That looks kinda like the guy who played Ragnar in “Vikings.”
(cautiously checks for weird features like too many fingers, armor features that make nonsense, or other visual anomalies before cautiously asking…)
What’s this from?
It looks pretty rad.
FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
The team of SG-1
We stand against false gods.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Best show <3
pitiable_sandwich540@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Meh, imo compared to most of Star Trek or Babylon 5 it was kinda mid (even Star Wars - The Clone War was better). Just basically American mil-prop but in space.
Let me remind you of the original premise: A
conspiracy theorist nutjobeccentric professor (thinks aliens build the pyramids, but is somehow still allowed to lecture at an university) is hired by the military to help them explore an unknown world where they have to saveuncivilised savageshelpless slaves (using, you’ve guessed it: guns) from anevil dictatorall powerfull god (who still needs slaves tho).The more I think about it, it’s not even mid, it’s crap. It has no wonder for what’s beyond the stars, just a constant psychotic fear of anything that could even remotely be considered a danger to
AmericaEarth. And the only solution to it is shoot at it.Jesus_666@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They’re not all that afraid of what’s out there. They spend most of their time trying to make friends and messing things up by acting like American tourists.
In fact, most of the reason for why humanity is so powerful towards the end of the show is that several of the powerful species have befriended humanity and have given their tech to them.
It’s still milprop but milprop that places a surprisingly large emphasis on diplomacy and dealing with people in good faith. You know, what the USA typically don’t do.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
It’s okay to be wrong =p
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Daniel Jackson was lecturing to like five people in a hotel lobby at the start of the movie. He was a known crank. He just happened to be right.
cybervseas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you watch too many episodes at once you realize they all end in shootouts, and then you feel sad.
scratchee@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
The big sci fi win in stargate is how highly they rated internal consistency and having a scientific basis where possible. Apparently that was mostly because the actress playing Carter absolutely refused to tell bullshit gobbledegook and forced the writers to do it properly.
It’s subtle, and not always perfectly followed, but if you take the episode where they gate to the black hole, they have significant screen time justifying why the time dilation is so strong when the gravitational effects are so weak. It shouldn’t work that way and they acknowledge that explicitly, but obviously they wanted a fun time dilation story so they call it out and explain it as an unexpected side effect of the gate wormhole. So sure, they sometimes make science do what they need it to do for the story, but they try hard to justify it.
Star Trek meanwhile barely follows its own rules most of the time, let alone actually acknowledging real physics
Couldbealeotard@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Boo.
Haters gonna hate Gaters gonna gate
TurtleTourParty@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Carter did blow up a sun…
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!
Now Rodney who fired up that unstable energy chamber after it had already fried one guy on the other hand…
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
they named an asteroid after apophis, because the astronomers were fans of the show, and yes its also egyptian mythos irl.