Do The Ark of Truth and Continuum play out as movies or long episodes to you? Obviously, they are movies, but the question still stands. To me, they play out as two-hour episodes. While "Unending" makes for a good finale, The Ark of Truth feels more like a two-hour series finale than a movie. Continuum works as a nice bonus adventure similar to how Season 8 ended with "Moebius." Ultimately, they are basically TV movies. Yes, there's that direct to video term, but it's semantics to me. I define a TV movie as any movie made on a smaller budget for home viewing rather than a theatrical presentation. TV movie, direct to video; it's the same to me.
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they feel like movies to me, not, like the Star Trek movies, but movies none-the-less -
One thing that striked me as low budget was recycling the theme from the original film at the beginning of The Ark of Truth. It was too recognizable. The various Star Trek movies have recycled musical themes, but not so identically so. I would have loved to hear The Ark of Truth open with a longer, more cinematic SG-1 theme rather than reuse the original film's theme.Comment
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Your kinding yourself. If either one was a movie its AoT? Continnum was nothing more then an episode of character drama.Originally posted by Pharaoh Atem View PostOriginally posted by aretood2Comment
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Isn't it all character drama? Continuum had it's fair share of action, adventure, and suspence. Also, I liked how what was left of SG-1 had to face the reality of never repairing the timeline. I really liked that aspect of the movie.Comment
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Barely for me. It seemd to much focus of SG1 in the alternate reality. The story was kind of dull with a very small plot. Felt like a standard SG1 episode. You know what it felt like ThreadsOriginally posted by Snowman37 View PostOriginally posted by aretood2Comment
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They're structured like movies, completely different from a two parter, AoT especially.Comment
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I agree I always see The Ark of Truth as a 2-Hour Series Finale just because it's wrapping up the storylines that went through Season 9 and 10 as for Continuum I see it as a movie cause it's wrapping up the ba'al storyline.Comment
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I meant that AoT is structured much more like a movie than Continuum, with Continuum you can pretty much pinpoint where they would have split it in half. AoT is paced like a proper action movie IMO.Comment
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both were a LOT like episodes. though i think Continuum is more movie-like.Comment
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Define a movie. Seriously.
Both the original X-Files movie and 'X-Files: I want to Believe' are movies, but both are extremely different in terms of pacing and theme. How about movies that have no apparent plot? Where stuff just happens?
Are budgets the issue? Or plot? What?
The only reason they might feel less 'movie like' to me is the fact that they're continuations of existing plots, which typically you don't get with movies.
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Well an episode is 5 acts and a teaser, the movies are 3 long acts.Comment
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Story content has nothing to do with wether it feels like a movie or long TV episode. One story can be told across many formats. Budget and story structure would be what makes the difference. If the movie has the same budget as two episodes, it's basically a long episode. However, if it's formatted like a movie; then it will play out more cinematically regardless of budget.
One thing that hurt the SG-1 films is that they assume you've seen the show and already know what's going on. One of my best friends has never seen a single episode. If he tried to watch the movies, he'd have no idea what's going on.Comment
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Movies. Both AOT and Continuum seems to be a bit different from the series.
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