Re: If you didn't understand the latest Stargate Universe
Jette Goldie
> On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:41:31 +0000 (UTC), Gisele
> <ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
>
>> erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in
>> news:drache-776787....@news.eternal-
>> september.org:
>>
>>> In article
>> <MPG.256a51929...@news.usenetserver.com>,
>>> Pete B <xxxh@_xsomeething.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They probably didn't expect you to, and added this
>> :)
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte7LMnYV10
>>> Oh, drat! That must mean Chloe survives 8-(
>> Yeah, bummer eh? They were taking a step in the right
>> direction there and poof, reset button....argh....;o)
>>
>> Gisele
>
> It was an episode that was *about* the Cosmic Reset Button rather than
> one that uses the CRB as a deus ex machina. As in "Yes, they have a
> cosmic reset button, but that doesn't mean that they know how to use
> it." or "Yes, they have a cosmic reset button, but they can't use it
> because there's no instruction manual and they don't have enough
> information to operate it properly the first, second or third times
> around, so they have to do trial-and-error."
>
Hmmm - what was that SG1 episode where Jack had to eat fruit loops for
months and kept missing the question?
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AC
"Pete B" <xxxh@_xsomeething.com> wrote in message
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>
> They probably didn't expect you to, and added this :)
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte7LMnYV10
A good little filler episode. No idea why people might not get it, its all
there.
If any one likes a time travel mind fuck, I highly recommend a little film
called Primer.
AC
AC
> In article <dF1Mm.40338$Tk7....@newsfe20.ams2>, x...@xxx.xxx says...
Its a dirt cheap film ($7000) made by, IIRC, students. The time travel plot
is stunningly complex but perfectly logical. The acting is very wooden, but
the main characters are scientists, so wooden sort of works. There is
nothing amazing about the filming, sets or anything else. The is nothing
attractive about the characters either. Basically, its good enough to tell
the story. For me its a film to watch for the plot and plot alone. Oh, and I
suppose to support some made folks who put the film together, and as some
sort of inspiration to budding film makers who cant get big money!!! I don't
think the film would have significantly benefited from a huge budget. For
me, I was so absorbed in the plot that all the technical flaws became
invisible.
So, if you watch it, I don't want to hear complaints about the quality of
the film its self. No one is gonna credit that, unless one is a fan of cheap
student films and can compare them!!!!
If you are gonna watch it, be honest and watch it cold, watch it a second
time, then go hunting out the info. See, when you get to the end of the
film, you realise that nothing was what it seemed to start with and
everything before takes on new meaning. But the more you work through that,
you realise that other things must be implied, and then you need to see it
again.
This is why I am not tempting you with an IMDB link !!!!!!
Lastly, this really is a film only for those who are either interested in
complex time travel plots, or low budget films. I think hardcore Donnie
Darko and Butterfly Effect fans would appreciate Primer.
AC
Pete B
says...
> And verily, didst Pete B <xxxh@_xsomeething.com> hastily babble thusly:
> > In article <ZhhMm.24897$Gd3....@newsfe16.ams2>, x...@xxx.xxx says...
> >> >
> >> > Never saw darko, saw the 3 (i think) bufferly effect (revelations) liked
> >> > that
> >>
> >> The first Butterfly Effect is genius, if you watch the proper ending. The
> >> other two are universally slagged off, for what look like good reasons, so I
> >> have avoided those.
> >
> > There are multiple endings to the first one?
>
> I've only seen the one ending, the one where he insults the girl who was the
> lynchpin of the entire film so he would never get involved with her.
>
> What's the other ending?
I haven't seen it so don't spoil it! But when someone writes "the proper
ending" that sort of sounds like another ending.
Perhaps it has a happy ending.
Dillon Pyron
>On Sun, 15 Nov 2009 18:41:31 +0000 (UTC), Gisele
><ilov...@nospamlycos.com> wrote:
>
>>erilar <dra...@chibardun.net.invalid> wrote in
>>news:drache-776787....@news.eternal-
>>september.org:
>>
>>> In article
>><MPG.256a51929...@news.usenetserver.com>,
>>> Pete B <xxxh@_xsomeething.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> They probably didn't expect you to, and added this
>>:)
>>>>
>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vte7LMnYV10
>>>
>>> Oh, drat! That must mean Chloe survives 8-(
>>
>>Yeah, bummer eh? They were taking a step in the right
>>direction there and poof, reset button....argh....;o)
>>
>>Gisele
>
>It was an episode that was *about* the Cosmic Reset Button rather than
>one that uses the CRB as a deus ex machina. As in "Yes, they have a
>cosmic reset button, but that doesn't mean that they know how to use
>it." or "Yes, they have a cosmic reset button, but they can't use it
>because there's no instruction manual and they don't have enough
>information to operate it properly the first, second or third times
>around, so they have to do trial-and-error."
"hmm, this looks like the the CRB. Better push it"
"hmm, this looks like the CRB. Better push it sooner"
"hmm. this looks ...." until you puke.
I really and truly hate time travel. "Continuum" at least made an
attempt at getting it right.
>
>Also, I like Chloe. The show's premise and main characters are
>updates of Lost In Space, so I like the Will-Penny brother-and-sister
>relationship between Eli and Chloe. Or, arguably, the Greg-Marsha
>seasoning added to their relationship given Eli's crush on her.
umm, didn't it turn out that "Greg" had a thing with his step-mom?
>
> -- Rob
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Pete B
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>
> "Pete B" <xxxh@_xsomeething.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.25714490e...@74.209.131.10...
> > In article <r6DNm.56253$ze1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
> > dbar...@nospam.com says...
> >> "Rob Jensen" <Shut...@aol.com> wrote in message
> >> news:dkm0g55oksiag13it...@4ax.com...
> >> <snip>
> >>
> >> > Also, I like Chloe.
> >>
> >> You are the first person to say this in the posts I have read so far.
> >>
> >> I like her too.
> >>
> >
> > Quick - stone them!
>
> Is one of us going to take over your body?
> :)
Eeek!