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So does anyone else here watch Stargate? Discussions? Nerdy attention to detail posts? Is Stargate Atlantis going to be a seperate show or is that just the next season?
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Although I find that many people here don't like stargate, I still like it.
Stargate: atlantis will be a new series starting in july, while stargate sg-1 is being renewed for an 8th season, which will also start in july. Oh, and stargate: infinity sucks ass.
You can find alot of fans here.. I'm also planning a stargate mafia.
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Stargate is one of my favorite shows. Maybe that's because I don't watch much TV, I don't know. I like Stargate because of the continuity. Things that happen in the first season come back to haunt SG-1 later. The Alien of the Week sometimes turns out to be really important later on. Occasionally, the show even kills off pretty important characters--sometimes even ones that aren't villains. The show doesn't take itself too seriously (see for example Wormhole X-Treme and The Other Guys), and I enjoy this very much.
The difficulties of making a sci-fi show set in the modern era also interests me. American politics often plays a major role in Stargate plots, and "real life" sometimes is shown. It's funny watching Teal'c when he's not at the base. "I have heard of a place where humans do battle in a ring of jello..."
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quote: Stargate: atlantis will be a new series starting in july, while stargate sg-1 is being renewed for an 8th season, which will also start in july. Oh, and stargate: infinity sucks ass.
Ooooh...I thought SG:1 was ending, and Atlantis was picking up where it left off! That's good news, though!
What season ending! I thought it was really sad. I can't wait for the new show! *taps fingers impatiently*
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I was into Sgwun for about four or five years (it was something that I watched with my grandfather; literally my only exposure to science fiction, and I didn't even really know what was going on -- I was a weeeeee thing -- so it doesn't count), then stopped when it moved to Scifi, because, even though in the last few years I'd actually been understanding the idea of "plot" and "character," I thought that the quality of both went down.
(eat that. that was one sentence. I am DA WOMAN!)
However, I am a shameless shipper. And, apparently, this last season is all_teh_ship. And who can resist Macgyver?
So I'm getting regular updates from friends, and reading fic to catch up. I don't know how else to get properly caught up, seeing as it only airs once a week on FOX.
(I miss cable. Drat scifi for canceling Farscape, my only reason for cable!)
(edited for tense corrections, because I am a dipper.)
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I watch that show a lot! I've watched...every episode up to the end of season three, some of season four, bits of five, and some of seven. (Btw, seven...BLECH)
I love the team. *grins* Jack's wisecracks, Teal'c's...out-of-placenesses, and Daniel's bouncing off of everyone else.
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SG-1 has been a pretty decent series. (Especially when you consider what percentage of Sci-Fi really sucks.) I liked it enough to be a capper for the last couple seasons.
I'm not sure the premise of Atlantis is appealing, however. The main draw of SG-1 is its connection to Earth: the characters have to rely largely on present day surroundings and experience while dealing with a far more capable (if moronic) enemy. By season 6-7 they've got more at their disposal, yes, but they've earned it, minus the occasional Ancient/Asgard deus ex machina. Meanwhile, Atlantis sounds merely like Voyager with different actors.
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I haven't seen season 7 yet (don't have cable, syndication is a season behind). What's wrong with it, Human?
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There's a lot to complain about. Some episodes seem completely drawn from existing bad scifi (Revisions = Outer Limits, Lifeboat = TNG's Masks, Evolution = generic super-duper bad guys with predictable achilles, Fallout = The Core). Carter gets a love interest in Chimera who is promptly never seen again. Absolutely nothing happens in Heroes I.
Then again, I think Heroes part 2 is one of the best-acted and best-directed episodes overall. It's like they suddenly took a cue from OSC: use the scifi elements to dramatize the characters we care about, not to give an excuse for silly predictable CG worm things (in the final ep if you haven't seen it). I'm not a film buff, but even I noticed the careful treatment of lighting, cameras, dramatic irony, and other elements of good visual fiction.
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They found the worms that made the wormholes?
It's too bad they're rehashing plots. One of the things I like about Stargate is that a lot of the writing has been pretty original, or at least something I haven't seen before. I wonder whether they've run out of ideas. I hope the new series turns out to be TNG to Stargate's TOS, rather than Voyager or heaven forbid, Enterprise. (Apologies to anyone who may like those shows...I lost interest in Star Trek because of them, so I guess I'm biased.)
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quote: Carter gets a love interest in Chimera who is promptly never seen again.
If you hadn't noticed, every time Carter has a "love interest", he is soon killed, captured, never seen again, etc., but most often just killed.
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Carter admits this in that episode. They build on her fear of murderous commitment. And yes, he is mentioned a time or two in following episodes. Expect him back next season.
One of my favorite bits was in the first couple of episodes. Jack (aka McGyver) is trapped and looking for a way out. He pulls out some string, duct tape, and a pocket knife--looks at it--and says something like, "Well these are useless."
Besides any show that takes Red Greene's Harold and makes a geeky hero out of him, has to be worth watching.
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Also in the first few episodes, they're trying unsuccessfully to dial home and Carter says something like "we still need to MacGyver this DHD." I'm down with homages, believe me -- placing your work in referential context is a major sign of intelligence (at least in music, but I think it applies in fiction).
What I object to is copying [i]bad[/b] scifi. I mean really now, The Core??
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In, I think, the second episode of the most recent season, there's a part where Jack and Carter have to get in a spaceship, fly up to this huge mothership and...fly down a trench and blow up a ventilation shaft.
As they ready up for the mission, Jack comments how he wanted their callsign to be 'Red Leader'.
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I've been watching Stargate since it first took the Outer Limits' old timeslot on ABC (I didn't have Showtime and didn't know it was ever there until years later). I've missed only a handful of episodes, never purposely--some due to scheduling conflicts with work or sleep, some due to the awkward switchover to Sci-Fi when I still hadn't seen Season...five, I think it was.
As much as I like the show, though, my favorite episodes were the first season, when it took itself much more seriously.
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I like Stargate SG-1. It's one of my four favorite shows (West Wing,Dead Zone, and Monk being the others. I always record all of them but Monk.
I thought Stargate SG-1 was not quite as good when Michael Shanks was off the set. The show picked up again when he returned to the cast.
I do still have a problem with Colonel O'Neill. I fail to believe that any soldier could make it that far up in the ranks while being such a smart-mouth.
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