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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Ahh. I guess I meant more as a lead cast member, though there is a great lack of enlisted in these shows regardless. I guess maybe the idea being that SGC is high-clearanced enough that your average Joe isn't trusted enough, yet we have butter-bar Scott slutting around Icarus Base, so who the gently caress knows?
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mania posted:If I wanted to read about a Sheppard and Teyla romance, I'd go find some fanfic. (Hell, I've read fic better then this book.) I just want a book about the team kicking Wraith butt throughout the Pegasus galaxy. I still can't believe people actually read fanfic... twistedmentat posted:I always had a weird crush on Dr Fraiser. It's not weird. Fraiser was hot.
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I once read one of the SG-1 novelizations. It was... horrible. But I love bad novels in the same way I love bad sci fi channel original movies: shamelessly!richardfun posted:It's not weird. Fraiser was hot. And an awesome character! But yeah, she was also the most beautiful person to probably ever be cast in the entire franchise, with the possible exception of Sharee. I loved how quickly she could solve alien protein and DNA structures, figure out the best medicines that saved people from imminent death, and be a rockin' Mom to Cassandra. Fraiser was the best!
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twistedmentat posted:I always had a weird crush on Dr Frasier. That is not a weird crush. I had it, too. BIG time. Then they killed her. Bastards.
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:Does Weir ever become likable? She always strikes me as that repressed catholic mom who lived in your neighborhood growing up I was watching a rerun of Atlantis the other day and I was trying to pinpoint why I was so attracted to Weir, and then you come along and nail it. That is exactly how she comes off.
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I like the third Weir actress the best. The first one was bland and the second one was skeletor.
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I believe the rumors were that the first Weir was hated by everyone for being incredibly difficult on set, which is why they recast it.
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For those wondering what the SGA movie would have been about, JM blogged that it was to begin with Atlantis having been put on the moon, and then McKay finds it's about to self destruct due to a safeguard the Ancients put in to stop it being stolen from the Pegasus galaxy, so back they go.
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May 31, 2011 04:24
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loving Ancients. Even their car alarms are dimwittedly dangerous. This isn't Robocop II, your anti-theft device is not allowed to incinerate the burglar.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:loving Ancients. Even their car alarms are dimwittedly dangerous. This isn't Robocop II, your anti-theft device is not allowed to incinerate the burglar. YOU ARE ILLEGALLY PARKED ON PRIVATE PROPERTY  No wonder they ascended, everything they built tried to kill them.
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God that sounds like such a lovely reset of the finale. It's a movie, you don't need to return to the status quo. Plus you'd think the ancients would have put in a return to Earth option in their security program.
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The Lucian aliance sucked, Stargate command can defeat the Goulds, Wraith and Ori, but it's the space mafia that can finally sneak nukes into earth. Just binged though the second half of SGU, it became a much better show. They formed a cohesive ongoing plot that wasn't lame. I wish studios/networks/cable had more faith in their shows to build a fan base. If you look at season 1 ratings of shows like Cheers and Seinfeld they would be have canceled by today's standards. It's cool though I can now catch up on wresting to get my ScyFy fix.
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May 31, 2011 11:57
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the-jam posted:God that sounds like such a lovely reset of the finale. It's a movie, you don't need to return to the status quo. Plus you'd think the ancients would have put in a return to Earth option in their security program. If there is one thing I know from watching Stargate it is you never can expect the ancients to have done anything logical. I still don't understand why the ancients didn't just fly Atlantis back to earth when they abandoned Pegasus.
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scarymonkey posted:The Lucian aliance sucked, Stargate command can defeat the Goulds, Wraith and Ori, but it's the space mafia that can finally sneak nukes into earth. Not that I think their intentions have much merit, but it seems like the producers were trying to compare the Lucian alliance to terrorists (it's applicable to real life! somehow!  ), so there was no clear Central Bad Guy/Organization To Defeat. Compare that to the Goulds, Wraith, and Ori, which were much more centralized, organized, and coherent enemies, so relatively more "straightforward" to do effective battle with. (They're like the US's enemies in the world war! ) Or maybe I'm trying to be kind to the writing staff, because yeah, seasons 9 and 10 were filled with some awful plot holes, way beyond the fun, campy "hey wait a minute" moments of seasons 1-8.
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mania posted:According to the series of books (it's a six part series called Legacy) that take place after the series, Atlantis (and her crew) eventually head back to the Pegasus galaxy against the wishes of the IOA. In general I never read any of those novelizations because they're basically fanfic that managed to get published. Forum Actuary posted:For those wondering what the SGA movie would have been about, JM blogged that it was to begin with Atlantis having been put on the moon, and then McKay finds it's about to self destruct due to a safeguard the Ancients put in to stop it being stolen from the Pegasus galaxy, so back they go. As retarded as it sounds, I can somehow see the Ancients doing this. gently caress those guys. scarymonkey posted:The Lucian aliance sucked, Stargate command can defeat the Goulds, Wraith and Ori, but it's the space mafia that can finally sneak nukes into earth. Just binged though the second half of SGU, it became a much better show. They formed a cohesive ongoing plot that wasn't lame. This is the main problem I had with it. Other than that SGU was beginning to grow on me. The second season was much better when they stopped the overemphasis on the drama and started doing something more scifi.
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Yehudis Basya posted:Not that I think their intentions have much merit, but it seems like the producers were trying to compare the Lucian alliance to terrorists (it's applicable to real life! somehow! I'm not far enough in my rewatch to see the space corn mafia introduction, but wasn't the Lucian Alliance a pretty centralized organization? They "owned" several planets and a bunch of ships, and it was pretty easy to identify and find them. SGU could have used the Lucians in a better way - Earth establishes an uneasy treaty with the Lucians (Afghanistan!) but a splinter group goes rogue and attacks both sides in terrorist attacks to break the treaty (Taliban!). That would have at least made a bit more sense, rather than a tiny fringe element of the galaxy attacking basically the sole superpower, for no apparent reason. They could have reworked the Lucian attack on Destiny as well so its a rogue group trying to find massively superior weapons - jokes on them though, Destiny is a piece of poo poo! Haha, now that I think about it, did Earth get ANYTHING out of Destiny/SGU, or did it just suck up a metric rear end-ton of resources? In season 4 now, just saw Lt Troy as a russian scientist! Now we just need Riker!
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spronk posted:Haha, now that I think about it, did Earth get ANYTHING out of Destiny/SGU, or did it just suck up a metric rear end-ton of resources? Earth got rid of Chloe at least. 
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May 31, 2011 18:56
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Well it blew up a planet. Not sure how effective that is when you can just blow up stars instead.
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So I went through a bunch of season 8 episodes, including those Ancient coffee shop ones. Makes you wonder why they've even tried to save the ancients end of season 10, since they're practically all a bunch of dicks. --edit: vvvv Just get rid of both parties. Combat Pretzel fucked around with this message at 20:40 on May 31, 2011 |
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May 31, 2011 20:30
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Combat Pretzel posted:So I went through a bunch of season 8 episodes, including those Ancient coffee shop ones. Makes you wonder why they've even tried to save the ancients end of season 10, since they're practically all a bunch of dicks. Lesser of two evils. Chose the jerks who sit around and laugh as you get blown up by all their doomsday devices they left around, as opposed to the jerks who sit around and laugh as brainwashed followers actively hunt and murder you.
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spronk posted:I'm not far enough in my rewatch to see the space corn mafia introduction, but wasn't the Lucian Alliance a pretty centralized organization? They "owned" several planets and a bunch of ships, and it was pretty easy to identify and find them. Totally possible. I was so bored with seasons 9 and 10, so my recollection of the Lucian alliance as being a bunch of scattered terrorist cells could be completely inaccurate. I think the only episode I enjoyed from S9 and S10 was the one where those bugs attacked SG1 and Woolsey (they were like the beetles from The Mummy). But the only reason that episode was so much fun was because it made me feel all fuzzy for The Muumy.
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The first few paragraphs of this wiki are a pretty good sum up of the Lucian Alliance: http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Lucian_Alliance
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That link should have been three words: "Space corn dealers."
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Yehudis Basya posted:Totally possible. I was so bored with seasons 9 and 10, so my recollection of the Lucian alliance as being a bunch of scattered terrorist cells could be completely inaccurate. Every episode with Woolsey was good because Bobby Picardo is so dreamy.  I haven't seen his run in Atlantis yet. Does he manage to pull that shitheap out of the water?
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Woolsey is entirely redeemed via his run on Atlantis, and is probably the most likeable administrator of the expedition.
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Senor Tron posted:Imagine Atlantis if they had Greer instead of Ford, best show ever. I think Ronon would have held him underwater until the bubbles stopped within 5 minutes of meeting. Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Woolsey is entirely redeemed via his run on Atlantis, and is probably the most likeable administrator of the expedition. So I'm not the only one who thought Carter was a fish out of water during her run? That Guy From Pearldiver fucked around with this message at 10:04 on Jun 1, 2011 |
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That Guy From Pearldiver posted:
Carter was so badly used. Amanda Tapping was obligated to be there x amount of episodes, but it felt like the writers didn't really want her there. Carter is supposed to be the only person even smarter than McCay, but during a technical crisis she never teams up with Rodney to solve it, instead relegated to paperwork and administration bullshit. It's like hiring Einstein, but all you have him do is make coffee.
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Forum Actuary posted:For those wondering what the SGA movie would have been about, JM blogged that it was to begin with Atlantis having been put on the moon, and then McKay finds it's about to self destruct due to a safeguard the Ancients put in to stop it being stolen from the Pegasus galaxy, so back they go. That doesn't sound as cool as the idea I heard them floating back when Atlantis was cancelled. The broad idea was that the IOA was gonna bring in a bunch of science and engineering specialists to start figuring Atlantis out; after a few weeks they'd decide to start gutting the city to better study its tech in Area 51-type labs, and maybe build more drone outposts like the one in Antarctica. The Atlantis crew thinks that's a terrible idea because it'll deprive the Pegasus galaxy of its only real defense against the Wraith (and besides, if the Wraith could find and adapt a ZPM to their hive ships once, they might be able to do so again), so they hijack Atlantis and take it back to Pegasus. McSpanky fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Jun 1, 2011 |
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scarymonkey posted:Carter was so badly used. Amanda Tapping was obligated to be there x amount of episodes, but it felt like the writers didn't really want her there. Carter is supposed to be the only person even smarter than McCay, but during a technical crisis she never teams up with Rodney to solve it, instead relegated to paperwork and administration bullshit. It's like hiring Einstein, but all you have him do is make coffee. I know the writers wanted her to be the only one smarter than McKay but from just re watching all of Atlantis and sg-1 MaKay's exploits blow her out of the water. He did everything in like 30 seconds. Need to rewrite the replicator base code? No problem. Need to reconfigure a jumper to shield instead of cloak? Give him 30 seconds.
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Best use of Carter on Atlantis was the whale episode when Rodney was hallucinating her.
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I think the silliest part of Atlantis was when they first arrived and the place was pristine. Tarps on consoles, lights off, and a power issue, but it looked new. Destiny at least looked run down.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I think the silliest part of Atlantis was when they first arrived and the place was pristine. Tarps on consoles, lights off, and a power issue, but it looked new. Destiny at least looked run down. Well it's orders of magnitude younger, far more advanced, was actually inhabited by humans at some point, and wasn't involved in any fights in its downtime.
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Eh. I still wish they had to struggle more with it. I know expecting realism out of scifi is silly, but the only real problem they had at first was a nearly-dead ZPM forcing them to surface lest the shield collapse and kill them all inglouriously. Even something like an inch of water in the gateroom and the lights not turning on when they arrived would have made it much better, imo.
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The first time they made it to Atlantis the place was a mess and nearly everyone drowned. Alt-Weir got it ready for them.  http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/Before_I_Sleep
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Eh. I still wish they had to struggle more with it. I know expecting realism out of scifi is silly, but the only real problem they had at first was a nearly-dead ZPM forcing them to surface lest the shield collapse and kill them all inglouriously. Even something like an inch of water in the gateroom and the lights not turning on when they arrived would have made it much better, imo. That's because Weir went back in time and convinced the ancients to make sure the place wouldn't kill them when they showed up.
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Paradoxish posted:That's because Weir went back in time and convinced the ancients to make sure the place wouldn't kill them when they showed up. One Ancient, the rest were perfectly happy to let them all die.
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Paradoxish posted:That's because Weir went back in time and convinced the ancients to make sure the place wouldn't kill them when they showed up. Yeah, I know. It's like a paradox...ish.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Even something like an inch of water in the gateroom and the lights not turning on when they arrived would have made it much better, imo. Stargate: Bioshock would have been amazing.
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Palleon posted:Well it's orders of magnitude younger, far more advanced, was actually inhabited by humans at some point, and wasn't involved in any fights in its downtime. quote:Eh. I still wish they had to struggle more with it. I know expecting realism out of scifi is silly, but the only real problem they had at first was a nearly-dead ZPM forcing them to surface lest the shield collapse and kill them all inglouriously. Even something like an inch of water in the gateroom and the lights not turning on when they arrived would have made it much better, imo.
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Drizzt01 posted:I know the writers wanted her to be the only one smarter than McKay but from just re watching all of Atlantis and sg-1 MaKay's exploits blow her out of the water. He did everything in like 30 seconds. Need to rewrite the replicator base code? No problem. Need to reconfigure a jumper to shield instead of cloak? Give him 30 seconds. The be fair most of the time McCay was working with Ancient technology, while Carter was working with the equivalency of stick and stones, McCay most of the time wasn't doing so much invention as in understanding Ancient technology (which buttons to press).
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