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Boxed Set, Vol. II: "It's a Cookbook...A Cookbook!!"
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much any other "genre" show that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Whitefont all unaired in the U.S. ep discussion, identifying it as such, and including the show and ep title in blackfont.
Blackfont is allowed after the show has aired on the east coast.
This is NOT a general TV discussion thread.
Note that Tennant's birth name is McDonald, and he's wearing the McDonald tartan.
It finally clicked for me the other night why the B plot of "The Empty Child" seemed so familiar and odd to me. The whole magical realism bit (with a Union Jack-clad Rose sailing across the Blitz hanging from a balloon, a smiling Captain Jack spotting her from afar and resolving to meet her at once, the rescue using a floaty beam of light against the London skyline, and their susequent dance apparently suspended in mid-air before a brightly lit Big Ben) was very reminiscent of the first half of Moulin Rouge only without the singing. No wonder I was feeling so much cognitive dissonance zooming back and forth between that and the creepy main storyline.
There are all kinds of spoilery things in the left hand column of the linked page...
MGM planning Stargate film, third series
SUNDAY - MAY 7, 2006
Stargate
by Darren Sumner
Stargate owner Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Television has big plans for its hit sci-fi franchise, according to executive vice president Charles Cohen. In a new article at Multichannel News, Cohen discusses Stargate SG-1's two-hundredth episode milestone and where the valuable franchise is headed.
Cohen "says MGM 'intends' to develop a theatrical movie 'derived from the series over the last 10 years' that would ideally 'dovetail' into a third Stargate television show," according to the report.
A third Stargate series? Man, they couldn't sustain quality on the second series for more than a year.
Maybe they're hoping to have a SciFi thursday or Tuesday as well as a Scifi Friday.
Cohen "says MGM 'intends' to develop a theatrical movie 'derived from the series over the last 10 years'
Yeah, they've said that before. ("SG-1 is ending this year! And then, a movie!")
Not to mention Dean Devlin's plan for (a) sequel(s) to the original movie. I think I've mentioned it before but he detests SG1 and thinks they made a mockery of his original movie.
Maybe they're hoping to have a SciFi thursday or Tuesday as well as a Scifi Friday.
From the tone of the article, I'd say they were shooting for Sci-fi Monday through Friday, with repeats Saturday and Sunday. All Stargate!
Yeah, they've said that before. ("SG-1 is ending this year! And then, a movie!")
Right? Though, they do address that in the article...
A theatrical movie based on SG-1 would not have to wait for the series to end -- though the show's producers have been eager to do one for years, and point to the TV series' continued success as the reason it has yet to come to pass. Nor does it mean the show can't continue after a film is released. Cohen said that feature films would "not in any way impair the television run" of Stargate SG-1.
We'll see.
Not to mention Dean Devlin's plan for (a) sequel(s) to the original movie. I think I've mentioned it before but he detests SG1 and thinks they made a mockery of his original movie.
OK, see, when I saw the movie during it's theatrical release, I thought it was abysmally bad, so I don't have any sympathy for Dean on this one.
In the movie's commentary they make a point of noting that they're not involved with the TV series. Whatev.
I rather prefer Jack O'Neill in the show to the movie. But that's to be expected, anyway. I did like the movie's version of Catherine Langford, though...
Still, when I first saw the movie I wasn't all that impressed. It's pretty bombastic.