You can go quite far and you don't need a car or even a ship (Stargate)

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Nixorbo said:
Also, Nixorbo demands that the next thread title be taken from this or I will destroy you!

Hilarious. This is from the DVD commentaries I assume? I wonder if that inclusive box set is still available, or if it was some severely limited edition thing.... :googles: it is still availble.

:impluses all over amazon:

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Dammit, the thread title should have been just "Indeed: The Stargate Thread".

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Well then you should've created it yourself. I waited until nearly an hour after nix closed the last one.

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Uh...I do have a life.

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Well la-de-freakin'-da, a life, huh? Why don't'cha rub our faces in it a little?

 

Uhm... Stargate, and stuff.

according to IMDB....

Stargate: Ark of Truth, US DVD release: March 11, 2008
Stargate: Continuum : July 2008

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WTF, Keller, you're done with Ronan already and you're moving on to McKay?  WTF?

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It started off on the wrong foot for me with the flimsy excuse for Sam to go on the mission. Weir was first and foremost a diplomat and she almost never went out on that kind of mission, so why on earth would Sam go?


And nix, no contemporary american series is complete without at least a love quadrangle, right?


Rodney did have some good lines at the end tho...

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"No, Great is a beach with a fiber-optic hookup. This is complete agony."
and
"You know, I was just thinking what would be awesome is more physical exertion."

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Continuing from the point Nix was making at the bottom of the last thread, I feel that Atlantis needs to have an episode that's pure, total, unadulterated fanservice. Of course, none of it would be **real**, possibly an alien intelligence would be probing people's minds to find out what their greatest fantasies are. However, it would be awesome.

Plus, I don't think that it takes itself too seriously anyway. There are episodes like "Sateda", where Ronon goes on the most insane anti-bad-guy crusade since the SG team wore those bracelet thingies, and we've been seeing an awful lot of O'Neill-esque sarcasm from Shepper and McKay recently (though neither of them will ever be in the same league as O'Neill). It's gettign there. SG1 had ten years to poke fun at itself in, and Atlantis has only had 4. Give them time, and I'm sure that they'll have their very own "Window of Opportunity" moment.

My only complaint with Atlantis at the moment is that we don't see enough Teal'c moments. Y'know, those bits of SG1 where Teal'c would just go nuts and beat the shit out of somebody, or pop out from behind a van and clothesline a fleeing bad guy, or just blow something up. Those moments. Seems to me that Ronon and Shepperd are both underutilised in that regard.

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That's your only complaint? My only complaint is that every alien in this completely different Galaxy somehow speaks perfect Terrestrial English, and often with an American accent.

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It makes sense that everybody would speak English, I mean everybody on Earth speaks English...

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Heh, i saw that the old stargate thread was closed and was thinking if i made the new thread, id use a line from the unofficial opening song. Mine would've been "Watch out for that Ga-ga-ga-ga-ga-gould". Then i saw the new thread and was happy.

But then again, I don't watch enough stargate.

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Originally posted by Gopher:
Weir was first and foremost a diplomat and she almost never went out on that kind of mission, so why on earth would Sam go?

Because the writers are still writing for Elizabeth, not Sam.

 

Originally posted by totalnerduk:
It's gettign there. SG1 had ten years to poke fun at itself in, and Atlantis has only had 4. Give them time, and I'm sure that they'll have their very own "Window of Opportunity" moment.

Window of Opportunity *WAS* in SG1's 4th year.

 

Originally posted by coldangel_1:
That's your only complaint? My only complaint is that every alien in this completely different Galaxy somehow speaks perfect Terrestrial English, and often with an American accent.

I agree, up until the point where I remember that spending the first half of every episode watching Daniel try to learn to communicate would be tedious.

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Flash teh boobies!

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ca: the Wizard-powered Universal Translators from Trek actually annoyed me more. They were so horribly inconsistant about it; they worked perfectly from the very first word spoken in any language even if it had never been heard before, except where the plot required it not to work. The constant references to he UTs just drew more attention to the problem for me.


Nix: Generally I agree that they've done their worst job yet with adapting liz scripts to sam (worse than daniel->jonas and jack->cam combined), but in this case that's not enough to explain it for me. Even if it was Elizabeth I would've asked why the hell she was going. She always left that to shepard and tayla before.

The whole episode had the feeling to me of being written backwards, like they had an agenda up-front and all the details were just to acheive that desired result (putting Sam, McKay, and the hot young fem that fans aren't talking about enough in an episode all by themselves)

Chay: that would've been my second choice, but this line just cracks me up too much. 

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Originally posted by Gopher:
She always left that to shepard and tayla before.

In-universe answer: Tayla + preggers = not going offworld.

 

the hot young fem that fans aren't talking about enough

  Not talking enough about Kaylee? Oh, you mean as her actual character and not as "Kaylee from Firefly."  Poor Kaylee.  But seriously, her name is Keller Winnit Lee Frye, right?

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I was drawing a blank on her name, and I forgot she was on firefly (never watched it... :ducks shoes hurled by firefly fans

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Hand in your scifi nerd badge, please.  You'll get it back after you watch Firefly all the way through and then Serenity.

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Yeah Gopher... I'm surprised and saddened.

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Zmithy + drunkeness + funny episode + decent capability with after effects and imageready =



 

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Carter! Not now, Boobs now, rope later.

And whats there not to like about Zalinka?

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Zelenka!
He's my fav character, always cursing in Czech, heh:
"Do prdele!"

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Hands down BEST episode of this season.
And WTF Tealc's hair, again, he's worse than a women.

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Best line.
Ronon: You say that alot!
Tealc: What?
Ronon: Indeed!
Tealc: I have never noticed.

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Originally posted by DogDoo8:
Hands down BEST episode of this season.

Indeed.

Did anyone else scream "DAMMIT!" when WeirSam broke up the fight?

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Originally posted by Gopher:
I was drawing a blank on her name, and I forgot she was on firefly (never watched it... :ducks shoes hurled by firefly fans 

You sicken me.

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meh.  Tealc would've kicked Ronon's ass if he'd been given the chance.

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So, the Wraith latched onto Teal'c and started feeding at the SGC. I guess that's another 20 years or so added to his already aged life... 

That said, it was a fantastic episode.

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Woo, no more easy link to Earth! The show was much better when they didn't have an easy way out.

Great episode, even if the complete lack of security at midway/ sg command wasn't very convincing.. there was enough coolness to override the geeky plot holes.

I liked how a random black guy also survived with the known characters in the jumper. Always good to break with tradition.

Wonder where the crapper is in the jumper? 2 weeks is a long time.

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Originally posted by Zmithy:
Wonder where the crapper is in the jumper? 2 weeks is a long time.

I choose to suspend my disbelief because the alternative is disgusting.

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Zmithy: The easy interaction was required to allow the free blending of characters and tech (but not, in general, plot events) between SG1 and SGA during the very critical transition of SGA from secondary SG series to primary.

re: crappers, heh, It's stargate. There's no room in the stargate for nit-picking the details. I mean, it's two galaxies of apparent convergent linguistic evolution; if you can ignore that, you ought to be able to ignore anything.

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Maybe they teleport the feces right out of their bowels!

You've read it, you can't unread it! 

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spoiler tag'd for non-US fans... but if you saw the commercial last week, it won't spoil anything...

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Why do they feel the need to spoil every ending in the commercials? The voiceover in the commercials said "You won't believe what happens in the last five minutes...." but all that happens is they find a dead guy, alive, and they SHOWED the dead guy, alive, in the commercial accompanying the voice over. Makes it kindof hard to be surprised at all, neh?

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Netflix FINALLY shipped Stargate S7D5... after SIX MONTHS.

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What is this Beckettry?? 

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two words: Fan service.

Only thing more annoying than producers/writers killing off great characters is the same producers/writers resurecting them again later.

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They should make up their freakin minds, he wasn't even funny in the episode... :'(

Has anyone else seen the SG-1 mooovie yet?

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Originally posted by ~FazeShift~:
They should make up their freakin minds, he wasn't even funny in the episode... :'(

Has anyone else seen the SG-1 mooovie yet?

Yes. Yes I have.
Of course the one I saw didn't have all the finished VFX.

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5 days

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Have I mentioned how much I hate season finale cliffhangers?

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Hey, it's no Battlestar Galactica cliffhanger, but it was pretty bad.

Speaking of BSG, they totally ripped off Pegasus' destruction in Exodus in tonight's episode when the Phoenix was defeated. They better credit that in the DVD commentary.

SG Fan: "BUT PHOENIX TOOK OUT THREE WRAITH SHIPS, WHILE PEGASUS ONLY TOOK OUT TWO BASESTARS!!!"

Me: *smacks SG Fan*

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See, there some season ending cliffhangers are fine, due to badassness or sheer unexpectedness (see: "Mr. Worf, fire." or *ANY* of BSG's).  But that cliffhanger holds no suspense for me, other than "Gee, I wonder how the writers are going to have everyone survive this time?"  Laaaaaaaaaame.

 

Originally posted by Nasty Pasty:
Speaking of BSG, they totally ripped off Pegasus' destruction in Exodus in tonight's episode when the Phoenix was defeated. They better credit that in the DVD commentary.

Oh thank Oma, I wasn't the only one who thought it.

The Peg's was better anyway - any ship could take out others with a shockwave, Pegasus took two out with a freaking bank shot.