So you know that Xenite.Org has a Stargate News site, right? No? Well, now you do.
Anyway, we've just added a cool new section for fans who want to follow the Stargate cast members on Twitter. You can use our dashboard which we call Stargate Twitter to quickly scan several cast members' accounts all at once. No more flipping through multiple pages or loading several windows.
So far we've got (from Stargate: Universe) David Blue (Eli Wallace), Elyse Levesque (Chloe Armstrong), Patrick Gilmore (Dale Volker), Ming Na (Camille Wray), and Lou Diamond Phillips (David Telford) on the dashboard. And as a bonus we have added a second dashboard for Stargate alumni, which currently includes Lexa Doig (Carolyn Lam on SG-1), David Hewlett (Rodney McKay on SG-1 and Stargate: Atlantis), Kate Hewlett (Jeannie McKay Miller on Atlantis), Jewel Staite (Jennifer Keller on Atlantis), and Amanda Tapping (Samantha Carter on SG-1 and Atlantis and Universe).
We'll add more accounts as we find them (and as time permits).
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Showing posts with label stargate universe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stargate universe. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Stargate: Universe not so bad at all
I did watch Stargate: Universe (which we're discussing in the Stargate Forum at SF-Fandom) Friday evening and I liked it. The show is following in the footsteps of grittier science fiction series like Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Babylon-5 so I think the hard-core space drama fans will take an interest in it.
As I mentioned in this Stargate Universe discussion, I hope they are done using pseudo-medieval village sets. I know it's cost-effective to reuse the same medieval-looking sets over and over again, but it's just so hard to think of advanced space-faring civilizations as living in small villages.
Toward the end, Stargate SG-1 was developing the courage to speak of "millions of Jaffa" (usually as they were wiped out) living on specific worlds. In my mind, no television show has to do much to convey the idea that there are 100,000,000 people living on a planet. Star Trek in its various incarnations usually made it clear that the crew were visiting just one part of a large capitol city or something.
So I'm looking forward to meeting the orange-and-blue-skinned winged aliens who don't understand a word of English and whom the Destiny crew have to learn to get along with through sign language, simple barter, and many episodes. I don't want to see any silly Ferengi-style aliens. I want to see strange species that have a hard time relating to humanity and who don't know what to make of the intrusion of 80 humans into their part of the universe.
And no more threats to Earth, please. That trick has been done to death.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
As I mentioned in this Stargate Universe discussion, I hope they are done using pseudo-medieval village sets. I know it's cost-effective to reuse the same medieval-looking sets over and over again, but it's just so hard to think of advanced space-faring civilizations as living in small villages.
Toward the end, Stargate SG-1 was developing the courage to speak of "millions of Jaffa" (usually as they were wiped out) living on specific worlds. In my mind, no television show has to do much to convey the idea that there are 100,000,000 people living on a planet. Star Trek in its various incarnations usually made it clear that the crew were visiting just one part of a large capitol city or something.
So I'm looking forward to meeting the orange-and-blue-skinned winged aliens who don't understand a word of English and whom the Destiny crew have to learn to get along with through sign language, simple barter, and many episodes. I don't want to see any silly Ferengi-style aliens. I want to see strange species that have a hard time relating to humanity and who don't know what to make of the intrusion of 80 humans into their part of the universe.
And no more threats to Earth, please. That trick has been done to death.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
New Stargate Universe trailer
Stargate: Universe is starting to shape up as more teaser footage is released. The video below includes some cast moments as well as longer shots of scenes than we have seen before.
Stargate: Universe is the third in the Stargate television series to be spun off from the original "Stargate" movie.
Discuss in our Stargate Forum at SF-Fandom. We coincidentally renamed that forum "Stargate Universe" a couple of years ago before we learned about the new show.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
Stargate: Universe is the third in the Stargate television series to be spun off from the original "Stargate" movie.
Discuss in our Stargate Forum at SF-Fandom. We coincidentally renamed that forum "Stargate Universe" a couple of years ago before we learned about the new show.
SF-Fandom is a moderated, fan-run community devoted to science fiction, fantasy, history, and mythology. SF-Fandom was founded in 2001 and is part of the Xenite.Org network. Free registration is required to post. Please be sure you read our Posting Guidelines.
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