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Treecko posted:Nope, definitely talking about SG1, I was just being an rear end. You better like O'Connell boys.
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Took me until 2010 to finally watch SG-1 and Atlantis when loving the original film since it was released. I got to say the series are great. I really loved Harry Maybourne and his whole storyline. His delivery of simple lines like "C'mon Jack" are just wonderful. Long live King Arkhan the First!
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Aragosta posted:Took me until 2010 to finally watch SG-1 and Atlantis when loving the original film since it was released. I got to say the series are great. I really loved Harry Maybourne and his whole storyline. His delivery of simple lines like "C'mon Jack" are just wonderful. Maybourne is so great. Technically an antagonist, but how can you not love him? Also, that time Carter calls him out for being an idiot, but he does come through and help save the day.
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Jul 18, 2023 16:08
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Mayborne is always a fun time, it's Kinsey who is the absolute rear end in a top hat. And he gets his comeuppance, too! 
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Rappaport posted:Mayborne is always a fun time, it's Kinsey who is the absolute rear end in a top hat. And he gets his comeuppance, too! God, that actor (Ronny Cox I think is his name) is such a great bad guy. You love to hate him!
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Jul 18, 2023 16:29
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I love SG-1 government they are so believable as politicians. I thought it was over the top watching it as it came out but nope just lines right up. Oh the Airforce is full of good people who have high morals and excellent ethics though don't worry. What do you mean don't count the war crimes in Atlantis?
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redshirt posted:God, that actor (Ronny Cox I think is his name) is such a great bad guy. You love to hate him! He definitely delivers. And there's even the episode where Jack and Maybourne (misspelled his name earlier) go visit him, and it is both intimidating and hilarious. Same thing with Ba'al, really (  Cliff Simon), he just turns the smarm up to 11 and has nefarious, world-destroying schemes, but the acting performance is wonderful and you sort of want to like him even though he's definitely a big bad after the horrific torture episode in, I want to say season 6?
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pixaal posted:I love SG-1 government they are so believable as politicians. I thought it was over the top watching it as it came out but nope just lines right up. Oh the Airforce is full of good people who have high morals and excellent ethics though don't worry. What do you mean don't count the war crimes in Atlantis? Not sure I agree. I doubt a real life Stargate Command would be anywhere near as moral and good as the one run by Hammond.
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Jul 18, 2023 16:40
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Rappaport posted:He definitely delivers. And there's even the episode where Jack and Maybourne (misspelled his name earlier) go visit him, and it is both intimidating and hilarious. I freaking love Ba'al. Him having to work with (and show some respect to) Carter just tickles me.
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redshirt posted:Not sure I agree. I doubt a real life Stargate Command would be anywhere near as moral and good as the one run by Hammond. I mean the non military people, the government. You know Maybourne and Kinsey basically. They really seem like politicians.I don't think a real life SGC would be anywhere near as ethical as SG-1, Atlantis though yikes do they do some shoot first, make decisions for other planets.
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pixaal posted:I mean the non military people, the government. You know Maybourne and Kinsey basically. They really seem like politicians.I don't think a real life SGC would be anywhere near as ethical as SG-1, Atlantis though yikes do they do some shoot first, make decisions for other planets. Agreed. Relatedly, I loved the arc Woolsley went on, where he started as one of bad government guys but turned into a good guy.
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I enjoyed Stargate as it came out, but when I tried rewatching it a few years ago I got unreasonably angry on an early episode where the natives of a "gravel pit planet" were using shovels and picks completely implausibly. (As if the actors had never dug anything before ever) Like I can suspend disbelief for the rest of Stargate episodes but that got me mad for some reason. I'm willing to try again with the rewatch
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I enjoyed Stargate as it came out, but when I tried rewatching it a few years ago I got unreasonably angry on an early episode where the natives of a "gravel pit planet" were using shovels and picks completely implausibly. (As if the actors had never dug anything before ever) 
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Quaint Quail Quilt posted:I enjoyed Stargate as it came out, but when I tried rewatching it a few years ago I got unreasonably angry on an early episode where the natives of a "gravel pit planet" were using shovels and picks completely implausibly. (As if the actors had never dug anything before ever) Give me more context so I can look this up. Early season, late season? What was the overall plot?
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I really liked Jonas & thought season 6 was one of the best ones. Although the Groundhog Day ep was my favorite.
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redshirt posted:Give me more context so I can look this up. Early season, late season? What was the overall plot? A little after or before they demonstrate guns, maybe it was a jungle planet and they were just digging gravel. Yeah that seems familiar. Quaint Quail Quilt fucked around with this message at 19:35 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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it might be The First Commandment? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n5zupK0LPg
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I really liked Jonas & thought season 6 was one of the best ones. Although the Groundhog Day ep was my favorite. "Window of Opportunity" The best Stargate episode IMO. As it features the comedy of the series, that no one expects, and then hits you with an emotional gut punch at the end. It's the single best example of how this show could mock itself AND take itself totally serious.
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There's a part of me that has always wanted to visit the post-movie sequel novels because they apparently took a much different direction than the SG1 series did. As dumb as this sounds, had Stargate the movie been more popular, I sort of imagined that it could have spun off into its own '90s Star Wars" by way of Sliders: The military guys just don't end up on Earth, end up fighting more crazy alien-god stuff for a few movies, and just keep trying to find the address to get them home or back to Abydos.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:I really liked Jonas & thought season 6 was one of the best ones. Although the Groundhog Day ep was my favorite. I think SG-1 really fell off after Season 6. It turned into everyone trying to one-up each other with "witty" dialogue, and I just lost interest in the middle of Season 7. I'm an overworked middle-aged Dad now with no hobbies. Maybe I should finally finish it just to say that I did.
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mom and dad fight a lot posted:SG-1 was a good show, but I think it really fell off after Season 6. It turned into everyone trying to one-up each other with "witty" dialogue that I just lost interest in the middle of Season 7. The cast change up does find itself (just in time to get axed) they finish up the plots threads with 2 movies though! A third was planned but was shelved when Don S Davis died which meant it needed a rewrite to start filming. Still they name a ship after him in Atlantis.
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pixaal posted:The cast change up does find itself (just in time to get axed) they finish up the plots threads with 2 movies though! A third was planned but was shelved when Don S Davis died which meant it needed a rewrite to start filming. Still they name a ship after him in Atlantis. RIP Don S Davis. He'll always be my SGC Commander.
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redshirt posted:RIP Don S Davis. He'll always be my SGC Commander. Just like the in-joke was that Siler always got electrocuted and whatnot because he was the stunt coördinator, I think it's fantastic that Garland Briggs wound up running the Stargåte program. Don S. Davis was a hoot in interviews, too, he was a real party fellow Rappaport fucked around with this message at 21:12 on Jul 18, 2023 |
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redshirt posted:Not sure I agree. I doubt a real life Stargate Command would be anywhere near as moral and good as the one run by Hammond. Honestly the most unbelievable part of SG-1 is that the US Air Force is just and moral and not a bunch of religious fundies aching to drop bombs on anything labelled "not America"
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General Hammond was a good 'un https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEDwIAJ_n7E
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Ba'al was a great bad guy, going from being another throw-away rando System Lord and ending as the last man standing after all the other big name Goauld and Replicator robots and ascended energy beings bit the dust, solely because he was the one ancient alien potentate who didn't get high on his own supply and buy into his own propaganda. The one bad guy in the universe that learned that being overly grandiose could actually be a weakness sometimes.
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crispix posted:General Hammond was a good 'un When's flying in the attack glider and lets out a heart felt "YEEE HAAWWW!" That's my General.
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One of the least believable things about the show is they kept the Stargate secret from the public. There's dozens of reasons why that would not work, but consider just the fact that SG teams took a pretty high fatality rate. How are you explaining to widows how your husband was KIA but not in any known conflict?
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pixaal posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amWZaTxE6D0 Urgo and Nerus cooking contest show 
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itry posted:Urgo and Nerus cooking contest show How have I never seen this before? Who is that guy?
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redshirt posted:One of the least believable things about the show is they kept the Stargate secret from the public. Even putting aside the forever war aspect of the military-industrial complex of the US, "Ma'am / Sir, it's classified" is a kind of big gently caress off and don't ask questions answer. And whose mind would go first to ancient portals to other solar systems and snakes in heads? I mean Wormhole X-treme, sure, but that guy actually was from outer space.
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they also settled quite a few aliens in the USA, like the little girl they found who'd had a goa'uld planet-destorying bomb planted in her i guess when she grows up and starts dating/interviewing for jobs and stuff she could just say she'd been raised amish or something
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The girl with a bomb in her was adopted by a member of Stargåte Command, and she's shown as an old woman presumably participating in its operation in the 1969 episode.
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Rappaport posted:Even putting aside the forever war aspect of the military-industrial complex of the US, "Ma'am / Sir, it's classified" is a kind of big gently caress off and don't ask questions answer. And whose mind would go first to ancient portals to other solar systems and snakes in heads? I mean, there's a lot of widows. Surely some of them would demand answers/more info.
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crispix posted:they also settled quite a few aliens in the USA, like the little girl they found who'd had a goa'uld planet-destorying bomb planted in her I mean, how many people work at SGC daily? Like the cafeteria folks. Hundreds at any one time, thousands over the course of a few years. And no one spoke out about the portal to infinite other worlds?
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I suppose the Manhattan project is a bad example since they did have communist spies in there, and they got the death penalty, woof, but that real-world project involved hundreds of people too.
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redshirt posted:I mean, how many people work at SGC daily? Like the cafeteria folks. Hundreds at any one time, thousands over the course of a few years. And no one spoke out about the portal to infinite other worlds? if they did people would just think they were crazy and carry on
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also i would imagine SGC cafeteria workers would be enlisted and have had basic training there are numerous examples of how dangerous a goa'uld can be in a kitchen  friggin marriage cake 
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Rappaport posted:I suppose the Manhattan project is a bad example since they did have communist spies in there, and they got the death penalty, woof, but that real-world project involved hundreds of people too. And they were all sequestered on site and hush hushed. Ostensibly SGC folks are just working for the Air Force at Cheyenne Mountain. As we see, they all have regular lives in the real world.
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crispix posted:also i would imagine SGC cafeteria workers would be enlisted and have had basic training That SGC jello
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