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Well it started good, had a nice middle but the ending SUCKED!! They have faced the Ori and survived thanks to the Atlantis chair, the Ori turned up at Earth and were saved by our Carter... .. that's when the good bit stops. The latter part prattles on about civil liberties and once again we have the self-absorbed, self-righteous American prattling about lost freedoms even though she is the interloper in THEIR reality. She gets the glimpse of outside awareness from an obviously biased media and suddenly she gets the hump about it. The worse part is they have a point. Whne President Landry goes on about revealing the Stargate to the public and the political backlash, she has no right to call their governing into question because her reality hasn't dealt with it and they use similar methods to suppress that info. The biggest plothole is about Daniel. I don't see how he would've stayed with them after seeing them take away all those freedoms. He'd have rather left them than help them or at the very least protested and gone to jail. This isn't just limited to him. Most of the people are the same in personality which means they should be the same overall. The ending kinda tails off, nothing resolved with a glimmer of hope in an alternate Rodney McKay which kinda points out how this will end. The episode plays like a decent writer started it, quit and then passed it to the media student on work experience. Not the best, certainly the worst for this half.

Well episode 12 came out (or a whole new chapter as the narrator tells it).

My hopes for this episode is that it's the one the guide says it is. ;D What I hope is that it's not a repeat of Daniel Jackson's alterverse trip where Earth was destroyed which I think it will be so they can do a Lexx with out it being permanent. Doubtful but hoping.

Agreed like being able to use Jedis without them expiring (in Story Mode only, online the expiration is fair) or inside zones on ships that don't consist of just 3 rooms on space battles maps. That was the biggest letdown for SW:Battlefront 2 for me. When they said 'you'll be able to go inside ships and help epople on the outside take down defenses faster I thought they'd be huge maps like in Episode 3 where Obi and Ani travel through the ship in order to reach the chancellor but inside we get three rooms each one connected to the central room and the hanger which only gives you two options - shoot the stuff outside or try and shoot it inside. No real 'Epic' feel which makes the movies so great - the scale of the battles. What I would like to see, especially given the X360 can render hundreds of opponents at once, is the kind of battles seen in the movies where they really do fight on multiple fronts instead of several pre-defined pathways (despite number 2 making them less obvious). So that on a space battle you feel like you're in a space-shooter but inside it's more like a FPS or 3PS or even an action RPG. I find with games that usually the third game is the train-wreck although this only happens 50% of the time. The Jak Trilogy, Ratchet and Clank both had a good series cause they kept a simialr standard, mainly involving keeping the same level of graphics throughout. Turok was ruined by number 3 because it went all super-high-res and the plotline became a little too confusing/pretencious to follow. Also a good thing to note is that Aliens vs Predator actually went from okay to perfect from number 1 to 2 and was one of the most fun to play. There were times I got so deeply involved in AvP 2 that I actually felt my heartbeat and was running for MY life. The first one was made by a different developer, the second was by Sierra and the changes they brought were amazing.

"Where sci-fi runs riot" "Where all wormholes meet" "The path to enlightenment starts here" "Reality stops here" "Watch the stars at NiteScifi"

Well, just finished watching it. TWO things stop it from being VERY good: - someone's been watching BSG Season 2 when they wrote this (about half the season was "X HOURS EARLIER" episodes). I know they haven't exactly made it continuous but I'm a little bored with them. There's been 3 in the second half. Just irritates a little - PARTICLES as any Physics teacher will tell you are just that - Particles. They are not biological and do not have DNA otherwise. as any Biology teacher will tell you, they would be virii, cells or amoebas so they CANNOT BE "GENETICALLY" PROGRAMMED. This really pee'd me off. Blatent techno-babble and obvious the writer just strung several words together to make it sound 'sciencey'. A personal bias but soiled the plot for me. I don't see why they are so surprised that it creates explosive tumours as that was done way back in SG-1 Season 1 when they first encountered Cassandra after Nerti got her hands on her and placed a Naqueda bomb in Cassie's chest.

At home with Michael Shanks, that's why he's taking a break. I checked the info and the episode described was The Bounty - Cameron makes himself a target of a Bounty Hunter and tracks it to When I checked Gateworld they had Line in the Sand listed as number 13 and Bounty as number 12. I just checked now and they have re-arranged the order making this one number 12 and The Bounty BUT I did confuse Line in the Sand with The Shroud [glow=red,2,300]Original post edited for conformity[/glow]

Discuss the latest episode Stargate SG-1 [10x12 - Line in the Sand] *SPOILERS* [glow=red,2,300]EDITED - Topic title changed to reflect new order on Gateworld, Episode title added.[/glow] As usual all off-topic conversation will deny the power of origin and will be mercilessly slaughtered. Hallowed are the Ori. SO... This episode we see a small village being helped (unsuccessfully) and SG-1 sans Daniel trying to defend it with the usual consequences. There's some moderate action to begin with leading in to the character-drama between Sam and Cameron. The Prior from early season 9 makes a return and fails, yes fails, to use his abilities to reveal the concealed Sam and Cameron. The sub-plot see Vala's love return and try to once again convert her to origin BUT he is the one who is convinced that the Ori's followers are not who they appear to be. Luckily everything is safe by the end with a last funny moment. A little average, would've preferred more fighting at the end.

Funny how everyone forgets the British guy who died at the end of season 1. He never had any decent stories I think the biggest problem is the scale of Atlantis. There is supposed to be this all-devouring enemy consuming all human life in the galaxy and yet we hardly hear of them except for what they did 10000 years ago, last week, last month, etc. The biggets threat to the entire galaxy and they are missing in action because of some pathetically introduced civil war making them even more like the Goa'uld than when the series started. I already said last season that if it didn't pick up I'd quit watching... and it's not looking good.

Don't humans still need help from an ascended being to ascend, and wasn't Daniel told last time that he wasn't going to be helped again? No, they need to be of required intelligence, spirituality/state-of-mind and physiology. A balance of all three for them to ascend is required, good or evil. They can ascend solo. Having just watched the feature-length episode with Omah and Anubis she helped them as her punishment for helping fatso become ascended in the first place. Also from the SG-1 episode with Anubis' "perfect host" where he was using a similar machine to reach the level of evolution required to ascend. Also having watched some of the SG-1 special Michael Shanks said that Daniel wouldn't ascend or be human but something inbetween...

Other - Heroes With Battlestar a close second and Dr Who third. Tourchwood? Sounds like you almost threw up whilst saying it... ..No, I didn't.. ...well, maybe a little.

Well it was average. First few minutes reminded me of BSG but the lack of any further flashbacks made the episode a simple recap. If they haven't learned now they never will - Rodney must be bound and gagged before he touches ANYTHING. How many 'uh-oh' moments must they have before he learns to read the manual first and then push the buttons. He's like Dee-Dee out of Dexter's Lab - "oooo, what does this button do?". It seems they did spend most of the budget on the station, as said the beginning and end seemed to be missing. The Jumpers are fast becoming for Atlantis what the shuttlecraft were for Voyager - disposable and infinite, two things which they aren't. No mention if they recovered it, damaged or otherwise. I suppose they can use the Asurians to explain the full compliment again but for people stuck in another galaxy they are wreckless with these things especially when so few people can fly them.

A 'proper' ending should've been at the end of season 8 when they basically cleaned house with the Goa'uld plot, the Jaffa were free, Daniel was semi-aware of the ancient knowledge, it was done. Season 9 should've been the start of Stargate:Ori with a new team and setting supported by old cast members like Atlantis was supported by Wier and McKay which it seemed to be since they replaced most of the supporting cast with new faces (Lexa, Beau, Claudia) and replaced the lead man with Ben Browder. Maybe then it wouldn't be facing such a sudden cancellation. I'm with Tenebrae's cynicism on the DVD sales - it's a blatent sales tactic akin to bad TV evangelists who say "Pledge your money know and let the Lord save you!". My reply "Erm, no thanks". I used to go out of my way to buy DVDs of stuff cause they were ahead of terrestrial TV but now I have cable I'll buy them if I watch them and see if they are crap or not first.

Well it seems the UK has a good deal again as I've just watched The Quest Part 2 Missed the first few seconds of recap and escape but they went with a cliched 'wait there's a door here' or something. The Dragon battle could've been a little more intricate although seeing it swallow four blocks of C4 and then belch like it was nothing was quite amusing And it's a second part that doesn't seem to disappoint. Although a great deal of time is spent in a very similar room, Daniel finally gets the head-sucking he asked for last time And at the end... all is not well as Daniel is captured. CONTINUITY HAS RETURNED!

I thought that was what was being hinted at OR that he was the more effeminete male that likes being just friends with a girl. I thought with him being mind-wiped that he would be left out from now on too. Oh god, Michael Jackson ;D Thank you and good night, I'll be here all week.

Well he quit because of the gruelling schedule during filming and he's not the kind of pissy Holywood actor that would walk out cause his beverage was too hot. Besides Piper walked out the next season after he did. Chris is the English equivalent of Bruce Campbell. You'd better not watch too much then cause George Takei is in the next episode after Eccleston's intro. So far there's not one character who's had much more screentime than the others and while he is Who #9 I don't think he'll get more. Besides he's only been signed for 6 episodes and there's what 9 or ten more

They have done that already with the Obsidian mirror in seasons 1 and 4?. Daniel visited a parallel world which was destroyed, then later another universe came to us through their mirror (Sam had long hair and Apophis had the evil mirrorverse goatee). Then they revisited it recently with the multiple SG teams coming through which was one of them jumping through using the black hole created for the first supergate. Besides if they changed the show to dimension hopping then they'd have to call it Sliders or Doorways. Oh wait... Sliders did the same planet, different world thing already. Never kept up with it because with the scottish BBC2 schedule they always replaced it with STV programs and they didn't show season 3 or 4. It was a good show, just a shame I never kept up with it. Sci-fi UK have been showing in the mornings but I always miss it. Doorways was a TV movie which had a similar premise and plotline but ended up as a one-off (although it might have been the inspiration for Sliders). The stuff that both did has been done by SG-1 already. They've visited ancient Egyptian, Babylonian, Medievil Christian, villages, towns, cities and even future. Making it the same world in each episode with a slight twist (you were born evil and a girl, you have a striking goatee, you have to wear a truth collar) I'm just not looking hopeful for a third live-action series which should've been what Ben Browder was fronting instead of replacing Jack O'Neill as the lead man on SG-1 along with half the main cast of the show and still calling it the same thing as the last season. Although the latter half of Atlantis season 3 is looking better it's still average to good stuff, nothing truly though provoking. When SG-1 finishes it's run they should focus on Atlantis and make a average/good show a great one.

Ever wonder why you're being made to wear glasses? ;) Well here's a funny story - a friend I know actually got better vision FROM playing games. He started life with a funny occular condition which would've meant wearing glasses the rest of his life but after spending tens of hours playing mario close-up his eyesight improved from continuously focusing on Mario and co. Made a fun conversation with his mum who had been saying "if you sit too close to the TV you'll ruin your eyes".

I managed to read it in its entirety. I have two things to say: City of Heroes has far more engaging gameplay since doesn't have this player vs. player as the mainstay of the game. I have several acquaintances that I team with and we mainly have a laugh and act like uber-heroes with conversations going something like "We are uber", "Don't say it out loud", "Watch out for that tough Elite Boss" and "Nevermind". It's fun mainly. That guy in the first link is an {£%*&$^£}. He calls his friend who loaned him money to begin with "The useless one" by the end, he spent all that time scamming people out of their hard-earned isk that he ends up being the hermit, lonely and trapped with all he needs except friends to play with. I don't feel for him at all. That's the kind of things that put me off any online gaming where PVP is the mainstay of a game and there's huge currency and markets involved cause things like this happen in real life to real people and inevitably in the virtual world too. It's too serious and consequencial. Bet that Frosttt guy kept his mouth shut about the 300 million. The way it was written he obviously thought this guy was joking when he asked "What would you say if I were to offer you 300 million isk?", must've been shocked when it happened.

I think that was a fan film, "Insertion of Jarjar into a Rancor's butt" - it explains how Jarjar met Jabba the Hutt and Jabba found the best use for him by making the Rancor constantly angry

Yes you are crazy.. with rage. He did change it to fit with the new trilogy and I think he explained it as 'the real Anakin' instead of the dried up, burned and crispy husk of a cyborg he had become from twenty-ish years inside a support suit. In the original they were only twelve fighters in the whole death star sequence in Episode 4 while the Special edition updates increased it to twice/thrice as much and had new actors filling in the roles of green and gold teams. I recall something about the son of one of the red guys in the original playing one of the new fighter wing leaders in the special edition. And don't think he's stopped with the orginals. Apparently there was footage recorded of Liam Neeson for Episode 3 where he has a talk with Ewen-Obi about training to return from the force once you die.

Why oh why did you make this topic? Prepare yourselves for I shall try not to foam at the mouth and savage this series any more than I have done.. Simply put it's piss-poor writing as they don't have to maintain a strong continuity so every new person they introduce can still be shocked at this. It's so that people can remain dumb, stupid idiots and cause untold trouble in their naivity which the heroes (and I use the term loosely when considering any of Torchwood's one-dimensional characters) can save the day from the 'village idiot' civilians. Another reason is if people know about outer space they will inevitably want to go there and currently the budget doesn't stretch that far (I believe the exact words were 'it would look stupid if we pretended to be on planet... '). It's cheaper to stay on Earth than have a populous that wants to get out there and see the universe. It's the same plausable deniability/cover-up/retardation of the populous that started a dislike for the constant Stargate SG-1 cover-ups. 7 years of cover-ups from outbreaks, rogue agents and Goa'uld hunts that always managed to be buried. Season 7 had it all lined up for full disclosure but then BAMM we're back in denial again with season 8 and the same expose-denial relationship stories come up again with the certain consequence that we will be saved from having to deal with problems which are too big for us but not for several teams of Air Force soldiers operting inside a mountain. It's a budget thing but more so they don't have to deal with it by writing in storylines that actually tackle it. They always let one through as long as it serves the plot and they end up on the team but the rest of us are dumb as a box of rocks. Flimsy but easy to write. Farscape actually dealt with it, however briefly, during season 4. Humans were exposed to aliens and technology beyond their understanding and there was repercussions both good and bad from the early follow-up where they vilified the aliens from the attack by the assassin to the final episode where they had gathered together and were ready. It's easier to just keep denying than to develop anything. Another reason why Torchwood, Stargate SG-1 and Star Trek are now bottom of my current sci-fi list whereas Farscape and Battlestar rate at the top. They progress, they develop, they deal with consequences and it doesn't just go away one episode later with the 'it was all a dream' mentality.

On Eccleston joing the cast: Also the series will debut on SciFi in the UK and later on BBC in early 2007

Latest on Eccleston: Christopher has been signed on for at least six episodes He plays a man who can turn invisible but rather than use his powers for good he become the ultimate thief. I'm thinking he's gonna have some fun with Hiro.

I didn't need the TV for what I was doing and I have a cable box. Stuff on other channels I'd seen about seventeen times already. I didn't watch it to moan, I watched to see if it had got better... edit - removed a lot of ranting after typing