[NGTM-1R]

He looks like a red x to me.

[Knight Templar]

Originally posted by an0n
And Window of Opportunity. They get bored going round in loops and start playing golf through the Stargate.

That episode rocks.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Rictor
KT: please, please I dare you to tell me this man doesn't look like a drag queen. I dare you.

Its the eyeshadow. Apparently it only shows up when he shaves his head, as he doesn't have it anymore in season 8.

[Liberator]

He didn't wear eyeshadow after the premeir.  It was part of him being First Prime of Apophess(Apothess?).  When he wasn't with laughing boy anymore he ditched it.

[Mongoose]

As a total uninitiate to this series, wasn't Stargate originally a movie involving ancient Egypt in some way?  I remember seeing it on a tour bus during a field trip a while back, but I had little to no idea what was going on.  As for the series, I saw one episode of it (something about a black hole spreading out from the gate), and though I shouldn't make a judgment just from that, I found it very dull.  Give me Star Trek (any of them) any day.

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by Mongoose
As a total uninitiate to this series, wasn't Stargate originally a movie involving ancient Egypt in some way?  I remember seeing it on a tour bus during a field trip a while back, but I had little to no idea what was going on.  As for the series, I saw one episode of it (something about a black hole spreading out from the gate), and though I shouldn't make a judgment just from that, I found it very dull.  Give me Star Trek (any of them) any day.

Uh-huh.  Synopsis of the movie was; God Ra is actually an alien, takes slaves through the Stargate to other planet, slave revolt on Earth buries Stargate, Stargate refound, Merkin soldiers travel to alien planet and eventually free slaves, kill Ra, save Earth.

And that episode you're referring to was a bit ****, IIRC.  I quite enjoy the series, and I hate most(all?) sci-fi stuff.

[Styxx]

Originally posted by an0n
Watch the first 5 minutes of Affinity. It's like how the Batman films shoulda been.

And Window of Opportunity. They get bored going round in loops and start playing golf through the Stargate.

And Wormhole X-Treme. Pure awesomeness.

[Setekh]

When Stargate wants to be funny, it does it well.

[Striker]

Trust me I'm one of the biggest SG fanboy's in this forum (yes, I'm sure there's a bigger one). Apophis is...well...a little fruity, let's say. His outfits are usually more lavish than queen Amidala. And thats not exagerrating.

The whole story with Egypt is that many, if not all ancient gods (Egyptian, Greek/Roman, and even a Chinese emperor) were actually Goa'Uld, little snake thingy's that burrow into your spine, attach to your brain stem, and take over your body. The effects are a deep voice, an ego the size of Alaska, and regeneration from death w/ a sarcophagus (healing coffin thingy). The Goa'Uld steal technology and used human slaves back in 4000 BC to build pyramids as their landing pads. Raa was the first of these encountered and was in the Stargate movie. Then came Apophis, then Hathor, and eventually people like Anubis, Osiris, Baal, and Cronus. SG-1 has been responsible (directly or indirectly) for the deaths of over 10 system lords, the loose coalition of Goa'Uld.

The little grey Roswell aliens are Asgard, the most kick ass little guys in the series. The main contact guy is Thor, and other's known are Freyr and Loki. Obviously they take on Norse personas.

And did anyone listen to me? They film the desert shots in a  big, fat ass studio.

[Liberator]

Even the quite obvious exterior shots?

[Thorn]

And even though there is a ****ing desert just a few hours outside of Vancouver for them to film in?

[Striker]

But is it filled with miles of dunes w/ no plants whatsoever? And for large exterior shots, its call CG.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Striker
But is it filled with miles of dunes w/ no plants whatsoever? And for large exterior shots, its call CG.

There are areas like that, yes. Maybe not miles of it, but with proper use of camera angles its not necessary. B.C. Has almost everything. Jungles, forests, mountains, desert, urban sprawls.

[Setekh]

Hmmm, new-ish details.

http://gateworld.net/news/2004/12/jowoodanswersvideogameques.shtml

[Ace]

Pretty much to sum up Stargate for a complete Trekkie-

Take the TOS episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" set it in the modern day, and put it on fire, down a freeway, at a 100 mph with McGyver trying to make a black hole out of a microwave to put it out. ...and make McGyver a girl

[Vertigo1]

Striker is partially correct.  They have filmed some desert scenes in a very large set (I know for a fact that they filmed the desert scenes in "Cold Lazarus" in such a set.)  However, other episodes like "The Tok'Ra" were filmed on-location in an actual desert.  They even have a special set for "Chulac" which consisted of a large mound of sand on the edge of a forest.

Amazing what you learn when you listen to the DVD commentaries.

That being said, yes the scenes in "Avatar" did have the game models for Teal'C and Daniel.

As for the "clones",

Spoiler:

there is no "clone" of Jonas.  There were "clones" of the original SG-1 team made (well, replicas actually seeing as they were droids).  However all but two of them are "dead".  Teal'C-bot died saving the actual Teal'C from Kronus, and Daniel-bot got his head blown off by a jaffa in the same episode.

Rictor: I suggest you watch the show from the beginning and give it alteast a season.  It starts out a little odd from the beginning, but it does flesh out and you start to see the characters mature a little. (ie: The O'Niell character finally getting some closure concerning the death of his son...)

[aldo_14]

Spoiler:

The O'neill replica also dies at the end and IIRC Carter replica blows herself up along with the Gould ship

[WMCoolmon]

The O'neill-bot ran out of power after being shot several times.

The Carter-bot also seemed to run out of power; she was on board Cronus' ship, unplugging a bunch of crystals inside a force field to shut doors when she finally keeled over.

[Falcon]

Space Race

One of my favorite episodes. Just wish they would do a game on that.

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Originally posted by Striker


The whole story with Egypt is that many, if not all ancient gods (Egyptian, Greek/Roman, and even a Chinese emperor) were actually Goa'Uld, little snake thingy's that burrow into your spine, attach to your brain stem, and take over your body.  

Technically the panteions of earth gods already existed witht he goa'uld (and to lesser extent the asgard) taking the personae of various gods as their own to facilitate their dominion over the people (for the goa'uld) or their protection of the humans (for the asgard).

The goa'uld did not come up with the gods, they stole that idea just like they stole everything else they own.


nitpick of they day this is