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Stargate Atlantis Coming This Summer
boog3r writes "According to this and SCIFI there is a new Stargate series on its way to your local passive viewing device this summer. Quickie for all the click-deficient types: "In the new series, a secret base left by the originators of the Stargate is discovered in the most unlikely of places -- on Earth, buried among the ruins of the legendary city of Atlantis." Sounds fun to me! I found more info here and here. Take these tidbits with a grain of salt, much misinformation about the new series is circulating right now. I just hope this great franchise does not go the way of Star Trek, post Roddenberry."
I love Stargate SG-1.
Did anyone watch the new one last night? I missed the ending. Is Jack really dead? He was my favorite character.
And drown at the bottom of the ocean?
Count me out!
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Charlston Heston has been predicting for years that they would do this - you think they would have done it sooner with his backing.
Has the Stargate series creator died yet? How is this analogy appropriate in any way if not, except to function in the capacity of allowing the author to express his/her feelings on Star Trek in an unrelated post?
I thought they already found Atlantis on another world? They had Poseidin's statue at the gate and Jack got married and almost died of old age. Nanotechnology and stuff...
It's much more watchable than most of the rubbish that seems to come out of Paramount's Star Trek franchise these days. I find Enterprise totally unwatchable and couldn't even be bothered to see the last film in the cinemas. I made the right decision too, cos the DVD was a major dissapointment.
That said, I think Stargate has become too sciency/technical. Did anyone else prefer it when all the technology like the Gates themselves were much more mystical and incomprehensible? Somehow, talking about Gates and DHDs in terms of lines of software code, mathematical equations and matter dematerialisation doesn't seem quite as mystical as the original movie and the earlier episodes, where much of it was still based in Egyption mythology and the technology seemed more magical (neither human nor Goa'uld understanding how it really worked) rather than increasingly Trek-like technobabble descriptions of how things work.
I will, of course, be watching Atlantis as Stargate and its spin-offs are still some of the most watchable sci-fi about at the moment. I just wouldn't have taken it in quite the same direction if it were left up to me.
No thanks, I've pretty much ignored anything from the network that killed Farscape so that it could pay for Tremors: The Series.
SG-1 is one of my favorite shows these days. That and the Simpsons are about the only shows I watch other than the News and Jay Leno. I've missed about 3 seasons while I was in college, but making it up when I catch a show in sydication now and then. One thing that made SG-1 cool was it was actually orginial. Sure, same old sci-fi themes, but the casting was a good mix and the writing has generally been fair as well. Richard Dean Anderson's character was a complete departure from the movie, but his character is pretty funny.
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I mean, really Stargate isn't all that "good" as far as TV goes, but for some reason, I too love Stargate.
I did watch it last night, it was a little disappointing. It was way too sappy for this Geeks taste. They made it *seem* like jack was dead, but he is alive. Dr. Frasier died. Too bad really, she was a good charachter.
Yeah, thanks for contributing to this discussion. Not.
SG-1 is amongst the better sci-fi productions being made right now. The show's not perfect by any means, but for the most part it's well-written, well-acted and great viewing. The storylines and the on-screen chemistry of the team are second to none at the moment: I'd rather watch SG-1 than the dirge that is Enterprise any day of the week.
If it's not to your taste then I don't really care. Plenty of people disagree with you.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
And the series is actually good. You're mixed-up.
The thing I like about Stargate:SG1 is that it is relatively sensible about its science and proceedures - these people really act more like military people than certain other shows I could name.
However, this sounds suspiciously like we might be calling upon the services of Bruce the Shark fairly soon - will somebody help me set up the ramps?
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Dr Frasier died one episode before, 7x18. Last episode I've seen is 7x19, something about a human gouauld hybrid girl.
Stargate is getting worse. Last acceptable season was #5. They should cancel the series.
Dont get me wrong but I agree most SCIFI series are lacking now; ever since STNG ended they just fell. Voyager was "OK" and enterprise just rates next to Stargate.
This is just my opinion, seeing if other agree or maybe I'm just way out in LH field on this one. I just cant see how ANOTHER series based on this is coming.....
Please dont take this as trolling or whatever they call it now.
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Sure, soldiers should do scientific research and scientists fight wars! Great! Stoopid show!!!
BTW, I am a scientist, not a soldier
Keep in mind that SG-1 is in a completely different situation than Enterprise. It started on a pay cable channel and now exists on a cable channel devoted to science fiction. Enterprise started on a broadcast network and still exists on a broadcast network as the only science fiction show. Its lead-in/outs have been pro-wrestling and African-American comedies. Stargate not only can produce lower ratings and get away with it, it also is the centerpiece of a sci-fi lineup on a sci-fi channel. And, unlike Enterprise, it has the bonus of being in syndication. Enterprise usually airs only a couple times a week, while Stargate is relatively ubiquitous.
I'd also rather watch SG-1 than Enterprise for the most part... if I existed in some bizarre hypothetical world where those were the only two options. In the real world, I find both to be acceptable, and better than most stuff on TV.
Are they setting this show all on Earth so they don't have to pay for expensive sets?
If anything I'm happy this show will get the rest of SG-1 DVD box sets out faster.
Or Rodenbury post Star Trek...
Yes, they did try to lead you early on to believe it was Jack, but as soon as they showed the video on the planet with the injured soldier and Janet, and how the reporter was talking, I got the hints that it was Janet that died.
My wife asked why would they kill her off. I told her probably cause she is headed to do something else. Janet was a decent character, but she was often just a bit character in the show. If they want a beloved character to die, but cause the least impact to the show, Janet was the one. In addition, notice how Cassandra was handled. Samantha mentions her, but she's never shown. I wonder if they even tried to get the actress who played her in for a brief cameo.
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I think like episode 8 of red vs blue, they said one of the charachters was gonna die, made you think it would be the yellow dude, but it turns out it was one of the blue team.
I just liked the ending of that episode.
"next time on red vs blue some one (griff) will (griff) die (griff: what?) fade to black...sarge: i sure hope it's griff.
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nikola Tesla
...in Stargate, that is a rather natural development. We've got this lots of wierdo alien tech, where the Stargate is just one, that we don't really understand, wouldn't there be a buzz like hell to figure out wtf all this really is? Whereas in Star Trek the "tech" is just part of the setting.
:D.
Human science would leap tremendously, once you know it *is* possible and can observe it rather than speculate. Most great scientific break-throughs aren't really that hard to replicate, once they've been discovered.
Yes, I admit in some ways it is changing the show. On the other hand, if it had stayed "Well we go through this gate, and then we're 4 people exploring ruins/blowing up aliens of the day" I imagine that'd be pretty worn out by now, at the end of the 7th season.
No matter what direction, the most important thing is direction. There's nothing I hate more than a series where you can miss 10 eps, and still be just where you left off, same everything. And to make Stargate work, they need bigger and worse enemies. And to do that, the SG crew need more and better tech. You can't fight for the fate of the universe with rifles and hand grenades, or at least not just that
Kjella
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Personally, maybe it's just me, but I don't think Atlantis will do well for the Stargate series. Just like how Enterprise damaged Star Trek, I think this will put a bad light on Stargate. I stopped watching Stargate SG-1 in season three, and watch it fairly sporatically now. Same thing with Enterprise...if there's nothing else to be watched I might watch Enterprise, get feud up, and pop in my ST:TNG DVDs.
I, really, really want to see ST:Voyager on DVD :).
http://allstargate.television-series.com/atlantis/ (The second 'here' link) is just a redirect to http://www.paysforsurveys.com/
How do they ever get back considering you can only have one stargate connected per planet...
Every time I hear about a new show coming out and get excited about it, I invariably find out that it's going to be on cable. Why, why, why? Oh, the humanity. I guess I'll have to wait for the series to come out on DVD (or BitTorrent).
That said, I think Stargate has become too sciency/technical. Did anyone else prefer it when all the technology like the Gates themselves were much more mystical and incomprehensible?
"Magic, in any sufficiently advanced show, is indistinguishable from technology." (Appologies to ACC)
Actually, I think what happens is that writers have to have some idea of what and how things work, in order to work with it consistently. Eventually, it works its way into the scripts.
We, as viewers, don't need to know how or why things work the way they do. It actually keeps things more interesting for us to be trying to figure it out. Unfortunately, that gets forgotten.
It's roughly analagous to seeing the monster in a horror movie: Less is more.
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Not Jack. Janet. And I was as shocked as anyone. :(
i enjoy stargate very much too. ...nevermind
my favourit part is where dr. jackson
is influenced by a goahuld boy
to build a naquada powered earth
defence system in orbit. like these
pyramid satelits that you can point a earth
or in to space and grill any approching
goahuld ship.
then the discovery of a naquada generator
by carter.
i didn't like the parts where they wonder
around other planets too much.
i think it was always cool, that one movie
would have links to past movies.
every movie is stand-alone but if you have
seen ALL thr movies it becomes much more
"the big picture". really cool.
the director/creator was roland emmerich.
(two "m"'s?) he also made independance day.
he and the guy who made abyss and terminator
(can't think of name now) are geek
audiance gold mines.
yeah and i remember being stoned in the chinese
theater in hollywood watching Independance day
with my sister and getting a nice shock from
people watching the movie, commenting the movie
with calls and claps
Your rant reduces to "the movie had a bigger budget than the TV series does!!@#$!@$!"
Emmerich/Devlin movies always have awesome special effects, by the way. It's all the other parts they leave out that usually make for a disaster.
They knew advertising killing off a main character would get audience share..
Scummy practice.. I actually boycotted last nights show beacuse of it.
Conversely, they know if they killed off one of the main 4, the show would be dead in the water, so i personally had no worries.. Worst case they just bring the character back to life.. hey, its sci-fi anything is possible..
Putting it on earlier in the evening would help though...
---- Booth was a patriot ----
.. maybe we can let a few people still enjoy watching the show without knowing the ending.
(grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr... if ever there was a time I wanted to reach through the screen and strangle someone...)
While the all-encompassing explanations may not suit your fancy, at least they have a moving plot..
Unlike another remake of a classic show we all know of.. *cough*voyager*cough*
I wont hold out for 'atlantis' to be around long, i expect it to be a bunch of mis-directed re-hash and get old pretty fast.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
The commercials they were showing made it look like Jack had been killed... but then you saw a shot from a funeral at the SGC and the full team was standing there. He didn't say anything you didn't see in the commercial.
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Ummm, that is just wild speculation. As far as I know, the new series is set in another galaxy, on an offworld human base. I think the name has something to do with the new planet being the origins of the atlantis legend, several people have already been cast.
This is relatively old news. For more info check out:
http://www.sg1database.net/atlantis.html
Again this is AFAIK, I could be wrong
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Richard Dean Anderson's character was a complete departure from the movie, but his character is pretty funny.
...a complete depature from MacGyver. I must honestly say that I never thought I'd be able to accept him as anything else but that - few people were so intesively connected to not only a character - but a specific trait of that personality - as him.
Pretty much all through the first season (at least), every time they were in a jam I somehow expected him to pull out a piece of string, some duct tape, sulfuric acid and a pocket knife to save the day. I think the role he plays is pretty much the only role he could play to make it work.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
The main reason the more recent episodes of SG-1 have been less good (but still very enjoyable in my opinion) then the previous seasons is mainly because of Richard Dean Anderson (jack) being unwilling to spend as much time on the show, every season he says he wants to quit to spend more time with his daughter and every season they negotiate a nice package for him which means less work. IIRC he works about 3 days a week now which is why there are so many episodes that he barely appears in or in some cases doesn't appear in at all. In the next season of SG1 (season 8) rumour has it that he'll be in a more Hammond like position in charge of the SGC. Atlantis is obviously a way to not only expand the series but to get away from relying on RDA signing on every year.
If anyone cares Gateworld is a fantastic site for information on all things stargate.
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Thank you sooooo much for completely ruining it for everyone else who was watching the show.
If they were watching the show... then they would know what happened.
Dear Mr. Clown - the guy who posted the parent asked what happened. Instead of just replying to his post, I added *spolier* so that you wouldn't read it. No one made you read my words...
And really dude, it's a damn T.V. show.
Wishing that I get hit by a truck is not very nice, and probably reflects poorly on your Karma.
The quality of STNG was much higher than the original and improved dramatically after Roddenberry let Rick Berman lead the way. I think the combination of Roddenberry's somewhat politically correct "rules" and Berman's attempts to bend them was what made STNG so great.
Yes, they did try to lead you early on to believe it was Jack, but as soon as they showed the video on the planet with the injured soldier and Janet, and how the reporter was talking, I got the hints that it was Janet that died.
It took you that long? I'm not the kind of person who figures these kinds of things out easily, and I knew way before that scene.
To be totally honest, I think Atlantis won't have the same "vibe" (for lack of a better word) that SG-1 has had. If the plot is literally going to be based on an old base, and going to another side of the universe...jeeze, this is starting to sound like a hacked up Stargate clone of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine! Something, I don't look forward to watching, much like I don't care to watch Enterprise anymore.
Wasn't that show cancelled because no one watched it? No one watched it because it . . . was no good maybe?
Unfortunately you are correct, but I don't mean that as a compliment to SG-1
I think the story and the show have potential, but only if an evil out of control psychotic bone-crunching alien finally tears MacGyver limb from limb as he's trying his last escape attempt.
If MacGyver goes to Alantis I am gonna lose it..
This circle is now complete.
Some people saw some glaring similarities between the original Stargate and Disney's Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
- Brilliant linguist has goofy theory and is reviled by the scientific community.
- Senior citizen contacts scientist to reveal that his theory was right all along.
- Scientist brought along as expert advisor for military expedition based on aforementioned theory.
- Strange world reached via a twisting tunnel.
- Scientist teased and tormented by expedition members.
- Expedition utterly reliant on scientist for salvation.
- Military expedition has a secret adgenda.
- Scientist falls for beautiful native.
- Glowing eyes.
- A symbol like an upper-case lambda features prominantly in the promotional material for each movie.
There are probably more I'm forgetting and of course the differences are significant, but it is very suspicious.
Don't blame me, I voted for Durga.
maybe you could program two stargates with different addresses and put them next to each other???
Imagine a Beowulf cluster...
(Sorry. Had to.)
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Disney's Atlantis(2001) seems to be a direct rip-off of the Gainax Nadia(1990).
...so a few similarities are inevitable!
Look at the character sketches on this page:
http://www.oldcrows.net/Atlantis/
--- from the link
Well, they draw from the same sources...
Indeed, both productions are a hybrid of the "steampunk" adventure fiction written by Jules Verne (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea) and the modern Atlantis mythology popularized by Edgar Cayce (On Atlantis). As such, similarities are inevitable - similar sources, similar plots, similar scenes, similar characters, similar designs.
MacGyver already has!
http://rdanderson.com/film/atlantis.htm
You guys just killed Stargate. Every time a SciFi show is mentioned here a cancellation notice follows within three months. Damn.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
I'm not talking about the gate, or the alien technology. I'm talking about whenever they do something outside that, its so lame, it's stupid.
example:
"This sound is too low of a frequency to hear. Let me turn it up."
what? yes, changing the amplitude will be a sure way to be able to here something thats outside the range of human hearing. Bah.
There is something like that in every show I have seen. Granted, I've only seen a handfull, but I'm not masochistic enough to watch anymore.
Morons.
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You can only have one stargate per coordinate, but it's possible a planet could be large enough to have two (depends on the granularity of the gate address I suppose, which isn't really specified).
Actually, the ruins of the Ancients' lost city is located where Earth's original Stargate was located, in Antarctica. (The one found in Giza was actually Earth's second Stargate.) However, most of the action of Stargate: Atlantis will be taking place in another galaxy, centered around another lost city of the Ancients. (The coordinates of this planet are apparently found in Earth's outpost.)
Actually thinking about it since the gould have stargates on their ships, they're not coordinates... maybe you could program two stargates with different addresses and put them next to each other???
The only time there was a Stargate on a ship that I recall, it was treated as if it was the gate for that planet. (Hence when the ship left that planet, dialing to it no longer worked.) When said ship reached Earth, Daniel Jackson used it as if it was Earth's gate.
</SG-1 geek>
I've known David professionally for a couple of years now and he doesn't get this excited over every job, so that's got me looking forward to checking out series. It doesn't hurt that I'm a fan of SG1 also.
- Greg
Start a happiness pandemic
I replied to your post because it had a score of 5, making it show up when everyone read the thread, whereas the original spoiler had a score of 1, meaning most people wouldn't be reading it anyways.
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Had you not re-iterated the spoiling I wouldn't have said anything.
Also, just because you put *Spoiler* in your thread title doesn't mean that people will see it before they read your post, which is exactly what I did when I was scanning through the thread.
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Had you done something to draw more attention to the fact that you were revealing spoilers, then it would have been a different thing entirely.
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there's the best use of slashdot...ever.
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you DARED to question a show the /. crowd likes.
Sure, it's a valid question, but you should never DARE to even imply that you're not fanatical beyond freekin belief, you deserve to be modded down. heathen.
I feel your pain, I once dared to imply that I though a certien "lesbian/witch/vampire/slayer" show was, perhap, not to my liking. Man, I went to -5 in about 3 minutes.
I think the slashdot crowd is so shell shocked from loosing good sci-fi all the time, they just jump on something meiocre so it is less likly to go away.
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My post did not have a score of 5, it has a score of zero.
maybe I'm wrong, but I can remember a couple of episodes where SG-1 uses the gates on a moving Ga'uld ship to go from Earth to ship and blow things up. Remember the episode from way back when they gate to an incoming Ga'uld fleet that was going to attack Earth? There were a couple other episodes like that, I think.
I love SG-1, and for the most part its better than the movie IMHO, but they have tried spinoffs already, and that makes me nervous. Anybody remember Stargate: Infinity? It was a very short lived saturday morning cartoon. Just terrible.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
maybe I'm wrong, but I can remember a couple of episodes where SG-1 uses the gates on a moving Ga'uld ship to go from Earth to ship and blow things up. Remember the episode from way back when they gate to an incoming Ga'uld fleet that was going to attack Earth? There were a couple other episodes like that, I think.
That was the one episode I was talking about. There was another time when they used a Stargate to escape an Asgard ship about to be destroyed, but they were gating FROM the ship, not TO it..
...remember where you are and who you're asking.
-x
I briefly caught a glimpse of "Stargate: Infinity" one day on "Sky One Mix" here in the UK (usually just a channel for repeats of what's on "Sky One", which is where the main "Stargate: SG1" series gets its UK premiere). It was pretty bad - the only similarity between it and the main live action series was the noise of the Zat gun as far as I could tell :-)
It's amusing to note that the Gateworld site is very careful to avoid mentioning the Infinity spin-off when it's discussing the Atlantis spin-off - they obviously don't want the train-wreck of the cartoon to jinx things...
the 8th season of stargate sg-1 will be its last!
sad, but at least it slims the possibility of "jumping the shark" between then and now.
I've only recently been turned on to SG-1 (well a year and a half ago). I used to talk smack about it all the time, but I'm now totally hooked. The quality and diversity of the writing sometimes borders on pure genius yet they always manage to keep the light-hearted feel to the show (possibily due to the fact that Chris Judge and Richard Dean Anderson can't act and they both know it!). I am actually upset that I missed Heroes Part 1 last week because Heroes Part 2 last night was quite possibly my favorite SG-1 episode to date. I truly hope Atlantis can continue to live up to the reputation SG-1 has established.
Karma: Incomprehensible (Mostly affected by posting at +5, reading at -1, and metamoderating everything unfair.)
Honestly, what did you expect? That episode's a day to over a week old depending on where one lives. If I hadn't seen it, there's no way I'd read a slashdot discussion on the franchise because it's obvious details of the most recent couple episodes would turn up.
Everything will be taken away from you.
I loved GTA III and Vice City Double Pack on the xbox (even though Vice City crashes often). This summer, we will have Stargate Double Pack, which contains Stargate SG-1 Season 8 and Stargate Atlantis. In UK, Stargate SG-1 Season 7 started almost 2 weeks earlier than on SciFi, thus fire up BitTorrent, connect to Suprnova and get the episodes (wide screen, comercial free) if you can't wait anymore.
at least the new series will have some relationship to the name of the channel. That's a rare occurance these days.
turn some one whose primary motivation is suicide into a long-term TV character.
Clear, Dark Skies
I mean the look of the aliens. Have a look at most other scifi scenarios - most "aliens" look very human to me. Now, SG1 explains this very well: they ARE humans kidnapped thousands of years ago, some of them serving as hosts for a parasite with superpowers and genetic memory. Now, please address the other issue: Why does everyone speak English?! Its like if english would be a language widely used in the galaxy. This is plausible in far-future sets, but not when mankind just recently mastered FTL! And no one can tell me that they learned the alien languages that quickly. Heck, it takes years to understand an ancient language on Earth - used by humans long ago. Now imagine if some aliens pass by. I bet it would take hundreds of years to establish a good communication between the species.
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I read a RDA interview on one of the spoiler sites.
He stated that his char will finish out the SG1 series (thru season 8) and help launch Atlantis.
His char will be killed off either in one of the SG1 final eps or on Atlantis.
The link works fine. That poses the following two possibilities:
:)
1. The poster is stupid and has malware redirecting his browsing. (I.e. the parent's poster is stupid.)
2. The poster was simply trying for informative mod points by posting a bald-faced lie. (I.e. the parent's poster is malicious.)
Hanlon's Razor dictates that I go with option 1, although frankly, "Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity," does not mean that you can't moderate the living hell out of him.
Interesting how they would sneak in a reference to ""MacGyver" in each eps.
Yeah. Someone dies - lets see what extra major character did they drag with them :)
Could happen!
Of course i know that.. thus my point of bringing people 'back to life' after they get a bunch of complaints and viewer share drops.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Does this new series mean that they are at some point going to shutdown the SGC?
Windows is as solid as quicksand.
That's the reason Farscape was axed. It was just way way too expensive a show to produce.
This article was supposed to pe posted around 8PM Eastern last night, and give away the episode's ending in the article title.
Way to go, editors.
Hmmm...even with that your eyes may happen to drift to the middle content before you can will them not to. How about a "spoiler" option in the comment post area (just below the "Post Anonymously" box). Click it and the text will be blanked out with something along the lines of "Spoiler post, click to display" or you could adjust your viewing options to browse with spoilers turned on/off.
A commander who can make a sarcastic jibe in every second sentence
A scientist who knows every different branch of science at genius level (and always having a wide eyed look gives bonus points)
The token geek who always gets the girl
I can't wait!
But then you have to remember one very important fact: No one really dies in Sci Fi. Tasha Yar anyone? I too wondered about Cassandra doesn't she turn into a really big loose end now?
Dr. Frasier died.
Guess I won't be watching it anymore. I am in love with that woman.
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
I mean, who the hell would want to see Wheaton in drag?
Wishing I was a millionaire since 1969.
The car shop I work at just got a letter stating that they would be filming down our street. They had a big film crew around Stokes Pit, in Surrey, B.C, Canada. Brandon
Has anyone else noticed the similarities between the stargate series and the writings of Brian Lumley?
For example:
1. Necroscope series -
- People can travel between worlds using "grey holes", Much like the stargate.
- Vampires are in fact leeches that infect a host body and increase the hosts strengths, senses etc. They also increase the ability to heal. Sound familiar?
2. The house of doors -
- In this novel, a large white mansion appears on a hill side. Inside is an alien called Seth. Does anyone here remember the episode of stargate where there was a cult in a large white mansion that was run by a man called Seth?
Hmmm, maybe that is why I like stargate and Brian Lumley books, as they have similar undertones.
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
Dr. Frasier didn't die, he is just doing the voice of Sideshow Bob full time now.
Wha?... Oh sorry, wrong Dr Frasier. My Bad
it is only after a long journey that you know the strength of the horse.
I've noticed the similarities Stargate series has to a series of writings by a series of anonymous authors known collectively as the Ancient Egyptians, whose similarities may also be shared with your author, Brian Lumley.
Vampires are longstanding foils for human as animal, animal as human, "what is humanity?" (think of them as the opposite of Star Trek's Spock or Data, and then the vampires like Spike and Angel are a 'creative' inevitability). The very nature of vampirism is to violate basic taboos (another reason they are sometimes portrayed as highly sexualized - Bram Stroker's Dracula - err, his succubi - compared to the mores of the time, for example). Throwing in the extra violation of 'human'ity with the actual physical invasion of a parasite to vampirism should be considered another inevitable evolution (the tainted blood and then genetics themes, taken to a new level - we are not 'transformed' as those are, but our will is raped by the descration of our bodies).
So, as for this all sounding familiar, yes. These ideas sound on the score of over a century old.
Going more offtopic, someone above "typoed" the correct name for the parasite race as "Ghoul" (yeah, I'm going to get it wrong too, but I'm sure this is closer) instead of 'Gou'ld'. Allow for a little elision, and you have the same word. I never thought of that the entire series, but it's a very fitting observation. T'eouc is always saying how "The [Ghoul] are only scavengers." The [Ghoul] live off of the life of others. And so on.
IMHO, the quality of writing for Stargate SG-1 has declined over the years (although the first few eps of this season have been good). Make no mistake, however, that Sci Fi Channel will probably screw this up. I say this because Sci Fi under Bonnie Hammer has shown a distinctive lack of integrity with respect to supporting real science fiction. Instead, the channel has invested in low-budget B-movie creature features which have little to do with traditional science fiction. These movies are profitable because they pull in shares as high as 1.8 - the average rating for a Farscape episode.
Thus far, Sci Fi has missed the mark with shows like Tremors (creature feature != sci fi), Scare Tactics (candid camera with a hateful edge), and their upcoming reality show Mad Mad House (absolutely nothing to do with fiction, much less science fiction). They might have something with "Tripping the Rift", but don't count on it - looks like a cartoon ripoff of Farscape to me (rift...uncharted territories, hello?).
The closest this channel has come to being a true Sci Fi channel is the recent Battlestar Galactica miniseries, which was actually quite good (although an obvious pilot for a full series, which I would like to see). Their continued diarhea of Stargate SG-1 episodes has turned them into the Stargate channel. Meanwhile, they've buried Farscape, Invisible Man, and failed to capitalize on Lexx reruns. They have completely missed the Star Trek franchise, with SpikeTV holding equity in Star Trek:TNG reruns, nobody doing Voyager or DS9 episodes, and UPN/Fox holding the monopoly on Star Trek: Enterprise (which is facing cancellation because of low viewership - hello, they only play it late nights on Fox, and UPN is not widely distributed, but I digress - this was a rant about SciFi). Don't forget Andromaeda, which is one of Gene Roddenberry's other progeny, and not a bad show (though hardly of Farscape / Enterprise caliber).
Sci Fi has also failed to capitalize other areas. TechTV and Cartoon network have the Anime market cornered, and Sci Fi has yet to even attempt to get something like Akira or Neo Genesis Evangelion.
Anyway, its highly likely Sci Fi will screw this up. They've screwed everything else up.
I'm told that kenn brown and Chris Wren of Mondolithic Studios are actively involved in the production design for _SG:A_. These guys are damn good (and big SF fans besides). I'm looking forward to seeing this.
The second gate on earth was in the artic.
Atlantis is buried under an ocean of ice.
Poleshift maybe?
Dr Who had the same 'keep the story moving' assumption!
Where ever (and WHEN ever) the Good Doctor and his companions travelled; every friend and foe spoke English:
"Sto-o-o-p! You will be exterm-m-minated!?!"
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(David Bowman, EVA near HUGE Monolithic Win-PC in orbit around Jupiter) "My God - its full of Malware!"
[i]Slashdot Kree![/i]
That's where broadcast beats broadband any day: if you try to slashdot a TV show, they'll just sit back and grin like maniacs as the ratings mount. I wouldn't mind seeing SG-1 slashdotted that way.
My friend, listen to my advice, it is said to you in a direct, ruthless manner because I'm forced to do so. I really would like to be more subtle...
GET A CLUE!