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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."
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
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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Well that's why they send probes out first.. (duh!!) :)
http://allstargate.television-series.com/atlantis/ (The second 'here' link) is just a redirect to http://www.paysforsurveys.com/
They are sharing sets with SG-1 down in Bridge Studio's here in Vancouver and so far by looking at the rigging setups looks like they aren't going the cheap route. One of their sets is one they have taken over from Blade 3 named the "Phoenix" set.
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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In the show:
There are two stargates on earth. one was lost in the antartic and a second one was built. (By the ancients, millions of years ago or something). Only one can be used to receive at any time since they have the same coordinate, but both can send. (There was an episode where the second gate gets stolen/misplaced by the military)
An overload on the circuits makes the incoming wormhole jump to the second stargate. (Used in the episode where they discover the second gate, O'Neill almost freezes to death in the Antartic. They finally figured out what was going on and fly out to rescue him. Also used in the stolen gate episode)
The addressing grid size seems to be large. In one episode Daniel is on a Goa'uld ship that is about to blow, looks out the window and sees earth, and realizes he's close enought that he can use earth as an origin point, so he survives by leaving through the gate. So, yes, the gate address is the same to earth orbit at least.
Actually, I should say there were two gates on earth. In one episode the Goa'uld find a way to overload earth's stargate to make it blow up. The Humans send the gate to outer space on a ship with a experimental hyper-drive, and it blows up. The anti-gate weapon is destroyed, and the SGC gets the second gate from the russians.
Yes, I'm a geek.
Your an idiot sir, the show is so loosely based on the movie. The show is several magnitudes better than the movie was, normally when I introduce people to the series I present the movie as if were merely a history book. The movie was mediocre, but the TV show was initially a Showtime creation. Quality Sci Fi.
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Interesting how they would sneak in a reference to ""MacGyver" in each eps.
Actually, it's neither.
As I've just realised, www.television-series.com is hosted by Web1000.com, who have a lovely habit of redirecting users from non-US countries to crappy advert sites, usually porn.