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They should have kept her as a little girl, she was so much creepier and benignly threatening than the hamtacular adult version. I liked how the Ori arc started out as a series-ender but it seemed like they had too many ideas on the table and ditched the good ones for the quick and easy. There were all these references to Arthur returning like they were building to something huge, the random girl pulls the sword out of the stone and....nothing. They entirely dropped that and just continued the stretched out quest for a thing that wouldn't be resolved till a really bad tv movie. Der Luftwaffle fucked around with this message at 03:32 on May 27, 2011 |
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richardfun posted:I thought Jack and Daniel were my favourite duo in the franchise. ...Jack Daniel's 
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May 29, 2011 20:52
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spronk posted:I'm on board with the other points, BUT NO CARTER? How could anyone hate Samantha Carter?? Especially season 1-5 Carter, where she was a virginal technospergin' asocial shut-in. I would watch a show that had all the various alternate-reality Sam Carters solving crime and physics problems in one universe. The metric I use for Carter becoming a poo poo character was her increasing use of that little handheld computer that was basically a goddamn tricorder to solve every single problem.
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Jun 16, 2011 21:13
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I thought it was kind of funny how they lampooned it after he died during that replicator arc and everyone was completely unsurprised when he materialized in Jack's office.
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Jun 19, 2011 04:55
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Mu Zeta posted:The Travelers were such Firefly rip offs right down to their engineer being a young spunky girl. Also threw some Battlestar in there for good measure. A shame they didn't show up more often, only having decent screentime in the super-duper space battle and the terrible rogue Asgard 2-parter if I recall.
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Jul 12, 2011 06:56
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The Dark One posted:You guys like to rag on the early Showtime-era episodes, but I thought this exchange was great. My favourite bit of all time has to be when Bratac starts describing the dangerous journey they have to make to blow the ship's reactor and Jack just drops two grenades off the catwalk. It so perfectly lampoons the ridiculous objectives in FPS games that I always forget that the show pre-dates most of them.
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Jul 26, 2011 02:37
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Yaos posted:Since when did Rodney get training on breaching and clearing a building? From taking classes with Daniel Jackson, nerdy-nerd-cum-overnight-galactic-badass I assume.
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Jul 30, 2011 07:40
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Rhyno posted:Indeed. The only time we ever saw bigger gates were the Ori's super gate things. I still wish they'd done an episode where a ship goes into a supergate and a small tube cross section comes out of a regular gate. Or the whole ship comes through, but really tiny.
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Aug 16, 2011 22:42
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The only terrible Stargate movie was The Ark of Truth because Ori are dumb, Adria can't emote and replicator zombies.
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Aug 21, 2011 06:23
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JetsGuy posted:
What a bunch of dicks those guys were. "Yeah I guess living in a veritable Eden would be cool if we were pathetic barbarians like you  "
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Aug 23, 2011 04:53
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JetsGuy posted:Oh, and then she nearly kills Daniel in "Forever in a Day". That was a great episode. Heavy machine gun on a MALP, we never really saw that level of death-machine improvisation again.
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Apr 4, 2012 14:38
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Daedleh posted:I know that the next film wraps up the Ori storyline, but still. What the hell? The real finale is Continuum which is great since it's basically a long version of a really good regular episode and most importantly, has nothing to do with season 10.
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Apr 18, 2012 07:14
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Syfy felt there was a severe lack of characters who could fight with sticks in the early scripts.
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Apr 20, 2012 07:29
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Start with the original 1994 movie, then do SG-1, then Atlantis, then the 2 other movies. But my personal preference would be just SG-1, Atlantis seasons 1-3 and then Continuum because the 1994 movie was weird, Ark of Truth was terrible and Atlantis was stale after season 3.
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bobkatt013 posted:You know other then having some of the best Atlantis episodes. Vegas and the giant replicator battle were the only ones that stood out enough for me to remember. The Siege was the series high point, most of everything afterwards was pretty forgettable.
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May 3, 2012 05:06
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I always wondered what the scale of that model was, because the detail made it look pretty drat big.
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May 24, 2012 03:19
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I can't even remember what the dragon thing was all about, maybe because it was so retarded. Wasn't it something like a guardian for the magical Ori-killing thing but turned out to just be a hologram and the macguffin turned out to be fake?
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Jun 15, 2012 05:58
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I don't think Claudia Black is the be-all-and-end-all of scifi actresses either. I saw her first in SG-1, then went back and watched Farscape, then saw Pitch Black and the SG1 movie and my conclusion was that she was pretty good with some great acting range (evil version was the best). I don't have a list of top female actresses but I guess she's up in the top half somewhere.
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Jun 16, 2012 17:03
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Given how troops were so expendable, I always imagined the gliders as not even having any aiming devices, pilots just had to go by feel like with the staff weapons.
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Jun 18, 2012 04:53
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Effingham posted:Hey, I'll take Tapping cleavage (heh) over Teyla cleavage any day. At least we got fanservice out of the Mongolian episode. Not to mention yak butter.
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Jun 28, 2012 18:36
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Noni posted:Aww I miss those snake helmets. It was a special moment between me and the television every time someone retracted their helmet and it conspicuously only opened halfway with a klunk, like a knight with a rusty helmet. Then there would be a cut to something else for a second and the Jaffa would be shown again, standing there with his helmet having suddenly retracted the rest of the way. It always struck me as odd that they had a full CG-sequence for the Horus helmets extending and retracting fully into their suits, but never one for the snake heads.
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Jul 23, 2012 23:45
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It got really weird and cheesy sometimes, but Jeremiah was a pretty great show.
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Aug 24, 2012 18:10
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Saw Joe Flanigan at work today, guy was reading psych books while having dinner as I tried my best not to stare from the bar. Seemed pretty nice, though no one else knew who he was.
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I'm in Toronto so I thought he was here early for the film festival but in hindsight it's more likely to be for Fan Expo. It was actually really strange how none of my coworkers knew of him or Stargate but when told that he was on a Space channel show, more than half of them went "Atlantis?" Der Luftwaffle fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Aug 26, 2012 |
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Aug 26, 2012 19:19
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MrBling posted:On the other hand, the episode where Maybourne is king of an entire planet is one of the best SG-1 episodes in the entire show, not just in terms of "mad with power" storylines. I thought it was the best because of First Prime Wayne Brady. They really missed the boat on getting him to spontaneously break into song for no reason.
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Jimbot posted:I must be a mutant to think that the first few seasons are probably the best mainly because we didn't get to the point of having big space battles with the bad guys and had to make due with inferior technology and use their hubris against them. When it got to us having fleets of space ships fight their fleets of space ships the show kind of lost something for me, but I still did enjoy it. Definitely enjoyed that as well - and watching our great military machine fall victim to the same hubris was fun as well.  "Ah don't worry about that mothership, these enhanced nukes courtesy of good ol american ingenuity will handle things   "...they have shields"And even when Earth got its first big spaceship, it was a rickety box that couldn't stand up to a single mothership. That said, I didn't mind all of the Earth space force stuff later because they took the time building up to it and after 7-8 seasons it was good to have a thematic shift. Der Luftwaffle fucked around with this message at 19:29 on May 2, 2013 |
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It's really funny when you start paying attention to the foliage and notice that in instances like that 2-parter set in South America, they're in the same forest but with a few strategically placed equatorial-tropical plants. It's honestly impressive how much mileage they got out of those outdoor locations, I never noticed similarities upon first viewings until Atlantis and the last season of SG-1 kept using the same goddamn log cabin villages.
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May 2, 2013 21:54
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Luigi Thirty posted:Apophis owns real hard. He was my favorite of the villains. I'll be forever by mystified by how they brought back him and all the old system lords in Continuum without any of them looking like they'd aged a day since the late 90s. Makeup or CG team deserve Emmys or something.
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Pops Mgee posted:The one where he flies the Prometheus is pretty badass. Don't forget the one where he (co)pilots a glider through a gate.  "YEEEHAAAAW"
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You really need the part where he then takes the new one and gives O'Niell the half-eaten one.
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Sep 29, 2013 21:11
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Pulaski was awesome for giving absolutely no fucks and Jonas was awesome for weather channel marathons and alien conspiracies.
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I still can't get over the fact that they cast him and never had him sing. A first prime breaking into showtunes would have been a series highlight.
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Even after SGA and Game of Thrones I didn't really like him as an actor, but for some reason, watching him spend an hour and a half ruining peoples poo poo nonstop in Conan converted me.
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Didn't he have some kind of scrap metal sword in his first few Atlantis episodes? Wish they'd kept that.
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Darth Freddy posted:That's actually rather good, isn't it? Did you plan to say that when you walked in? I still can't believe that they brought back all the old system lords for that and none of them looked like they'd aged a day. That is some spooky sfx or makeup skills or something.
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There was also that alternate future episode with the Arthur's Mantle shroud thing and how the US (or maybe all the IOA nations) were oppressing their own population with all the space-technology they'd collected.
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pentyne posted:I can't remember the exact quote but Shanks said he kept asking the writers "Hey, could I be less of a bumbling doctor and actually hold my own? The character has been on missions for years by this point and should know how to handle a gun" they told him to gently caress off so he walked, and then everyone hated Jonas so whoops, here's a much bigger paycheck please come back. I never understood the drama at the time and even less now because Jonas was a good character and highlighted the fact that another gun-toting space soldier on the team would have been completely redundant. Of course that doesn't mean that the token science guy has to be useless in a fight, but I don't remember Daniel being much of a liability in the early seasons and that was before he came back as a jacked bandanna dude.
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EvilTaytoMan posted:I always found it weird that we were supposed to take the Lucian Alliance as serious villains. They always seemed more like a minor annoyance at this point in the show. At least until I remember that the SG1 universe always favours the underdog, and at this point the Lucian Alliance is the underdog, not Earth. I think they were planning on making them into more of a terrorist organization for the Homeworld Command show that never happened, kind of using the same guerrilla tactics that SG1 had, causing trouble to the galactic powers. Also wow, you can totally pick out the reused Stargate sets from that trailer.
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Hewlett posted:You mean like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04raZVPk9q0 Weird, I remember seeing that show years and years ago but it was called Deepwater Black. I just assumed Dark Matter was a reboot. Der Luftwaffle fucked around with this message at 05:06 on Apr 11, 2015 |
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