So is anybody on board for this? Supposedly it's going to be SG meets BSG. Atlantis really killed the Stargate groove for me. It just wasn't that good. If McKay hadn't been cast, I might not have watched it at all. I only hope they've learned their casting lessons. No more Teal'cs. Lou Diamond Phillips is going to be on it, but I doubt he lasts long. There's no way they're going to pay for him long though. He's not a big name, but he is a name. Thoughts? Opinions? Don't give a shit?
I'll be watching. I sat through all of Atlantis. I'm sure they'll pull the occasional good out out of their ass. And if not, the VFX are usually pretty good. One of the main things I appreciated about Atlantis is how often they showed the Daedelus class Earth ships.
I'm on board. I just hope we don't get a BSG clone, and I HOPE they've paid attention to the Voyager pitfalls and have planned for them.
Well, I saw the trailer and--without reading any of this--my thoughts were "Wow. Starring Lou Diamond Phillips as Commander Adama." I suspect it will suck like Voyager. For me, Stargate ended with the battle over [Antarctica]. I'll buy that eventually the Asgard or someone showed up to help thaw out O'Neill (or Carter figured it out) and he retired to his lake in Minnesota. After the big final battle with Apophis, the Stargate program finally came to light and...I dunno.
Anybody else do a double-take at what was thought to be Gaius Baltar in the trailer? If you squint hard enough, they even got themselves a Boomer.
She's doing a blonde on the show sorry for the spoilers? Will we have us military officers getting kicked out do to don't ask dont tell as a plot device?
Jesus. How can a guy that has a closet full of Stargate shit, has watched every episode of the first 7-8 seasons, and owns the first 3 on DVD get one simple sentence so totally wrong?
Well, Apophis was a bit more memorable of a villain than Anubis, what with being an actual person with facial expressions and not a CGI void wearing a hood.
I liked Anubis, though, because I came into the series about halfway through Season 5. So I didn't know about the Replicators and very little about the Asgard. I actually liked Jonas Quinn too.
I started the show as it began it's sixth season, but I was hopelessly lost. So, I crammed 5 seasons* worth of episodes into a two week blitz just to get up to speed. I don't have that kind of free time anymore . *The first 5 seasons, BTW & IMHO, really stand together well as a solid arc. They almost could have ended the show there.
I still have not watched the final seasons of SG1 and Atlantis.. SG1 I liked so much and didn't want to think it had ended. Plus the episodes sucked without O'Neill. Atlantis just sort of lost its charm.
Yep. I don't remember reading this anywhere, so take it with a grain of salt, but I remember hearing that every season from about 4 on they expected the series to end and were planning to go into films. Big final showdown with Apophis Daniel Jackson croaks it; introduction of Anubis Big final showdown with Anubis I'm not kidding--big final showdown with Anubis Big final showdown with the Replicators Then Richard Dean Anderson finally got tired of it and left and they finally ran out of big final showdowns so they cooked up the Oreos or whatever they were and just kept collecting a paycheck until they finally cancelled it. Too bad they kept it on TV. Any one of those season finales would've made a great launch into film. Then you bring on a new, young (and cheap) cast for SG2 and just keep going. The SG1 team does the big save the universe 2 hour extravaganzas and your new cast does the low budget story development and Trek-style morality plays.
I wasn't terribly fond of the Vala character, but Ben Browder put a sincere effort into making the "new guy" Mitchell work, and I say he pulled it better than could be expected under the circumstances.
I just wished they had gone with different villains than the Ori. It just made the ancients out to be bigger pricks than they had already been portrayed as. They even made the time lords look warm and cuddly. And that took some doing. Plus I couldn't buy that the government could crank out the Prometheus and the other ships as quickly as they did. I would have rather that they ended up with some Ha'tak class vessels and kept with the Egyptian theme of the show.
That was about when I stopped watching--when they threw away the Prometheus. I liked that it took forever to build the X-303--and that it got launched prematurely after a renegade Goa'uld stole it. That helped explain why they were able to get it flying so quickly--alien expertise. And I liked that the Prometheus was fairly crappy initially. And that the reason it became more capable was because the Asgard helped us out on it. Finally, I liked that it was "all in" for the Antarctica battle--General Hammond didn't want to lose the ship, but he was going to because that was what he had to do to let SG-1 succeed. Then they just crank out the Daedelus and more Daedelus class ships and they are capable of...eh. Don't get me started.
They build the Prometheus on their own though, the Deadalus ones were more of an international affair, plus with what they'd learned from building the Prometheus and been given by the Asgard. Would've been nice to have an ep dealing with the increase in tech though.
Didn't ever really see the end of the Ori story arc. How'd they finish that one up? Last I saw they'd just successfully stopped the Ori from building some super-massive stargate in space that would've allowed for a large-scale Ori invasion.
^ If you saw the one with Daniel, Oma, and Anubis in the after-life Cafe then you've basically seen the end of the Ori arc as well.
The biggest tech jump for the Daedelus class was shown in the series finale. The Asgard decided collectively to commit suicide, so they handed all of their tech over to the SGC in the form of a huge database on the Daedelus herself. The Orii storyline was wrapped up in The Arc of Truth.
Late in the last season, they sent a mass destruction-type weapon that kills ascended beings through one of those supergates to the Orii galaxy just before it went off. As it turns out, it killed all of the Orii but Adria, who then became super-powerful by being the only one left to feed on the energy of Origin followers. In TAOT, SG1 located the Ark of Truth, which forced anyone who looked into it to see...guess what...the truth, which in this case was that Origin was a deception. Since they share knowledge collectively, it only took exposing one Prior to the Ark to free them all from Adria's control. Adria herself was then killed by Daniel Jackson's Ancient buddy Oma/Morgan Lafey/wwhatever the fuck her name was.
