Being teleported to Ohio is much less exciting than being teleported to Antarctica[1].
Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time
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#12Stargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
the plot arcs don't hold up very well, but I highly recommend watching the monster of the week episodes. some of those one-off episodes, like the black hole episode, expanded my concepts of time and space in ways that I have not experienced while watching other sci fi shows.
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#13Stargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
Atlantis was a lot better than SG1 in my opinion (relative to modern attention spans), maybe start there.
I liked SG Universe but it got a bit Home-and-away every now and then which was off-putting. Relationships in a sci-fi? Who cares
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#14Ok, you can’t just build something cool and expect people not to show up.
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#15Stargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
I've watched seasons 1-5 this year. It's basically my first run through, I'd only watched a couple of random episodes back in the day and not been impressed, so there's no nostalgia at play here.
It absolutely holds up, and does things that seem to be impossible for streaming-era TV shows in terms of building the characters and the universe.
The first season is very obviously done on a shoestring budget, but the production values will start improving after that. I honestly can't imagine what value a reboot would bring.
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#16Ok, you can’t just build something cool and expect people not to show up.
Which is why you don't tell people about having an elevator descending into a bat cave .. cool DIY build project (if you happen to have an old tourist cave on your land) but it's a nuisance dealing with the looky Lou's and drive by Penguin's..
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#17People have the urge to build arts and monuments. See the art pieces people built in Slab City, even in the off the grid, away from society place.
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#18"The only catch is the Stargate in Ashland County doesn't exactly work − like the ones on television." lol - the ones on TV actually work ;)
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#19Here it is from street view https://maps.app.goo.gl/x5v2SxbbriDjHXSH7
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#20Stargate. The original movie was cool but I never could get in to the TV show, even during its heyday with Richard Dean Anderson. That said, if they ever did a reboot I'd probably check it out!
Atlantis was a lot better than SG1 in my opinion (relative to modern attention spans), maybe start there. I liked SG Universe but it got a bit Home-and-away every now and then which was off-putting. Relationships in a sci-fi? Who cares
Universe was the only series I watched (due to Scalzi being a technical advisor), but I found it infuriating that they let Tim Roth's character continue to have the run of the ship after he proved himself a psychopath.