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Terrible Opinions posted:The series is a direct sequel to the movie. I thought so. I've only watched bits and pieces of the series so I wasn't positive. Doesn't that make producing a prequel problematic?
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The Bloop posted:I thought so. I've only watched bits and pieces of the series so I wasn't positive. Roland Emmerich (who wrote and directed the original movie) hates the show and considers it separate. Everyone who likes the show considers it a sequel to the original movie. Then you have camps divided over whether or not Stargate Infinity is canonical, and over how important the SG-1 direct-to-DVD movies are. "Problematic" doesn't begin to describe Stargate's canon order.
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SG-1 is insanely good but it takes a couple seasons to really pick up and the characters develop, but it reaches TNG or DS9 levels of characters you end up knowing and loving. It also manages to have high concept scifi plots and drama while also making fun of itself and having laughs. Also really good continuity. That weird artifact that does some amazing thing they found a season ago is actually brought out of storage to logically try to help solve the problem of the week. Pretty much nothing is forgotten and the humans on the show are reverse-engineering every bit of tech they find and putting it to its fullest most practical use.
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Aug 1, 2017 17:48
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I always considered it a soft sequel. Like, yes, the events of the movie happened off-screen but we would re-shoot it with a different cast and tone if we could.
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Drone posted:And you can only see the same forest in British Columbia so many times before you get bored out your gourd. As a resident of that forest I can safely say that it bounces back and forth between dead boring and calming serenity on a regular basis. It's pretty nice when it's not on fire. I'm fairly certain both SG-1 and X-Files shot stuff in the park I grew up next to. SG-1 went as far as to joke about how every planet has the same scenery.
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I preferred the novels where Halliburton and Blackwater run Abydos and they are managed to get Apache gunships through the Stargate somehow.
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Aug 1, 2017 18:40
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God, I wish. But it's never going to happen.
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Aug 1, 2017 19:28
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I have tried to watch the stargate film several times over the years but fallen asleep after 20 minutes every time.
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Dysgenesis posted:I have tried to watch the stargate film several times over the years but fallen asleep after 20 minutes every time. It's very slow, many of the actors and lines are very bad, and some of it just lasts forever when it really doesn't need to. I've come to appreciate it more over the years, but you're not missing anything if you just go straight to the series, it explains all the stuff that happened in the movie.
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I love the Stargate movie unironically for its unashamed B-movie schlockiness. It's elevated by Spader's goofy performance, Kurt Russell's comic-book badassery and David Arnold's great score. I never got into any of the TV shows. I could see why the people who liked them did, but they just never clicked for me. Edit: spell-check changed "unironically" to "ironically". I love it unironically! It's a fun movie! shadok fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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shadok posted:unashamed B-movie schlockiness "Give my regards to King Tut, rear end in a top hat!"
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:Aren't they basically actual military uniforms? (It's been forever since I've seen an episode, I never really sat down and followed the show) They use real life military uniforms. Their "going into the stargate" uniforms aren't real uniforms as far as I can tell, but they might be something off the rack that a military contractor or specops unit might use for some reason. What's funny is that when the Airforce ABU came out to replace the BDU, it was hard to get because both the actual air force and the show were trying to buy them. Seems like Stargate actually tried to be more realistic since they probably needed the help of the Air Force for some things. Better than that stupid show that came out a few years ago about some mutated monster thing in the arctic where some Army major comes into a room with his ACU sleeves rolled up all sloppy.
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Aug 1, 2017 20:27
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My friend recently made an SG1 costume and pretty much all of it he was able to just buy off the shelf military surplus stuff for.
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Does The Vanishing of Wesley Crusher have anything to do with the thematics of Chakotay, or did someone in Trek circles just get way into Native American stuff around then?
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Orv posted:Does The Vanishing of Wesley Crusher have anything to do with the thematics of Chakotay, or did someone in Trek circles just get way into Native American stuff around then? They paid for a fake Native American cultural consultant and drat it, they're gonna get their money's worth!
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Aug 1, 2017 20:47
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Platonicsolid posted:I meant more the tone - scientists were regularly shown to be weak or naive, plenty of issues eventually wound up being solved with force. Part and parcel, sure, but it was a lot more problematic when I went back to watch some episodes, which may say more about me and our current context than the show itself. I really don't think so, there's regular episodes where they argue the merits of say, direct intervention vs. diplomatic resolution in various permutations but the show comes down pretty hard against unilateral force majeure and the scientist characters used for comedic effect (I know exactly who you're thinking of) are the exception and not the rule. vermin posted:The smart prequel move would have a series set in ancient Egypt and the weird royal court centering around these evil space aliens. Holy poo poo I can't believe I never thought of Goa'uld of Thrones.
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I think I like the Stargate movie for many of the same reasons I like Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
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Kazinsal posted:I think I like the Stargate movie for many of the same reasons I like Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Someone should make a 22 minute version of Stargate set to the Tron Legacy soundtrack
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Kazinsal posted:I think I like the Stargate movie for many of the same reasons I like Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I like Stargate for the aesthetics more than anything. The alien/ancient tech is cool.
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vermin posted:They paid for a fake Native American cultural consultant and drat it, they're gonna get their money's worth! https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/fools-gold-the-story-of-jamake-highwater-the-fake-indian-who-wont-die/ Huh, I'd never heard about that
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galenanorth posted:https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/culture/arts-entertainment/fools-gold-the-story-of-jamake-highwater-the-fake-indian-who-wont-die/ That sounds about right.
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Aug 1, 2017 21:02
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Hooray, more gap filler prequels! http://www.geekexchange.com/news/breaking-nicholas-meyer-working-on-khan-limited-series/
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Aug 1, 2017 21:09
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Wanna know what happens after DS9/Voyager? TOO BAD
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I personally would like a ten hour limited series to fill the gap between Star Trek IV and V. How did they get to the campsite? Who set up the tent? Is there an episode-long event where someone took hostages at the store where Bones bought those binoculars that we've never heard? Perhaps there was another other secret Spock sibling that's a Klingon. Fertile ground for storytelling.
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What's that federation ship from the future that has slipstream or whatever? They should make a series about that. I mean, a series about it in its own century, not a series about it having wacky time traveling hijinks and meeting up with Kirk and Spock and Einstein and Janeway and Worf and Merlin
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vermin posted:Wanna know what happens after DS9/Voyager? Pah-wraiths, pah-wraiths everywhere.
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TheScott2K posted:Hooray, more gap filler prequels! Wow that's a really bad idea.
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TheScott2K posted:Hooray, more gap filler prequels! Noooo Meyer pull up pull up 
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Ughhhhh why would you even bother without Montalban. This is their big contingency plan to keep poo poo going when Discovery bombs? Who would have thought that after Voyager and Enterprise the franchise had this much further to go before it bottoms out.
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TheScott2K posted:I personally would like a ten hour limited series to fill the gap between Star Trek IV and V. How did they get to the campsite? Who set up the tent? Is there an episode-long event where someone took hostages at the store where Bones bought those binoculars that we've never heard? Perhaps there was another other secret Spock sibling that's a Klingon. Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain; why is he climbing the mountain?
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I love Stargate: SG-1 but I'd skip most of season 1
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TheScott2K posted:Hooray, more gap filler prequels! On one hand, a series about a marooned space crew trying to tame doomed planet sounds like a relatively decent setup. On the other hand OH, COME ON
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Drink-Mix Man posted:On one hand, a series about a marooned space crew trying to tame doomed planet sounds like a relatively decent setup. Maybe this will solve the mystery of why he only takes one glove off. Really important detail to backfill.
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Sir Lemming posted:Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain; why is he climbing the mountain? To hug the mountain. To envelop the mountain.
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Sir Lemming posted:Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain; why is he climbing the mountain? Evek posted:To hug the mountain. To envelop the mountain. ...because I'm in love.
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TheScott2K posted:Hooray, more gap filler prequels! I wouldn't put money on any of these rumors, so far I've only seen it reported by clickbait sites. The entire thing is rooted in an interview Meyer gave a month ago where someone asked if he was working on anything else Trek-related and he said yes but gave no details. It's probably just a book or comic or something. CBS barely put effort into a brand new ST show, there's no loving way they're going to greenlight a Khan miniseries before Discovery even airs.
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