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Stargate Comic-Con Appearance after 7 years

cultcross said:
In fairness it wasn't the somewhat limited array of planets that interested me, I always imagined they were terraformed with a very limited menu of options, but I did enjoy the concept of Earth, the new kid on the block with loud guns and big ideas but not a lot of common sense or tact, the embodiment of a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, dipping our collective toe into a big galaxy full of things we didn't understand and quite often getting it bitten, but sometimes making a friend and learning something along the way. I loved it, and still do really. That's why I lost interest gradually as that dissipated and humans raced ahead and became conquerors and galactic powers through one Deux ex machina after another. I much preferred it when it was our team hopelessly out of their depth being fobbed off by the Nox.
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I liked it for those reasons as well but I didn't mind how things changed. To me it felt like a natural progression. Kind of like watching our society transform into a Star Trek society. It would have been weird if 5 years in they hadn't been able to gain any new tech or make in headway in the battle with the bad guys.

Jason
 
Jayson1 said:
I liked it for those reasons as well but I didn't mind how things changed. To me it felt like a natural progression. Kind of like watching our society transform into a Star Trek society. It would have been weird if 5 years in they hadn't been able to gain any new tech or make in headway in the battle with the bad guys.

Jason
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That's true, and I didn't mind then making headway - they were, especially early on, careful to show their missteps and cock ups as well as successes (Tangent is a favourite episode for this reason). I just felt it reached a point, quite suddenly, where humans graduated to being a galactic superpower. Again, that could have been interesting because it isn't unheard of for a country to suddenly gain wealth or power and have to work out how to deal with that, but instead they never really dealt with it and the show just became much more Star Trek like, with ship battles and transporters and space gates. It just lost something for me at that point. Still preferred it to Atlantis though, that show was a big disappointment for me. SGU had some great ideas but it took too long to get going and by the time it showed promise it was doomed.
 
I love the first four or so seasons of SG-1. But the show falls off pretty quickly for me after that. Never cared for the other shows. SGU took itself way too seriously, and Atlantis was put me to sleep boring.

I'd personally love a hard reboot of the franchise that stuck to the more "fumbling n00bs" of the first few seasons.

I see this as a "putting their toe in the water" sort of thing. It's cheap, easy, and little overhead commitment.

And not that it really matters, but I hope they go for something close to Lindfors's accent. I've always really liked it and thought it added something to the character.
 
cultcross said:
That's true, and I didn't mind then making headway - they were, especially early on, careful to show their missteps and cock ups as well as successes (Tangent is a favourite episode for this reason). I just felt it reached a point, quite suddenly, where humans graduated to being a galactic superpower. Again, that could have been interesting because it isn't unheard of for a country to suddenly gain wealth or power and have to work out how to deal with that, but instead they never really dealt with it and the show just became much more Star Trek like, with ship battles and transporters and space gates. It just lost something for me at that point. Still preferred it to Atlantis though, that show was a big disappointment for me. SGU had some great ideas but it took too long to get going and by the time it showed promise it was doomed.
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I think the mistake might have been that the next logical step would be for the general public to become aware of the Stargate program and start seeing how this new tech would change the entire world, away from just military applications.

I disagree about Atlantis. I enjoyed it though I got to admit I'm not sure how much of that goes to simply one character in Rodney McKay and Shephard to a lesser extent. "Universe" for me I also liked and I think I like the cast better overall than "Atlantis" and I did like how big it's supporting cast was. You had 6 or 7 reacurring characters I liked as much as the regulars.

Jason
 
Sounds more like mini episodes in the summer leading up to a new series/season since they're only 10 minutes long

I wonder if they'll stick with SG-1 continuity. Ernest Littlefield was the only person to use the Stargate before it was shutdown and stored away

O'Neill: You know, you seem a tad obsessed with this stuff.

Jackson: This was transferred from film of experiments done on the Gate in 1945. You don't find that the least bit intriguing?

O'Neill: Oh yeah—nothing piques my interest more than repeated failure.
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I hope the 10 minute episodes aren't just a ton of attempts to work the gate.



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I'll admit, I'm not 100% enthused about this. Prequels are limiting to begin with, and unless this is a reboot of some sort, I don't see what more there is to cover in Catherine Langford's backstory or the pre-1990s of the Stargate history. Wait and see of course, but there must have been better ideas for a Stargate revival.
 
All this talk about Catherine's backstory inspired me to go back and re-watch the SG1 ep, "The Torment of Tantalus". What a fantastic episode! It's a great example of how good SG1 was at the "quiet episode". It has no action or fighting but rather provides wonderful world-building and incredibly touching human moments.
 
Romulan_spy said:
All this talk about Catherine's backstory inspired me to go back and re-watch the SG1 ep, "The Torment of Tantalus". What a fantastic episode! It's a great example of how good SG1 was at the "quiet episode". It has no action or fighting but rather provides wonderful world-building and incredibly touching human moments.
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One of my favourites and a contender for my overall favourite. There's so much to love about that episode, the old gate experiments, Catherine, Earnest's performance, the library of the four races, and Daniel's own torment as he tries to capture it while his own safety is at risk. Brilliant.
 
I wouldn't have minded a reboot movie trilogy with Emmerich but I got to admit I would always prefer more stuff from the tv shows. It would be kind of weird at this point to watch a Stargate movie as if we didn't have all those years with the shows in our heads. Plus I wonder if Russell and Spader are two old to really do one these kind of movies and to me they were, along with the cool concept of the Stargate the main appeal of the movie.

Jason
 
Spader and Russell have both carved out new careers/images of themselves and I don't know if the new branding fits well with these old roles. That's not at all meant to be a rub against their acting ability, I just think the public perception of them has change. It's sort of like trying to picture the current version of Liam going back and doing Rob Roy or, hell, even QGJ.

Besides, as much as I adore Spader, I always preferred Shanks in the role.

*I should clarify that last bit by saying, if they were going to do a film reboot, I'd prefer they model their casting choice after Shanks's take.
 
Haha, I did the same thing last week to refresh myself. The only way this works (beyond alt-timelines, dimensions, etc..) if Catherine's memory is some how wiped, or she is has been simply lieing to everyone (like Daniel) to keep the secret fror whatever reason. It might explain why she was so eager to get the Stargate program going again in the 1990s. An important clue here is how old Catherine is in Origins? we know when the government had the gate in Torment she was 21. So does this adventure happen before or after Ernest when through.

Romulan_spy said:
All this talk about Catherine's backstory inspired me to go back and re-watch the SG1 ep, "The Torment of Tantalus". What a fantastic episode! It's a great example of how good SG1 was at the "quiet episode". It has no action or fighting but rather provides wonderful world-building and incredibly touching human moments.
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