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A place to discuss and post about the Sci-Fi tv series Stargate, Stargate Atlantis and other versions of the series.

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I still remember damn it! (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

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No one talks about this show anywhere, but it was such a huge part of my up bringing. It made think deeply about a lot of stuff as a younger person.

Plus it's cool as heck.

I don't know if there's much of a point to this post other than to say thanks to ever made this sub. You rule.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I make it a point to rewatch SG1 every couple years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

hey I'm currently rewatching the series

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My FIL was into it pretty deep, so I saw a lot of it back when we only had one TV. I think we still have it on DVD, tucked away somewhere. I always love how dry RDA was when he delivered his dialogue.

Also, I love the symmetry of Stargate Atlantis launching Jason Momoa's career, and then how he went on to play Aquaman...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

SGU was unpopular when it came out but with its serialized story telling it was just ahead of its time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Ehhh...it's lack of popularity wasn't due to serialized storytelling, which had been around especially in SciFi for a while at that point.

It had it's high points, but on the whole, it just wasn't very good. People wanted Stargate and they got a bad BSG knockoff instead.

I rewatched it during Covid, and while I didn't hate it the way I did during the initial airing, I still wasn't sad it didn't get a second season.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah... the tone wasn't right... It had this vibe of "we're going to make a serious TV show this time." Vibe to it. However the things you get to see in that show are very cool. I'm just now realizing Lemmy doesn't have spoiler tags so I'll leave it at that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It got a second season. The second half of it is actually rather good, but the damage was already done at this point unfortunately.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

With SGU they went and made exactly what an episode of SG1 was mocking.

Take stargate, but replace the cast with angsty teens/young adults.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah! Episode 200, classic. Daniel in the sharing you are referencing is pretty much what Eli ended up being in that show.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I remember vividly rewatching the original Stargate movie shortly before the the TV show was to premier on Showtime. I remember thinking "I don't understand how they're going to make this a whole season... the story is complete!"

Boy, was I wrong.