The Arc Has Ended
Posted on | July 27, 2008 at 7:24 pm | 1 Comment
Movie Review Sunday!
Sorry, I don’t have any movies to review. The only movie (away theater or home theater) I saw this week was The Dark Knight, and I’m sure you don’t want me reviewing that again. Oh wait, I did watch Stargate: The Ark Of Truth on DVD, but I consider that to be a TV show rather than a movie, even though it’s billed as a direct-to-DVD movie. It ties up a lot of the loose ends from the final season of the SG-1 TV show, which would have been explored in more length if there had been another season. It was pretty entertaining, and the characters were put through the usual dire circumstances which they eventually had to overcome. Even though there was more peril and swearing and violence and blood and stuff than on the TV show, and the visual effects underwent an upgrade, it still played like an extended episode of the show. But it did give some closure.
Makes me wonder what they’re going to do for the second DVD movie, Stargate: Continuum, which comes out this week. I think I’ll rent the Blu-Ray of that from Netflix. Note: I’m not a Stargate fanboy, as I only started watching SG-1 when the spinoff Atlantis started. Nevertheless, I do enjoy the show and was glad to see they were allowed to wrap it up. If only the same could be said of Deadwood, which is now looking like it will never be wrapped up.
I’m just surprised they never (AFAIK) showed Ark Of Truth on the SciFi Channel, so that the fans had to actually buy or rent it. At least Comedy Central seems intent on broadcasting the Futurama movies.
Note: I’m really getting sick of the Replicators showing up in Stargate whenever they need to increase the level of danger. Retire those machines already!
Latre.
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One Response to “The Arc Has Ended”
July 27th, 2008 @ 8:30 pm
At least in Stargate, they had that cool splashy thing which allowed them – sometime around season 7 or 8 – to reach the other side of the shark without having to perform any dangerous jumping stunts.