Stargate SG-1 "The Scourge" 02/17/06

Anubys · 02-17-2006, 10:05 PM

Decent enough ep...predictable all the way (including the frenchman being a coward)...but I enjoyed watching it...

Starship troopers...that was funny

busyba · 02-17-2006, 10:57 PM

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predictable all the way (including the frenchman being a coward)

No kidding... I was expecting him to try to negotiate a surrender.

Anybody here speak mandarin who can translate the conversation in the gate room for us?

JustAllie · 02-17-2006, 11:08 PM

I am so glad I didn't watch this episode right before bedtime.

The bugs reminded me of the beetles or scarabs or whatever they were in movie "Scorpion King" -- or was it one of the Mummy movies... same schtick, anyway. Blech.

Amnesia · 02-17-2006, 11:50 PM

I have no problem with the "science" of the Stargate. Or the sarcophagus. Or the zat or most of this stuff.

But when the scientist came back to his lab to see his container burst from all the bugs?!? I'm sorry, but just where did all that matter come from?

Tangent · 02-17-2006, 11:55 PM

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I am so glad I didn't watch this episode right before bedtime.

The bugs reminded me of the beetles or scarabs or whatever they were in movie "Scorpion King" -- or was it one of the Mummy movies... same schtick, anyway. Blech.

I got big-time The Mummy vibes from this episode. In the scene where Mitchell and T'ealc were standing and the scarabs were coming out of the red shirted ensign and burrowing into the ground it actually looked like they copy/pasted the FX from one of the Mummy movies. None of them burrowed into the ground, they just faded out when they reached a certain spot on the screen...

Idearat · 02-18-2006, 12:52 AM

They phoned this one in.

Take the episode with the killer electric fireflys, toss in some replicator clicks. I know I've seen the "babysit the VIPs bit" as well.

Starship Troopers was the only good part of the episode.

kenr · 02-18-2006, 01:33 AM

I especially liked the sound of footsteps on the cave floor. It sounded as if the floor were made of wood as if it weren't a real cave but a studio set. :-)

bicker · 02-18-2006, 06:51 AM

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I'm sorry, but just where did all that matter come from?

Chi.

Mike Farrington · 02-18-2006, 07:15 AM

I just kept thinking: "Oh look, they're shooting at the ground again. How exciting."

kenr · 02-18-2006, 09:18 AM

I also noticed that in the beginning where they showed a shot of the stargate from a very low point of view, the image was stretched horizontally and the stargate took on an oval shape. This was on a standard def TV without anything on my end that would have stretched the picture.

Idearat · 02-18-2006, 09:40 AM

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I also noticed that in the beginning where they showed a shot of the stargate from a very low point of view, the image was stretched horizontally and the stargate took on an oval shape. This was on a standard def TV without anything on my end that would have stretched the picture.

I noticed that as well. I'd just been using the LCD tv with the computer, so I'd thought the aspect ratio setting was incorrect. I ended up cycling through them, but the setting was correct to begin with.

PJO1966 · 02-18-2006, 12:00 PM

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I have no problem with the "science" of the Stargate. Or the sarcophagus. Or the zat or most of this stuff.

But when the scientist came back to his lab to see his container burst from all the bugs?!? I'm sorry, but just where did all that matter come from?

They multiplied.

I missed the opening bit before the credits because my TiVo clipped it for some reason. I doubt it was anything major, but could someone recap please?

Amnesia · 02-18-2006, 12:35 PM

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They multiplied.

That's fine. I have no issue with the number of bugs. If the bugs split into two, with each half containing 50% of the mass of the original, that's fine.

But apparently they not only had significantly increased numbers, but each of the bugs had the same apparent mass as the originals. Where did that new matter come from?

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could someone recap please?

What's the first thing you saw?

PJO1966 · 02-18-2006, 12:44 PM

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That's fine. I have no issue with the number of bugs. If the bugs split into two, with each half containing 50% of the mass of the original, that's fine.

But apparently they not only had significantly increased numbers, but each of the bugs had the same apparent mass as the originals. Where did that new matter come from?

What's the first thing you saw?

I saw a fade to black and then the opening credits... nothing before.

mrmike · 02-18-2006, 01:12 PM

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But apparently they not only had significantly increased numbers, but each of the bugs had the same apparent mass as the originals. Where did that new matter come from?

It was really good meatloaf.

Mr2sday · 02-18-2006, 01:16 PM

They sure did cut a ton of corners with the shooting at the ground bit. They could have shown the bugs a bit more.

I find myself looking at the stargate to see if they wait to transfer to the shot until after the wormhole closes. We are getting a lot less wormhole shots than we used to.

But then again, the picture quality looked much better than usual. Did anyone else notice that?

Anubys · 02-18-2006, 01:24 PM

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I saw a fade to black and then the opening credits... nothing before.

I'll check in a couple of hours, but I think the show started with SG-1 at the gate getting ready to go explore a planet when the general stopped them and told them they were assigned to a "more important mission"...once they found out what it was, they bitched about it...

I'm going to take a nap and then will check later to make sure that what I told you is correct...

Amnesia · 02-18-2006, 01:25 PM

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I saw a fade to black and then the opening credits... nothing before.

That doesn't help.

What was the first scene that you saw? I remember the entire story, but I don't know when in the story the credits took place.

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It was really good meatloaf.

Or at least, very, very dense. That chunk must have weighed...what? 100 pounds?

SteveInNC · 02-18-2006, 01:39 PM

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Or at least, very, very dense. That chunk must have weighed...what? 100 pounds?

It must have been fruitcake instead of meatloaf...

Anubys · 02-18-2006, 05:37 PM

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I saw a fade to black and then the opening credits... nothing before.

ok...I checked...pretty much what I said before...but as they were going to the gate, Daniel was saying that the priors have really stepped-up the rhetoric lately about doomsday and they should expect something "big" from them soon (now that they have eradicated the disease that the priors brought)...

PJO1966 · 02-18-2006, 05:38 PM

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ok...I checked...pretty much what I said before...but as they were going to the gate, Daniel was saying that the priors have really stepped-up the rhetoric lately about doomsday and they should expect something "big" from them soon (now that they have eradicated the disease that the priors brought)...

Thanks.

windracer · 02-18-2006, 06:10 PM

Ugh ... those scarab things always make my skin crawl ... I'm still itching!

Teal'c had some great lines! How about the "Old School" comment? I laughed out loud (the "Starship Troopers" one at the end was good too).

I usually find something to nitpick on, but this week I wanted to comment on attention to detail! In the opening teaser (before the credits) when SG-1's original trip is scrubbed, there's a shot of Landry and Walter through the glass from the gate room looking into the control room. Usually when the gate is "on" they just use those generic water/reflection lighting effects but this time you can see the reflection of the gate in the glass and see it turn off. Nice touch.

brenrher · 02-18-2006, 06:20 PM

I really dislike all sorts of creepy crawly things in one place.

I thought the quality was better than usual too.

dcheesi · 02-18-2006, 07:26 PM

Yeah, the conservation-of-mass issue is the main thing that bu^H^H, err, bothered me (

) about this one. The other one, of course, is how talking attracted the bugs from somewhere underground, yet their footfalls didn't

murgatroyd · 02-18-2006, 10:31 PM

Fun to see Tamlyn Tomita (whom I knew from B5).

Some fun grace notes here and there (e.g. Woolsey not wanting to go through the Stargate because he didn't want his molecules to be rearranged; Browder's knoiwing Chinese could have been a tip of the hat to Firefly), but other than that, an 'eh' episode. Someone totally dropped the ball in story conference (what the heck do they think 'echo location' is? Standing still and being quiet is not going to hide you!).

P.S. to the actor playing the French guy -- I thought it was a really, really bad Peter Lorre imitation.

Jan

IndyJones1023 · 02-19-2006, 09:11 PM

My boy, Blue!

mrpantstm · 02-19-2006, 10:50 PM

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My boy, Blue!

I believe I will watch Old School.

Mitchell and Teal'c have good banter.

Other than that, pretty meh episode. Bugs == Replicators. Yawn.

Tangent · 02-20-2006, 12:32 AM

Was it just me, or would anyone else have paid good money to have Woolsey say "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" when the guy collapsed in front of him?

Generic · 02-20-2006, 09:02 AM

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Was it just me, or would anyone else have paid good money to have Woolsey say "Please state the nature of the medical emergency" when the guy collapsed in front of him?

I was expecting a Star Trek reference in the conversation just prior to him going through the gate for the first time.

Idearat · 02-20-2006, 10:47 AM

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I was expecting a Star Trek reference in the conversation just prior to him going through the gate for the first time.

Having a former Star Trek doctor be uncomfortable with being broken, sent across space then re-assembled was too subtle? I believe that was McCoy's complaint going back decades.