I swear to any god, if I hear "Wow guys, it looks like some sort of Ancient Alien Technology" one single time in the next season of SG-1, I will poke my eyes out with toothpicks, drill screws in my ears, and jump into oncoming traffic.

Seriously, every other episode they stumble upon "Ancient Alien Technology".... I mean, it cant just be "Wow guys, its an old lab...". Its "Wow guys, its ANCIENT and MAGICAL and I know JUST how to operate the doors! Lets go!"

its those three words that just kill me...... enough with the Ancient Alien technology tagline, pick something new you dam writers


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Good one.

What irritates me most in SG1 is the fact that no two characters say Goa'uld the same way, from Teal'c's "Gwa-ooll" to the General's "Geewld".

Good one.
What irritates me most in SG1 is the fact that no two characters say Goa'uld the same way, from Teal'c's "Gwa-ooll" to the General's "Geewld".ta-ma-toe, toe-may-toe,
pa-ta-toe, pa-tay-toe,
lets call the whole thing off

its regional & galatic accents,
ita worst tyhat they all speak english without some Universal translator

SG-1 is a great show, if you're willing to suspend all your higher brain functions and ignore the history lesson behind everything. Which means it's NOT a great show, because sciforums is all about flipping the finger at anything that crushes intelligence. HOORAY FOR SCIFORUMS!!!! I'm sorry what was the topic of the argument again?

haha... sounds annoying, but i think that's what the series are about. the first movie was decent, which the series are based on..

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Star Trek:TNG set the standard with the phrase that was uttered at least five times in every episode: "It appears to be some sort of..."

What's wrong with "It appears to be a weapon, Captain?" Instead of "some sort of weapon."

Commander LaForge, what is that giant smoking thing with all the electrical arcs zapping about it, with the huge barrel that is slowly being brought around to point at our ship? That one right in the middle of the screen, directly in front of us, with Romulan writing all over it, that looks like it's being powered up?"

"It appears to be some sort of weapon, Captain Picard."

Well DUH!

I agree that the dumbest thing about Stargate is the fact that all the humans throughout the galaxy speak English. It would make slightly more sense if they spoke ancient Cushitic Egyptian, and Daniel would still be able to understand it just fine. The fact that all humans can understand each other is essential to the plot. Universal translators have not been invented yet, this is after all taking place more or less in our own present time. It would be difficult to mount the coordinated defense needed to beat the Goauld and all the other nasties if the galaxy (and apparently the other galaxy they discovered on the Atlantis spinoff) were a true Tower of Babel.

The entire essence of the storyline hinges on something for which it is REALLY difficult to suspend disbelief.

I eventually forgave the creators of the original Star Trek for not explaining how the Enterprise crew could understand everyone they encountered. The show was written in the 1960s and no one could conceive of a computer small enough to fit in everybody's ear that would translate every language with just a tiny sample to work on. But they left it up to fate that eventually a writer would figure out how to deal with it. It was a welcome break from the usual Star Trek silliness that busy adults would walk around explaining to each other how what to them was everyday technology works. Sort of like you and me walking to the cafeteria and discussing the workings of the building's air conditioning system along the way. Hey, we're not climate control engineers, we might not really know or care how it works! It wasn't until the middle of TNG that they finally sprung universal translators on us and it was believable that they were available in Captain Kirk's era. Just like the way they finally explained why most of the aliens we keep running into look just like humans in Halloween costumes instead of giant starfish or gasbags with bacteria colonies floating inside.

Just like the way they finally explained why most of the aliens we keep running into look just like humans in Halloween costumes instead of giant starfish or gasbags with bacteria colonies floating inside.
What was the explanation?

What REALLY gets me about Stargate is the simplicity of every plot. They always end up stuck in a pyramid hunted by a monster.

In startrek, most of the major galactic races were decended from an ancient archetype who seeded the universe with tetrapods before dying off or whatever. That, and the producers have traditionally been cheap.

I had hoped to see things closer to the horda or the tholians over the run of the mill aliens they keep throwing at us.

Species 8472 were a step in the right direction, except for that "fluidic space" nonsense.

It always annoyed me that we didn't see any Tholians, Gorns or Hortas in TNG or DS9.

Just wait until they run into ancient alien technology that was ancient tech when the ancients were a young race . Ancient , ancient alien technology . I'll take a sledge hammer to my tv when that happens.

That's what the jumpgates in Babylon 5 were: each extant race had acquired the technology from an earlier one, and nobody knew who invented it to begin with...

I think that is the funniest part of the show. It's pretty much retarded but I still watch it anyway.

They again found a vacuum energy power source from our space-time to only destroy it...that the ancients were unable to do...in Stargate Atlantis....tonight....

im missing it... i have no tv in my dorm room :(

(well who cares about stargate... but im missing battlestar galactica... and i might die beacuse of this :()

I really enjoyed Stargate.
I have it on DVD, in fact.

I saw one or two episodes of SG1 and I thought it sucked.
Which is why I simply don't watch it -as opposed to continue watching it while complaining about how bad it is.
Silly me.

Since there is not much scifi out there...Friday nights at scifi channel is when I park my butt. One common denominator of all scifi/fantasy shows is that people get advanced weapons and power only to lose it in the next episode...it never fails...the failure that is. Monkey becomes man only to become monkey again. Perhaps we the humans have a subconscious fear that one fine morning we wake up and find ourselves on the trees....:D

Babylon5 was a better series...my all time best. Hope they make a movie out of it....Wonder what happened to the Babylon5 fans? Even Firefly has a movie now....