´STARGATE! SG-1!
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Originally posted by Cat:
The two biggest problems with SG1 are all things they introduced in the first episode for convenience or for lack of budget.1) Snake head guards.. I mean, those dumb big mechanical helmet things? I’ve not doubt they couldn’t afford the effects used in the film, but..
2) They messed up the whole Stargate principal.. you need 7 symbols to travel from one planet to another, and they change with every location, yet they’ve glossed over this completely. Plus the DHD.. “Dial home Device”.. I mean, couldn’t they think of a better name??
I can understand them not being able to afford the effects of the movie, it was a series that could have been hit or miss, and maybe they didn’t want to pump huge sums of money into a programme that might eventually fail…thankfully it didn’t.
I don’t know what you mean by glossed over the DHD or stargate symbols, in the movie they only had one destination in the whole film, there was never any notion to travelling to other planets, so where’s the comparison with the series?
As for the name dial home device, well like most things in the military, the name becomes abbreviated, they never call it a dial home device, but refer to it as a DHD in most episodes, besides they have no idea what it really is called, and it’s not Star Trek, they are not gonna use a fancy technical term, just for the sake of it.
Squishy