OT: The irony of SG1

Renegade 13 · #1 April 25th, 2007, 06:28 PM

I believe they explained the 'everyone speaking modern English' this way: If they had to spend a quarter of each episode learning the language of the people of the world, it wouldn't leave much time for anything else to happen (a very valid point, in my opinion.) Suspension of disbelief is what Sci-Fi is all about.

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Atrocities said:
They start out using the Stargate then end the series flying a large man made space ship with beam weapons, hyperdrive, shields, and a cloaking device. Ya it was time to say good bye.

As for everyone speaking english, hey, ITS A TV SHOW. Duhhhhhhhh.

Technically, they don't have any beam weapons on their ships (railguns and missiles, which we today could build), the hyperdrive was supplied by the Asgard (not human made), shields also supplied by the Asgard, and I can't remember anything about a cloaking device

I still think it's a lot better show than most of the vacuous crap that's on TV today, even if it has departed somewhat from its previous premise.

Romulus68 · #2 April 25th, 2007, 06:56 PM

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Renegade 13 said:
I believe they explained the 'everyone speaking modern English' this way: If they had to spend a quarter of each episode learning the language of the people of the world, it wouldn't leave much time for anything else to happen (a very valid point, in my opinion.) Suspension of disbelief is what Sci-Fi is all about.

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Atrocities said:
They start out using the Stargate then end the series flying a large man made space ship with beam weapons, hyperdrive, shields, and a cloaking device. Ya it was time to say good bye.

As for everyone speaking english, hey, ITS A TV SHOW. Duhhhhhhhh.

Technically, they don't have any beam weapons on their ships (railguns and missiles, which we today could build), the hyperdrive was supplied by the Asgard (not human made), shields also supplied by the Asgard, and I can't remember anything about a cloaking device

I still think it's a lot better show than most of the vacuous crap that's on TV today, even if it has departed somewhat from its previous premise.

I thought we had our own Hyperdrive going based on G'ould technology using the unstable Naquadria. The Asgard sent a representative to help with that instabilty to make the Earth ship hyperdrives more efficent and thus able to leave the Galaxy (hence Stargate Atlantis).

The shield Technology was a direct gift from the Asgard for Earth stopping the replicator threat.

The Transporter is another gift or was it scavenged from the Asgard??

Suicide Junkie · #3 April 25th, 2007, 07:10 PM

They had a Asgard engineer running the beam and trying to fix it after it took plot damage once...

Combat Wombat · #4 April 26th, 2007, 10:09 AM

Stop talking about SG1 I am barely able to keep myself from spoiling the episodes most of you haven't seen yet.

Fyron · #5 April 26th, 2007, 03:14 PM

A heaping pile of dung is already spoiled, my friend.

Renegade 13 · #6 April 26th, 2007, 03:38 PM

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Imperator Fyron said:
A heaping pile of dung is already spoiled, my friend.

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Fyron · #7 April 26th, 2007, 04:55 PM

Yes, those emoticons sum up the latter seasons of Stargate very nicely.

Renegade 13 · #8 April 28th, 2007, 06:01 PM

Description is the same, function is radically different, though I do like the irony.

Wade · #9 May 5th, 2007, 04:23 AM

***Spoiler of 5-5-07 episode***

Well, I just missed the last five minutes of the episode where Daniel Jackson is an Ori priest. What happened after he knocked out the 'Ori commander' daughter? How did it end? What was next weeks preview without a *spoiler*?