Which movie to watch first?

[KEK]

AoT has to take place before First Strike to account for Carter being on the midway station during it... I think, something like that anyway.

[boyd22]

AoT has to take place before First Strike to account for Carter being on the midway station during it... I think, something like that anyway.

i thought of that too and the only thing i can come up with is Apollo's trip to Pegasus wasn't its first mission...

[Mongoletsi]

To be fair, I'd avoid AoT all together

[Mongoletsi]

(although of course it gets a massive score on Gateworld, presumably "because it's Stargate" )

[DigiFluid]

I liked Ark of Truth more than I liked Continuum.

And I believe that the reason for AoT taking place before "First Strike" has to do with the Odyssey not being there for "First Strike". But I can't remember offhand whether that's because it's still in the Ori galaxy, or being repaired after the on-ship incident in AoT (without spoiling it for the OP of this thread).

[KEK]

(although of course it gets a massive score on Gateworld, presumably "because it's Stargate" )

Either that, or just because of how good it is.

[Mongoletsi]

Either that, or just because of how good it is.

Sorry mate but this has been discussed elsewhere; there's a significant tendency amongst fans to automagically rate everything highly. Continuum is a case in point - it's just a far too convoluted, anti-climatic film, yet gets a glowing A* report card. AoT however had plenty of merit and deserves (imo) a solid 6 or 7 out of ten as a film, regardless of it being Stargate. As a Stargate film, it's an 8/10 for me. Continuum getting a 5/10 from me. Each to their own of course.

[DigiFluid]

Sorry mate but this has been discussed elsewhere; there's a significant tendency amongst fans to automagically rate everything highly. Continuum is a case in point - it's just a far too convoluted, anti-climatic film, yet gets a glowing A* report card. AoT however had plenty of merit and deserves (imo) a solid 6 or 7 out of ten as a film, regardless of it being Stargate. As a Stargate film, it's an 8/10 for me. Continuum getting a 5/10 from me. Each to their own of course.

That's the thing though, both films (though certainly AoT in particular) aren't so much independent films as they are resolution of ongoing stories from the TV series. Evaluating them as independent entities isn't really a fair evaluation at all.