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
Dammit Mandrake! said:
But do they burn Claudia Black to death in Farscape?
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First she went out like DiCaprio, freezing solid in some arctic sea, only to later get hit with a death ray that turned her into shards of gore which the Eidelons ctrl+z’d back into a body.

Joking aside, I’m sorry they parachuted them into SG-1 because it seriously harms their legacy. If they really had to drop Vala and Mitchell in there, should’ve just shipped them straight to Atlantis.
 
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Captain Syrup said:
First she went out like DiCaprio, freezing solid in some Arctic sea, only to later get hit with a death ray that turned her into shards of gore which the Eidelons ctrl+z’d back into a body.

Joking aside, I’m sorry they parachuted them into SG-1 because it seriously harms their legacy. If they really had to drop Vala and Mitchell in there, should’ve just shipped them straight to Atlantis.
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Ben Browder supposedly burned a ton of bridges by ghost-writing one of the worst season 10 episodes, Bad Guys, where SG_1 takes a party hostage. Everyone was out of character and Daniel was a fucking nutjob, (in part because he was pissed about the series ending and hating the script) and it just wasn't a well thought out premise. Browder got a ton of shit for it, and passed the buck to the main writers despite him creating the episode.
Claudia Black being this sex obsessed child-like brat annoyed the fuck out of me, but it doubly hurts because in everything else she's an S tier actress. A waste of talent by a waste of 2 seasons.
 
I unironically like the episode Bad Guys because it was written like the worst first contact possible where everything goes wrong.
 
Tsukasa Kadoya said:
Ben Browder supposedly burned a ton of bridges by ghost-writing one of the worst season 10 episodes, Bad Guys
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This dick also wrote "John Quixote" which probably deserves way more shit thrown at it. (It got sandwiched in the landfill that was season four.) I remember watching the commentary track, and he’s sitting there all hehe yeah, I know my script is bad but then every five minutes he’s comparing it to classic cinema, I’m watching it like, okay, where is the homage? I don't see it.

I had to conclude he's a stupid hick who just happens to be able to read words off a page real good.

I get Black was desperate to ditch the Aeryn thing and fair play (“Memento Mori” is quite good), but Vala is a hanger-on. And, yes, she's pushing forty and she's being given this 'sex kitten' thing to sell.... Wasn't she originally an intergalactic jewel thief or some shit? I feel like every sci‑fi show tries to shoehorn in their own Han Solo and it never works.
 
Captain Syrup said:
And, yes, she's pushing forty and she's being given this 'sex kitten' thing to sell.... Wasn't she originally an intergalactic jewel thief or some shit? I feel like every sci‑fi show tries to shoehorn in their own Han Solo and it never works.
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It's weird because they already tried introducing a character to increase sex appeal in the form of Freya/Anise, but they were smart enough to drop her after three episodes.
Tsukasa Kadoya said:
I mean, there was the episode where SG-1 was immediately captured and Teal'c was blinded.
I'd say that was a worse first contact.
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Or when they met Thor because they broke his security system and needed him to bail them out when the Goa'uld attacked.
 
Tsukasa Kadoya said:
I mean, there was the episode where SG-1 was immediately captured and Teal'c was blinded.
I'd say that was a worse first contact.
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Speaking of which, that guy who came back with SG-1 was never seen again. He was supposed to be Dr. Jackson's research assistant or something right? Perhaps he followed to closely in the steps of Dr. Jackson and died, but didn't come back.

 
indomitable snowman said:
Speaking of which, that guy who came back with SG-1 was never seen again. He was supposed to be Dr. Jackson's research assistant or something right? Perhaps he followed to closely in the steps of Dr. Jackson and died, but didn't come back.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=wjoxcb9MbnM
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My headcannon is he was the researcher in Atlantis that was partly fed on by a Wraith and blew his brains out due to the pain.
Back when the Wraith were genuinely a threat and were scary.
 
Captain Syrup said:
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This dick also wrote "John Quixote" which probably deserves way more shit thrown at it. (It got sandwiched in the landfill that was season four.) I remember watching the commentary track, and he’s sitting there all hehe yeah, I know my script is bad but then every five minutes he’s comparing it to classic cinema, I’m watching it like, okay, where is the homage? I don't see it.

I had to conclude he's a stupid hick who just happens to be able to read words off a page real good.

I get Black was desperate to ditch the Aeryn thing and fair play (“Memento Mori” is quite good), but Vala is a hanger-on. And, yes, she's pushing forty and she's being given this 'sex kitten' thing to sell.... Wasn't she originally an intergalactic jewel thief or some shit? I feel like every sci‑fi show tries to shoehorn in their own Han Solo and it never works.
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wasn't "Bad Guys" where they gate into some random museum dinner party and it turns into a hostage situation? i thought that one was good.
 
AnotherOne said:
Speaking of Star Trek after SG-1 season 8 Stargate essentially becomes Star Trek lite. Earth gets teleporters and battleships that can hop between galaxies in a matter of weeks. Those Goa'uld pyramid ships get obliterated like its nothing. The power creep is insane.
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I'm nearly at the end of Season 7 and SG-1 is already feeling overpowered with the Enterprise Prometheus and just wandering in to the big-bad's lair setting off C5. Nothing feels like much of a threat anymore.
 
INDEED said:
I'm nearly at the end of Season 7 and SG-1 is already feeling overpowered with the Enterprise Prometheus and just wandering in to the big-bad's lair setting off C5. Nothing feels like much of a threat anymore.
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Which is funny 'cause the Ori sweep in in the next two seasons and absolutely clown everyone and everything in the Milky Way. It takes a god killing machine, rogue god, and a mcguffin that's so op it doesn't make any sense to defeat the Ori.
 
Clown College 2nd Year said:
Which is funny 'cause the Ori sweep in in the next two seasons and absolutely clown everyone and everything in the Milky Way. It takes a god killing machine, rogue god, and a mcguffin that's so op it doesn't make any sense to defeat the Ori.
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the crossover episode where they use a nuke and a stargate vortex to simultaneously destroy a wraith hiveship and an ori carrier is one of the most badass scenes in the series and nobody will tell me otherwise
 
sodaboard said:
the crossover episode where they use a nuke and a stargate vortex to simultaneously destroy a wraith hiveship and an ori carrier is one of the most badass scenes in the series and nobody will tell me otherwise
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I really wish we had an episode where SG-1 and Shepards team worked together, or even swapped members. Daniel and Teyla would have been an interesting interaction to see on screen. The Teal'C/Ronin action movie episode was pure KINO.
 
People in this thread are really mad a sexy actress played a slutty character. Buncha Mormons.

I voted for Universe because they didn't constantly visit the Canadian forest and the women were crazy hot.
 
I think the premise is pretty solid for a sci-fi series, teams of soldiers and scientists go through an interdimensional portal and have adventures on other planets. Kind of like a contemporary or near future Star Trek without the ship.

That said, I'm not a fan of the whole ancient aliens thing. It always felt a little bit dismissive of the ancient Egyptians and their culture to portray their gods as alien parasites, it honestly comes off as just another example of modern Hollywood trying to make everything materialistic with no room for metaphysics or the supernatural. They didn't do anything interesting with them either, the goa'uld are basically just cartoon villains treated as disposable fodder for cheesy action flick plots, and any kind of religious or mythological significance is lost, kind of like how you could kill Thor or Odin in early DnD. And of course their Jaffa slaves would want to rebel against them and become secular humanists. I honestly don't see something like that happening in real life, it takes more to undo a lifetime of religious and cultural indoctrination than some guy giving a speech.

Also this is more a budget thing than anything else, but I got tired of Canadian forest planets pretty quickly. If you watch a lot of foreign films from Asia or East Europe like I do, then having people on a completely different planet speaking English and running around in the backwoods of British Columbia dressed in cheap renaissance fair costumes breaks your suspension of disbelief pretty quickly. I haven't seen Universe but if it can make the alien environments actually look alien, then that alone puts it ahead of SG-1 in quality, at least in my book.
 
BIONICLE 10127 1 said:
And of course their Jaffa slaves would want to rebel against them and become secular humanists. I honestly don't see something like that happening in real life, it takes more to undo a lifetime of religious and cultural indoctrination than some guy giving a speech.
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They didn't though. The Jaffa Council was fundamentally a provisional government that got BTFO when the Ori showed up. Pretty sure the reason why Teal'C went back to SG-1 was because he got tired of Jaffa politics.
 
I'm making slow, steady progress through Season 1, and The Nox was a particular standout episode to me.

Seeing Quark as a seemingly goofy little pacifist alien with a funny wig was a real hoot. I particularly liked the last bit of the episode where Jack is talking about the strong protecting the weak, then Quark reveals the fact that the Nox could easily skull-fuck the Goa'uld without even breaking a sweat. The Nox are pacifists because they can be. Warfare would be no more of a challenge for them than breathing.

THAT was a great episode of classic sci-fi TV that Hollywood is utterly incapable of making anymore.
 
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