It wouldn't be surprising to me if they did have one or two little "Easter eggs"..
Announcement
Collapse
No announcement yet.
The Fifth Race (215)
Collapse
X
-
Originally posted by Major Clanger View Postwhat they show and what they say are 2 different things - it's annoying. They did make a point of mentioning that the exit velocity matches the entry velocity. I prefer my shows with a bit of internal consistencysigpicsig by Jper
"It's just a little airborne... It's still good, it's still good!"
Comment
-
Ahh... The Fifth Race episode... I've been looking forward to it on this rewatch, and I'm totally rewarded for the waiting. It's an outstanding episode, both written and directed in an awesome way. It expands the basic mythology of the show and establishes the foothold for all the rest eight seasons of SG-1, and spin-offs of SGA and SGU within its short 43 minutes. The Great Alliance confirmed by the Asgard is the first kick, and then... You saw what happened in the next years.
That place where they got to in the beginning, with the database, seemed to be like a welcoming chamber. Like, you know, knowing how the Ancients' tech works, it'd be easy to find the switch and open up the walls. I'm really wondering what's outside - an city-ship perhaps or at least a colony settlement, who knows?
The episode kept me hooked up every time I watched it, including today, making me rewind and slow down or freeze the frame to grasp something better. The funny moments of Jack starting to speak Ancient, the awe written on the faces of everyone when he punched in new gates, basically proving on spot that the Goa'Uld just scavenged the tech and did not built the gate system, him building the power modulator, drawing up the DHD schematics, probably allowing to repair any on them if need be or even build our own if there's enough of the crystals laying around, introducing the 8th chevron possibility in the address, leading up to another galaxy, eventually leading to SGA and SGU where all 9 chevrons are used... All of this was brilliant, and no doubt had a huge impact on the show, and on the characters within.
The Asgard scenes were epic. And their claim that we're becoming the fifth race gradually were the cue-ball for our long and productive relationship. I can go on forever about this one, so I'll finish for now that while it might be not the most brilliant episode in the whole series, it surely is its quintessential one, from which all of the arcs could be traced.
A minor fact that boosted the pleasure this one time was hearing the episode in its original sound, so I could hear the music playing. And it was awesome. When dubbed, all of the original sound track is muffled, including music, so it's barely audible... Now it wasn't
Rating: 10/10Last edited by Vagabond Serpent; 15 January 2014, 06:59 AM.Homo sum et nihil humani a me alienum puto, sic quod feci quod potui et sic potui, faciant meliora potentes. (c)
sigpic
Comment
-
I've just started watching "The Fifth Race" - I'll forget to post about this if I wait until the episode is over.
SG-1 members have really poor reaction times when one of their team is in danger, for example, in the current episode, O'Neill is looking into an alien device when something reaches out and grabs his head. No-one runs to help him until the devices releases him and he falls to the ground.
I've noticed this happen before and I believe it is whenever the VFX is CG. Possibly in these early episode they didn't have the ability, or resources, to allow multiple actors to interact with digital effects.
However, on several occasions the other actors are shown to stare the character in danger, but without even so much as a look of surprise.
Like in this episode - O'Neill has seemingly been attacked by an alien machine (again ) and instead having SG-1 run to try free him, the director chose to film close ups of the other three looking on in bemusement.
I don't know exactly what my goal is in posting this - it isn't a complaint, but I'm curious as to what you all think, and whether this changes as the series goes on.
No spoilers though - cheers.
EDIT: Regarding the VFX in the scene, I rewatched the the opening, and the head grabber extending was digital I believe, but I'm certain the device on Anderson head was a practical prop - which has me even more curious as to why the other characters don't help O'Neill.
Comment
-
Originally posted by blueray View PostI noticed this when watching this episode. That's kind of funny. You'd think they'd care, he isn't a redshirt lol. In the next season (crystal skull) when that thing starts zapping Daniel, Teal'c reacts, why not this time?
Maybe by the third season the actors and directors had more experience with VFX and action scenes?
Comment
-
Originally posted by Anja View PostAncient is similar to Latin - I wonder why Jackson had to look words up!
Kinda like how Dutch and German are related - I suppose.Heightmeyer's Lemming -- still the coolest Lemming of the forum
Proper Stargate Rewatch -- season 10 of SG-1
Comment
-
That scene was all screwed up in terms of which words Daniel knew and which he didn't. They picked a fairly hard one (the verb) for him to know off the top of his head, and an easy one for him to need to look up.
Even a native English speaker who's never studied Latin should be able to figure out what loco means, give words like "location" and "local".
SeaboeIf you're going to allow yourself to be offended by a cat, you might as well just pack it in -- Steven Brust
Comment
Comment