On 5/30/2023 9:16 PM, anim8rfsk wrote:
> Arthur Lipscomb <arthur@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>> On 5/30/2023 10:21 AM, anim8rfsk wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>>>> Stargate: SG-1 S5E16 'Last Stand'
>>>> "At the Goa'uld summit, Daniel ensures Osiris does not recognize him by
>>>> administering the same drug he used on Yu. Despite Jacob Carter urging
>>>> to release the poison gas, Daniel is unable to do as he does not wish to
>>>> harm Osiris' host, his friend Sarah Gardner.
>>>
>>> THERE she is!
>>>
>>> And what’s this “friends“ nonsense? They were… Dare I say it… Snuggle
>>> bunnies!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Osiris claim a seat at the
>>>> negotiating table and tells the system lords that she is representing
>>>> another - Anubis, who hasn't been seen in over 1000 years and was
>>>> assumed dead. Daniel needs an escape plan of his own. At the Tok'ra base
>>>> O'Neill, Carter, Teal'c and Lt. Elliot - who is carrying Lantash's
>>>> symbiont - try to find a way out of the tunnel system."
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Yeah, you would think that a race smart enough to
>>>> fly around in space would be smart enough to have seat belts.
>>>> Jacob Carter: I just prefer not to crash.
>>>
>>> They may have complete faith in their initial dampeners.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Trivia: The shot of the System Lords biting into "live" Goa'uld
>>>> symbiotes was filmed by the actors biting into long burritos filled with
>>>> noodles, which were later turned into symbiotes by CGI.
>>>
>>> Great. Now I’m hungry.
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Commentary: Director Martin Wood, writer and Exec Producer Robert Cooper
>>>> and, do I even need to say his name?
>>
>> Are the initials P.D.?
>>
>> The poison in this and the first
>>>> part ('Summit') is referred to as "The Nude Bomb" and Daniel's poisoned
>>>> ring is The Prick Ring.
>>>
>>> And Shanks is the guy who refuses to use a Zat because he thinks it looks
>>> too much like a penis.
>>>
>>>
>>> *eyeroll* They discuss how important mythology
>>>> from prior episodes is to this two-parter. Part of why the Tau'ri
>>>> allies get so decimated in season 5 is they weren't sure they were going
>>>> to get a sixth season so wanted to "wrap up" a number of storylines.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Speaking of looking too much like a penis, I joined a STARGATE group on the
>>> Facebook. There must’ve been a recent convention or something because
>>> people are posting pictures they had taken with various cast members. Jack
>>> looks old and unkempt. Sam looks great! Shanks is unrecognizable. And
>>> apparently he and tealc hate each other.
>>
>> Details?!?
>
> Facebook stargate group. Comment made on cast photos. I went back and tried
> to find it but there are hundreds of comments on any photo people had taken
> with the cast.
>
> Here’s a link to a now and then photo.
>
> https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10222017119045287&set=gm.10160930949933713&type=3&mibextid=S66gvF
>
> I couldn’t find the photo with Sam and Jack and Ben Browder, which is the
> one I think had the comment about Daniel and Teal’c.
>
>>
>> Browder has held up well.
>>>
>>>

Not as well as Amanda Tapping!

>>>> ---------------------
>>>>
>>>> Stargate: SG-1 S5E17 'Fail Safe'
>>>> "After an amateur astronomer discovers a 137 kms long asteroid on a path
>>>> to strike Earth, SG-1 is tasked to find a way to destroy it before it
>>>> hits in 11 days time. O'Neill seeks the assistance of the Asgard but the
>>>> protected planets treaty forbids intervening in the case of natural
>>>> disasters. They decide to try and change the asteroid's path using a
>>>> nuclear device but to get there in time, they will first have to repair
>>>> the Goa'uld cargo ship Daniel and Jacob Carter crashed on the Tok'ra
>>>> world. When they finally arrive at the asteroid the cargo ship
>>>> malfunctions and they realize that they've been had by the Goa'uld.
>>>> Carter comes up with a way to ensure the asteroid doesn't hit Earth but
>>>> it means they may not survive."
>>>>
>>>> Sam Carter: [explaining the contents of the asteroid and how the bomb
>>>> will affect it] The explosion will be enhanced by the naquadah, probably
>>>> to the force of a small nova. This close to Earth, it would be enough to
>>>> set the atmosphere on fire and boil the oceans.
>>>> Jack O'Neill: Okay, this was not in the movie.
>>>
>>> That movie apparently being EARTHSTORM!
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Jack O'Neill: ...And after that, I kind of lost my temper.
>>>> Major General George Hammond: What exactly does *that* mean?
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Let's just say Jack made a reference to Freyr's mother.
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Well, we have a couple of options. Number one, we
>>>> give up. We use what's left of power and life support to make it to the
>>>> nearest unoccupied gate world. There's a small chance we'd make it. From
>>>> there we head to the Alpha site.
>>>> Jack O'Neill: Number two?
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: We take off and hope that our radio signal can be
>>>> picked up by the Asgard in time to inform them that this was a Goa'uld
>>>> attack disguised as a natural disaster.
>>>> Sam Carter: There isn't enough time for that.
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: I know.
>>>> Jack O'Neill: Is... there a number three?
>>>> Sam Carter: There's no three.
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Well, maybe there is. Teal'c, you said naquadah
>>>> wasn't native to our solar system.
>>>> [Teal'c nods in acknowledgement]
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: Which means that the Goa'uld must have towed it
>>>> through hyperspace by ship.
>>>> Teal'c: A mother ship.
>>>> Sam Carter: Daniel, that's it!
>>>> Jack O'Neill: What's it?
>>>> Dr. Daniel Jackson: We don't have a mother ship.
>>>> Sam Carter: But the effect only has to last a few seconds.
>>>> Jack O'Neill: What only has to last a few seconds?
>>>
>>> This is disturbing Lee similar to the solution when they had to toss the
>>> Stargate into hyper space before it exploded.
>>>
>>>
>>> What?
>>>> Sam Carter: Choice three, sir. We expand the ship's hyperspace field to
>>>> encompass the entire asteroid. We take it out of normal space long
>>>> enough to avoid the collision with earth.
>>>> Jack O'Neill: [Long pause] Is there a *four*?
>>>>
>>>> Trivia: When boarding the downed Al'kesh, Carter assigns priorities of
>>>> repair. One crewmen asked for "the bathroom" as that's his "priority".
>>>> Likely a nod to sci-fi (very) rarely featuring places for people to pee
>>>> on a ship or station. (Babylon 5 bucked this trend, as did Star Trek
>>>> Enterprise, sort of.)
>>>
>>> So only terrible shows have bathrooms.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> I watched:
>>
>> Close Encounters of the Third Kind (4K disc) 1977 sci-fi movie directed
>> by Steven Spielberg about a man (Richard Dreyfuss) who has a mental
>> breakdown after meeting an Extra-Terrestrial. The disc has 3 different
>> versions of the movie, and I had no idea which version to watch but
>> according to the internet The director's cut is the only version worth
>> watching so that's the version I watched.
>
> Oh dear. I love CE3K. But with the exception of a couple of added effects
> shots, the Director‘s cut is an abomination. I think it got made while
> Spielberg was getting divorced, and he went misogynistic on it.
>
>

But the internet said! Are you telling me the internet lied? I guess
an alternate version might explain the movie's popularity, because I
really wasn't feeling the director's cut. Although I've never been much
of a fan of the movie to begin with.

Does one of the other cuts explain *why* Dreyfus and the other people
became obsessed? Or why the kid (and others) were targeted for abductions?

>>
>> E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (4K disc) 1982 sci-fi movie directed by
>> Steven Spielberg about a boy (Henry Thomas) who has a Close Encounter of
>> the Third Kind. As far as I can tell the plot involves aliens sending a
>> military scout party to test out their biological weapons on a human
>> child. The evil alien tricks a group of gullible children into helping
>> it. The gullible kids actually believe these aliens "forgot" one of
>> their own when they left. What, these creatures can invent faster than
>> light travel, but they can't count? Fortunately, these hostile aliens
>> are chased off the planet by the U.S. government, but not before the
>> "forgotten" enemy scout can "phone home" and relay Earth's defensive
>> capabilities to the invasion force. This is one of the first movies I
>> remember going to see in the theater when I was a kid, and I remember
>> the creepy monster scared me. I still remember being scared to turn the
>> lights off for fear the monster would jump out of my closet and get me.
>> This horror film was *not* meant for children! I'll never understand
>> why it was marketed that way. I doubt there's a child alive who saw
>> this when it first came out and didn't have nightmares.
>
> I hate this movie. It’s the exact point when Spielberg movies stopped being
> good.
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> American Born Chinese (Disney+) "What Guy Are You" and "A Monkey on a
>> Quest" - I forgot to mention I watched the first episode the other day,
>> then episode 2 last night. This series (which shares a chunk of the
>> same cast with "Everything Everywhere All at Once" is about a modern day
>> high school kid who gets caught up in a power struggle being waged by
>> supernatural beings. First up the son of the Monkey King is hiding out
>> on Earth pretending to be a human teenager and he befriends the lead
>> character because he believes the human will help him on a quest. So
>> far the human kid doesn't know what's going on yet.
>>
>
> Ob Veeus tried to convince me to watch this just this morning.
>
>