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Well it's well known that Syfy mandated the new show to be BSG-esque since that was their big hit. They were getting away from fun scifi.
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If there was any justice in the world, when they cancelled SGU they should've brought back Atlantis. I don't care if they would've had to rebuild all the sets. That show easily had another 5 seasons in it.
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Jun 20, 2021 20:59
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At least a season of Atlantis being on Earth. Surely people on Earth would have noticed a city coming in from space.
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Jun 20, 2021 21:26
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They have a script for an Atlantis movie called Extinction. Should just release it.
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Jun 20, 2021 22:30
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Release WHAT, exactly? Even with a script, its not like they've done any scenes yet.
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Jun 20, 2021 23:58
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Vietnamwees posted:Release WHAT, exactly? Even with a script, its not like they've done any scenes yet. I assume just the script, but a few show have throws scripts to Dark Horse and had graphic novels made Google says a Stargate Universe Comic series exists. I remember following Fire Fly for a bit. SGU comics have to be bad right? Anyone actually read them?
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Jun 21, 2021 00:04
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I remember two issues coming out. Total amateur hour poo poo.
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Just finished Unending tonight capping off a long drawn out re-watch with the husband that started with Sydney's first lockdown last year. Few aspects of season 9 & 10 hit differently now..... Seeing Cliff Simon have fun with the Ba'al clones in the weeks following his death  Carter's incredulity at how quickly bizzaro-america abandoned democracy in The Road Not Taken.... How quickly they were able to put the lid back on a global pandemic......... Seeing one of the first "adult Adria" appearances on a large 4k TV for the first time made it really hilariously obvious when one of her "evil" cheapo contact lenses gets stuck in a wonky position and production either doesn't notice or can't afford to go again with the scene. It was my personal highlight of the season.
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Jun 21, 2021 11:50
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Cojawfee posted:At least a season of Atlantis being on Earth. Surely people on Earth would have noticed a city coming in from space. That they didn't even bother broach that in SGU means tr latter is not canon. change my mind 
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Jun 21, 2021 18:54
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Cojawfee posted:At least a season of Atlantis being on Earth. Surely people on Earth would have noticed a city coming in from space. They leaned hard into the "but it was cloaked the whole time" angle too hard. Pretty sure there would be a pretty big fireball from reentry regardless. They also can't keep San Francisco bay closed off forever.
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Jun 21, 2021 19:31
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alexandriao posted:That they didn't even bother broach that in SGU means tr latter is not canon. change my mind If there's one thing about this sentence that isn't canon it ought to be SGU. Atlantis landing on earth means the gate program would have to be public eventually, and also can you imagine all that available housing? You could rent an apartment for half market rate and the only downside is that your shower might blow up another galaxy.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:18
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There were a couple of other times that stretched credulity that they got away with it without someone noticing. Like the battle at Antarctica that only that one billionaire noticed apparently. And then that one building they beamed away and said it had a natural gas explosion or something. There were probably other instances that I'm forgetting.
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IRQ posted:If there's one thing about this sentence that isn't canon it ought to be SGU. Atlantis landing on earth means the gate program would have to be public eventually, and also can you imagine all that available housing? You could rent an apartment for half market rate and the only downside is that your shower might blow up another galaxy. My morning shower is heated by the dying screams of micro universes but that's okay it's the best drat shower I've ever had
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Jun 21, 2021 20:38
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While using a sulfate free soap in the shower does cause a large portion of the city to explode, thus destroying the local star system, no rational person would use sulfate free soap in this shower in the first place. An ancient simply wouldn't do that.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:43
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Even if they couldn’t see it I’m sure all San Francisco would feel that loving tsunami it created crashing into the water.
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Jun 21, 2021 20:50
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Invalid Validation posted:Even if they couldn’t see it I’m sure all San Francisco would feel that loving tsunami it created crashing into the water. It has aquatic dampeners to ugh put out waves at exactly the right frequency that as it displaces the water it I guess the displacement cancels the waves? I dunno it's all very scientific.
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pixaal posted:It has aquatic dampeners to ugh put out waves at exactly the right frequency that as it displaces the water it I guess the displacement cancels the waves? I dunno it's all very scientific. No there are waves shown when it lands on the second planet. I guess if you want to technobabble it you can say that they extended the reach of the inertial dampeners, which conceptually makes sense until you realise that that would also dampen people moving as well or something. I dunno. IRQ posted:If there's one thing about this sentence that isn't canon it ought to be SGU. Atlantis landing on earth means the gate program would have to be public eventually, and also can you imagine all that available housing? You could rent an apartment for half market rate and the only downside is that your shower might blow up another galaxy. Yeah. The thing is, according to SGU canon, Atlantis landing on earth basically might as well never have happened
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Jun 21, 2021 22:21
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They showed the first few pages of the Atlantis script and it said they flew the base to the moon. Atlantis also started a self destruct countdown and they figured out they had to bring it back to the pegasus galaxy to not explode. Then they go on a time travel shennanigans involving Todd and Future Todd.
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Jun 21, 2021 23:46
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That sounds fun as hell.
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Jun 22, 2021 02:06
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The best part of Atlantis was how they were always just mopping up from the last crisis when the next one comes along
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Jun 22, 2021 02:15
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Joe's blog has a bunch of stuff about a potential season 6 of Atlantis. The writers room was breaking down episodes when they got canceled.
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They wanted to keep things vague in SGU because they were desperately trying to get movies made behind the scenes. Revolution was supposedly going to be a story that has public disclosure of the program.
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They definitely seemed to be teasing the idea every once in a while for the last few seasons and then never did get around to making it public. I wonder how they would've done it in Revolution?
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Jun 22, 2021 04:57
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Upside: Earth's entire public finds out about the Stargate Downside: because it opens a singularity that consumes the mantle
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Brawnfire posted:Upside: Earth's entire public finds out about the Stargate Solution: they find an enormous planetoid from the same system that the naquadah asteroid came from and rig it to a hyperdrive set to disengage inside the Earth, replacing the vacant core with one of solid naquadah.  causes every volcano on the planet to erupt pure n-lava simultaneously. Earth not only has the Ancient and Asgard databases but is now the richest planet in the galaxy... and the first order of business is to buy a new ecosystem.Executive producer: Roland Emmerich
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I wouldn't trade the tv shows we got for it, but I really wish I could see the version of Independence Day that was actually a Stargate sequel.
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It's all pretty much right there if you squint hard enough. They basically just did a pallet swap and added a few pieces to make the new version fit.
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It's just occurred to me that the design of the alien encounter suits is even reminiscent of Jaffa/Ra headgear (in general shape, not the fact that they open up).
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I wonder if they would've still had the part with them flying into the mothership to upload a virus from an old Apple Mac Powerbook laptop.
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Nullsmack posted:I wonder if they would've still had the part with them flying into the mothership to upload a virus from an old Apple Mac Powerbook laptop. Its funny because its obviously just a recycled idea from the ending of Stargate anyway. [find a way to get a nuke into the enemy ship, boom done] If we do the simple 1:1 swap then Jeff Goldblum = good with computers becomes James Spader = good with language. So the idea of hacking in with a macbook just becomes "uses a macbook to alter his voice while talking in Ra speak and orders the shields down himself" Which is something SG-1 uses as a joke plotline later down the line anyway.
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https://i.imgur.com/3YN1G65.mp4
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I just finished rewatching all of SG-1, and now I'm sad. There just isn't another sci-fi show like this that manages to balance long term serialized continuity with excellent one-offs this drat well. Even though it has some doldrums and blunders, it's overall one of the most wonderful and unique shows I've ever seen. I'm gonna miss it a lot. I made notes of good episodes as I went, and these were the ones I considered to be the best overall.
Of the 3 major arcs the show goes through, I found the Anubis/Humanform reps arc from S5-8 to be overall the weakest - quite derivative of the S1-4 Apophis arc. Anubis is pretty bland, and humanform reps are the same stupid anthropomorphizing blunder as the Borg Queen. Neither bigbad are all that effective or interesting, and S5-8 really suffer as a result. I remember finding the sudden Fargate switch to be pretty jarring the first time through, but this time S9-10 were by far my favorites. So glad the show got to go out with its best material after 10 seasons. emTme3 fucked around with this message at 03:46 on Aug 11, 2021 |
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splifyphus posted:I just finished rewatching all of SG-1, and now I'm sad. There just isn't another sci-fi show like this that manages to balance long term serialized continuity with excellent one-offs this drat well. Even though it has some doldrums and blunders, it's overall one of the most wonderful and unique shows I've ever seen. I'm gonna miss it a lot.
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Unless it's a Teyla episode.
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Rhyno posted:Unless it's a Teyla episode. Also most of the pre-Jason Momoa. They tried so hard to make Sgt. Ford a thing he must've been personally related to a EP.
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pentyne posted:They tried so hard to make Sgt. Ford a thing he must've been personally related to a EP. They cast him as a regular and then demoted him to recurring after a single season, that's not really trying to make the character a thing.
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I saw him on some streamed panel recently and oh man is Rainbow Sun-Franks just a tiny bit bitter.
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Aug 12, 2021 11:57
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So is everyone that sat through his scenes.
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I'm nowhere near judging anyone's acting abilities but Ford was totally out of spirit of the team. He felt wrong.
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I didn’t think Mamoa was all that great either but he at least had a good physical presence.
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