Stargate Atlantis
 

Stargate: Atlantis's premiere aired here Friday on Sci Fi. Brilliant. Brilliant. This holds a lot of potential, and from the looks of it, they got off on the right foot.

Here are some teaser trailers:

http://www.sg1archive.com/teasers/atlantis_promo.html

http://www.sg1archive.com/teasers/atlantis_trailer.html

http://www.sg1archive.com/teasers/atlantis_101.html


New gate.

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_s...gv/newgate.jpg


Closeup:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_s...gv/closeup.jpg


Wraith guy:

http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_s...ngv/wraith.jpg

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Can't wait!

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I think it's supposed to start here in september. Or I may be getting it mixed up with the next series of SG1. :confused:

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hmmmm :sleep: going to wait and see it before i make up my mind

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SG-1's great. I'm definitely looking forward to the Atlantis spin-off :D

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Fans of SG-1 will certainly like this, Just finished watching the pilot and it was enjoyable from start to finish.
It has a differnt atmosphere to SG-1, though thinking about it Season 8 of SG-1 has a slightly different atmosphere to what it used to.

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Here, let me wet your appetites some more.

(I wouldn't consider this a spoiler. It is a very, very, small excerpt (4 MB))
http://home.cogeco.ca/~johannj/net_s...v/dialling.avi

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Having just watched the first 2 ep's (dont ask how ) :blush: . All i can say is this will be as good as the original series.:tu:

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Im not sure about as good, IMO it would take a truly great series to measure upto SG-1, though I am hopeful it will be :) .
At least this spinoff is taking Stargate in a new direction, unlike most spinoffs wich are mereley the same story in a different location (ala most startrek series except DS9 before they got the defiant).

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clicked it friday night but been busy and only just got the time to sit down and watch it today will let u know how it goes in a few hours.

sg1 season 8 start was good fun as well - hopefully atlantis will bet as good

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it was good - could of been better but still easily the best show on tv :)

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[QUOTE=Bill C]Having just watched the first 2 ep's (dont ask how ) :blush:

Thanks for the info didn't new series is out pc is now on a good ol download .Will watch tomorrow evening as I'm going to skeggy in the morning u know family day out and all that. :D

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[QUOTE=mrmassive]U wont be dissappointed ;)

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as we probably wont be able to get hd/pd tv rips for much longer as the companies are getting grumpy - u would think one of them would say "heh look at this web site over 500,000 people have d/led SG1 atlantis just off this one website, why dont we sell it to them offically for say 5 dollars an episode and they can d/l it and watch it early"

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Dont give them ideas - 5 dollars is way too much. If its say 24 episodes per season thats $120 - by the end of the shows run you could have spent over $1000.

No ta.

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im confused ;) id pay a couple of quid to watch SG1 - its the only show i do watch if i could d/l it in a good quality rip (hdtv) from the sci fi website i would

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Doh - i made a typo - fixed now. ;)

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There are no hdtv rips for Stargate or Atlantis. They are not syndicated and is owned by Sci Fi, which does not broadcast in hd format.

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http://tv.zap2it.com/tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|89462|1|,00.html

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I think the big appeal about atlantis is that it is allready apparent we dont have your run of the mill 2-D SciFi characters.
The only other series I can think of that managed this is SG-1.
There have been a couple of movies and mini series that have managed this though I think SG-1 deserves more credit for managing it for 7 years.

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OMG this is too good to be true. Stargate Atlantis is broadcasted (although one week late), on TMN HD in beautiful 720p HD video with 5.1 AC-3 surround sound.

*fap*

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Want to experience what HDTV looks like on your computer? Go here:


Terminator II Extreme DVD Edition DVD clip
(first is 720p, second link is 1080p)

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...9a4/T2_720.exe (1.5 minutes, 82 MB)

http://download.microsoft.com/downlo...a4/T2_1080.exe (1.5 minutes, 91 MB)


Requirements:

For 720p, you need 1280x720 resolution. For 1080p, you need 1920x1080 resolution.

For 720p, you need an Athlon 2200+, and for 1080p, you need a 3.0GHz computer.


For more, go here: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/win...deoQuality.asp

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im sure there was a hdtv rip out of atlantis - at least it seemed it im aware there was a couple of rips 1 was a digital source and 1 hdtv from canada - but maybe not

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I don't want the fake HDTV rips. hdtv-lol, and so forth add it to the file names. A 350 MB file cannot be a HDTV file. A true 720p XViD file will be almost 800 MB for a 40 minute episode. The Atlantis premiere will have to be 1.8 GB in size in DIVX/XVID format before I trust it to be really 720p.

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not unless its compressed ;) The best I've ever done is 14gigs on 4.7. But we all really know it's 4.4 :D

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oooooooppppppppppppppppssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I ment you only get 4.4 on a 4.7?????????. Yer right ??????????????. I think not

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What the hell are you talking about?? :rolleyes:

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Thought I'd revive this thread rather than make a new one.
So has anybody been watching Atlantis? If you have what do you think? If you havent I think you will be pleased to know its supposed to be coming onto SKY:ONE sometime in the next month, they are just coming upto the mid-season break in the states and this is when they normally start on SKY:ONE.

Im really enjoying it so far and Dr McKay is by far my favorite Charactor, mostly because hes great, and he knows it!! :D
Ive also noticed that SG-1 is going downhill fast at the moment and has allready been replaced by Atlantis as my Favorite SciFi for the time being.

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Not yet - but I have the first 10 episodes to take with me to work on sunday - so I'll let you know :)

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Sweet, now I am looking forward to that, though I hope they put the original theme back in :D

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Ah yes - I prefer the old Battlestar Galactica theme.....

The other thing that irritated me was the DVD of the new film... I taped the film from sky movies and it was much better than the DVD!!! Anyway I took the DVD back and copied the vhs to DVD.

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Well, I watched Atlantis last night. Very watchable, but I completely failed to spot the brilliance others have been enthusing over. TBH it looked like the SG-1 format copied exactly, with new goodie and new baddie characters taking over from the SG-1 team and the goa'ould (sp?). All with a little of the Star Trek:Voyager/Quantum Leap/Dungeons and Dragons/Battlestar Galactica/(insert your favourite 'will they ever find what they're looking for?' TV series here) thrown in for good measure.

I'll definitely be watching it to see how it develops, but if it's going to hold my attention it's going to have to break out of the seven-year-old format before it gets tired.

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Oh dear ;) :D

I've seen the first 10 episodes of the series, and although I like it, I can't honestly say it's really anything new.

Just as you say - new characters,enemy,location and stargate. But I guess it may improve - some series' do with time.

edit - the thought also occurs to me that they are going to go down the 'oh look we're in an alien colony so we can find some technology to get us out of a tight spot' thing.... I hate that.

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Agree with you 100% :tu: - it was a shame that they didn't show it as a two-parter last night, and actually show us the Wraith.

Oh well, same time next week :)

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I watched Atlantis as well as and came to the same conclusion.A Syndication too far.I cannot be bothered to get used to a whole new group of faces and to keep spotting the recycled episode scripts. :rolleyes:

I'll stick with watching O'Neill in season 8 and leave it at that. ;)

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You don't NEED to ;) :D When they get desperate they trot out old faces.

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And HOW are they going to do that IF they can't go home again?

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I can't tell you that without a major spoiler if you really want to know how that episode goes pm me :)

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Without having seen or read anything about it, I would have thought it obvious - Asgard ships, in common with any properly equipped Cobra mk III, have Galactic Hyperdrive. :D

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Couldn't they just ride Pegasus ;)

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Trouble is that galactic hyperdrive is really expensive :)

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From what I hear (mostly ruhmours) there are plans to have the whole colony in orbit of Earth by the third Season, the Wraith defeated and an even greater enemy who knows the location of earth in thier place. going to be based much more around space and less about gate travel (Though that is still important). None of that is official yet :(

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i kinda prefered the early days of go through gate - something happens - they fix - jack wants to blow it up - they go home all happy

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A bit like Star Trek DS9 really ... the overall 'story arc' was very much in the background at first, but by the time it finished it had turned into a soap opera. And I hate soap operas. SG-1 has strayed a little closer to this format than I'd like, but TBH the scriptwriting is so good and the characters so well drawn and portrayed I can forgive them for getting distracted by their continuing storylines. Having said all that, I see no reason why I should enjoy it just as much if they take the same old same old and re-package it as a 'new' series. We shall just have to wait and see.

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I haven't seen a really good original series in ages :(

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I was going to disagree with you, but now I think about it all the stuff I've enjoyed recently has either been a spin off, a second/third series of an established programme, or a re-run. I'm looking forward to Battlestar Galactica, but as a re-make I suppose that doesn't count as an original series either ... and nor will Dr Who next year.

Erk!

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Exactly :(

Although I admit to looking forward to the new 'v' - thus contradicting myself :D

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Original? no sorry you've lost me there, my Generation are unfamiliar with that phrase, well at least when its used to talk about TV shows & films.

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#perks up#

Eh? whats this? I missed that...gotta link?