Stargate
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Well, that's the second worst news for me today.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace.
Rest in peace to Cliff Simon. I finished Fire and Water today and so far SG-1 has been alright, when I get to later seasons I hope I enjoy his performance.
Well, take no offense there, Skippy, I'm sure you're a real hot, important Goa'uld, I've just always been kind of out of the loop with the snake thing.
RIP sir, Played Ba'al quite well!
Read about this earlier
RIP.
RIP.
I met Cliff Simon a few times st DragonCon. He's been there multiple times. Super nice, fun guy. You can tell he enjoyed being with fans.
R.I.P., sir.
R.I.P., sir.
They kind of addressed faith with Kinsey.
“We are one nation under God and I refuse to believe God would allow that to happen.”
“So God will save us.”
I don’t think knowledge that ancient Gods they thought were fictional were actually aliens would challenge anyone’s belief system.
“We are one nation under God and I refuse to believe God would allow that to happen.”
“So God will save us.”
I don’t think knowledge that ancient Gods they thought were fictional were actually aliens would challenge anyone’s belief system.
Nope. I would be very happy to discover aliens and my spiritual beliefs would remain largely the same.
For Christians, I would imagine discovering life on other planets would send them to one of two conclusions.
1. God only sent Jesus to Earth and we must go convert them.
Or
2. God sent a different Jesus to every world and only told us about the one because he didn't want to confuse us.
Or, it's up to God and I don't have to worry about it.
Religion in a nutshell...
That's one way.
I just started watching Stargate with my teenage son (young teenager). He doesn't like Star Trek other than Picard and Discovery. It just doesn't appeal to him because it is too episodic. But he has been asking to watch Stargate. We're ten episodes in and he really likes the world building and the series gives him a sense that it is building to something.
One thing that does annoy me a bit is the weird editing change from fade to black to straight cut away to black. Its often very jarring in brings me out episodes at time any reason why they changed it up? (also why'd they change the intro? this new one feels very stale and way exciting compared to the pervious one.)
You're watching on Netflix? My understanding is that they're using a weird version of the show (I heard they even had the content ratings burned-in to the corner at the beginning of the episode). You shouldn't be seeing commercial breaks at all, all three shows were produced with versions of every episode with no fade-to-black for home video, a tradition that started when SG-1 was airing commercial-free on showtime, and the version with commercial breaks was the alternate version (and boy, could you tell when you watched season one on TV, where the breaks were very abrupt, like when a movie is played on TV). So, I can't explain why there's a cut to black instead of a fade to black. It should be either fade to black, or nothing.
The "new" intro is actually the original opening credits from the Showtime run (and is, in fact, the opening title sequence from the original movie, reused). It was used for all five seasons that aired on Showtime, with the more familiar, exciting opening credits made for the syndicated re-runs of the show early in production of season two, so those were seen if you watched the first five seasons on TV on a network other than Showtime (except for the pilot, which used the Ra's headdress version for spoiler reasons). For some unfathomable reason, the home video release uses the syndication opening sequence for the first three seasons, but switches to the original sequence for seasons four and five. Season six was the first one on the Sci-Fi Channel, and they made a new first-run title sequence, so there were no more multiple versions depending on where you saw the episode.
Ah! Thanks for the explanation! I guess these are just some things that passover from cable to streaming.
I am sorry to hear about Cliff Simon. His character was one of the greatest villains, which was due to him. RIP.
