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I love how on Stargate Atlantis the gate is the equivalent of a digital phone and can be dialled in seconds so the first time someone does the “Chevron 1 encoded” bit everyone gives him a dirty look because he’s just wasting time.
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Bedshaped posted:did they ever explore what happens if you send a DHD through the gate it is controlling? There was a whole episode about the equivalent to trying to dial your own phone number, but with a Stargate.
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May 21, 2020 21:48
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Statutory Ape posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZkqOKD1uFU Stargate Atlantis rules. It’s probably the reason why I was able to stomach Mass Effect Andromeda more than most people could, that game has some Big Atlantis Energy going for it in some places so I was like “Okay, I can kind of dig this.”
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May 21, 2020 22:11
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XxC5NgxRU8 If this clip doesn't convince you that you should really watch Stargate Atlantis I don't know what possibly could.
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May 22, 2020 09:19
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ratchild13 posted:I've been watching SGU lately, and really like the ship and the whole stranded with no resources idea. Shame it got killed after season 2. The explanation that came out eventually was that SyFy tepidly wanted to give it a third season, but MGM literally ran out of money as a studio to keep making it, or any other Stargate media. There was supposed to be at least one Atlantis movie in the vein of Stargate Continuum and The Ark of Truth and it got spiked around the same time too, also because MGM, a major Hollywood production company, could not afford to make it.
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May 22, 2020 21:04
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banned from Starbucks posted:Makes sense I guess when the only thing that makes you money is James bond movies Skyfall literally saved MGM from bankruptcy. If it had bombed or under preformed, MGM as a studio was going to shut down.
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May 23, 2020 08:33
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Statutory Ape posted:the scariest villains in sg1 were any time I thought they might have to face mirror universe tealc Yeah, there's a reason why any alt-Teal'cs quickly get won over to SG-1's side. I think there's more than one episode where he flat out kills all of SG-1 before the timeline/universe is restored.
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May 24, 2020 02:03
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Bucnasti posted:"This is a weapon of War." And the fact that they kept it going across three different shows too.
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May 28, 2020 00:29
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Statutory Ape posted:even if a modern SG game never happens somebody should really just steal the entirety of the concept and make the gate a fuckin square and call it a day Every Stargate video game has mind of collapsed after funding magically disappears after they either drop a ton of concept art or a teaser trailer for it. The closest you’re gonna get is the Stargate props pack for Gary’s Mod.
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May 29, 2020 20:05
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twistedmentat posted:Wasn't his son one of the producers? Yeah, Peter DeLuise. Also Jerry Goldsmith's son Joel Goldsmith did the music for SG-1 and Atlantis.
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Jun 9, 2020 06:54
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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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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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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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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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