Yeah, I'm still missing out on some Season 6 episodes.
I don't know about you guys, but I've had it with super-strong little women who aren't me.
Buffy ,'Get It Done'
Boxed Set, Vol. 1: Smallville, Due South, Farscape
A topic for the discussion of Farscape, Smallville, and Due South. Beware possible invasions of Stargate, Highlander, or pretty much anything else that captures our fancy. Expect Adult Content and discussion of the Big Gay Sex.
Emily - Mar 01, 2004 11:59:03 am PST #3980 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Madrigal Costello - Mar 01, 2004 12:06:23 pm PST #3981 of 10000
It's a remora, dimwit.
I thought in the movie that the Earth's stargate was like in pieces, and the archeologists had to re-assemble it because it had fallen into disrepair.
Emily - Mar 01, 2004 12:09:16 pm PST #3982 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
It wasn't in pieces, but it didn't have a dial-home device. Actually, in the movie there wasn't such a thing, but anyway. So they had to "McGuyver" a computer interface. Which Sam was apparently responsible for. The anthropologists were there to read the manual.
(ETA: and, retconning, the address for Abydos, which was stored with the buried Stargate, sort of like a sticky on a phone that's been pulled out of the wall saying, "Here's the number NOT TO CALL".)
DCJensen - Mar 01, 2004 1:11:28 pm PST #3983 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Actually Abydos was the first known number that reached somewhere. Second, after 1940's retcon.
They had been trying for a while, IIRC.
Consuela - Mar 01, 2004 1:32:47 pm PST #3984 of 10000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Attention Farscape fans, or vid fans: Laura Shapiro has a new Farscape vid out. You can find links and directions for accessing it here.
I saw this before it premiered at Escapade. I don't think it's puffery to say it's brilliant, gorgeous, and disturbing. John and Scorpius and Aeryn, and the tragedy of Season 2.
It's worth the effort to see this, really. Enjoy.
Emily - Mar 01, 2004 2:10:03 pm PST #3985 of 10000
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
But the address for Abydos was on the coverstone which was buried with the Stargate. In the movie. If you think too hard about it, it really doesn't make any sense whatsoever -- why wouldn't they have tried dialing the combination that was on the coverstone, even if they couldn't figure out what the last symbol meant? Why would they instead try random sequences?
JenP - Mar 01, 2004 2:11:24 pm PST #3986 of 10000
Oh, Christ, I can.
Dana, cracking me up.
(Yeah, that's all I've got right now)
Katie M - Mar 01, 2004 2:18:01 pm PST #3987 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
If you think too hard about it, it really doesn't make any sense whatsoever -- why wouldn't they have tried dialing the combination that was on the coverstone, even if they couldn't figure out what the last symbol meant? Why would they instead try random sequences?
The importance of Not Thinking Too Hard when it comes to Stargate was established very early on. *nods*
Jars - Mar 01, 2004 2:18:35 pm PST #3988 of 10000
There were only six symbols on the coverstone. Daniel figured out that the symbols represented points in space and that a seventh point - the point of origin - was needed. And what that symbol was.
I think. I could be pulling this right out of my posterior.
§ ita § - Mar 01, 2004 2:19:10 pm PST #3989 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I think Jars is right -- they were missing something, for sure.