Court Returns Stolen Stargate MMO To Founder

An anonymous reader writes "A Maricopa County Superior Court judge has ended a bitter dispute over control of a Mesa video game company's assets, effectively giving the online combat game Stargate Resistance and the long-delayed MMORPG Stargate Worlds back to Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment. Fresh Start tried to remove all of Cheyenne Mountain's assets from its offices on Feb. 24, but was prevented from doing so when the police arrived. Networking cords had been cut and left to hang loose, and PC cases were empty shells that had been gutted of components such as hard drives. But time may finally have run out for Worlds, Cheyenne Mountain's signature project: The ruling comes as MGM Studios has apparently terminated the license it granted in 2006 for the Arizona company to produce video games based on the Stargate movies and TV shows."

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Re:I mourn the loss

[CAIMLAS]

Compare this to the re-imagined BSG, where the Cylons might have had a plan, but it became very evident they weren't letting the writers in on it. After what was the lamest and literally the most deux ex machina ending ever that was the final episode I didn't think I could ever be as infuriated after watching a show (well, Lost proved me wrong, but I digress).

What? That makes no sense at all, unless you're speaking literally, "the god from the machine". But you said that. However...

There was constant forward-reference to the eventual ending, starting with the very first episode of the miniseries. It becomes apparent when you watch the first episode a second time. There was nothing abrupt about any of it (though the 'selection' of the 'final 5' was seemingly not entirely planned out). "What will happen has happened before" with constant references to God ("the Cylon God") not being the same as the Gods, but being superior - and so on. If the ending was abrupt or out of place to you, you weren't paying attention to half the show.

(G'kar and Londo make totally up for it though in my opinion)

Egads. They were the least believable characters! What's next: a gurgling puddle of slime in the staring role?

Re:I mourn the loss

[CAIMLAS]

That's certainly how it started! And what nice boobs they were.

One episode in and I was hooked, though.

I didn't watch BSG, Firefly, Dollhouse, and hell, even Stargate, until they were almost done showing/were done showing (BSG - started watching S1 when S6 was showing; SG1, started @ season 1 when S9 or so was on TV). Why? Because I'd avoided them, thinking they were in the same class of shlock as B5 and Andromeda: horrible acting, worse props and races, and abhorent writing which focused on things which were so detached from anything relateable or real to throw it firmly into "fantasy" (eg. alien races, which look like us, talk like us, and generally behave much as we do).

I strongly disagree on the 'philosophical stuff not belonging in scifi' point. Strongly - and so did Isaac Asimov, who arguably helped create Science Fiction. Philosophy, and the meaning of life, is an important emphasis within all (good, true) scifi. The "science" is merely a plot device, and to get hung up on it for the telling of the story is, IMO, as shortsighted as going into a strip club to drink. (Sure, they've got liquor there, but that's not why you go to the strip club. Not that I do, or anything.)

BSG is horribly slow and dull if you overlook the 'human' and philosophical elements of BSG, though. I'll grant you that.