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Colonel Carter
12-04-2004, 08:53 PM
The series premiere two hour episode and the first episode after that, "The Enemy Within," was true to the movie in that the people were covered with frost every time they went through the Stargate. After that episode, however, they stopped doing that. How do they explain that from a story accuracy perspective? I'm sure they did it to save time and money, but how do they explain it in the show? They explained things not shaking at the SGC because of dampners they put in (yeah, like when Gen. Hammond said that it wasn't totally obvious they were saying it to explain it to the fans who noticed). What about the frost?

And how do you explain the fact that they know longer fall out of the Stargate? I could understand maybe that the more you go through the Stargate, the more you become used to it so you don't fall out every time. But explain to me someone like Major Shepperd in the Atlantis premiere who is first time through was to another galaxy, farther than anyone had gone before, and he casually just walked out of the thing.

Anissa T
12-04-2004, 09:57 PM
Because Maj Sheppard is a big fat macho show off.

But, I don't remember anyone falling out of the Stargate when they went to Atlantis. Maybe they are all show offs. LOL!

Colonel Carter
12-04-2004, 10:03 PM
No one has fallen through since the beginning of the SG-1 series except when they choose to jump through the Stargate at odd angles. But looking back at the movie, when Daniel came out of the Stargate on Abydos, he was down on the ground finding it hard to move and one of the soldiers told him it would wear off soon. And they were all covered with frost, the result of your molecules desomethingorother and then forming back into yourself.

Also, why did they get rid of the special effects for the helmets? In the movie, they used CGI to make the hawk and dog helmets and all virtually disappear. In the show, the snake helmets like Teal'c wore at the beginning, weren't CGI at all.

I'm imagining it's more expensive to do CGI. But I don't mind because it bothered me in the movie because logically, it didn't look possible and I thought it made the movie seem too unbelievable. The key to fantasy is making the audience believe something is possible. A big ol' helmet like that sliding back and disappearing into thin air - to me is too impossible even for fantasy.

PKidd18
12-05-2004, 02:52 AM
LOL Or they are just THAT good that they don't fall down anymore! :tgrin They just have skill!

As for the frost... um... I dunno... I never understood that one either... in my book, it ranks up there with how come it's never snowing in Colorado, so... It's jsut one of those sci fi things that we all jsut ahve to accept! :rollin