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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."
And drown at the bottom of the ocean?
Count me out!
I have been pwned because my
No thanks, I've pretty much ignored anything from the network that killed Farscape so that it could pay for Tremors: The Series.
I can't stand Charlton Heston nowadays. The guy's become a gun-nut apologist. I say damn him. Damn him to hell.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
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...
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
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.
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
If you saw the special they showed last christmas there was an outtake scene where the pretty blonde (don't know her name) says to him "CMON MCGUYVER YOU'VE GOT A STICK OF BUBBLEGUM AND A THIMBLE, YOU MUST FIX THE STARGATE"(or something to that effect), much laughter ensued, so his being forever tied to mcguyver is well known :)
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I've got news for you. English IS the most widly used language in the galaxy. I think it has something to do with the fact that if you speak English really slow AND REALLY LOUD then just about everybody can understand you (they might pretend like they can't, but that is just them being rude).
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.
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.