Hello,
I'm sure other people have made threads like this before, but I wasn't there to read them so you're likely gonna be hearing the same thing yet again. I was a HUGE fan of the original Stargate movie. I jumped for joy when I heard that they were doing a series on Showtime a few years ago. And although I've gotten to like the series now (I own the first 2 boxed seasons), I still can't get out of my head the idea that the creators of the show didn't really watch the movie in any depth before making SG1.
Exhibit A:Throughout the series, they refer to all the planets they travel to, even Abydos, as being 'within our own galaxy'. In the movie, Abydos was a million light years away in a galaxy on the other side of the universe. "A million light years from home" was one of the big publicity phrases to make the movie popular. It was even on the hieroglyphics on the cover stone.
Exhibit B: This one's brief. We saw the alien inhabiting Ra twice in the movie. He looked nothing like a snake.
Exhibit C: The alien took Ra to begin with because it was dying. It saw humans as an organism simple enough for it's technology to repair (he said so to Daniel), and came up with the idea of 'possessing' one to be able to repair itself, meaning in the movie it was never originally a parasite...it was a regular alien who had thought up an ingenious loophole to give itself immortality. The reason Ra was immortal is because he had a human body, which was the only thing the sarcophagus could keep alive forever. In the series, it's the opposite. The sarcophagus keeps the body immortal, but it's the *parasite* that really keeps the body healthy and gives 250+ years of life. Yet the Unas creature, that had no sarcophagus in Thors Hammer, was seemingly immortal. So in the series, the humans were the inferior choice...NOT the solutions to the aliens' death problems that they originally had in the movie. They already found that with the Unas.
Now I love the series don't get me wrong. I just thing it would have been better if it were a little more similar to the original movie. There were few novels that were published not too long after the movie came out. I read the first one in 1996. Persoanlly, I think the series would have been better if originally based on the books, where Ra was the only alien, and the other bad guys were humans that Ra had elevated to status. Then afterwards the series could branch out to other planets from there. The novel version of Hathor was FAR better than the character they made up for the series, or even that of Apohis for an original villain. Anyways, that's my 2 cents.
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Nephilim
Oh, and all the 'ancient' cultures on the other planets seem to be able to speak English perfectly. English isn't that old.
I'm sure other people have made threads like this before, but I wasn't there to read them so you're likely gonna be hearing the same thing yet again. I was a HUGE fan of the original Stargate movie. I jumped for joy when I heard that they were doing a series on Showtime a few years ago. And although I've gotten to like the series now (I own the first 2 boxed seasons), I still can't get out of my head the idea that the creators of the show didn't really watch the movie in any depth before making SG1.
Exhibit A:Throughout the series, they refer to all the planets they travel to, even Abydos, as being 'within our own galaxy'. In the movie, Abydos was a million light years away in a galaxy on the other side of the universe. "A million light years from home" was one of the big publicity phrases to make the movie popular. It was even on the hieroglyphics on the cover stone.
Exhibit B: This one's brief. We saw the alien inhabiting Ra twice in the movie. He looked nothing like a snake.
Exhibit C: The alien took Ra to begin with because it was dying. It saw humans as an organism simple enough for it's technology to repair (he said so to Daniel), and came up with the idea of 'possessing' one to be able to repair itself, meaning in the movie it was never originally a parasite...it was a regular alien who had thought up an ingenious loophole to give itself immortality. The reason Ra was immortal is because he had a human body, which was the only thing the sarcophagus could keep alive forever. In the series, it's the opposite. The sarcophagus keeps the body immortal, but it's the *parasite* that really keeps the body healthy and gives 250+ years of life. Yet the Unas creature, that had no sarcophagus in Thors Hammer, was seemingly immortal. So in the series, the humans were the inferior choice...NOT the solutions to the aliens' death problems that they originally had in the movie. They already found that with the Unas.
Now I love the series don't get me wrong. I just thing it would have been better if it were a little more similar to the original movie. There were few novels that were published not too long after the movie came out. I read the first one in 1996. Persoanlly, I think the series would have been better if originally based on the books, where Ra was the only alien, and the other bad guys were humans that Ra had elevated to status. Then afterwards the series could branch out to other planets from there. The novel version of Hathor was FAR better than the character they made up for the series, or even that of Apohis for an original villain. Anyways, that's my 2 cents.
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Nephilim
Oh, and all the 'ancient' cultures on the other planets seem to be able to speak English perfectly. English isn't that old.
I'm hoping Atlantis turns out to be a good series. I remember seeing a few episodes of that cartoon spin off. Not sure what to make of it though.
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