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Peachfart posted:So I tried watching Atlantis for the first time after loving SG-1 for years and I bounced off the first two episodes pretty hard. Does it get... better? It felt like a terrible cheap knockoff of SG-1. the first season is rough imho season 2 gets way more interesting & fun i think
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It had that two-parter of Sheppard going ham which was very good. Season 1 was mostly middling, but I'm fond of the early expedition vibe when they're cut off from Earth.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 02:16 |
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Peragus posted:It had that two-parter of Sheppard going ham which was very good. Season 1 also had a pretty good ending that fed into sg1s season 8 end as well.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 02:27 |
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Can't get over the SGA "let's catch a wraith for interrogation" bit where they get stun grenades and tasers.. should've packed zat'nik'tel for your expedition.
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# ? Jul 11, 2020 09:24 |
putting this thread in the sarcophagus so it may rise once more
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 17:01 |
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# ? Mar 25, 2021 17:41 |
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I am still super annoyed that SGU ended the way it did. It had so much potential, and they had even written an ending for any season if they got canceled, but syfy waited until filming was done to cancel the series. I guess they never came out of storage once Destiny crossed into the next galaxy
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# ? Mar 26, 2021 02:13 |
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vortmax posted:I am still super annoyed that SGU ended the way it did. It had so much potential, and they had even written an ending for any season if they got canceled, but syfy waited until filming was done to cancel the series. It was worse than that. SyFy was allegedly open to renewing the show for a third season because it was finally finding its groove, and then MGM literally ran out of money as a studio entity, so they were the ones who begged SyFy to swing the axe on it because they were on the brink of bankruptcy and if Skyfall somehow flopped or under-preformed, then MGM was going to shutter for good. At least that's the story the head of SyFy at the time who made the call told the press in order to save face when a horde of angry Stargate fans began to batter down her inbox. I'm not entirely sure I believe that myself, because SyFy of the late 00s through mid 10s was a particular brand of both stupid and scummy, like a John Hughes movie villain made into a televion network and board of executives. They were so loving dumb that killing SGU led to there being no actual first-run space-based science fiction television shows on their science fiction television network for like 4 years, at least. SGU is going to be me one of my big unhealing TV open wounds and if I ever gained the power to rewrite reality, one of the bullet points on my list of things to change would be to give that show a full 7 season run plus a movie finale like SG-1 got.
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# ? Mar 26, 2021 09:35 |
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That was the point when they were starting to put wrestling and ghost hunting shows because it was cheap and popular rather than scripted shows right? Not to mention didn't NBC Universal also put some high school jock bro exec in charge who was all "science fiction is bad and for weird stinky nerds who don't have sex *shotguns a beer* can we put football on this channel?". Okay that's overstating but I do remember him being pretty down on the content of the channel. It's kinda hilarious in hindsight because very, very soon that stupid nerd stuff is going to be the biggest thing on earth and make billions. I can totally believe that MGM may have wanted SGU canceled because they were in huge financial distress at the time, I fogot why, was it they leveraged their debt against future sales of their classic movies or something?
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 05:35 |
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twistedmentat posted:That was the point when they were starting to put wrestling and ghost hunting shows because it was cheap and popular rather than scripted shows right? Not to mention didn't NBC Universal also put some high school jock bro exec in charge who was all "science fiction is bad and for weird stinky nerds who don't have sex *shotguns a beer* can we put football on this channel?". Okay that's overstating but I do remember him being pretty down on the content of the channel. It's kinda hilarious in hindsight because very, very soon that stupid nerd stuff is going to be the biggest thing on earth and make billions. Yeah, SyFy hard passed on multiple pitches for several Star Trek shows, a live action Star Wars TV show, and cancelled The Expanse. All of which are now making dump truck convoys of money for Paramount, Disney, and Amazon, respectively, while Universal... Well, you can watch reruns of The Office and 30 Rock on their streaming platform now, right? gently caress me, SyFy is/was duuuuuuumbp. Yes, with a p. Because they're that loving dumb.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 09:00 |
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The Division 2 should be a Stargate video game, too bad we'll never get it Though we're getting a Star Wars one
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 13:35 |
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Statutory Ape posted:The Division 2 should be a Stargate video game, too bad we'll never get it Years ago at E3 they showed off a Stargate video game and it looked so great. Objective based squad FPS. They canceled it shortly thereafter.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 15:16 |
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Bucnasti posted:Years ago at E3 they showed off a Stargate video game and it looked so great. Objective based squad FPS. They canceled it shortly thereafter. Teal'c actually gets stuck in it in a later season episode. The canceled Stargate MMO shows up in Universe, too.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 17:28 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Yeah, SyFy hard passed on multiple pitches for several Star Trek shows, a live action Star Wars TV show, and cancelled The Expanse. All of which are now making dump truck convoys of money for Paramount, Disney, and Amazon, respectively, while Universal... Well, you can watch reruns of The Office and 30 Rock on their streaming platform now, right? They can't really be blamed for not predicting in 2008 Iron Man would come out and be a huge hit and start a nerd poo poo renaissance and takeover. But what is unforgivable is them completely abandoning the branding of the channel and contributing to media homogenization. Stargate would be perfect for a resurrection right now. It wouldn't be hard to make a new story with a new threat and a new reason to start up the Stargate Program. It already had both a serialized and episodic format, so they can easily work with that.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 20:30 |
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our irl timeline is the dark one, if we get another stargate, the main bad guys will be some new version of replicators.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 20:32 |
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Statutory Ape posted:our irl timeline is the dark one, if we get another stargate, the main bad guys will be some new version of replicators. Yea there's real monkey's paw potential there. Also the guy who played Apothis was in the Expanse, briefly.
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# ? Mar 27, 2021 20:46 |
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Statutory Ape posted:In all fairness it takes a minute to realize the show is really about 3 friends playing a game of co op with each other and also sometimes including their Scottish friend <3 Yet another victim of cancer
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# ? Mar 28, 2021 00:35 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Yet another victim of cancer I wasn't 100% sure you were referencing his unfortunate tumor in the show and got scared for a moment and thought the actor died when i wasnt looking (the actor is ok)
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# ? Mar 28, 2021 00:44 |
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Was this before or during the time period where Sci-Fi/SyFy had a bunch of wrestling on?
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# ? Mar 29, 2021 04:26 |
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Lemniscate Blue posted:Was this before or during the time period where Sci-Fi/SyFy had a bunch of wrestling on? Atlantis ran concurrent with Battlestar Galactica and ended around the same time. SG-1, BSG, and Atlantis all going off the air 1-2-3 was the start of the death spiral. Immediately after BSG ended they announced their SfFy rebrand.
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# ? Mar 29, 2021 20:39 |
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This is the big ad they were running during the change from SciFi to Syfy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I34JWCY74w At least it introduced me to Goldfrapp!
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# ? Mar 29, 2021 22:01 |
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vortmax posted:This is the big ad they were running during the change from SciFi to Syfy That looked like an old overly-long, overly-pretentious movie theater pre-show ad for a new car or phone. The type where you don't know what it's even selling until they reveal the product at the end.
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# ? Mar 29, 2021 23:32 |
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SyFy Imagine Fantasy fragrance For him/for her
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# ? Mar 30, 2021 08:43 |
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Today's episode of SG-1 (6-11: Prometheus) starts with the SGC illegally spying on an American journalist. Nobody bats an eye, not even Quinn or Carter. Good to see them going for a more realistic depiction of the US military. Edit: episode did own tho OutsideAngel fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Mar 30, 2021 |
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twistedmentat posted:They can't really be blamed for not predicting in 2008 Iron Man would come out and be a huge hit and start a nerd poo poo renaissance and takeover. But what is unforgivable is them completely abandoning the branding of the channel and contributing to media homogenization. Brad Wright has been talking for a while about a new show in the same continuity in development, but who knows when covid will permit actual production.
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# ? Apr 8, 2021 04:18 |
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star gatin' across the universe having fun at SG-1 macguyver's a jerk
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# ? Apr 11, 2021 11:12 |
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theeeeere's jaffas in the B.C. quarry, B.C. quarry, B.C. quarry, there's jaffas in the B.C. quarry, shoot 'em now, o'neill!
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Goblin Craft posted:Brad Wright has been talking for a while about a new show in the same continuity in development, but who knows when covid will permit actual production. It and B5 really could come back and just pick up where the old shows left off.
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# ? Apr 12, 2021 08:49 |
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Reboot sg1 imho What's ryan Reynolds up to? Too bad bernie mac is dead, he'd be a great general hammond
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# ? Apr 12, 2021 15:14 |
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Post your worst sg1 reboot cast O'Neill - Sam Worthington Daniel - the Jewish guy from big bang theory Carter - chick who plays Hillary Clinton on SNL Teal'c - Jaden Smith
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# ? Apr 12, 2021 21:31 |
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banned from Starbucks posted:Jaden Smith You said worst sg-1 cast not worst cast ever no one will even film.
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# ? Apr 12, 2021 21:56 |
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O'Neill - Eric Andre Daniel - Benedict Cumberbatch Carter - Emma Watson Teal'c - Jimmy O Yang General Hammond - Jimmy Kimmel
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# ? Apr 13, 2021 00:00 |
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O'Neill - Robert Downey Jr Jackson - Mark Ruffalo Carter - Scarlett Johansson Teal'c - Samuel L Jackson Hammond - Old Chris Evans
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# ? Apr 13, 2021 00:11 |
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O'Neill - Dane Cook Jackson - CJ Miller Carter - Lena Dunham Teal'c - Aziz Ansari Hammond - Louis CK
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# ? Apr 13, 2021 01:58 |
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eminem as teal'c
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# ? Apr 13, 2021 02:26 |
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Instead of a voice modulator, Eddie Murphy does a spooky alien voice for all Goa'uld.
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Infinite Karma posted:O'Neill - Eric Andre this sounds like it would actually own, in the exact way that this scene is incredible https://i.imgur.com/G7VNPbj.gifv
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twistedmentat posted:It and B5 really could come back and just pick up where the old shows left off. Yes please. The B5 finale straight up takes place 20 years after the main body of the show, Just Do It. And Atlantis never resolved the Wraith, Destiny in SGU was going dark for a while between galaxies, bring them all back.
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# ? Apr 15, 2021 03:03 |
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Jazerus posted:this sounds like it would actually own, in the exact way that this scene is incredible That's the worst theremin playing I've ever seen
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Jazerus posted:this sounds like it would actually own, in the exact way that this scene is incredible God when if first watched Sherlock i really liked it, but then i rewatched it last summer because I had not watched the last season, and yea, the first season has some pretty great stuff going on, but poo poo like that is just wacky and totally out of character for any version of Holmes. It's very much in the autism is magic kind of filming that I'm sure people on the spectrum find insulting. Honestly, its probably more Martin Freeman than anything. I know a lot of people at the time hated that by the end of SG1, Earth was a galactic power but honestly, I loved it. It was a great journey to see earth completely outmatched by an ancient and technological empire but pulling wins out that built more and more until boom, they're on their power level.
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