Any Stargate fans?

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Your favorite?

  • SG-1

    Votes: 134 86.5%

  • Atlantis

    Votes: 13 8.4%

  • Universe

    Votes: 8 5.2%

  • Origins

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    155
SG-1 was good times. In the 90s and very early 00s we'd always very quickly run home from school because SG-1 was airing, and only meet up outside afterwards.
I saw a bit of Atlantis but probably didn't get into it that much at that point. Never seen the other two.

The theme tune is really great. I think that was taken from the movie tho.
 
SG-1 is a show I come back to almost as much as TNG. I think it's a very underrated sci-fi show. It's got a great cast of characters, and rides that good line between campy and serious. Atlantis is a pretty good spin-off. Not quite as good, but I'd rate it pretty high on the list of spin-offs in the grand scheme of things. There are some lines of dialogue that'll always be stuck in my head from SG-1.

>Carter: For "celestial body" he wrote "Uma Thurman".

The show has a great aesthetic too. It's one of the last few Western sci-fi properties where it felt like some effort was put into the look and mechanical design of things.
 
A little late, but Amazon has purchased MGM and now owns Stargate. The movie is leaving Netflix in three days, unsure about the show. There are nice compilation sets of the series on pirate sites. Grab one so you have this show before Amazon starts messing with it.

On a scale of -1 to -10 (with -1 being the worst and -10 being the worst) how bad will the Amazon reboot of Stargate be? They probably won't even run around in forests for 20 minutes each episode.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
A little late, but Amazon has purchased MGM and now owns Stargate. The movie is leaving Netflix in three days, unsure about the show. There are nice compilation sets of the series on pirate sites. Grab one so you have this show before Amazon starts messing with it.

On a scale of -1 to -10 (with -1 being the worst and -10 being the worst) how bad will the Amazon reboot of Stargate be? They probably won't even run around in forests for 20 minutes each episode.
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I will give it a -10. Their probably won't have forests that look like Canada and Telc will constantly talk about how black he is.
 
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Airbrushed Van Art said:
Eh I really liked the original movie with Kurt Russell and James Spader and cool special effects. It was awesome because it was so mysterious.

The show was… eh… as a movie fan, anyway.
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The movie has its merits. I'd say it's the best Roland Emmerich movie, but it's got some rough elements. There's some dumb logic at certain parts of the film and some of the dialogue is kinda stupid. I love the movie, but I think the show does a better job overall. Still, I love the art direction and set design for the movie. Had some really cool, for the time, visual effects too.
 
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Sex Cannon Lupa said:
Why isn't the movie, the real Stargate, in the poll?
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Most fans of "Stargate" became fans of the franchise because of SG-1, in retrospect, the movie is seen as a rough draft of the concept while the TV series that followed became the de-facto Stargate because it fleshed out the story and greatly expanded the lore behind the mystery of the Stargates. There is also the role that Richard Dean Anderson played by making Jack O'Niell a far more charismatic character than the one Kurt Russell played in the movie.
 
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Mike Stoklasa said:
On a scale of -1 to -10 (with -1 being the worst and -10 being the worst) how bad will the Amazon reboot of Stargate be? They probably won't even run around in forests for 20 minutes each episode.
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It's honestly too early to judge. There are so many choices they could make.

Even the series that's been in development which follows up the other shows. That may or may not be good. Is it serialised? Does it have stand-alone episodes?

Personally, I kind of hope they take a less traditional approach. Don't just have a new main series. Why not back a bunch of movies and miniseries with different focuses that follow up the originals. Build out where the characters and stories are now. Then have a series built of that.

There's also the possibilities of if they could implement virtual production like The Mandalorian, but then that would also possibly be bad to feeling like Stargate if over used over sets and locations.
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
On a scale of -1 to -10 (with -1 being the worst and -10 being the worst) how bad will the Amazon reboot of Stargate be? They probably won't even run around in forests for 20 minutes each episode.
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If the Amazon overlords go with the current canon, -10. The present canon is dead as fuck without really screwing it over or messing up the whole thing. I cannot see pushing the story forwards without shoving 'modern politics into it or making a very boilerplate story. What else is there to explore without a rehash?

If a new cannon is created that goes in a new direction, -1. There are lots of cool directions and stories to be had and endless space to push into. However, handing this potential to current writers without HEAVY oversite is going to be a shitshow AND the rabid howling from the fanbase will be defining. They are so autistically bound to the SG1 storyline they will reject anything new no matter how cool it could be.
 
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I think SG1 was good the whole way through. In truth, SG1 takes two or three seasons to really find its feet - some very iconic episodes are in those seasons, but so are some very 'let's forget this ever happened' episodes that will turn a first time viewer off from the show entirely. Atlantis was good at first, and I appreciated that they didn't drag out the 'will they ever re-establish contact with Earth' thing out more than the first season, but I'd say season 3 or 4 it started to fall apart as the writers clearly had lost interest and wanted to move on to their new baby. Universe singlehandedly sank the entire franchise, and their refusal to accept this has stymied all their attempts to reboot it.

Season 2 was...okay, i guess, compared to season 1, but that's an extremely low standard and it was far too little too late to save it. I don't really recommend anyone who hasn't already watched Universe to bother watching it even if they're doing a complete Stargate watch. Go watch Infinity and pretend the children's cartoon was their last entry instead. Given they still refuse to accept that they drove off their own fans and still play the 'people were tired of Stargate' card to defend themselves, I've no confidence any remake or relaunch will be any good. I've heard they're planning something and inviting a bunch of the old cast back for it, but last I saw Ben and Claudia weren't included and RDA is still retired. I think it's a shame that Ben and Claudia take a lot of heat, as if they're to blame for SG1 being cancelled, when the producers themselves pulled the plug in spite of its popularity just because Destiny was such a massive budget sink they couldn't afford to run anything but Stargate: Destiny.
 
Allanon said:
I've no confidence any remake or relaunch will be any good.
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As long as they keep Joe Mallozzi and Robert Cooper away from it it might turn out to be ok. Given that the show they made immediately after SGU, Dark Matter, was pretty much all the really awful parts of SGU with a slightly different coat of paint it's pretty obvious they were the ones responsible for it sucking so bad.
 
Goodbye Horses said:
As long as they keep Joe Mallozzi and Robert Cooper away from it it might turn out to be ok. Given that the show they made immediately after SGU, Dark Matter, was pretty much all the really awful parts of SGU with a slightly different coat of paint it's pretty obvious they were the ones responsible for it sucking so bad.
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Strangely enough, even though they hated on SG1 and Atlantis and claimed they were so terrible compared to Universe, they were the ones who made SG1 and SGA. Maybe someone was wrangling them behind the scenes, given that after they cancelled SG1 they also drove Atlantis off of a cliff, quality wise - as if whoever was controlling them let go at that point. They pushed a hated character on everyone and openly admitted the terrible romance they focused on was just wish fulfillment for them, which is something they avoided doing so hard in SG1 that they fired Corin Nemec after a single season and didn't even keep his character as recurring, and barely kept Pete (Sam's most fan-hated romance) around half a season. I've been told the reason Sam and Jack had such an extreme slow burn romance was because the real life airforce didn't approve of Jack getting with his subordinate, so maybe the one doing the wrangling was the military itself. Imagine what it would say about you as a writer if the consultant trained not to write but to shoot people is better at making television than you are.
 
Rewatching SG1 atm and it's just as fun as I remembered it.
Currently at the season 2 episode where O'Neill and Teal'c switch bodies, these episodes are always fun. The actors did a great job playing each other's characters.
 
Meriasek said:
Currently at the season 2 episode where O'Neill and Teal'c switch bodies, these episodes are always funxxx. The actors did a great job playing each other's characters.
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" If I am to remain in this body I must shave my head."

Sadly the Machello followup episode with the brain slugs wasn't nearly as good.
 
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