Posted on 12/16/2017 9:12:47 AM PST by BenLurkin
The series, which will air in 10-minute episodes on MGM's digital platform "Stargate Command," will be released sometime in 2018. A new video showing highlights from the filming shows the cast and crew working in locations ranging from dunes to warehouses.
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Fan favorite Catherine Langford (played by Ellie Gall in the new series) makes a prominent return in the new series. The video shows her standing in awe before a stargate and taking part in fight scenes....
"In this revealing footage, we get an in-depth look at some of the stunning real-life locations where filming took place, meeting new faces and set pieces along the way," the description on YouTube reads. "From sweeping dunes to rocky cliffs, these locations proved challenging to shoot in, but as we think you'll all agree, the end result was 100 percent worth it."
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Never liked the Stargate TV series. How they went to ALL those worlds and found people speaking perfect English on every one of them strained credulity.
Every space-fiction series since the original versions of Star Trek and Doctor Who has a built-in unseen universal translator.
There was one episode where Richard Dean Anderson steps out of the stargate and swipes his arm across the branches of a tree and says in perfect deadpan: "Oh, look, more pine trees."
Movies ok. Didn’t like the TV show. I like my scifi with ships not wormhole stations.
Only Farscape came up with a way to bridge that gap. That SciFi show had “translator microbes”, artificial organisms you were injected with that inhabited the brain stem which gave you instant translation services. Whether you like it or not, an interesting solution to that “SciFi Showbiz” problem!
Suspend your disbelief.
A few early episodes of "Star Trek - Enterprise" showed first encounters without a universal translator and it just slowed down the story line.
One of the best, most entertaining series ever made. Whiners gonna whine about the “realism” of fantasy series.
>>Suspend your disbelief.
Hmm. Well, cultural psychosis does seem to be the primary end-product of Hollywood’s spewage.
Yeah, although like the Star Trek transporter, it is convenient.
10 minute episodes??? Don't go to the bathroom.....
I guess the average attention span . . .
About the only way it works is when the Klingons spoke in their native language in the movies and the English translation was captioned on the screen. Can kinda add to the atmosphere hearing the different language spoken. And real time translation like in the UN can be assumed when different species speak.
From what I’ve read, the transporter was a last-minute solution to compensate for the failure of the props department to complete production of the shuttles on time, which were originally the sole planned means to get the characters to planets, other ships, etc.
Won’t watch any new Stargates until they tell me what the heck happened to Eli and the rest of the bunch on Destiny.
The best, in my opinion, Star Trek episodes involve ships in a battle setting.
Doomsday Machine, balance of terror any number where the ship and its crew fight enemies while traveling through space.
In the movies 2, 6 , 8, 11, 12and others with strong space battle sequences.
Just my personal taste in these things
As a side issue, what’s with this digital platform? Do you have to subscribe to some online streaming service to watch this?
The world has changed a lot from the days of the three broadcast networks.........
I recall.one original series star trek episode, in which they seemed surprised that people spoke English on another planet they visited. Otherwise it just seems they took for granted that they could communicate with any aliens who also were almost always humanoid.
The TV series explained it saying that the stargate gives the people who pass through it the ability to understand local languages.
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