does anyone else watch this show? the premiere of the 4th season aired in the US last week, and i just finished downloading and watching it. i don't want to spoil anything, so i'll just say it was pretty good episode. despite a few character changes, it's looking to be a good season.
Have i mentioned i love you saman?
I've been meaning to make a thread for SGA for a while, but there dont seem to be too many fans of the show here. I remember the SG1 thread i created like a year back got like no responses.
anyway, i saw the first ep a few days ago, and i thoroughly enjoyed it. My memory is kinda fuzzy atm, but i had a few gripes. Particularly when the micro asteroid punctures zaelinca's suit, he seems to be bleeding thru the hole, but the suit somehow manages to retain its atmosphere.
I love the way the episode ended though.....a heist at the enemy's stronghold. Though somehow i doubt they'll go thru with it, and if they do, it wont be as awesome as it should be. But we'll see i guess.
Its definitely looking to be a great season. I can't wait for the next ep this friday.
no, but there's always a first time for everything :POriginally Posted by Assassin
Have i mentioned i love you saman?
yeah, that was kind of weird. maybe his suit was insulated in a particular way to make that happen. they did say he would lose atmosphere, but maybe it would've been gradual instead of all of a sudden.
my gripe was that they pushed the whole crisis on top of crisis thing a little too far. the asteriod belt coming in out of nowhere was a bit over the top, and didn't really have any consequence except for getting zalenka hurt, and, okay, taking out the whole hyperdrive chamber, but fixing that didn't really do anything anyway.
so, elizabeth's gone. another loose end. what does that make it now, three? still, good episode.
it seems like too much happened too fast...they secretly break into replicator central, steal a zpm, reprogram thier base code and when it finally looks like they'll get caught, the cavalry shows up, just in time. It really doesn't do justice to the whole "the city is on the verge of destruction" thing, especially when theres only 4 people who seem to be doing anything at all.
Btw, we've got elizabeth and ford MIA, but who's the 3rd person?
i was counting michael too. he's not MIA since he wasn't part of the team, but he's still a loose end.
yeah, they do the cavalry showing up at the last minute thing a lot. that and last minute saves. usually done by mckay or sheppard.
i like mckays saves cuz they're all scientific and stuff....sheppards usually involve more brute force. although he occasionally has some nice ideas.
i wonder what'll happen with sam though....from the intro it seems she'll be joining the cast, but in the ep she said she wont be. I guess she'll be a recurring character or somehting. Having both mckay and sam on atlantis (while sure to provide alot of great moments) mite be a science overkill.
I love Stargate!
Anyway, I figure they'll tap Sam to run things with Weir gone regardless of her wishes, she just goes where she's ordered. And the unthinkableness of Stargate escape scenarios should be nothing new to us by now. Bad shit happens, they get out of it, in getting out of it they discover an even bigger problem, they make a really bad decision to try and solve the problem, it sort of works but doesn't leading to another bad situation, and then everything just sort of works out at the last minute, that's how it's always worked. (Giant asteroid in SG-1 anyone?)
Though I wonder if Elizabeth will show up again in some form. McKay made the replicators fight the wraith but there are two loose ends that could come up in the future. First, Teyla is part wraith, and second did McKay turn on any kind of be nice to people from Atlantis code?
yay another stargate fan!
we'll definitely be seeing elizabeth again, i think. in the stargate universe, you can't assume that anyone's gone unless you see their dead body, and sometimes even then *coughdanielcough*. actually i think dr. beckett might make another appearance too.
i agree that they'll probably get sam to take over atlantis in elizabeth's stead. she's the perfect choice. strong, lots of experience, and she's a woman. having a man to run atlantis would change the atmosphere of the show too much. unless it's sheppard.
but they didn't want a military leader for atlantis to begin with...i really hope we dont get a season of bureaucratic issues/episodes with some random "love to hate 'em" lawyer.
well, that settles that. sam's the new head honcho. the random scene with teal'c was really nice. uhh, i don't remember what else happened in the new ep, but i remember liking it, so it must've been good.
lol...ronin met up with this buddies who turned out to be wraith worshipers. It was a nice twist, and i didn't see it coming, so that was a plus. It was kind of odd to see sam going along on the mission, since she's the new boss, and it would've been really stupid if she'd been captured or killed rite away. i mean, obviously its not gonna happen, but within the SGA universe, it was a stupid move. Also, the wraith were apparently 'prepared' for a rescue mission, but somehow the one jumper was enough of a decoy....and what's with them sending only 2 darts after it? a child would know that the first jumper was a decoy. The writers are really starting to slack off this season.
We did learn that it was the wraith who originally turned off the replicator attack code...but then why did the Lanteans destroy them? plot hole perhaps?
I watch the show and have for the past season and more but I'm always left sorta wanting a more developed show. McKay getting annoying when its the same always.
Its like the style of the show is to simply gloss over so much that its hard for me as a fan to be really serious about it.
Oh a sad note, I hear this show is also on the block, they started the season when tho normal regular season of other networks and are expecting it to carry/hold its weight compared to everyone. I haven't heard any numbers but keep an eye out it might be in trouble.
I like Samantha, want to see her more active like her old role which I know I cannot expect to see.
Btw, the MMO for Stargate got a projected release date of late Q4 2008, dont' believe it will release then but just another stargate tidbit.
Yeah Samantha has been seen about as much as Weir was when she was the boss, which is not much at all compared to the screen time she got when she was on SG-1. I hope she starts to show more signs of her old character in her new role but it seems like she's doomed to fade in the same way O'Neil did when he became a general.
As to the ratings, it's up against Numbers, Men in Trees (?) and Las Vegas. The only show of those three that I've heard anything about is Numbers which seems interesting enough. But I would hope that Sci-Fi has figured out is that they can't be both a niche market network and the top dog most popular network. If they just want ratings they should just scrap all their Friday shows and all their sci-fi based shows in general and put on generic mystery/dramas like everyone else. If they want to make people who want to watch Sci-Fi happy I think they should stick with Stargate. People who would rather watch Numbers or Las Vegas than Stargate would probably rather not watch anything else sci-fi might put out anyway.
Not trying to stray out of the stargate theme, but I'll mention that Numbers was the casuality in my household this year in that time slot. Never watched Men in Trees. We watch either Las Vegas or Stargate: Atlantis live and record the second one to watch later, last year Numbers was in our rotation for this time slot.
Las Vegas seems a lot like Stargate: Atlantis in that both shows want to be silly before they want to be serious. Meaning that the actors are always talking fast like they are comedians up on stage and the action is second stage to their smart aleck fast ways talking.
I am not a fan of Las Vegas anymore it wore off, I suspect Stargate hasn't totally worn off on me because of its Sci-Fi theme which I keep wanting more of that rather than Shephard and McKay and Ronin doing their slapstick talking a lot. I'm like the women chararcter in the team can't think of her name, Talia? When she drops a big sigh when they do their talking, not taking situation serious type of thing.
So, another race has been introduced into the mix....any thoughts? i liked the gritty look of their ships....can't really say much more till we meet them properly. the show's becoming kind of cliche though....we need more ancient weapons/gizmo based episodes
i actually really liked this episode. don't particularly know why. it just had all the right action in all the right places. although i was surprised that the wraith actually left like they said they would. that wasn't really...right. and i remember thinking at at least one point in this episode, "i wonder what elizabeth's going to do about that. oh, wait...i miss elizabeth"
oh noes! teila is pregnant! either that or she has cancer. but my money is on pregnant. no real plot advancement this ep...just some character development for the doc, but nothing special.
dun dun duuun! i bet she's pregnant too. i don't get where the athosians are now. sheppard called it new athos, but are they still on the old lantean planet? if so, where did that big stargate beam thingy go? and how did they get a new stargate? or did they relocate again?
Im assuming they relocated when the whole giant orbiting laser thing happened. or maybe even before it happened.
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