'Shindig'
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.
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".)
Actually Abydos was the first known number that reached somewhere. Second, after 1940's retcon.
They had been trying for a while, IIRC.
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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.
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?
Oh, Christ, I can.
Dana, cracking me up.
(Yeah, that's all I've got right now)
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*
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.
I think Jars is right -- they were missing something, for sure.
Well, okay, but there are, what, thirty-five symbols on the Stargate? It's not going to take that long to find the right one to fit.
Or was it that they didn't know they needed a seventh symbol? I haven't watched the movie in a long time.
Or was it that they didn't know they needed a seventh symbol?
I think that was it.
Except, of course, for that one time they did use seven and lost whatsername's man.