The Stargate guy is crying in a corner
He is probably jealous of the Starship Troopers guy who got popular again because of Helldivers 2. The Firefly guy is probably playing a shooter arcade with his laser revolver and the Battlestar Galactica guy is piss out drunk.
The Firefly guy is muttering “fucking Joss Whedon” under his breath
Meanwhile people are looking at this guy going WTF?
Among us???
Space: 1999
I know *I* am!:-P
Space: 1999
Well that answers one question… and begins to spawn a whole new series of them:-).
Oh man I loved Power Rangers!
Farscape says what the frell?
Moya is cooler than the rest of those ships combined
She doesn’t need to frell herself, she already bad a baby
There most definitely could not have been a show without her! :-P
She literally carries the actors throughout the show.
From all of them I’m only a fan of Stargate.
There are dozens of us.
I should rewatch sg1 again…
I just feel terrible that you guys don’t have the berth of content that star wars/star trek fans have. I should give stargate a try
FYI -
- You need to bear with it through the usual S1 growing pains
- By today’s standards it’s almost unbearably 90s, especially during the first season (IMO)
- It really does get great.
- It made me cry at least a few times.
SG-1 was a great mixture of comedy and drama in sci-fi IMO, and while it’s not my very favorite franchise, it’s easily top 10 for me. If you haven’t seen it before it’s worth your time for sure!
Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.
I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip, and while I do skip a lot of S1/2 depending on how long it’s been since I watched those particulars, personally I think they’re all important for Stargate as a whole. Necessary to watch on your second run I think, not necessarily for the first.
Luckily since I know the people I’ve watched it with pretty well, I know what can be skipped and what they’ll need to watch to really “get it”. And I summarize the episodes we skip. Sometimes I’ll even give them the option like “next episode is pretty slow, no real action but a lot of off-world things and important conversations/drama” and let them decide if they want to watch a slow episode or not.
Although honestly, how can you think the episodes where Daniel poses as Yu’s servant are boring? Sure no big explosions and action sequences, but it’s riveting.
I don’t think SG-1 started off as rough as, say, Star Trek TNG did. They were making overall good television even in the first episode of SG-1.
The first two seasons especially had the Torchwood problem of trying to be very emphatically a show for adults, which is why there’s that infamous full frontal scene in the pilot episode. I think they realized that there’s money in syndication on basic cable so they produced most of the rest of the show to kind of a PG rating which stabilized the tone.
Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.
Really I have to agree with that now that you mention it. I think it had been too long since I watched it. :)
I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip
I skip nothing on any show! I know people commonly do this, I just don’t. If I’m watching it, I’m watching it warts and all. 😁
While normally I would agree that you should take it all in as-is… It really depends on how many times you’ve seen it…
SG1 was my jam while it was still running, and I watched it every chance I got from S4 onwards.
When my family didn’t have cable, we had the first 5 seasons of SG1 on DVD, and I watched them. A lot.
So I definitely have seen enough of The Broca Divide and Emancipation and will happily skip them my next go around. If I’m showing them to a new person though, it’s “you should watch ALL OF THEM”
Fair, I can definitely see how there would be a point of saturation!
I’m trying to get my wife through the series.
Daniel just died and she’s pissed. Hates Jonas already just for being “not Daniel”
I love seeing Stargate brought up in the wild
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Indeed.
Naw he’s off at RenFaire.
The only thing that comes close to the greatest sci-fi quote from those three franchises is Luthen’s speech in Andor, otherwise this one from G’kar in B5 is one of the greatest bits of prose in sci-fi:
It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath…waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments…of revelation. This had the feeling of both. […] G’Quan wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.” The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born…in pain.
G’kar and Londo absolutely made B5. The most interesting character arcs, probably the most fleshed-out characters, and Katsulas and Jurasic stole the show with their acting. All the hardships G’kar suffered and the philosophical outlook he kept despite the anger he had to deal with, Londo’s moments of self-awareness, yet he remained trapped by culture and politics… Their interaction and introspection on screen was something I always looked forward to. I need to go watch that series again.
Edit: Just started watching the series again. I don’t know why I didn’t remember, but the writers really started off painting the Narn as the plotting and scheming baddies. Funny how that changed over the course of the series.
I’m only at the start of S5. Man, I hated Londo for so long. I wouldn’t say he’s redeemed himself, but at least he’s a better person now.
G’Kar is one of the greatest sci-fi characters I have ever seen. Andreas Katsulas did an amazing job with the character’s amazing writing. G’Kar has so many amazing quotes, and every word he speaks is so very poetic. This one is my personal favorites.
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Greatest sci-fi quote: Victory tastes like ashes
Fuck that, I’m into all of them, plus Battlestar Galactica.
Ain’t nobody paying me to not enjoy good sci-fi/sci-fantasy
I’ve seen them all and I need more space adventures dammit!
The avalanche has already started, it is to late for the pebbles to vote.
I love all of them. And Stargate.
And of Avenue 5. That show was cancelled in its prime :'(
Judd you gurning haemorrhoid!
It’s okay because we are all Kosh
Everybody’s dead, Dave…
What is up with Star Trek memes on Lemmy anyway? I blocked like 5 communities already but they keep popping up all the time. It’s a show my Dad watched as a young adult and he is almost retired, that’s how old this shit is.
Star Trek has like 3 or 4 active shows right now. Also never could get into the 60s one but The Next Generation, DS9, and Lower Decks are all fucking awesome and I can recommend them to anybody that appreciates social commentary and great acting.
Star Trek is not dead.
Oh noooo it’s old no-one should like stuff that’s old only new things are cool
You know, one day the stuff you like will be old too.
Also, Star Trek been around a long time, yeah, but it’s still going with new content.
Nobody answered you, but there was a conflict with reddit and Star Trek mods several years ago and so a large group of fans came here much before last June. They’re just better established than other groups.
Also if I made something with “federation” I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of Trek nerds showed up
I still wonder if it’s just so many old people (“old” in my perception aka idk 45+) on lemmy compared to reddit or if more younger people watch trek than I thought. I know 0 people in my age bracket watching it but have several senior colleagues being fans but might be just my case.
