Posts Tagged ‘stargate’
Thursday, December 16th, 2010
I just learned that stargate universe has been canceled. This brings me both joy and sadness.
The joy comes from the fact that I moderately hate SGU, as I may have mentioned before.
To summarize quickly: SGU has NONE of the characteristics of SG1 or Atlantis which I love immensely. None of the Star gate humor, none of the great friendships and cooperation between characters, and science fiction driven stories with lots of adventure, with the exception of Eli, I pretty much disliked everyone of the SGU characters, and if I wanted to watch constant fighting I would watch one of the countless other “reality” shows.
I don’t mind change, but what was the point of calling the show Stargate when it was just a drama series in space which tried (and failed) at copying elements from Battlestar Galatica, Reality television and Lost. If it had been called “Alien ship drama”, I would not have minded it at all, I just would not have watched it, along with lots of other people, which leads me to the proposition that the only reason to append the Star Gate name to SGU was to trick people into watching a totally unrelated show.
I’m also still bitter for the fact that Stargate Atlantis was canceled, and THIS was what we got instead.. This seems to be a common phenomena of SG1/SGA fans, even to the point where Brad Wright actually blames SG-1/SGA fans for hurting SGU. I somehow doubt the blogs and forums where people have been critical of SGU was the cause of the huge and constant drop in viewers. Personally I count at least 20 science fiction shows that I LOVE.. And I only hate a single one (guess which). There are just no redeeming elements of SGU (except the mere fact that it takes place on a space ship).
The sadness comes out of sympathy, while I personally don’t like seeing the Stargate name dragged through the mud, there are (believe it or not) a lot of people that actually love SGU, however I don’t think any of the sci-fi geeks I know were particularly sad to see it go.
I do feel for all you guys who really liked it, cause like most/all sci-fi fans I know all to well how much it sucks when a show you like gets canceled. And there are after all far worse crap on TV than SGU, Sy-fy keeps airing Ghost Hunters, and Oprah even got her own channel.
In conclusion, I feel a little bad about my Schadenfreude, after all why should I care about what other people watch? I don’t really,. I”m just disappointed in that SGU for me and many others did not live up to the previous shows (or any sci-fi show for that matter), and that it reduces the average quality of the Stargate franchise.
Tags: alien, atlantis, Battlestar, Brad Wright, Canceled, drama series, Eli, Galatica, geeks, humor, joy and sadness, lost, Oprah, reality television, Schadenfreude, sci-fi, science fiction, series, sg-1, sg1, sgu, stargate, stargate atlantis, stargate universe
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Monday, June 7th, 2010
I love google analytics*, it’s great and awesome in all sorts of ways that I won’t go into right now, instead allow me to present some funny search queries that have all somehow led people to this blog.
*For those of you who didn’t know, Google Analytics is a way to know how many people visit your website, what they search for, or where they come from, etc…
variations of “stargate universe sucks” - 1100 hits
variations of “new star trek movie sucks” – 1800 hits
So far so good, at least there are a few people out there with good taste, but it is when you get down to the more unique searches, those with only a few hits that you find the weird stuff.. Apparently even tough Stargate Universe sucks, somebody on the show has huge (or big) tits 
Stargate universe big tits - 13
stargate universe girl with big tits - 6
“stargate universe” “big tits” - 2
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stargate universe chick with big tits- 5
I can only assume they are looking for pictures of Julia Benson:
Hmmm. I just realized that due to it’s questionable content, this post will undoubtedly attract more hits from people with nothing better to do than googling for Julia Bensons boobs..
So I might just as well throw in another picture, I’d hate for people to leave here empty handed.
Some other weird searches with only 1 hit
why do the shields on the enterprise suck?
– I have no idea, the real question is why would somebody write that phrase in a search engine?
mexican knick knacks
– I bet this guy was especially disappointed with my blog 
why are everyone in stargate universe morons?
- I… Don’t… Know…
all video editing software sucks and makes no sense at all
- You should stick to pictures, they are simpler to wrap your head around
best brand donkey balls chocolates
- I’m afraid to even comment on this one
fedcon convention swine flu
- Hah! I see I was not the only one worried about swine flu duing fedcon 2009. Not so much worried about catching it, as guests not showing up
feed trondheim
- I’m definitely going to be keeping an eye out for starving children
jello shot launcher
- Let me know if you find one!
ms paint police
- These guys should have a SWAT unit!
Tags: Analytics, big tits, biggest tits, chick, fedcon, funny, girl, google, google analytics, googling, huge tits, jello shot, Julia Benson, log, movie, ms paint, new star trek movie, search queries, sgu, star trek, stargate, stargate universe, swine flu, video editing software, weird stuff
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Monday, December 7th, 2009
A while back I made a post about the new Stargate Universe show, a show which I like most other Stargate fans expected to be a Science Fiction show.
At first I was skeptical, but hang in there because many shows start slow. But now I’ve just seen episode 10, and I must say, this show DOES SUCK.. It’s like they tried to copy Battlestar Galactica + Lost + Grey’s Anatomy. SGU is not a science fiction show, it’s basically Grey’s Anatomy or Desperate Housewives in a dark studio with the occasional boring trip trough a stargate to a lifeless world where they do nothing at all.
I was hoping the show would get better, but it’s just getting worse by every episode (except for episode 8 which reminded me a little bit about science fiction).
I will be very surprised if this huge pile of crap gets renewed for a second season.
I have no problems with people making drama shows, what I do have a problem with is that they change a sci-fi show into a bad drama show in a desperate hope to get stargate fans to watch it. Anyway I think I’ve watched my last episode of this crap, I gave it a fair chance but I’d rather watch SG-1 or Atlantis again.
Tags: atlantis, battlestar galactica, crappy, desperate housewives, pile of crap, sci-fi, science fiction, sg-1, sgu, stargate, stargate fans, stargate universe, universe
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Monday, October 12th, 2009
So, 3 episodes out what’s the initial impression?
Pretty much nothing.. Unlike SG-1 and Atlantis who started out with great episodes, the beginning of SG-U has been pretty slow and uninteresting.
Now I have no problems with shows starting off slow (TNG, DS9), but the biggest problem the series have is that there are no great characters, SG-1 and Atlantis had extremely lovable and funny characters. Universe have none.. I’ve also not seen any of the great Stargate humor..
I’m still going to watch the rest of the episodes, maybe it will get better. So far this show does not seem like Stargate at all
Update December 6th 2009
http://www.erlendaakre.com/2009/794/stargate-universe-does-suck.html
Tags: atlantis, series, sg-1, stargate, stargate universe, universe
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
I just completed watching the sixt season of 24, it was very good. And I’m not just saying that because lots of sci-fi actors popped up in it 
UPDATE: You may also want to check out a similar listing for season 7: Sci-fi actors in 24 season 7
I compiled a list of the characters in season 6 of 24 that I’ve also seen in science fiction shows:
James Morrison
24: Bill Buchanan (leader of CTU)
Space: Above and Beyond: Lt. Col. Tyrus Cassius McQueen
D.B Woodside
24: President Wayne Palmer
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Principal Robin Wood
William Devane
24: James Heller
Stargate SG-1: President Henry Hayes
Gregory Itzin
24: former president Charles Logan
Star Trek DS9: Ilon Tandro
Star Trek Enterprise: Captain Sopek, Admiral Black
Roger R. Cross
24: Agent Curtis Manning
Star Trek Enterprise: Tret
James Cromwell
24: Phillip Bauer
Star Trek TNG: Prime Minister Nayrok
Star Trek DS9: Minister Hanok
Star Trek First Contact: Zefram Cochrane
Tzi Ma
24: Cheng Zhi
Star Trek TNG: unnamed Biomolecular Physiologist
Kari Matchett
24: Lisa Miller
Invasion: Dr. Mariel Underlay
Glenn Morshower
24: Aaron Pierce
Star Trek TNG: Ensign Burke, Administrator Orton
Star Trek Voayger: Mokra guard
Adoni Maropis
24: Abu Fayed
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun: Hassan
Michael Shanks
24: Mark Bishop
Stargate SG-1: Daniel Jackson
Alexander Siddig
24: Hamri Al-Assad
Star Trek Deep Space Nine: Dr Julian Bashir
Also, I thought a FBI agent was played by Star Trek Voyager’s Robert Duncan McNeill, however the FBI agent was played by Scott William Winters, which just happened to look and sound very similar
Don’t tell me this could not be the same guy (12 years apart)
Tags: 24, buffy the vampire slayer, command & conquer, review, sci-fi, star trek, stargate, statistics, tv
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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Haven’t written many posts lately, so this is just a summing up post.
World of Warcraft
I ditched my tradeskills, Herbalism + Alchemy, and used LOTS of gold and time to get tailoring to 350, last night I made myself the Frozen Shadoweave Shoulders, which are pretty nice but I must say I’m pretty bored with Wow at the time, might have been grinding 100 motes of water that did it..
Also finally got the Masters Key, so I can now enter Karazhan.
Boat
I’m now on the waiting list to get harbor berth at the local sailing association.
Getting a spot will take around 1.5 -3 years or so, so I got plenty of time to save up for the actual boat
Work
The project I’m working on (Providing Real Integration in Multidisciplinary Environments) (hehe), is practically over so I guess I will get some new things to work on soon.
Also the 2 people I shared this office with left, one went to another company and the other moved to Oslo and will be working from there.
TV & Movies
Yay, Stargate atlants started up again last week, pretty exciting episode and I have really missed it.. Also Dexter season 2, and Curb your Enthusiasm started up again.
I saw the 28 Weeks later movie last week, it was much better than I had hoped for, and was a pretty decent movie. I also noticed there will be a new Wallace and Gromit movie soon (Trouble at mill)
Fuzzy wuzzy
We will be getting the newest addition to our family soon* (the little ferret, Cinnia’s Pinky Sophia).
* At the time of writing soon is defined as: in 9 days, 3 hours and 43 minutes
Tags: 28 weeks later, animal, atlantis, boat, curb your enthusiasm, dexter, ferret, karazhan, movie, pinky, stargate, tailoring, tv, wallace and gromit, Work, world of warcraft
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Thursday, June 21st, 2007
It’s officially summer. Me, Stacy and two friends went ocean kayaking today, just for an hour or so by the docks. And it was pretty nifty, I might join the kayak club to get free access to a ocean kayak, but the security course I have to take first probably wont be held again until Autumn
In other news:
- Hopefully Nemi will be getting a new friend in 44 days (+ 6-8 weeks).
- I started to play WOW again (lvl62 priest FTW)
- I’ve not eaten any meat for 5 months
- I got a new sweeet monitor (Syncmaster 22″ widescreen)
- I won 2 out of 4 dungeons & dragons miniatures games in one sitting (new record )
- I watched all of Stargate (just waiting for season 4 of atlantis to start now)
- Almost done watching Battlestar Galactica Season 3 (Damn the end of season 2 and start of season 3 was totally insane)
- I started watching Dexter, which is pretty good so far
Tags: atlantis, battlestar galactica, computer, dexter, Dungeons & Dragons, ferret, Friends, kayak, nemi, stacy, stargate, tv, vegetarian, water, world of warcraft
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Saturday, April 7th, 2007
Finally done moving.. used most of the easter to move the 10 km from Steinan to Tiller (Both in Trondheim). Still haven’t got everything unpacked and in place but the essentials are up and running (refrigerator, couch, tv and computer)
I’m closing up on 75% completion on the story mode of Rayman Raving Rabids, our only Wii game at the moment. And let me tell you, the game is GREAT. Lots of fun mini games, cute rabid bunnies and the best sounds in a video game ever. After I’m done with story mode I’m going to get ALL the bonus material, even if it kills me, I’ve come across a few bugs, but most are easily fixed (like some mini games where not possible to do unless the system was running in 60 hz video).
Rating: 9.5 / 10
Oh, seeing that we don’t have much Stargate Left (halfway trough season 10 and season 3 on SG-1/Atlantis) I decided to try and watch Farscape in sequence
Tags: atlantis, computer, easter, farscape, moving, rayman raving rabbids, sg-1, stargate, tiller, trondheim, tv, wii
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Thursday, March 15th, 2007
Haven’t written much lately, but here are a few updates:
- We’re moving in 16 days
- I bought a Wardrums booster pack and only got 1 new figure
- The movie ‘Children of Men‘ is utter total rubbish!
- I got the last dvd box of Babylon 5
- Almost done with season 9 or Stargate SG1, and second season of Atlantis
- UFO Afterlight is very good, quite a bit different from other UFO games, but still a great game..
- 1 week until Silent Hunter 4 is released!
- Nemi is changing into her summer coat
- Iran is not as enthusiastic about 300, as I am
- Iran sucks.. but not as much as Children of Men
- Giving money to ferrets first gives good karma
- Chocolate
Tags: 300, animal, atlantis, babylon 5, children of men, Dungeons & Dragons, ferret, ferretsfirst, game, movie, nemi, sci-fi, sg-1, silent hunter 4, stargate, ufo afterlight
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Monday, February 12th, 2007
Last night I was about to watch an episode of Stargate Atlantis from a DVD, for some reason the dvd player in my computer had problems reading it (the read speed was severely reduced 2 times every minute) and as a result the video went very choppy and skipped like 3-5 seconds 2 times every minute..
I tried playing the dvd in both my Playstation 2 and the DVD player (the box under my tv), but none of these would play the dvd as it is the “wrong region”..
Thankfully VLC (the best player ever) has a function that makes it buffer X amount of milliseconds ahead when playing a dvd, so I set this to 15’000 ms, and could finally watch the episode.
VLC has a bunch of useful features, so if your stuck with winamp, powerDVD and other shitty players, try VLC.. it’s GRRRREAT!
Tags: atlantis, computer, dvd, playstation 2, powerdvd, software, stargate, tv, vlc, winamp
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