci-Fi channel by Billy Mays yelling at me and trashy sluts trying to coax me into calling a 1-900-get-alife number for a special hot date with the girl of my dreams, please have your credit card ready!
The Daniel power hungriness thing was an extended dream sequence, which was supposed to teach him something. How not to fart with his nose, I guess...
Apparently the producer who spoke at a recent UK convention spoke out of turn. No xmas bonus for him! :(
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The thing I liked abot SG-1 early seasons was it interesting attempts to link the aliens with various ancient human cultures. I remember seeing an episode where they went somewhere and I was like, 'oh look that's all minoan' and then of course 10 seconds later Daniel identifies it as such.
Most American TV shows just use gobbledegook to mean 'olden times' (a la Xena) and can't differentiate between Ancient Greek and Ancient Roman, let alone Republican Roman and Imperial Roman (or even more subtle distinctions).
SO I always liked a TV show that could tell the difference. Good writing makes a difference, although of course, there's a the odd dud episode. I haven't really kept up very much however in recent years, too busy.
The instruments of science do not in themselves discover truth. And there are
searchings that are not concluded by the coincidence of a pointer and a mark.
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