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Post by voyager on May 23, 2004 0:26:45 GMT -5
well atleast they kept it going with the series
Alot of times when a series spins off into a series, they forget the ending to the movie and just start the series
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Post by Chris3123 on May 24, 2004 0:36:51 GMT -5
The movie was pretty good, but I like the series better. RDA is way better that Kurt Russell, especially since Russell's O'Neil has no sense of humor. Sure they did. The pilot showed a few guys watching the gate and suddenly Raa (or whoever)... It was Apophis, actually. Ra died in the movie, remember? And ZERO, O'Neil said "Send my regards to King Tut, asshole."
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Post by valderra on May 24, 2004 3:06:57 GMT -5
The movie was pretty good, but I like the series better. RDA is way better that Kurt Russell, especially since Russell's O'Neil has no sense of humor. It was Apophis, actually. Ra died in the movie, remember? And ZERO, O'Neil said "Send my regards to King Tut, asshole." That´s why I said "or whoever" because I couldn´t remember the name.
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Post by ZERO on Nov 2, 2004 2:15:58 GMT -5
I remember I watched the movie when I was about 8 and I loved it. I didn't understand most of it but the action was cool I love when Kurt Russel says "Give my regards to your king you retrarted ass-hole!" After the movie, I remember the show premiered in Australia, and when it had absolutely nothing to do with the movie, I dogged the show. I just couldn't get onto the thought that nobody from the movie was in the show (well maybe a few, but different actors). The movie really rocked
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Post by oblivion on Nov 7, 2004 2:35:05 GMT -5
Maybe the two hour premier of SG1 is what people think of as the "second movie"?
I am watching SG via Netflix. Watching it for the 1st time. So I'm going to have to tip-toe around this forum or ruin suprises.
I have this really bad habit of "figuring it out" within 5-10 minutes. I do this with Star Trek too...My brain was marinated in TOS, and I've watched every series from start to finish in order on DVD (well still working on Voyager). I LOVE Netflix!
Even worse than "figuring it out"...I also blurt it out. Resulting in groans and curses from hubby and sons. Fortunately my dog doesn't mind if I ruin the ending...OTW I would feel (deservedly) an unloved spoilsport.
At least the plot twist on SG1 doesn't involve "subspace anomalies" and "gravometric fields". My youngest has these plot devices ALL figured out on TNG and Voyager. We're still trying to figure out the hoary chestnuts on SG1.
Please...nobody reveal the hoary chestnuts... ;D
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Post by ZERO on Nov 13, 2004 21:28:41 GMT -5
Lol. That part rocks. I don't like the TV show at all. I've only seen it like twice and I never cared to watch it again. ;D
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Post by oblivion on Nov 14, 2004 1:47:50 GMT -5
My favorite line from the SG movie was "I'm on Planet X and I'm looking for a dweeb". This line gets reprised at our house all the time when somebody is either MIA or has managed to do something unthinkably geeky or (worse) dumb.
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Post by oblivion on Nov 16, 2004 0:35:55 GMT -5
We just watched two more episodes tonight on DVD (I LOVE Netflix). After each one, we all said "WOW, that was a GOOD episode!" and other stunned mumbles of "Oyez".
That's the cool thing about Stargate SG1. We've never said. OK...that turned out to be LAME!
Same can be said of DS9 (after watching them in order). When we caught Voyager hit or miss, we sometimes thought "Ehhh". It's better in order, but I still think they had off episodes.
I can't think of an off episode of DS9...they had a vision and they carried it through with bravura and aplomb (practicing my vocabulary). So far, Stargate is equally true to their vision...and like DS9, we wonder where it is headed. NOBODY SPOIL IT FOR US! We're seeing it for the first time and I'm avoiding official and unofficial websites like the plague. Though I did have to check to see if the full frontal nudity of the TV pilot was typical or was a gimmick. Fortunately it was a gimmick. Which is good, because my kids are LOVING SG1.
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Post by oblivion on Nov 19, 2004 11:12:11 GMT -5
So far, the only real off note that I can't seem to get over with SG1 is the cultures they visit. In the first few episodes they made an effort to cast actors who ethnically LOOKED like the groups that were supposedly transplanted from Earth.
But in Season 2 and 3, that effort seems to have fallen by the wayside. Although more and more episodes are about cultures, civilizations and species that didn't originate on Earth, there are still many that feature offshoots of Earth civilizations.
In a recent one "Learning Curve", a technologically advanced society using nannites to increase (and share) their brainpower and learnings, the Orbanians were supposed to have originated with a pre-Mayan Central American culture. But most of the adults shown on screen were quite Anglo-Saxon looking, and a few of the children even had freckles, as well as blond hair. If we were talking about several thousand years on a different planet with a different climate, I could buy into the idea of genetic drift to account for such a dramatic change in genotype. But Pre-Mayan? The earliest civilization I know of in Central America is the Olmec, and they seem to have emerged about 3000 years ago. Not quite long enough for some SERIOUS genetic drift.
So, I felt that the casting department got lazy. Surely there were plenty of latino and latina actors that could have been cast for that episode.
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Post by oblivion on Nov 24, 2004 1:56:42 GMT -5
Okay...I'm slow sometimes, no question about that. I've been trying very hard to figure out why I like Stargate so much given that I'm a born-again trekker -- enough to choose SG1 over Star Trek when 2 DVDs of unwatched goodies arrive on the same day.
The anthropology hooks are at least as attractive as the air force "rules" are a turn-off. But that doesn't explain why I love watching the series and will pass up a new Voyager DVD for a new SG1 DVD time after time. Then, tonight, it hit me. It's the chemistry between the actors. There hasn't been that kind of interplay between characters on an ST since TOS. Teal'c, Daniel, and Jack are every bit as good at the raised eyebrows, the muscle jump in the jaw, the glassy stare, etc as McCoy, Spock and Kirk were. THAT's what sets SG1 apart for me and why I enjoy it despite all the baggage*. It's in the little things that go on between the characters. I just watched the episode where O'Neill infiltrates Mayfair's "acquisition team". Seeing the SG1 team aghast at O'Neill's apparent jump off the deep end made me realize that you can't DO an episode like that unless your ensemble is completely solid, and certainly not for a few seasons. The only problem with the episode was that I am CONVINCED that the whole team would have smelled a fish and never bought the forced retirement for a second.
(*baggage -- I spent my teen years in a huge air force town, and before that it was Redstone Arsenal and NASA. I am allergic to brass).
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