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Oh wow I had no idea this thread was going on. Serves me right for only bookmark navigating for so long. I recently put together a Longform video essay on SG1's wild planet of the week dystopias y'all might be interested in. In particular, 2010, the Aschen episode was loving buckwild to revisit in present day. The vaccines causing sterility plotline reads very qanon. 'Revisions' aged pretty gracefully too. definitely the highlight of my rewatch. Don't think I've seen the societal memory erasing concept done like that anywhere else.
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Atlantis really shines in the McKay episodes. I wish they had had more ludicrous science plots and less Wraith episodes. The Wraith are like, the least interesting part of the show by a wide margin.
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Feb 24, 2024 01:02
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redshirt posted:That's the "competence porn" that makes SG1 so satisfying. Despite Kinsey and a few others trying to gently caress it up, the SGC is run very competently, and compassionately. Some people have made the joke that Harry Potter is a bunch of kids running through a D&D campaign hilariously underleveled. I would posit Stargate SG1 is humanity beating a game of Stellaris starting midgame as a pre-ftl.
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pixaal posted:Atlantis is warcrimes the jaunt through another galaxy in ignorance. Well now you're just making it sound like Voyager 
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Mar 4, 2024 02:57
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FFT posted:Felger. Also featured in S6E08: The Other Guys In my SG1 video I described him as "We have Pre-Atlantis Rodney Mckay at home", and I stand by that.
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tango alpha delta posted:Finally finished all ten seasons, more or less; I may have skipped around a little. The main thing I enjoyed was how sincere the show was. It was actually quite refreshing. Extremely, like even in a 4th wall transcending way in the 'Citizen Joe' episode where they not so subtly admit they didn't like one of the earlier episodes. Can't remember which though offhand.
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Mar 26, 2024 22:55
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redshirt posted:I feel blessed to have witnessed The Resurrection of Teal'c on this Good Friday. Jesus had a sarcophagus in that cave
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Mar 29, 2024 23:44
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John Wick of Dogs posted:God drat episode seven the one with the blue crystal planet was a banger, real powerhouse performance by Richard Dean Anderson. That episode legitimately felt like it should not have worked, like if for a few strokes of the pen it would have fallen utterly flat. But the glorious bastards made it work. Seeing it really hit home to me that the series was something special.
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Mar 31, 2024 03:27
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John Wick of Dogs posted:Hahaha ok the way Daniel Jackson's parents died is actually insane *Shake hands with danger guitar riff*
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Apr 9, 2024 03:26
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Intrusive thought time: "This is where I watched my parents die, Samantha..." "This is WhERe You WatcheD Your PARents Die oops oops"
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Owl at Home posted:I just rewatched Under the Surface for the first time in maybe 20 years and am only now realizing it's completely a riff on Metropolis "You're destroying a way of life!!" "That's a shame"
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I am now imagining Stargate: Lower Decks. And it's glorious.
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Apr 19, 2024 21:49
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Dana Goa'uld
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redshirt posted:"The Asgard would never invent a weapon that propels small weights of iron and carbon alloys, by igniting a powder of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur." This has always been a great line but it can't help but make me curious about what the Asgard's society looked like when they were at our contemporary tech level. Did they just skip past the gunpowder part of the tech tree? Did their homeworld have radically different raw materials that caused their society to evolve in different ways? Was their society created in its current form by some kind of AyyLamo progenitor species? I HAVE QUESTIONS, DAMNIT!
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Apr 28, 2024 22:26
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Cthulu Carl posted:the Asgard were like that Harry Turtledove short story where alien conquistadors get wrecked by the US Army because they found making FTL so easy they invented it when they were still using swords and never developed things like internal combustion engines or gunpowder. Now this would be a rad explanation. redshirt posted:By the time we meet the Asgard, they are already well into terminal decline, just based on cloning. They are all clones at that point, clones of clones of clones of clones, etc. This would make sense but it would be sad if the Asgard had lost that much of their own history. Guess that is part of being a stellaris-style fallen empire.
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John Wick of Dogs posted:RIP The Tollan The greatest minds of a civilization, unable to make it the final 30 feet to the gate. The signs were definitely there from the beginning
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