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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: IceFire on December 15, 2004, 02:41:43 pm
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Read about it here: http://www.gateworld.net/news/2004/12/benbrowderjoinsistargatesg.shtml
I think thats really cool. I think he'd be perfect on the SG-1 set...I think the reason SG-1 is so appealing is the sense of humor the actors and producers seem to have and I think that Farscape shared some of that wacky humor...its done in a different way and I don't want SG-1 to be Farscape (Farscape was good in its own right, just not mixing the two) but I think this can be very good.
I'm still a bit worried about what a 9th season will mean. I know X-Files sort of had some trouble when they tried to bring in new characters to the regular cast...but to expect actors to do the same thing for 8 or 9 years is impressive.
Still...I'm VERY pleased to see the show continue. I just finished watching Season 7 on DVD.....what a finale! I can't wait for the next season!
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Wow, thats really really cool! Though I'm not really worried with bringing in new characters to the show. Season 6 was good with that other guy, forgot him now, but he was good. And since sg-1 has such a large cast changing one or two wont be as bad as with X-files when pritty much the MAIN character left and was changed to a new one. Think of Seinfeld without Seinfeld.
But cool, this is the first I heard that theres gonna be a season 9! So sweet!
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Awesome
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I've noticed that the Sci-Fi genre does a lot more of 'actor swapping' than most other types of media.. We all remember Chekhov in B5, not to mention Majel Barret/Rodenberry in just about everything :)
It's good news in all, Stargate is a well written series, and at the end of the day, O'Neill is probably the only 'non-replaceable' character in there.
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Then I take it you'd be dissappointed to learn that RDA will only guest star in 4 episodes in Season 9. Because that's what's happening.
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Nuts. Well, I guess at least he will be making his presence felt, but SG1 won't be SG1 without him imo.
This may be the cast for a spin off series slowly being introduced.....?
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Stunaep...I hear they are still negotiating. I think Richard Dean Anderson is sort of looking to scale himself back. He has been since Season 6 started...and keeps slowly disappearing a bit more every season. As long as he's still in there for a decent number of episodes...thats good. We've got a great cast of characters and we've had entire episodes already without him and I didn't notice too much till I said to myself "hey...where IS O'Niel".
My favorite character for sure...but we've got alot of good ones so if it turns out that he is only in 4 episodes...well I can live with that.
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Originally posted by Flipside
I've noticed that the Sci-Fi genre does a lot more of 'actor swapping' than most other types of media.. We all remember Chekhov in B5
Nope. But I remember Bester appearing in a few Star Trek films and episodes. :D
I guess the sign of a true B5 fan is when Walter Koenig appears on a chat show and you think "Bester!" before you think "Checkov!"
:D
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I always felt Teal'c (Yep, that's the bugger, thanks for the spelling Icefire :) ) was better before he lost his symbiont. I think that may have been a mistake, but hopefully the storyline will prove me wrong, it's sci-fi, so if it doesn't work out, they can always find a way to put it back ;)
Kara : LOL Yep, but I'm really really old so I remember Star Trek first ;)
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Teal'c you mean?
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Originally posted by Flipside
Kara : LOL Yep, but I'm really really old so I remember Star Trek first ;)
I'm only 3 years younger than you and I grew up watching Star Trek as my dad was a big fan.
Yet I still tend to think Bester first :) I guess the fact that he played Bester more recently helps :)
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It may be, but I can certainly confirm that I am not as avid follower of B5 as you are, I haven't even seen the entire series. :nervous:
I must admit, I do tend to think of one of the out-take clips....
'I hear aeroplanes...in my head' ;)
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'God-like aliens - man, do I hate god-like aliens. I'll trade a critter for a god-like alien any day.'
And holy ****. Browder is 42? I would have guessed 32.
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This would be EXCELLENT. (Has Atlantis' and Stargate's break between new episodes ended? I really don't know. I haven't been watching Sci-Fi, except for the Peacekeeper Wars. I only saw a little bit of it, and it's the only Farscape I've really wtached, but it was awesome. Damn I wish I'd taped the whole thing...)
Anyway, RDA's inability to be in much of any given episode has really hurt the show. Stargate has been functioning on a very short leash because they haven't been going offworld very much at all. A new character (and maybe some new writers) is exactly what it needs to be revitalized.
Although I wonder if he'll mesh well with the rest of the cast. What I've seen of Farscape seemed to be a lot more fluid and I daresay realistic and less cliche'd than Stargate.
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Farscape > SG-1
Still, I am looking forward to this. I wonder if he'll be playing Chricton with a different name.
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Originally posted by WMCoolmon
This would be EXCELLENT. (Has Atlantis' and Stargate's break between new episodes ended? I really don't know. I haven't been watching Sci-Fi, except for the Peacekeeper Wars. I only saw a little bit of it, and it's the only Farscape I've really wtached, but it was awesome. Damn I wish I'd taped the whole thing...)
Anyway, RDA's inability to be in much of any given episode has really hurt the show. Stargate has been functioning on a very short leash because they haven't been going offworld very much at all. A new character (and maybe some new writers) is exactly what it needs to be revitalized.
Although I wonder if he'll mesh well with the rest of the cast. What I've seen of Farscape seemed to be a lot more fluid and I daresay realistic and less cliche'd than Stargate.
But StarGate has also always tried to poke fun at its own cliches...often in full knowledge of the fact that its doing whats been done so many times but with a bit of humor added on. Again, thats what separates it from being average to excellent (one of the things).
I don't think it necessarily needs new writers...and while I haven't seen Season 8, I know in Season 7 the absence of RDA was not that bad and didn't limit things at all. I like where Season 7 went...and I can't wait to see Season 8.
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Originally posted by IceFire
But StarGate has also always tried to poke fun at its own cliches...often in full knowledge of the fact that its doing whats been done so many times but with a bit of humor added on. Again, thats what separates it from being average to excellent (one of the things).
O'Neil and Apothis come to mind in particular.
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Originally posted by Knight Templar
O'Neil and Apothis come to mind in particular.
And Anubis. So many Darth Vader moments...particularly at the beginning of Season 7 :D
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I'm just wondering what sort of crossover jokes there's gona be.
like they find him on some other planet "I got kicked off my ship and my girl left me!"
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"and took my kid!"
:lol:
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*Fwoosh*
"Its a wormhole?"
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"wormhole... I've got a bad feeling about this..."
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Originally posted by IceFire
I don't think it necessarily needs new writers...and while I haven't seen Season 8, I know in Season 7 the absence of RDA was not that bad and didn't limit things at all. I like where Season 7 went...and I can't wait to see Season 8.
Yeah, I think they've proven that they can go pretty well even without Daniel for a whole season and Jack all over the place. Atlantis, in a way, proves that the universe still works fantastically.
Also, Season 8 rocks. ;)
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But StarGate has also always tried to poke fun at its own cliches...often in full knowledge of the fact that its doing whats been done so many times but with a bit of humor added on. Again, thats what separates it from being average to excellent (one of the things).
I agree that's one of Stargate's strong points. :D Still, I disliked that the solutions to defeating the super soldiers and the solution to defeating the Replicators were essentially the same - some of the stuff Anubis did was inventive, but other times he seemed absurdly dumb. Example, not using beaming tech during his attack on earth.
And really, he seemed like a clone of Sokar and ridiculously over the top. Meh, I could go on and on, but I just think they really could've come up with a better villain than Anubis. (The semi-ascended thing was nice, though) Even Apophis seemed like a better character - he didn't have to be scary, so the more we saw of him the better a villain he became. Plus there was the relationship to Teal'c.
But really, I miss episodes where there is an opposing force, but it's not good guys vs bad guy(s) and good guys win. See the episode with Aris Boch, the link, the gadmere episode, Chimera, and, of course, the Changeling. Actually, the recent episode with Teal'c and the girl (Which I think was written by CJ as well) was a pretty good ep.
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Nothing but wholehearted agreement over here, Coolmon. I'm hoping that, amongst the plot resolutions that are bound to happen in Season 9, they'll return to some of those episodes where the shades of grey (!) were a little less well defined. Just one question, though...
Originally posted by WMCoolmon
the gadmere episode
Which?
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'Scorched Earth', 4x09. 'Twas the one where the planet was being terraformed by a ship to repopulate the race that built the ship. But the planet was already occupied by a group of refugees that SG-1 had already relocated (the Enkarans), and it was the only planet the Enkarans could live on that SG-1 knew of, because of its low radiation levels (IIRC). The ship couldn't terraform another world, it didn't have the resources, and it was terraforming for carbon-based life, who didn't breathe the same concentration of air as anyone else.