Oh, please. It wasn't a bad movie. It was neither necessary for Tron to have a sequel nor was it a great or even good movie but it wasn't a bad film. It was mediocre with good visuals and decent cinematography.
If you want to bitch about horrible, unnecessary sequels to likable cult movies from the 80's try WarGames: The Dead Code
I would have to disagree. I prefer to sit at my desk and play games then on my TV. I only play games on my TV out of necessity, especially since many more games are becoming console only.
My 22" monitor from ~12 inches away provides a better experience for me than my 40 inch TV from ~6 feet away. Next is the issue of control scheme. In my opinion, for FPS, Third Person adventure, Strategy, and RPGs a mouse and keyboard are just more natural than a controller. Though I do keep a wireless 360 controller for arcade shooters, button mashers, 2D side scrollers, and some flight sims. I also love the multitasking nature of a PC. I can keep my IM window and a web browser in the background while I am playing and Steam has the dashboard so I don't even have to leave the game to pull up a quick webpage or send a IM. Another reason to play the PC versions of games is mods. The modding community have extended the replay value of many a game. Lastly, I don't know if you live alone or have multiple big screen TVs, but if you live with other people and only have one decent sized TV you can't always play when you want. Meanwhile nobody uses my PC but me.
I understand it really comes down to personal preference and situation. I have to disagree with your statement of the "majority of gamers" and "MMO gamers only doing it out of necessity". Maybe my viewpoint is skewed, but I know quite a few gamers who prefer PC over console for many of the reasons stated and their own as well. I just don't think it is as clear cut as you seem to be implying.
I was just in Target (in PA), today and they had quite a few turntables. I also went to Best Buy and they not only had record players, but *new* records as well including Thriller and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Basically, the ending of St. Elsewhere was that the entire show was a product of this kids imagination. Many of the characters of this show made cameos on other shows. Thus, the shows that they cameoed on are part of his imagination as well. Any cameos or spin-offs from those shows make those other shows imaginary and so on.
Plus all the insubordination has yet to cost anyone their job. I would love to call my boss and coworkers idiots to their face and deliberately sabotage them for my own amusement and face no consequences whatsoever.
I remember in Pulp Fiction Jules saying that getting thrown out of a window is no way for a nigga to die. Only in episode 3 for Mace to get thrown out of a fucking window.
That was the final insult for me. I can take alot shit from movies but that made me lose my appreciation for Lucas permanently. He could do a special edition of all the movies where he undoes all the crap and I will still not care.
Oh, please. You can't equate skin color (something you can't control) to choosing to take an electronic device with you.
No one is forcing you to bring in electronic devices. You can leave it in the car or in your bag or at home. No one is forcing you to patronize their establishment either.
It is not discriminatory in that they are not banning people from their establishment. They are only setting up a few ground rules which customers must agree to in order to do business with them. If people do not agree to said rules, they are free to go elsewhere. Just as many places have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy, if you bring an electronic device they reserve the right to refuse you service. If you go out and put the stuff in your car (or just keep it in your bag) they will happily do business with you.
I am not saying whether or not I agree with said policy or speculating if it will be good or bad for business. I am only saying that it isn't exactly discrimination.
The difference is that it is not discrimination if it is applied broad enough. If I ban Kindles it is discrimination. If I ban all ebook readers it is a policy. Just as I can't ban you from reading the Bible or Koran but I can ban you from reading books in general.
I agree that it is a pretty stupid policy, but it is their business and they will have to live with the consequences, good or bad.
Actually, Neo find himself in the afterlife where he challenges Death to board games with the stakes of reincarnation. After winning, Death takes him up to heaven where he enlists the help of two Martian scientists to create a robot Neo out of spare parts.
He goes back to Earth and he and Morpheus travel back in time in a phone booth with Rufus, do some shit, save Trinity from getting killed, and start a bad-ass band in the 1980s with Death.
There is a sweet ending montage to the song "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" by KISS where it is revealed that the Band, known as "Wyld Stallyns" creates world peace and stops the Matrix from coming into existence. Death has a brief solo career but eventually comes back. The End.
Why did she manifest as a human female? Why not as an app on a phone? That would be a more direct representation. Why doe she not know what sunsets look like? Can she not use Google image search? How will she, as a digital being, prove that she's in the US legally?
Not to become an apologist, as I had many problems with this movie including this one, but in the movie when they showed Flynn rewriting her "code" it was shown as DNA strands. Basically they more or less make the assumption that her digital DNA is on parody with real DNA, hence her ability to molecularize in the real world. Now either Clu, who isn't one of these digital lifeforms, either can't actually go through portal and is just delusional or they threw out the whole A-Life explanation at the end for the sake of making the Clu seem more threating.
As for the GIS, the computer was disconnected from any network (though it could somehow reach a pager that had no service for decades). It was an isolated computer which was probably a compromise with the writers as to avoid conflicts with the Tron 2.0 universe (which might explain no references to the existence or fate of Laura Bradley). Plus if Clu was that batshit crazy on just one system, imagine what havoc he could wreak on the Internet. But that would just turn him into a remake of the MCP.
The last question was deliberately left unanswered. However, with Sam Flynn's wealth, he could probably fix that problem.
While I cannot speak for the entire country, much less the world, I would say that I believe that not to be true. I and probably many other people are not just some freeloading assholes that download stuff because it is free. I would love to compensate the content creators directly. I would gladly give money to the shows I watch if done in a fair way.
However, think about it from my perspective. TV shows are free. I pay for cable which is the service that delivers the channels. With the exceptions of HBO and Showtime, I don't pay per channel. I get all the channels my cable plan gives me. I am not a Neilson home, therefore (as far as I know) there is nothing logging what I am watching when I am watching it. Even if I was watching a show, the network doesn't know. At that point what does it matter If I watch the show on TV or via Bittorrent. Commercials, you say! I don't watch commercials. I either go do something when they come on or just fast forward through them via the DVR that I rent from the cable company. So to sum up: the network doesn't know I am watching and I don't pay attention to their commercials anyway. As far as they are concerned I might not as exist even though I am a paying customer. Now what is the difference? The cable company still gets my check and I still watch my show commercial-free.
Now, what could the content producers do to compete with bittorrent for paying customers? Bittorrent videos are DRM-free and can be watched in the player of my choice on my computer and can be transcoded to be watched on other devices. They are commercial free and (usually) free from those crappy on-screen ads. With software like Miro they also download automatically with no effort on my part. Plus If I wish to burn them to a disc for later watching, no problem. For most shows, I can wait for the DVD to come out and then rip it with handbrake. It is much effort on my part but it makes watching shows easier for me and the content producers get paid. Unless people can rip a DVD like we rip CD's, just pop in and press go, this will never catch on in the mainstream. Download services would be fine if the videos came out same day as TV, are cheap, can be purchased cheaper with an automatically downloading season-pass type of deal, and can be watched on nearly anything or if the videos are free with limited commercial interruption--think cable TV with a DVR for my computer / video player. Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes may be good, but they have a long way to go before they can replace bittorrent in many people's minds.
I do not consider myself a freeloader. I pay for cable and I buy most of my shows on DVD. I won't defend people who decide to watch shows they don't "have the right" to watch. Is it a bad justification, probably, but tell me what is the difference between time shifting something with a DVR and downloading the torrent other then the device rental fee. I doubt I am alone in all of this.
Then again, I kind of like anti-heroes, like Dr. House, Rick Deckard and Thomas Covenant. And even well-developed antagonists like Dexter Quinn and Angus Thermophyle. As long as I get a glimpse into why the characters are as they are, it gives me much more than any number of goody-two-shoe heroes or one-dimensional Bond villains.
And you don't like B5? The characters are well written flawed human (ok, aliens too) characters. It takes a very different approach from Star Trek where you have the best and brightest solving problems or as someone put it "A bunch of pleasant people going happily about their day." The leads of the Captain and Ambasador Delenn kind of followed the old formula, though Bruce Boxleitner's character was way more colorful. We also have An XO with daddy issues who starts coming off as Mrs Chekov with a hatred of telepaths (especially one played by, ironically enough, Mr Chekov), a Doctor who was a hippie Galactic hitchhiker who becomes a drug-addict and Two security chiefs with questionable backgrounds, one of who is easily the most likable character suddenly turns into an asshole then into villain. The best parts of the show were Ambassadors G'Kar and Londo. G'Kar journeys from a character fueled by anger and revenge against Londo's people to a spiritually filled holy man advocating peace. Londo is the most tragic of all of them as he does many questionable things and downright horrible acts with the best intentions of helping his people.
Even the Villains are very morally ambiguous. The main antagonists, The Shadows, are not evil and have the best intentions in mind by doing horrible things--using chaos and conflict to spur survival of the fittest. Hell, the Vorlons and the Shadows later come off more as squabbling sibblings fighting over the best way to take care of their pets. Then we have one of the best Sci-fi villains, Bester. A Man who will do anything for his fellow telepaths but has little regard for human life as he sees them as we would see monkeys. In a place where the Psi-corps is Mother and Father, one can see why.
Babylon 5 is far from a Black and white world. I see it more as Star Wars meets the West Wing. Everyone has their own agendas and many will do what is necessary, good and bad, to complete their objectives. BTW, Season 1 is very slow, but season 2 onward is where it really comes into its own.
I thought B5 was more of West Wing in space--that turned into Star Wars for Season 3 and 4.
Can't say I liked the whole Franklin is a stim addict thing. I really hated the Garibaldi turning into an asshole story arc as well. Though I do appreciate the effect of purposefully taking the most easily likable character and flipping their personality around to the point of turning them into a villain.
I mean, the whole premise was bonkers. They can dial to this galaxy only from one particular planet, but they never discovered that this planet could dial that far previously? So why could they not have used that planet to dial Pegasus and reach Atlantis the whole time? The entire basic premise breaks canon in irreconcilable ways unless it was supposed to take place before Atlantis, but then they wouldn't have known about the eighth chevron, so they wouldn't have known to look for the ninth. It just doesn't make sense. And it's ridiculously convenient that the Lucian Alliance found out about the base at the exact moment that they figured out how to dial the ship. And you mean to tell me that they had a base on the planet, but no working shields? And so on.
As I understand it, there is nothing special about the planet itself that makes it the only place in the galaxy to dial Destiny from. The planet had some type of Geothermal energy source or something that gave them the power needed to dial in. They could probably tie a couple of ZPMs together and dial the gate. But since ZPMs are so damn rare, it is just more practical to use the planets natural energy. As to why they couldn't have used it to dial Atlantis, they probably could have. We don't know when it was discovered. Maybe the whole base was designed as a way to contact the Pegasus Galaxy after the Gate-Bridge failed before it was appropriated for Rush's research.
As for the Lucian Alliance, Yes it was convenient but what in a TV show isn't. When I first watched it, the lack of shields kind of bothered me too. With the Asgard library of knowledge, they can give shields to large ships but not a small base? While it is probably just sloppy writing it could probably be explained as "shields could have given the location of the secret base away", or "The harmonic distortion of the the shields would cause a inverted feedback within the trilithium power conduits of the ODN nodes creating a negative feedback into the plasma relays...", or even "They don't arrive until Tuesday"(TM).
IMO, the show has many problems, but for me the premise wasn't really it.
The biggest problem with Universe, though, is the word "Stargate" in the title. That brought along with it the expectation that the show would be similar to the previous shows. When it wasn't, it lost most of the traditional Stargate fans, and the word "Stargate" drove away many of the folks who might like this sort of series.
I couldn't agree more. I felt the same thing about BSG. But while the first couple of seasons of BSG were interesting, SGU just seems boring. I won't say that I dislike the show, just that I lost interest after the first season holiday break.
I bought the first season on DVD, so I am willing to give it another go. Lets just hope they give the series a proper finale and not just leaving it to the hope of a DVD movie that never gets greenlit.
Just mostly conjecture on my part, but naquadah generators are no where near near as powerful as ZPMs. It is supposedly like the difference between a 'AAA' Battery and a nuclear power plant, just magnitudes difference. They were used mostly to power their own equipment for Atlantis, not the city. As to why they may not have one, if it was powering their equipment, there may not have been time to disconnect it before the place blew up. Especially if it was powering things like the lights and rail guns.
ZPMs, on the other hand, are very rare. It has been a while, but Didn't Atlantis spend like half a season or more just looking for a ZPM just so they could power the shields after the last Wraith attack? I doubt there was a ZPM to be spared much less three.
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Oh, please. It wasn't a bad movie. It was neither necessary for Tron to have a sequel nor was it a great or even good movie but it wasn't a bad film. It was mediocre with good visuals and decent cinematography.
If you want to bitch about horrible, unnecessary sequels to likable cult movies from the 80's try WarGames: The Dead Code
I would have to disagree. I prefer to sit at my desk and play games then on my TV. I only play games on my TV out of necessity, especially since many more games are becoming console only.
My 22" monitor from ~12 inches away provides a better experience for me than my 40 inch TV from ~6 feet away. Next is the issue of control scheme. In my opinion, for FPS, Third Person adventure, Strategy, and RPGs a mouse and keyboard are just more natural than a controller. Though I do keep a wireless 360 controller for arcade shooters, button mashers, 2D side scrollers, and some flight sims. I also love the multitasking nature of a PC. I can keep my IM window and a web browser in the background while I am playing and Steam has the dashboard so I don't even have to leave the game to pull up a quick webpage or send a IM. Another reason to play the PC versions of games is mods. The modding community have extended the replay value of many a game. Lastly, I don't know if you live alone or have multiple big screen TVs, but if you live with other people and only have one decent sized TV you can't always play when you want. Meanwhile nobody uses my PC but me.
I understand it really comes down to personal preference and situation. I have to disagree with your statement of the "majority of gamers" and "MMO gamers only doing it out of necessity". Maybe my viewpoint is skewed, but I know quite a few gamers who prefer PC over console for many of the reasons stated and their own as well. I just don't think it is as clear cut as you seem to be implying.
I was just in Target (in PA), today and they had quite a few turntables. I also went to Best Buy and they not only had record players, but *new* records as well including Thriller and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
Here is an idea, don't go to 3D movies. Every single movie that I saw in 3D was also shown in *gasp* 2D. Yes, you can actually see it in plain old 2D.
So, why do you care if they are filming it in 3D, go see it in 2D or just skip it.
And yet the Lone Gunmen stay dead. It's not fair!
Jackson never died, only ascended which is not death.
Actually, Jackson died quite a few times, he usually just got sarcophagused. Hell, he even died in the movie. It practically became a running joke.
You want a long dream sequence, try the Tommy Westphall hypothesis.
Basically, the ending of St. Elsewhere was that the entire show was a product of this kids imagination. Many of the characters of this show made cameos on other shows. Thus, the shows that they cameoed on are part of his imagination as well. Any cameos or spin-offs from those shows make those other shows imaginary and so on.
That's funny, I thought it was Quark, Rom, and Nog.
Star Trek has been a comic franchise since the 70's. It is only fair that Scotty should be on that list.
Now, if only MacGyver had a comic book...
Plus all the insubordination has yet to cost anyone their job. I would love to call my boss and coworkers idiots to their face and deliberately sabotage them for my own amusement and face no consequences whatsoever.
I remember in Pulp Fiction Jules saying that getting thrown out of a window is no way for a nigga to die. Only in episode 3 for Mace to get thrown out of a fucking window.
That was the final insult for me. I can take alot shit from movies but that made me lose my appreciation for Lucas permanently. He could do a special edition of all the movies where he undoes all the crap and I will still not care.
Oh, please. You can't equate skin color (something you can't control) to choosing to take an electronic device with you.
No one is forcing you to bring in electronic devices. You can leave it in the car or in your bag or at home. No one is forcing you to patronize their establishment either.
It is not discriminatory in that they are not banning people from their establishment. They are only setting up a few ground rules which customers must agree to in order to do business with them. If people do not agree to said rules, they are free to go elsewhere. Just as many places have a "no shirt, no shoes, no service" policy, if you bring an electronic device they reserve the right to refuse you service. If you go out and put the stuff in your car (or just keep it in your bag) they will happily do business with you.
I am not saying whether or not I agree with said policy or speculating if it will be good or bad for business. I am only saying that it isn't exactly discrimination.
The difference is that it is not discrimination if it is applied broad enough. If I ban Kindles it is discrimination. If I ban all ebook readers it is a policy. Just as I can't ban you from reading the Bible or Koran but I can ban you from reading books in general.
I agree that it is a pretty stupid policy, but it is their business and they will have to live with the consequences, good or bad.
Actually, Neo find himself in the afterlife where he challenges Death to board games with the stakes of reincarnation. After winning, Death takes him up to heaven where he enlists the help of two Martian scientists to create a robot Neo out of spare parts.
He goes back to Earth and he and Morpheus travel back in time in a phone booth with Rufus, do some shit, save Trinity from getting killed, and start a bad-ass band in the 1980s with Death.
There is a sweet ending montage to the song "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" by KISS where it is revealed that the Band, known as "Wyld Stallyns" creates world peace and stops the Matrix from coming into existence. Death has a brief solo career but eventually comes back. The End.
Why did she manifest as a human female? Why not as an app on a phone? That would be a more direct representation. Why doe she not know what sunsets look like? Can she not use Google image search? How will she, as a digital being, prove that she's in the US legally?
Not to become an apologist, as I had many problems with this movie including this one, but in the movie when they showed Flynn rewriting her "code" it was shown as DNA strands. Basically they more or less make the assumption that her digital DNA is on parody with real DNA, hence her ability to molecularize in the real world. Now either Clu, who isn't one of these digital lifeforms, either can't actually go through portal and is just delusional or they threw out the whole A-Life explanation at the end for the sake of making the Clu seem more threating.
As for the GIS, the computer was disconnected from any network (though it could somehow reach a pager that had no service for decades). It was an isolated computer which was probably a compromise with the writers as to avoid conflicts with the Tron 2.0 universe (which might explain no references to the existence or fate of Laura Bradley). Plus if Clu was that batshit crazy on just one system, imagine what havoc he could wreak on the Internet. But that would just turn him into a remake of the MCP.
The last question was deliberately left unanswered. However, with Sam Flynn's wealth, he could probably fix that problem.
I prefer "Stargate: Voyager 90210". But that's me.
While I cannot speak for the entire country, much less the world, I would say that I believe that not to be true. I and probably many other people are not just some freeloading assholes that download stuff because it is free. I would love to compensate the content creators directly. I would gladly give money to the shows I watch if done in a fair way.
However, think about it from my perspective. TV shows are free. I pay for cable which is the service that delivers the channels. With the exceptions of HBO and Showtime, I don't pay per channel. I get all the channels my cable plan gives me. I am not a Neilson home, therefore (as far as I know) there is nothing logging what I am watching when I am watching it. Even if I was watching a show, the network doesn't know. At that point what does it matter If I watch the show on TV or via Bittorrent. Commercials, you say! I don't watch commercials. I either go do something when they come on or just fast forward through them via the DVR that I rent from the cable company. So to sum up: the network doesn't know I am watching and I don't pay attention to their commercials anyway. As far as they are concerned I might not as exist even though I am a paying customer. Now what is the difference? The cable company still gets my check and I still watch my show commercial-free.
Now, what could the content producers do to compete with bittorrent for paying customers? Bittorrent videos are DRM-free and can be watched in the player of my choice on my computer and can be transcoded to be watched on other devices. They are commercial free and (usually) free from those crappy on-screen ads. With software like Miro they also download automatically with no effort on my part. Plus If I wish to burn them to a disc for later watching, no problem. For most shows, I can wait for the DVD to come out and then rip it with handbrake. It is much effort on my part but it makes watching shows easier for me and the content producers get paid. Unless people can rip a DVD like we rip CD's, just pop in and press go, this will never catch on in the mainstream. Download services would be fine if the videos came out same day as TV, are cheap, can be purchased cheaper with an automatically downloading season-pass type of deal, and can be watched on nearly anything or if the videos are free with limited commercial interruption--think cable TV with a DVR for my computer / video player. Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes may be good, but they have a long way to go before they can replace bittorrent in many people's minds.
I do not consider myself a freeloader. I pay for cable and I buy most of my shows on DVD. I won't defend people who decide to watch shows they don't "have the right" to watch. Is it a bad justification, probably, but tell me what is the difference between time shifting something with a DVR and downloading the torrent other then the device rental fee. I doubt I am alone in all of this.
I don't know, Farscape was done with a bunch of Muppets and Masks and was excellent. Then again, it also had entertaining writing.
You've never seen the original version of the SG-1 pilot, have you? Full frontal nudity, though not from Amanda Tapping.
At least that was tasteful. As opposed to some pointless fucking.
Then again, I kind of like anti-heroes, like Dr. House, Rick Deckard and Thomas Covenant.
And even well-developed antagonists like Dexter Quinn and Angus Thermophyle. As long as I get a glimpse into why the characters are as they are, it gives me much more than any number of goody-two-shoe heroes or one-dimensional Bond villains.
And you don't like B5? The characters are well written flawed human (ok, aliens too) characters. It takes a very different approach from Star Trek where you have the best and brightest solving problems or as someone put it "A bunch of pleasant people going happily about their day." The leads of the Captain and Ambasador Delenn kind of followed the old formula, though Bruce Boxleitner's character was way more colorful. We also have An XO with daddy issues who starts coming off as Mrs Chekov with a hatred of telepaths (especially one played by, ironically enough, Mr Chekov), a Doctor who was a hippie Galactic hitchhiker who becomes a drug-addict and Two security chiefs with questionable backgrounds, one of who is easily the most likable character suddenly turns into an asshole then into villain. The best parts of the show were Ambassadors G'Kar and Londo. G'Kar journeys from a character fueled by anger and revenge against Londo's people to a spiritually filled holy man advocating peace. Londo is the most tragic of all of them as he does many questionable things and downright horrible acts with the best intentions of helping his people.
Even the Villains are very morally ambiguous. The main antagonists, The Shadows, are not evil and have the best intentions in mind by doing horrible things--using chaos and conflict to spur survival of the fittest. Hell, the Vorlons and the Shadows later come off more as squabbling sibblings fighting over the best way to take care of their pets. Then we have one of the best Sci-fi villains, Bester. A Man who will do anything for his fellow telepaths but has little regard for human life as he sees them as we would see monkeys. In a place where the Psi-corps is Mother and Father, one can see why.
Babylon 5 is far from a Black and white world. I see it more as Star Wars meets the West Wing. Everyone has their own agendas and many will do what is necessary, good and bad, to complete their objectives. BTW, Season 1 is very slow, but season 2 onward is where it really comes into its own.
I thought B5 was more of West Wing in space--that turned into Star Wars for Season 3 and 4.
Can't say I liked the whole Franklin is a stim addict thing. I really hated the Garibaldi turning into an asshole story arc as well. Though I do appreciate the effect of purposefully taking the most easily likable character and flipping their personality around to the point of turning them into a villain.
Still one of my favorites, though.
I mean, the whole premise was bonkers. They can dial to this galaxy only from one particular planet, but they never discovered that this planet could dial that far previously? So why could they not have used that planet to dial Pegasus and reach Atlantis the whole time? The entire basic premise breaks canon in irreconcilable ways unless it was supposed to take place before Atlantis, but then they wouldn't have known about the eighth chevron, so they wouldn't have known to look for the ninth. It just doesn't make sense. And it's ridiculously convenient that the Lucian Alliance found out about the base at the exact moment that they figured out how to dial the ship. And you mean to tell me that they had a base on the planet, but no working shields? And so on.
As I understand it, there is nothing special about the planet itself that makes it the only place in the galaxy to dial Destiny from. The planet had some type of Geothermal energy source or something that gave them the power needed to dial in. They could probably tie a couple of ZPMs together and dial the gate. But since ZPMs are so damn rare, it is just more practical to use the planets natural energy. As to why they couldn't have used it to dial Atlantis, they probably could have. We don't know when it was discovered. Maybe the whole base was designed as a way to contact the Pegasus Galaxy after the Gate-Bridge failed before it was appropriated for Rush's research.
As for the Lucian Alliance, Yes it was convenient but what in a TV show isn't. When I first watched it, the lack of shields kind of bothered me too. With the Asgard library of knowledge, they can give shields to large ships but not a small base? While it is probably just sloppy writing it could probably be explained as "shields could have given the location of the secret base away", or "The harmonic distortion of the the shields would cause a inverted feedback within the trilithium power conduits of the ODN nodes creating a negative feedback into the plasma relays...", or even "They don't arrive until Tuesday"(TM).
IMO, the show has many problems, but for me the premise wasn't really it.
The biggest problem with Universe, though, is the word "Stargate" in the title. That brought along with it the expectation that the show would be similar to the previous shows. When it wasn't, it lost most of the traditional Stargate fans, and the word "Stargate" drove away many of the folks who might like this sort of series.
I couldn't agree more. I felt the same thing about BSG. But while the first couple of seasons of BSG were interesting, SGU just seems boring. I won't say that I dislike the show, just that I lost interest after the first season holiday break.
I bought the first season on DVD, so I am willing to give it another go. Lets just hope they give the series a proper finale and not just leaving it to the hope of a DVD movie that never gets greenlit.
Just mostly conjecture on my part, but naquadah generators are no where near near as powerful as ZPMs. It is supposedly like the difference between a 'AAA' Battery and a nuclear power plant, just magnitudes difference. They were used mostly to power their own equipment for Atlantis, not the city. As to why they may not have one, if it was powering their equipment, there may not have been time to disconnect it before the place blew up. Especially if it was powering things like the lights and rail guns.
ZPMs, on the other hand, are very rare. It has been a while, but Didn't Atlantis spend like half a season or more just looking for a ZPM just so they could power the shields after the last Wraith attack? I doubt there was a ZPM to be spared much less three.
drive a big-ass truck and try to only hit small deer.
Also win the lottery and buy a helicopter. Some things are easier said than done.