'Stargate: Continuum' General Discussion

[Lieutenant Sparrow]

I love this movie as much as AOT, maybe even more.

Having the Goa'uld as the villains one last time to end the show was a good idea. And who better to have as the main bad guy, Ba'al. Qetesh was pretty awesome as well. Seeing her split Ba'al in half will never get old. Claudia did a great job as her.

Jack wasn't in it enough. And when he was he wasn't that great to watch anyway. Wasted opportunity there if you ask me.

The scene with all the Ha'tak's firing on the planet looked cool. Let it rain fire.

The part where the Al'kesh flew over the city really made it feel like an alien invasion movie.

I also liked the scene when the Russian jets took out the Death Gliders. Sent a shiver down my spine.

I loved all the alternate reality/timeline eps so this was right up my alley.

And that's the end of SG-1 Start Atlantis tomorrow.

[mathpiglet]

I watched this again today and I have one little quibble. In the scene with Daniel in the bookstore, he is still using a cane, but when he meets the president he's walking very normally. At the final battle, he's downright spry!

[Snowman37]

Wasn't the bookstore scene prior to the one year later caption? If so, that solves the quibble.

[the fifth man]

I really enjoyed this movie. Great all around IMO.

[Matt G]

Managed to scrape this in before the end of the month...

August 2008: By this point I was working for the family company, got involved in local AS groups and got this film on DVD for my birthday.

1. Forget RDA's brief appearance...what was the point of putting Colin Cunningham in this.

2. Ben Browder playing his grandfather was much more obvious here.

3. Sam not being able to do pretty much 'anything' hurt.

4. Could Ba'al have been genuine regarding the Free Jaffa Nation?

Still quality!

And with that SG1 is done.

[Snowman37]

1. Forget RDA's brief appearance...what was the point of putting Colin Cunningham in this.

RDA's appearance wasn't all that brief. The movie was about 100 minutes long, and RDA shows up as both General and Colonel O'Neill for a good 15-20 minutes or so. That's hardly a brief role. In the case of Major Davis (will this guy never get promoted?), it was just a cameo. The point was to show that there's more going on at the SGC than just SG-1 and General Landry. The SGC was barely featured in the movie, so the director wanted to established as much as possible in the opening scene. The only other time we'd see the facility would be in the final scene where the guys discuss Ba'al in the locker room.

2. Ben Browder playing his grandfather was much more obvious here.

As opposed to...?

3. Sam not being able to do pretty much 'anything' hurt.

You mean in the alternate timeline?

4. Could Ba'al have been genuine regarding the Free Jaffa Nation?

I think so. What better way to dominate the other Goa'uld than through his best friends, the Free Jaffa?

And with that SG1 is done.

Sadly so. My only frustration with the ending is that SG-1 is completely unaware of what their counterparts went through.

[mathpiglet]

Wasn't the bookstore scene prior to the one year later caption? If so, that solves the quibble.

No, it was after.

[Krisz]

A time travel story, so hooked for that reason alone. A pretty fun one, a chance to bring back all the Goa'uld with Ba'al in charge as a result of his ingenious time travel plan.

I liked how the movie continued the theme of Ba'al's odd fascination with Earth, how he decided that aspects of Earth culture was worth saving and enjoying. Probably the only one of Earth's enemies to actually realise how dangerous the Tau'ri were if they were given a reason to fight. He would not underestimate their tenacity, he took his time preparing.

Great idea of his getting Teal'c on his side and all the Jaffa with the promise of the 'free' nation. Shrewd and far sighted enough to know that the Jaffa would feel obligated to him and will help him. Of course he could never rely on the fickle nature of his fellow Goa'uld. You just knew they were all waiting for a chance to get him at some point, which Que'tesh did! Boy did she relish using that blade to cut him in half almost, somewhat ironic death for Ba'al, given his love of knives as a means of torturing and killing others!

The odd sense of detachment that the 3 members of SG-1, whose memories of the previous timeline were left intact was well done. Life was no longer as they knew it, and the very idea of returning it to how it should be in their view being blown out of the water by General Landry was a wonderfully played scene.

There was just so much to like about this movie for me. Jack for one! His role, though small was a great part of the story, and for a moment Ba'al does get to kill him, something I guess he'd wanted to do for a long time!

The scenes in the Arctic were amazing.

RDA had some fun stories about filming in the Arctic. (From notes I made from his panel at Gatecon Vancouver 2008)......

Q. Could you tell us about your experience of getting locked out of the hut when you were in the Arctic?

A. He was not going to do the movie at first but Brad said he couldn’t see making it without him in it.

Describing the journey there, “I lost my memory, it was so cold!” The wind was so strong the pilot was landing sideways. It was 62 degrees below zero! He also liked the fact that…. “The Navy let us borrow a nuclear submarine, very nice of them.”

Of the hut experience… When going to the toilet there was a pole about 50 yards from the hut…to hold on to, the winds in the Arctic were really strong. For #2 you had to brush a 3” snow drift off the seat in the hut then do business quickly or it just froze. “At 60 below it becomes a rock” He found out if you sat there too long the hook on the hut door froze and you spent more time in there!

[Jae'a]

My LiveJournal post

Way too awesome, loved it!
And like Math Piglet says, just about everyone was there, (Jack, Hammond, Siler, etc) well, except for Jonas of course, but I doubt they could have found a way to fit him in anyway, so...

[jelgate]

It so sad to see SG1 end like this. Mostly because I really do not like Continuum. Thier is really no story until halfway throught the movie when Ba'al's fleet attack Earth. It was boring in the alternate timeline because nothing was happening but I will say that I liked alternate Landry's speech to SG1. And speaking of Ba'al, how dumb can he be? You would think he would know that people would question why he is knowledgable about a planet he has never been too. It seems like the made this cunning villian so stupid to fit the plot of the movie. Although I will admit I found the time machine idea of montoiring solar flares to be interesting and I liked seeing the return of Hammond and President Hayes. But like it seems a plot was rushed in the second half of the movie and they rushed in for a solution quickly with SG1 going to 1929 to fix the past. It really feels like a standard 43 minute episode expanded to a movie format. But the thing that annoys me the most is the discontunity of the Ba'al host surviving despite past information showing that System Lords hosts have used the sarcophagaus too much to live without a symbiote

[fems]

But the thing that annoys me the most is the discontunity of the Ba'al host surviving despite past information showing that System Lords hosts have used the sarcophagaus too much to live without a symbiote

The Ba'al that went through the extraction ceremony was a clone and therefore his body was only a few years old, just like his possession had been.

[jelgate]

The clone would be based on the original Ba'al's cells and therefore hundreds if not thousand of years old so no the clones would have the same aging problem as the person who donated the original cells

[Sealurk]

So an advanced alien race that's mastered who knows how many different technologies (faster-than-light travel, shields, artificial gravity, energy weapons, mind control organisms, healing technology capable of resurrecting a dead human and so on) and can produce perfect adult clones complete with duplicated memories couldn't ever come up with or steal some technological means of rejuvenating the clones?

[Snowman37]

Honestly, I think the whole host can't survive without a sarcophagus concept was abandoned long ago. Was it ever mentioned on the show after "Serpent's Song?"

[jelgate]

So an advanced alien race that's mastered who knows how many different technologies (faster-than-light travel, shields, artificial gravity, energy weapons, mind control organisms, healing technology capable of resurrecting a dead human and so on) and can produce perfect adult clones complete with duplicated memories couldn't ever come up with or steal some technological means of rejuvenating the clones?

If they could you would think they would do that to their own host bodies instead of relying of sarchopagus to heal themselves