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Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by pmlnr »

aetherspawn wrote: post #13
Reason077 wrote: post #2

Stargate. 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

The first season of universe is off putting. Shame because the second was brilliant.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by pmlnr »

Reason077 wrote: post #2

Stargate. 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 movie didn't age well. The series' will probably hold up forever.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by self_awareness »

lightlyused wrote: post #22
cheald wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The first couple of seasons are a little rocky, but once it established its own cast of characters and mythos, it really became something special.

The one where Teal'c goes to a performance of the Vagina Dialogs is one of my favorites.

Lol, had to Google it.

Indeed!

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by Avamander »

Reason077 wrote: post #2

Stargate. 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 really wouldn't go for a reboot. SG: Origins was kinda bad even. There's a bunch of lore they could build on top of that people love and new viewers could learn to love. They could find all new cast and everything, like Atlantis was for a while and do cameos.

The issue will likely be that the streaming format does not encourage character building the way it was. They'd likely make a really long movie split into seven parts. Which is not Stargate, with it's weekly monsters, overarching plotlines and occasional gags.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by aetherspawn »

pmlnr wrote: post #31
aetherspawn wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

The first season of universe is off putting. Shame because the second was brilliant.

Yes, I think universe is one of the most innovative sci-fi ever written in terms of using plausible science to form a plot.

I also appreciated they went into a lot of effort to explain, technically, how each plot element worked. For example they explained the science behind the gates in great detail, the shields, the air system, the stones, the vastness of space between the galaxies, etc.. don’t need to go into more detail it’s kind of spoilers.

By doing it that way they made sure that all the plot twists were simple and obvious in hindsight but difficult to predict beforehand, which was very satisfying.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by drivingmenuts »

Reason077 wrote: post #2

Stargate. 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 didn't start watching until the first couple of seasons were available on ... gasp ... DVD (remember those)?

Got the first season because I was bored. Laid on the couch all weekend watching the entire set of shows. Called in sick on Monday and Tuesday so I could go buy and watch the second season.

I used to own the movie, all ten(?) seasons and the SG-1 movies. I rewatched them a couple of times.

It holds up surprisingly well. I wouldn't argue against a reboot, but I would want to see something different rather than just copying the old shows with a different cast.

I think maybe the last couple of seasons were kind of a bit of stunt casting and while it eventually sort of worked, those were the worst shows since it was just sort of a rehash of the "Well, we pissed off yet another super-alien race by existing so lets kick their asses" idea. New villains, same as the old villain.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by philistine »

nick238 wrote: post #23

I'm actually kinda curious what SG-1's production company setup was for moving around the gate to all of British Columbia's quarries and forests.

It was most probably made of fibreglass, and was most certainly made out of separate parts.

Re: Stargate built 15 years ago in Ohio 50k pounds concrete family time

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Post by nouryqt »

shashashasha___ wrote: post #33

having just one seems like it's not going to help much tbh. he needs a second why to teleport to. also not sure if concrete based gate will work... never tried that.

There's a second one in Austria. Some pictures of how the creator built it and his cat: https://a-b-m-m.jimdofree.com/galerie/stargate/ + archive since it's on some free webhost: https://web.archive.org/web/20230513101909/https://a-b-m-m.j...

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/stargate-kappern

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