OT: The irony of SG1

[Suicide Junkie]

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[Atrocities]

He decides that he cannot live without her so he scoops her up in his arms and runs off to marry her. Most disappointing, albeit, in her previous life she was a licensed care giver... if you know what I mean. (Firefly)

[CosmoLizard]

dont know why...but when i watch this show, remind me propaganda about the war on iraq...you know, the US army liberators, the dumb foreing exotic guys, the bad boys that looks like mid-east......

[narf poit chez BOOM]

The movie came out some time before the war on terrorism became a common household term.

Aslo, there have been plenty of aliens who are smarter than humans.

The fact that they often don't think of the obvious is a common trait of aliens in fiction. The problem is wider-spread than SG-1.

[Tim_Ward]

Nah, Stargate has aliens who we're told are smarter than us. What the show actually depicts, sometimes, is another matter

[Renegade 13]

Unfortunately, there really is a Science Fiction void at the moment, with no good shows on (with the possible exception of Atlantis, which is good enough for me to waste an hour of my time on, though it could be better).

It seems that the majority of the viewing public just wants more "Ooo, shiny 'reality' TV show...crime drama...medical drama...soap opera... *drool, drool mindlessly*"

Maybe in another decade we'll have a good scifi show again

[Fyron]

Maybe if the writers for sci fi shows didn't suck these days...

[Randallw]

The topic in question seems to be a corollary of what the creator of B5 said when asked how fast the starfuries were.

"They move at the speed of plot"

so the ability of SGC members to handle alien tech is a result of them being as intelligent as the plot demands. Probably also related in some way to the fact that everyone they meet is human basically. I was actually surprised the one time I saw an epsiode where they participated in a space race, not withstanding it was a Voyager rip off, because there were actually aliens. It seems SG explains why everyone is human, but never explains why they all speak english, while ST doesn't explain why everyone is humanoid, apart from maybe the only epsiode of STNG I've never seen, and conveniently glosses over exactly how the universal translator works. I say this beacuse of it's apparent inability to always translate Klingon. It's like when the Klingons want to make a point they press the "Do not translate this bit" button.

[Fyron]

Stargate had the human aliens speaking all sorts of different languages in the early seasons, and used it as a plot device numerous times. The real aliens always had a native tongue of their own, but were presumably learned enough to speak English. You can only write stories based on language differences so many times without repeating yourself, so after a while its easier to just assume a common language.

[Black_Knyght]

All in all, I was seriously disappointed in the series finale for SG1. It seemed little more than just another episode to me, instead of and end to a long-running and popular series.

I greatly enjoyed Stargate SG1, though it did admittedly have it's high and low points. But still, I really think the Sci-Fi Channel dropped the ball on how they decided to end it.