Stargate

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Just watched Season 9 (Thanks fazeypoo!)  HOLY SHEEUT.  Now is not a good time to be stationed on an Earth space vessel.

The Odyssey was a sexy ship, too.

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I'm now caught up (re-immersed) to the end of Season 4. Is it just me, or do the SGC team seem to jump between long hours of boredom straight to seconds of exciting action, right into long hours of boredom? 'Cause whilst SG1 are out on other planets or in the medical facility getting various things removed or inserted, all the other characters are just sitting in the control room waiting for the Stargate to mysteriously activate and smoosh some Jaffa against the Iris. For hours on end. Then, when something does happen, it's over in microseconds. SG1 go off and have fun/have sex/almost die, then come back. The SGC team, on the other hand, experience forty-seven and a half hours of pure boredom with no sleep and seemingly no change of uniform!

I guess what I'm saying is that I hope they get some kind of perk for being stuck inside a mountain and alternately bored to death/quaking in terror due to the imminent triggering of the self-destruct sequence.

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Good stuff Nix, Carter wasn't exactly in a good spot either, or the rest of them for that matter only Vala was! She's cool, hope she's in all, if not most of, season 10 eps.

tnuk: they change from green uniforms to blue ones half way through their shift.

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Word on the street (that is, the last post on page 6) that she's becoming a permanent SG-1 member.

Spoileriffic predictions spoilerized, just in case:

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So I'm thinking that it'll take the entire season to find the Holy Grail.  Trying to figure out what those 3 lands Arthur, etc, buggered off to are, Meeting Arthur, and then the last episode will be evading Ori ships to get to the Supergate to nuke them.

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In honor of it being Stargate Premiere Friday, I'm reviving this thread.

I'm about halfway through Atlantis season 2, and I have to say, I'm taking a shine towards Ronen.  He's obviously (as far as I'm concerned) a Teal'c wannabe, but he's a badass in his own right.  I mean, come on, his gun(s?) is freaking sweet, kinda reminds me of the Vash the Stampede pistol, and he carries a sword!

Also, Tayla is one gorgeous piece of alien.

 

Originally posted by totalnerduk:
I guess what I'm saying is that I hope they get some kind of perk for being stuck inside a mountain and alternately bored to death/quaking in terror due to the imminent triggering of the self-destruct sequence.

You mean like being able to traipse across the galaxy, finding new people to talk to and blow up?

Also, Ba'al's my favorite Goa'uld.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
Also, Ba'al's my favorite Goa'uld.

Oh definitely. He's long since replaced Apophis at the top of my System Lord list.

I find him a much different sort of evil, much more sadistic and soft spoken rather than "BOW BEFORE ME I HAVE 20 Billion MOTHERSHIPS IN ORBIT READY TO FIRE!!! BWAHAHAHA!!". I loved that they did with him last season making him a corporate CEO on Earth. Absolutely brilliant. Suits him so well...

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He'd be a likeable guy, if he wasn't a sadistic bastard.

You know, for Air Force, O'Neill sure has a lot of ground missions in his career prior to SG1.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
He'd be a likeable guy, if he wasn't a sadistic bastard.

God knows we need more evil villains with british accents after him...

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Odyssey's alive!  Hells yeah!

The Orion:  What the hell is that?  WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
The Orion:  What the hell is that?  WHAT THE HELL IS THAT???

Didn't you see the episode last season where they were trapped on a planet with a super volcano about to erupt and they find the Ancient ship?

I guess not... 

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Just finished the one where Weir and Sheppard get taken over and hunt each other.

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Dude, you gotta watch the rest of Season 2. Good shit to be seen...

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Working on it - I'm leaving off tonight with Michael, Inferno, and Allies left to go.

And Grace Under Pressure scores some major (pun not intended, now I must kill myself) points for Carter underwater with just a bra, or tank top or something.

Poor Cheif O'brien, by the way.

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Nix: that's the one good episode of Atlantis, in my opinion.  Carter in a bikini = win.

Also, I missed last night's premier.  Anyone know when Sci-Fi reruns them?  And/or where I can get a cheap TiVo?

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Damn you all.

I have to wait over two weeks, and that's if my knuckleheaded brother figures out the torrents. 

Also, I have to study for 3 exams when I get back...

Fail my degree or catch up on Stargates... hmmmm, tough call.

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
Poor Cheif O'brien, by the way.

Yeah, I absolutely loved his character.

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SG1: Man, that episode made me want to go to sleep.  And now I'm too scared to.

Atlantis: What's the deal with SG:A's propensity for finding a new ship, and then having it destroyed within 2 episodes?

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Originally posted by Nixorbo:
SG1: Man, that episode made me want to go to sleep.  And now I'm too scared to.

Ah yes, I liked this episode.

I found it in a much more similar vein to the old SG-1 episodes with standard exploratory gate travel.

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I have really got to get TiVo. 

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So I just watched the first episode of Star Trek: DS9 again.

Why bring this up here, you ask?

I had always suspected after I started watching it, but now I'm certain Atlantis should be renamed Stargate: DS9.

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Except for the fact that SG:A doesn't have a wise-cracking jewish stereotype bar tender...

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Spin-off from another series
DS9: yes, SG:A: yes
Setting is a large city/space station that barely works
DS9: yes, SG:A yes
Small transports used for everything
DS9: Runabouts, SG:A Puddlejumpers
Sexy spaceship
DS9: Defiant, SG:A Daedalus
Stragically placed wormhole
DS9: To the Gamma Quadrant, SG:A To Earth
Recurring character from first series made main character
DS9: Cheif O'Brien, SG:A: McKay
Native female right-hand-uh, man
DS9: Major Kira, SG:A Tayla
The muscle
DS9: Worf, Sg:A: Ronan
Genius doctor from the UK
DS9: Bashir (the accent people, the accent!) SG:A: Becket (Scotland is too part of the UK)
Mysterious beings who created the wormhole
DS9: The Prophets, SG:A: The Ancients

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Best use of a lemon since the Monkey Island games.

ONE DOWN 3 TO GO!!!!!!!!!  UPSIDE YOUR FACE!

Also, thanks for taking one for the team, Morgan!

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Damn that SG-1 was good. Freaking took out an Ori ship and a Wraith hive ship with one nuke...

Awesome.

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Well, two nukes used at the same time, as I understood things.

The gravity slingshot.  I was wondering when that scifi cliche would make an appearence.

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But...you can't do that with a black hole.  Oh well.

Anyway, hooray for crossovers!  Hooray for callback to Under Pressure!

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Ok, just started watching SG:1 and SG:A recently. The only reason I started watching was that, having a DVR box, in the past year I've pretty much exhausted my ability to enjoy most of my favorite shows, especially ST:TNG and ST:DS9. I needed something to fill the void.

Now I can't figure out why I was so resistant in the first place. Annoying thing is that SG:1 is run on 2 networks, asynchronously. So not only am I not watching from the begining, I'm watching from two separate points simultaneously.

I enjoyed SG:A almost immediately, but I was lucky to catch it from the first episode. I can define the exact moment when I was hooked on SG:1:

 

Spy/Aide : Is it really wise to provoke him?

General O'Neal : (stares at him for a moment before answering) It's what I do.

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Ah yes...good ol' Jack.

I cannot wait until he comes back this season.     

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Originally posted by Nerd-o-rama:
Anyway, hooray for crossovers!  Hooray for callback to Under Pressure!

You'd think they could have at least kept Weir's hair consistant between the two episodes.

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Think this will have any effect on the series?

Military Closing Cheyenne Mountain Complex

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that's right, "closing" Cheyenne Mountain, *wink wink*

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Ok, I'm up to speed on SG-1 and Atlantis.

SG-1: I watched 1st, then 3rd, then 2nd episode in that order. Stupid MPC next button is so sensitive.  Class episodes, Vala is teh best.

Atlantis: Yay, double crossovers. And "Irresistable" is Atlantises "Urgo" episode, just awesome. 

Is Weir getting hotter and bustier or is it just me?

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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
Is Weir getting hotter and bustier or is it just me?

Same thing happened with Carter.

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She had a baby though, thats boob-inflate city!

Oh well:

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Just watched the new episodes:

SG1: So many Ba'al jokes.  It was great.  Can never have too many Ba'als.

Atlantis: Best episode ever.  Doped-up McKay = priceless.

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Can never have too many Ba'als

Yeah, but I guess some Ba'als are just bigger than others...  lol, the very moment Vala said that I decided I liked her.  Well, at least I dont wish she was still stuck in some far-away galaxy anymore.

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Not only was it Agent Barretts fault, but that moron grunt who let him in to see Ba'al in the ffirst place. Landry should smack him about.

Ronon = Worf + Teal'c + Marv form Sin City! 

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My generation, and those that follow, have a new term that means the same as the last generation's "redshirt."

What is it?

SGs 2 through 25

Good lord the medical doctors on this show are amazingly attractive.

REPLICATORS!!!!  SPACECITY!!!!!!!!!               

Holy sheeyut

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Hey has anyone here seen this?
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqDE8kocoTI 

It's old but I love it, Sung by Peter DeLuise, Joseph Mallozzi and Paul Mullie from the DVD Commentary

Stargate!
It's a great big whirl
with a great big swirl
and you step inside to another world
We're talking Stargate
It's a crazy trip
you can go quite far
and you don't need a car or even a ship
There's Colonel O'Neill
and Carter and Daniel
and Teal'c
Look out for that
ga-ga (..etc) Goau'ld

=)

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BEST FIRST/SECOND POST EVER.