Stargate episode 200!!! - Page 5

Wade · #41 August 26th, 2006, 05:06 PM

Remember when MTV meant Music Television? Look at the nonesense it is now; for the shallow teenagers. Like mentioned, it can be relabeled "Reality Channel" although there is nothing real about it. People are not real when there are known cameras watching. I hate all that ignorance.
SciFi Channel is sliding towards this.

narf poit chez BOOM · #42 August 26th, 2006, 08:04 PM

I blame music in movies for a number of stupid movies.

Why? Becuase when you have music, your actors don't have to work to show which are important scenes, to convey emotion to the viewer, to give a sense of life to the movie.

Just play the appropriate music and instant atmosphere. A lot of older movies are both very good, very nuanced and have no music.

How nuanced are modern movies?

NullAshton · #43 August 26th, 2006, 08:31 PM

Stargate was good with not relying on music. Stargate kind of counts, since it's in widescreen and has the 'feel' of a movie.

Atrocities · #44 August 27th, 2006, 11:07 AM

Man I was pissed when I wrote that post. To be honest I am still a bit upset over how f***ing dumb those idiots over at Sci-Fi channel appear to be. You don't drop your #4 rated show and replace it with crappy double "D" back yard, lets break out the video camera, movies!

Hell my nephews could make better movies than some that have recently been on Sci-Fi.

No effort at all is going into the movies, horrible production values, bad acting, rotten scripts, even worse dialog. Its like a Lucas script feast without the budge or SFX, or Steven Spielburg's (sp) to back them up.

Xrati · #45 August 27th, 2006, 11:47 AM

Lack of compitition drives most companies to believe that they can do whatever they want. Thus the Sci-Fi channels competitor is?????

WELL, what do you know! There is none! Who'd of Thunk it.....

Babylon 5 follow up shows would still be on the air if they (studio management) just left M.J.S. alone and let him do what he needed to do. They played the 'Ranger' series out of order because they didn't like the way the opening story was (not exciting enough). The man wrote one of the best Sci-Fi series and he didn't know what he was doing? (as AT would say "that's F'd UP!) Now you know why SG-1 is going bye bye.

Atrocities · #46 August 27th, 2006, 04:16 PM

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Thus the Sci-Fi channels competitor is

Cable access I would say. No, the home made movies on Cable Access even have a better production value than those on Sci-Fi.

Azselendor · #47 August 27th, 2006, 10:46 PM

SciFi channel made it clear that MGM's license fees was one of the main deciding factors on cancellation - much like how UPN would've cancelled Enterprise in the 3rd and 4th seasons.

Also, SciFi has made it clear that they will use their contract with MGM to prevent any future Stargate SG1 television series.

Atrocities · #48 August 28th, 2006, 02:11 AM

I would like to see Sci-Fi try and go up against MGM.. That would be so funny.

AMF · #49 August 28th, 2006, 08:14 AM

OK, so...is Stargate SG-1 really that good a show? I mean, it looks like it's another one of those adventure shows with a bunch of people hopping into new worlds and having new adventures but they characters are all one-dimensional, the women are weak, the men are strong, no one ever dies, everyone on the goog guy team really is a good guy, the aliens are really just humans with different skin, and there is ultimately no depth or edge to the show....etc...?

In other words...is it vanilla like Star Trek, or like Quantum Leap?

Battlestar Galactica was a phenomenal show, exactly because it wasn't like the above, and I have been interested in finding another show just as good - but I look over the SG stuff, and it looks to me like it's just a bit too clean and nice and traditional utopian sort of sci-fi.

Is it?

Just curious.

Thanks!

AMF

Atrocities · #50 August 28th, 2006, 08:49 AM

While the show may have lost its hard core ruggedness and its on the edge film quality appeal, replaced by hi-definition video, shorter episodes, and a sense of "where the hell are we going with this" feel, overall the show is still good and I like it.

Albeit I am not a huge fan of the current story arch, the Ori, I think its better than the alternative, cloned Baals and renagade Jaffa. Lets face it, they Trek'ed themselves in that they created technology that now takes the thrill of living on the edge away from the game. Sure its cool that Earth has space ships now, but lets face it, they lost focus of the fundamental goal of the show, the stargate. Now the show seems more like fargate and while that is not all bad, more good than bad anyways, I do miss RDA and the harder more original feel that he brought to the show. While Ben is a good actor, he is no RDA.

Sci-Fi should be bankrupted for playing games with MGM. I miss my old SG1, replaced by SG Command, and while I will continue to watch, because it is great sci-fi, I cannot help but feel that by having the show on sci-fi, too many compermises were made and it shows.