Regarding the ineffectiveness of the alien weaponry: *Holds up staff weapon* "This, is a weapon of terror. It's made to intimidate the enemy." *Casually tosses it aside and holds up P90* "This, is a weapon of war. It's made to kill your enemy."
Yeah, this was a brilliant bit of world building in the TV series. The Jaffa were equipped to intimidate and police bronze-age tribes; the Goa'uld had advanced tech but hadn't had a non-internal fight with a near peer for millennia.
@@neptunusrex5195 John Lennon was murdered 44 years ago. Incidentally, Dimebag Darrell was murdered on the same date 20 years ago. I too get that "old" feeling...
I know we'd all die of old age before you finished it, but would love a Stargate TV reaction series. The show is SO GOOD, but next to no reactors actually watch it.
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED@@Tconl Man, I so got a feeling that I want to start watching them again, one of the biggest bummers for me was when they cancelled Universe I soo loved that show
I might join their patreon if they choose to react to it (If Simon and George are reading this: I´m sure you already watched it, but Adventure Time is gold)
I'm a big fan of Stargate. Watched the movie, loved it then found out shortly after that they were making a tv show. Watched all of it. Really enjoyed it.
It’s a shame that Universe didn’t get at least one more season to conclude their story. I think it was the only series that conceived of an ending from the beginning - and we didn’t get to see it paid off.
Did you notice ? Daniel is called "Jackson" by O'Neil the entire movie, but at the very last second, right before stepping back into the Stargate, O'Neil calls him "Doctor Jackson", showing how Daniel earned the man's respect through the adventure.
the philosophy of star trek we shall not interfere with the development of primitive cultures. the philosophy of stargate your gods arnt real here have some guns
My thought also. The show flows really strange when you try to binge it, since it was built around commercial breaks and a week gap or more per episode. In spite of that, there's some really interesting stories they tell (regardless whether they are novel). As an added bonus, the TV show was my introduction to the actor we now know as Kratos from the modern God of War games.
I can't believe I didn't recognize French Stewart, I freakin love 3rd Rock From the Sun. He also had a really funny bit in an episode of Community where he played a guy who was a French Stewart impersonator... 🤣
yea when she said that I had to google to see if French Stewart was in Stargate because after 30yrs i had no idea cuz i paid no attention to the random soldiers
I mean, he _is_ fairly distinctive looking. I think I'd have a hard time _not_ recognizing him anywhere. Of course it does require that you've actually seen him before.
Yep. +1 on "Time to react to SG-1" EDIT: Yeah, also feeling like weatherbeaten dust at Simone's Tom Holland / MCU Spider-Man moment: "This really old sitcom..."
Stargate SG-1 was one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SHOWS growing up. One of the best sci Fi series I've ever seen. I wish you guys would check it out at some point but it's got a lot of seasons. And then there's the spinoffs. But the OG is the best. Plus: Richard Dean Anderson!
Yep. Air cannon hitting the surface of the water for the "kawoosh" explosion out, and literally pulling the plug to let the water drain for the whirlpool before it stabilized into the rippling surface.
Now you guys have to watch Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, and Stargate Origins. What is the show about? Everything you can imagine. SG1 alone ran for 10 seasons. And there's like six seasons or something of Atlantis, two seasons of Universe, and a season of Origins. Stargate is the DEFINITION of "so much potential to explore". Stargate SG-1 starts out a little bit slow for the first season or so, but it rapidly becomes pretty much the best sci-fi show of all time. Like I love Star Trek TNG, and a bunch of the Star Wars stuff, and Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and all that, but holy shit does Stargate SG-1 cover a LOT of stuff.
@johnyshadow Season one wasn't bad. But it wasn't exactly great. It seemed like it was wasting time. It was all set up and didn't really go anywhere. And then season 2 they started really going places and doing shit and it just kept getting weirder and more interesting and more alien. Just really flying into the unknown. For the first time really ungluing Stargate from anything familiar. Like there was no more connection to Earth mythology to lean on as a crutch. No more humanoid aliens because they were aliens stolen from Earth or whatever. It was genuinely flying off into the universe and encountering truly alien stuff. There was still following in the footsteps of some previous humans who used to sort of exist, but they're long gone. So there was still like an element of ancients around, but all of the active aliens were truly alien. And that's just something we don't get basically anywhere. And it wasn't just like aliens who were obviously following the same rules as humans, so that they're just humans who look like aliens. These aliens were genuinely alien and mysterious. Like you're wondering what the hell their motivations are. What do they want, what are they trying to say? It's hard to name anything else that does that. Star Trek, all the aliens are just humans and rubber masks, and they're all part of the federation, or some sort of one-off alien monster, or they are political enemies of the federation who operate by roughly human rules as if they were just another country on earth with weird tribal customs or whatever. Star Trek, same thing. Everything is either humanoid enough that they might as well be humans in masks, or their monsters. Battlestar Galactica, the cylons are just robots masquerading as humans. Sg1 and Atlantis, everything is some sort of variant of human aside from the asgardians, but he has Guardians are so linked to Earth mythology, and they act like humans that it doesn't matter that they're not humans. Like even the replicators make themselves look like humans, even though they're technically robot bugs. Arrival has actual aliens, but we barely get to see them, and that's just a movie. So we don't really get to explore too much in depth there. Stargate Universe it's like..... The aliens are a truly hostile species. And they come off as like Lovecraftian almost. They come off as like almost feral and dangerous, except for the fact that they're clearly ultra advanced. So it's more like and a race so advanced that thing see humans more like animals or pests. Which is so much more the classic alien thing, right? Alien abductions. Alien experiments. Somehow we never got any of that in any of Stargate, or Star Trek, over Battlestar Galactica, or anything. That never that never actually gets done. But Stargate Universe like that's at least the VIBE of the aliens.
My god, so much lore built into the Stargate universe: 10 seasons of SG1, two SG1 movies, 5 seasons of one spinoff series Stargate: Atlantis, 2 series of another spinoff, Stargate: Universe. You could take this channel to your graves watching all of these.
I’ve loved Stargate since I first walked in on my mom watching it. I was enthralled. It’s also the reason I love Disney’s Atlantis, they’re basically the same movie.
I wish they would go hard-core, and watch Stargate SG-1 and, Stargate Atlantis. So many of their questions would be answered, and I think they would love it!
I always liked the use of the sarcophagus to 'resurrect' the dead. Sort of a vessel to move beyond death. It plays into the Egyptian ideas of a second life after death, mummies, burial chambers with stuff to take with them, etc. It's not expressly mentioned in the movie, but it is a very clever touch that shows someone put real thought into the worldbuilding of the story.
It's almost as the old Egyptian pharaohs, after Ra was driven out, tried to copy the concept but did not understand it to make the sarcophagus work again. There is also a real-life example for this: The cargo cult of Melanesia. In WW2, the indigenous people had their first contact with the modern world, the U.S: army coming with planes, radios and lots of goods they've never seen. They started to build their own things from wood to 'redirect' some of the goods from the gods to them. I like about this movie, that what we know about the real culture intersects with the script for the movie - down to the 'missing vowels' (The old scripts didn't have any).
Stargate SG-1 is a must watch!!! The series will answer a lot of your questions regarding the gate physics/maths involved, not to mention it is absolutely one of the greatest sci-fi series made!! You also won't run out of content for a good long while!!
On the kissing topic: In 2015, a group of social scientists published a research report on this topic in American Anthropologist. The researchers utilized eHRAF World Cultures, the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, and a selective ethnographic survey to document the presence or absence of the romantic-sexual kiss (Jankowiak, et al, 2015). They based their research on a set of 168 cultures compiled from eHRAF World Cultures (128 cultures) as well as the SCCS (27 cultures) and by surveying 88 ethnographers (13 cultures). Global ethnographic evidence suggests that romantic kissing is common in only 46% (77) of the cultures sampled. The remaining 54% (91) of cultures demonstrate no evidence of romantic kissing. From "Human Relations Area Files"
That said, the ancient Egyptians were firmly part of the western Eurasian cultural sphere that eventually spawned our own, and romantic kissing is documented in ancient Egyptian art from at least 2000 BC.
The TV show develops the mythology and and history really well. It has it's flaws but the quality (and likability) of the main characters together with the world-building really works.
The show is great. Longest running sci fi show and mostly filmed in Vancouver. Michael Shanks plays Dr.Jackson in the show and he does the character so well.
The show based on this is pretty good. They established that Ra was just one of a pantheon, the Stargates were a network, and that not all the soldiers working for the gods were there by choice. Just the idea of the Stargate network allowed for dozens of possible stories as you could just make up a new planet and plant a Stargate there.
@@Rincenso that would make sense if the ancient aliens teraformed the various planets using the same matrix. Then populated them with various ancient civilizations.
@@RonJomero well, they started not understanding each other, but that was too clunky to really do every episode, so ditched it, which was the best thing they could do really.
Stargate is definitely S-Tier writing. Actual history and science that the general public had base knowledge of and taken to a fantasy level that didn't break our suspension of disbelief. The language barrier held true instead of the copout everyone knows English trope, also the language connection made sense. Too many movies tend to kill of the entire team leaving only two alive, that didn't happen here, a handful of soldiers got to return to Earth. No 'unobtanium', it's quartz. Fantastic film.
I'm surprised she recognized him so quickly. I think it took me 2-3 watches before I realized that was French Stewart (the voice gave it away before I recognized his face, lol).
French Stewert I believe is the guy from Third Rock. Great 80s sitcom that also starred John Lithgow as the alien in charge. He was hilarious! And the kid alien is a big name now even though I can't myself remember it! He was in "The Dark Night Returns" as the young good cop "Robin" standing in the batcave at the end and he was also in "Looper" with Bruce Willis.
You have to at least watch the first season of the series Stargate. MacGyver plays Jack O'Neil (Richard Dean Anderson). Yes, they find hundreds of gates with different species!
17:53 - There are 38 symbols on the stargate. In the movie cannon if you just needed to put the symbols in alignment you really only need to try 38 times. And odds are it would not take 38 attempts, especially if 6 of them cannot be used again. I know that would be tough to do with an enemy occupying the position, but it's not technically impossible.
I love all the "aliens gifted this to us" talk in the beginning 😆. Stargate is my favorite Sci-Fi universe. This movie is criminally underappreciated. SG-1 is PEAK Sci-fi, a mixture of STTOS and DS9. The world and concept is great and the characters are fantastic. Should at least react to the pilot, Children of the Gods, it's basically a movie.
Since you enjoyed the film so much, it would be cool to see ye react to the pilot for the TV show as well. It does a pretty good job following on from this, and laying the groundwork for a show that would run for 10 seasons. And once they get a few episodes in, there's good chemistry among the main cast. Like any of the network tv shows of that time, there are some ropey episodes, but overall its pretty solid, and there are some really great episodes (and some very good sci-fi ideas explored along the way). Edit - having looked at the episode list for season 1, it has a rough start after the first 2 episodes (3,4,5 are bad, 6 is decent). But then really picks up big time from episode 7 on.
I remember the pilot having some full frontal nudity (almost dropped my chewing gum as a kid watching the series after the movie), but that stopped right after that.😅
@@Vohaul86 It seems weird now that it was originally aired on Showtime (which explains them allowing the nudity in the pilot) before moving to the Sci-Fi channel. I don't associate Stargate with showtime at all even though they each broadcast 5 seasons of it.
The Stargate series are my guilty pleasure. Anytime I need something for background noise, I put on SG-1 or Atlantic. Grew up on them airing on Sci-Fi before it was Syfy. Absolute classics.
@@shawngipson5403 no, let's please forget those. I was and am a huge Stargate fan and even 20 years ago I couldn't make it through an episode of "Infinity". It has so little in common with Stargate, it's more dissimilar than SGU is from the film after 20 years of stellar drift.
And a pretty singing voice as well. Someone had a lot of good fairies around their crib when they were born. Oh yes... Hang on, does crib still mean the same thing? Perhaps that devastating shot about 3rd Rock being a really old comedy thing was well-deserved. Gloom.
Yeah, George. We all agree that you and Simone should react to the tv show. STARGATE. 😂😂 George, you said you were going to possibly do THE X-FILES also. So, start throwing in some episodes of both shows in-between movie reactions.
Honestly he's gonna fucking hate it here. I could give a pass on the lack of every modern service and technology because he's such a dweeb maybe he doesn't care about any of that, but the thing he's most dweeby about is writing of ancient cultures and THERE'S ONLY ONE CULTURE HERE AND THEY OUTLAWED WRITING FOR 2000 YEARS! I guess he can make up for the variety and depth of research possibilities he would've gotten on Earth with sex, community organizing, and dying at a ripe old age of like 48 or something :P
You mentioned the Ancient Aliens theory stuff. This was directly lifted from those stories and "theories". If you watch the DVD extras for this movie, you can find the guy Erich von Däniken who started it all with the book Chariots of The Gods in 1968. It even has the famous "Aliens" meme guy "Not saying its aliens, but its aliens" in the extras too. You can find the clip from the extras here on YT if you search for it.
I saw this movie in theaters a couple of time back in 94. The "going through the gate" sequences were amazing on the big screen. As much as I enjoyed the movie I didn't think much about it afterwards. It wasn't until years later that I found SG-1. It was one of the few series available back in the very early days of Hulu (when it was still free) and I binged my way through season after season, then spinoff after spinoff. I might be one of the few who wishes SG-U got a longer run.
Not just a show spawned from it, a 10 season show, with a 5 season spinoff show, and a lesser watched 2nd spinoff with 1-2 seasons as well. Its the lesser known science fiction Star franchise after Wars and Trek. I was a massive fan of the show, I have all of SG-1 and Atlantis on dvd and dust em off every couple years
"It's from a really old sitcom, called Third Rock from the Sun…" ouch Simone, way to make us early millennials feel ancient 😂 Really channeled Peter Parker "really old movie called Alien" there
Most of Roland Emmerich's films start with a conspiracy theory and then he reverse engineers a plot around it. For example, Area 51 and alien abductions feature in the movie Independence Day, this film revolves around the idea that humans worshipped aliens as gods and aliens built the pyramids, and 2012 was about how the world was supposed to end in 2012.
Stargate SG-1(10 seasons), Stargate Atlantis (5 seasons), and Stargate Universe (unfortunately only got 1 season but was an excellent show), all spawned from this movie. The Stargate universe is really good and you guys should watch it, whether you react to it or not.
The TV Series makes a few slight alterations to the movie (not really spoilers as you learn this in the first few minutes of the series) . First of course is the actors change. Second they find that the Ra alien was just one of an entire race of aliens who depended on slavery. That then enables an entire universe of adventures through the stargate.
One of my favorites. Super happy to see yall watch it. ive seen the shows and its not for everyone but if you enjoy the characters it can really be a fun journey.
Happy Birthday Stargate. Turns 30 this year. This movie was meant to part 1 of a trilogy but the sequels were unfortunately canned due to studio politics. The TV show got made instead and Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich got shafted during it's creation. Devlin in particular has been pretty bitter about it for a long time, and I can't say I blame him. I wouldn't like to have my creation ripped away from me and watch it being handed to others either. The music by David Arnold is BEAUTIFUL! David Arnold's best work is literally everything he did with Roland Emmerich. Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla. Chef's kiss.
There is so much more to the "stargate universe" lore that this movie doesnt even begin to dive into . You two should really watch SG1 and Atlantis ..... its alot but im here for it
Now you guys have to do the series cause it's so good I know you'd love it. Yes, its long, but it didn't last that long for nothing. Heck, to this day we (at least me) fans are still hoping for a comeback.
Issues with the movie that the show fixed. No, they did not leave the universe. You can activate the gate on earth to get back from the gate they were stuck at, because it is a three way handshake to make the connection. Just like surfing the internet.
Energy can travel both ways through an open gate (notably radio signals) but matter can transit in only one direction. Earth could dial Abydos and get in contact with the team, and even send more supplies. But if the team wanted to get back to Earth they would have to activate the gate from Abydos.
Don't worry guys. The kid with the Earth Helmet didn't die. In the book, the helmet came flying off his head and rolled down the ramp but the kid himself just got knocked to the left and landed in the sand with the ramp offering full cover. 😎 26:15
I saw this in the theater multiple times. 30 years later, the special effects still hold up, and the music has been used for several other movies and trailers since.
I really appreciate that yall buy in and get curious about scifi. Especially when a movie is a bit corny like this one, keeping a sarcastic distance from the film can really tank it. But yall seem on board early. Love it.
I rarely comment, but let me add to the chorus encouraging you guys to watch Stargate SG-1. It's 10 years of episodes to react to. CONTENT, BABY! You'll have years and years worth of videos guaranteed if you jump into the series!
"I recognize one of them..." Awesome, Simone knows 3rd Rock From the Sun. "He's from this really old sitcom..." *crumbles to dust*
Why did she have do hurt me like that this early in the morning 😂😭
Same bro, same....😢
Bwahahahabababa.
Came here for this comment...thanks Simone 😢
Right???
“Really old sit-com” hurts me even more than non-subscribers hurt Simone
Right in the feels...lol
Although that would be a fun watch for the too
I was just going to say that. She didn't need to do that. There was no call for that.
Stargate itself is a fairly new movie. I saw it in theaters.
@@signalnine2601 If Stargate was new, we wouldn't have SG-1 and Atlantis. Having those is worth more than not feeling old for this one thing.
Came here to complain about feeling ancient, now.
@@mooseot ME TOO
Stargate SG-1 Simone and George. 10 years!! Atlantis, universe lets go!!
I second this! The O'Neal-isms must flow
for crying out loud! they would enjoy it sooooo much
@@terryhiggins5077 Indeed!
That would be amazing. Stargate SG-1 and Breaking Bad were my top 2 favorite TV shows of all time.
Yes, best scifi series ;-)
Regarding the ineffectiveness of the alien weaponry:
*Holds up staff weapon*
"This, is a weapon of terror. It's made to intimidate the enemy."
*Casually tosses it aside and holds up P90*
"This, is a weapon of war. It's made to kill your enemy."
Cold-ass line, but in reality the P90 is a personal defense weapon (PDW) and a rather niche one, at that. Still a super cool piece, though
@@SlickAstley_TV still better than a long stick with no optics. And if you ask a politician any gun is a weapon of war, so it still kinda fits.
Yeah, this was a brilliant bit of world building in the TV series. The Jaffa were equipped to intimidate and police bronze-age tribes; the Goa'uld had advanced tech but hadn't had a non-internal fight with a near peer for millennia.
@@SlickAstley_TV It's still made to kill, so the distinction is meaningless.
@@eligra Wow, you're right! Now I understand that an M61 Vulcan and a Mossberg 500 are the exact same weapon. You're so smart!
We called those "John Lennon glasses" back in the day and she called them "Harry Potter glasses". It's a brave new world now, I guess.
So sad. I don't like this new world.
Both for me actually, depends on what I've watched/listened on before seeing them.
The first Harry Potter book was published 27 years ago 🥲
@joka
Dayumn that makes me feel old 😅😜
@@neptunusrex5195 John Lennon was murdered 44 years ago.
Incidentally, Dimebag Darrell was murdered on the same date 20 years ago.
I too get that "old" feeling...
20:11-no you don't want a healing sarcophagus. Watch SG-1 to find out why! :))
I think it would fine if you don't over do it. Maybe like once a decade or so. But definitely don't use it like Lord Yu did.
Exactly my thoughts. We know what happens. It's like getting rich, it ruins your character! 😂
It's okay with occasional use. If I remember the episode correctly it was frequent use that caused problems.
@@pappajudas9267 Yeah, he was in it like every few hours toward the end
My thoughts exactly. When she said that my brain, "NOOOOO you don't."
I know we'd all die of old age before you finished it, but would love a Stargate TV reaction series. The show is SO GOOD, but next to no reactors actually watch it.
Samantha Carter is the reason I'm attracted to chicks with short hair
@@cthulhuspawn6290 lol, I actually got the haircut as her when i was a teenager but it turned out you need to be pretty to pull it off. XD
Yea, 200+ episodes, 2 movies (?), then 5 season Stargate Atlantis, 1 movie (?). ;p
CHALLENGE ACCEPTED@@Tconl
Man, I so got a feeling that I want to start watching them again, one of the biggest bummers for me was when they cancelled Universe I soo loved that show
I might join their patreon if they choose to react to it (If Simon and George are reading this: I´m sure you already watched it, but Adventure Time is gold)
I'm a big fan of Stargate. Watched the movie, loved it then found out shortly after that they were making a tv show. Watched all of it. Really enjoyed it.
Atlantis was my 1st exposure. Saw my dad watching it
Now only 10 seasons of Stargate SG-1, 5 seasons of Stargate Atlantis, 2 seasons of Stargate Universe and a few movies in between 😊 You can do it! 💪🏻
...Ya sure you betcha
It’s a shame that Universe didn’t get at least one more season to conclude their story. I think it was the only series that conceived of an ending from the beginning - and we didn’t get to see it paid off.
aaaand Stargate Infinity lol
@@Rio..o7.. RUclips wants to translate Canadian to English.
@@mapolinskiin my language it translated it into: "Yes, (I'm) sure, you're sure". Thanks, youtube!
Did you notice ? Daniel is called "Jackson" by O'Neil the entire movie, but at the very last second, right before stepping back into the Stargate, O'Neil calls him "Doctor Jackson", showing how Daniel earned the man's respect through the adventure.
the philosophy of star trek we shall not interfere with the development of primitive cultures.
the philosophy of stargate your gods arnt real here have some guns
To be fair, Kirk gave weapons to both sides so they can slaughter each other effectively in the TOS episode, "A Private Little War" 😝
Star Trek and Mass Effect seem to have the same philosophy when it comes to interacting with primitive species.
That's because the US military is in charge of the Stargate.
@@Vulcanerd Only one side, the other side had already been served by the Klingons. It was a parable for proxy wars like in Korea & Vietnam.
prime directive; dont give the primitives an advantage they could use against us in the future...
I would join patreon to see them watch Stargate SG-1. S(imone) G(eorge) 1 it's like fate.
@@jerryward3311 I second this!
I 3rd this. SG-1 is absolutely amazing.
Would as well if they also did 3rd rock.
My thought also. The show flows really strange when you try to binge it, since it was built around commercial breaks and a week gap or more per episode. In spite of that, there's some really interesting stories they tell (regardless whether they are novel).
As an added bonus, the TV show was my introduction to the actor we now know as Kratos from the modern God of War games.
I would too if Patreon would actually process my credit cards.
Can't believe Simone recognized the actor from 3rd Rock From the Sun, French Stewart.
I can't believe I didn't recognize French Stewart, I freakin love 3rd Rock From the Sun. He also had a really funny bit in an episode of Community where he played a guy who was a French Stewart impersonator... 🤣
If he doesn't squint, you'll miss him.
yea when she said that I had to google to see if French Stewart was in Stargate because after 30yrs i had no idea cuz i paid no attention to the random soldiers
The really old part hurt a bit though.
I mean, he _is_ fairly distinctive looking. I think I'd have a hard time _not_ recognizing him anywhere. Of course it does require that you've actually seen him before.
So so glad you two did this film. One of my favorite slightly under the radar movies of the 90s.
Yep. +1 on "Time to react to SG-1"
EDIT: Yeah, also feeling like weatherbeaten dust at Simone's Tom Holland / MCU Spider-Man moment: "This really old sitcom..."
"Incoming message from the Big Giant Head!"
The audience has spoken. The first season of Stargate: SG1 awaits.
I was never that big into sci-fi, but damn I loved Stargate the Movie and the SG-1 series. Such a good idea.
So that means you ARE actually a big fan of sci-fi knucklehead!
I'd like to call the subgenre "Mythological SF", other examples would be The Fifth Element, the Tomb Raider games, or Indiana Jones (as kind of).
I LOVED the Stargate movie and the Sg-1 series too. GREAT minds think a like.
Yes they put costumes on horses for those alien animals.
Also the one that drags Jackson is actually a dog in a costume dragging a doll.
Stargate SG-1 was one of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE SHOWS growing up. One of the best sci Fi series I've ever seen. I wish you guys would check it out at some point but it's got a lot of seasons. And then there's the spinoffs. But the OG is the best. Plus: Richard Dean Anderson!
I’ve never clicked on a video so fast. One of my favorite movies of all time
The gate effects were practical not cgi, which is why they hold up so well, recording the surface of water in a container from an underwater camera.
Yep. Air cannon hitting the surface of the water for the "kawoosh" explosion out, and literally pulling the plug to let the water drain for the whirlpool before it stabilized into the rippling surface.
Now you guys have to watch Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, Stargate Universe, and Stargate Origins.
What is the show about?
Everything you can imagine.
SG1 alone ran for 10 seasons.
And there's like six seasons or something of Atlantis, two seasons of Universe, and a season of Origins.
Stargate is the DEFINITION of "so much potential to explore".
Stargate SG-1 starts out a little bit slow for the first season or so, but it rapidly becomes pretty much the best sci-fi show of all time. Like I love Star Trek TNG, and a bunch of the Star Wars stuff, and Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and all that, but holy shit does Stargate SG-1 cover a LOT of stuff.
SG1 and Atlantis for sure, not so much on Universe
@@Catalyst1234 No. ABSOLUTELY Universe.
Universe essentially turned into the perfect sci-fi show in Season 2.
@@ieyke I never got to S2 of Universe, because s1 was just that awful imo...
@johnyshadow Season one wasn't bad. But it wasn't exactly great. It seemed like it was wasting time. It was all set up and didn't really go anywhere.
And then season 2 they started really going places and doing shit and it just kept getting weirder and more interesting and more alien.
Just really flying into the unknown.
For the first time really ungluing Stargate from anything familiar.
Like there was no more connection to Earth mythology to lean on as a crutch.
No more humanoid aliens because they were aliens stolen from Earth or whatever.
It was genuinely flying off into the universe and encountering truly alien stuff. There was still following in the footsteps of some previous humans who used to sort of exist, but they're long gone. So there was still like an element of ancients around, but all of the active aliens were truly alien.
And that's just something we don't get basically anywhere.
And it wasn't just like aliens who were obviously following the same rules as humans, so that they're just humans who look like aliens. These aliens were genuinely alien and mysterious. Like you're wondering what the hell their motivations are. What do they want, what are they trying to say?
It's hard to name anything else that does that.
Star Trek, all the aliens are just humans and rubber masks, and they're all part of the federation, or some sort of one-off alien monster, or they are political enemies of the federation who operate by roughly human rules as if they were just another country on earth with weird tribal customs or whatever.
Star Trek, same thing. Everything is either humanoid enough that they might as well be humans in masks, or their monsters.
Battlestar Galactica, the cylons are just robots masquerading as humans.
Sg1 and Atlantis, everything is some sort of variant of human aside from the asgardians, but he has Guardians are so linked to Earth mythology, and they act like humans that it doesn't matter that they're not humans. Like even the replicators make themselves look like humans, even though they're technically robot bugs.
Arrival has actual aliens, but we barely get to see them, and that's just a movie. So we don't really get to explore too much in depth there.
Stargate Universe it's like..... The aliens are a truly hostile species. And they come off as like Lovecraftian almost.
They come off as like almost feral and dangerous, except for the fact that they're clearly ultra advanced. So it's more like and a race so advanced that thing see humans more like animals or pests.
Which is so much more the classic alien thing, right? Alien abductions. Alien experiments. Somehow we never got any of that in any of Stargate, or Star Trek, over Battlestar Galactica, or anything. That never that never actually gets done. But Stargate Universe like that's at least the VIBE of the aliens.
My god, so much lore built into the Stargate universe: 10 seasons of SG1, two SG1 movies, 5 seasons of one spinoff series Stargate: Atlantis, 2 series of another spinoff, Stargate: Universe. You could take this channel to your graves watching all of these.
And one MMORPG that gets referred to in a number of MGM movies but never actually made it to market.
I’ve loved Stargate since I first walked in on my mom watching it. I was enthralled. It’s also the reason I love Disney’s Atlantis, they’re basically the same movie.
I wish they would go hard-core, and watch Stargate SG-1 and, Stargate Atlantis. So many of their questions would be answered, and I think they would love it!
My favorite sci-fi franchise. 3 tv shows, multiple movies, and a strage animated series.
Even though it's a bit older: but a Cinebinge reaction series about the Stargate: SG1 TV series is something I'd watch.
1 episode a week for 5-years (or 2 a week for 2.5 years)
... but if they just watch the Groundhog day episode 😀
@@Matt_Mosley1983 Plus Wormhole X-Treme.
@@Matt_Mosley1983 Season 4 Window of Opportunity?
There are so many things you will learn about the stargates creation and our creation in the Stargate franchise. Lots of twist and turns.
I always liked the use of the sarcophagus to 'resurrect' the dead. Sort of a vessel to move beyond death. It plays into the Egyptian ideas of a second life after death, mummies, burial chambers with stuff to take with them, etc. It's not expressly mentioned in the movie, but it is a very clever touch that shows someone put real thought into the worldbuilding of the story.
It's almost as the old Egyptian pharaohs, after Ra was driven out, tried to copy the concept but did not understand it to make the sarcophagus work again.
There is also a real-life example for this: The cargo cult of Melanesia. In WW2, the indigenous people had their first contact with the modern world, the U.S: army coming with planes, radios and lots of goods they've never seen. They started to build their own things from wood to 'redirect' some of the goods from the gods to them.
I like about this movie, that what we know about the real culture intersects with the script for the movie - down to the 'missing vowels' (The old scripts didn't have any).
Amazingly, the TV series pretty much lives up to the standard of the movie - and keeps that standard going for a crazy number of seasons :-)
Man, if you guys start going reacting to the full 10 years of SG1, you'll be absolute legends.
Stargate SG-1 is a must watch!!! The series will answer a lot of your questions regarding the gate physics/maths involved, not to mention it is absolutely one of the greatest sci-fi series made!! You also won't run out of content for a good long while!!
The Stargate series, after the first season (filmed entirely in a damp field in Vancouver), is excellent.
On the kissing topic:
In 2015, a group of social scientists published a research report on this topic in American Anthropologist. The researchers utilized eHRAF World Cultures, the Standard Cross-Cultural Sample, and a selective ethnographic survey to document the presence or absence of the romantic-sexual kiss (Jankowiak, et al, 2015). They based their research on a set of 168 cultures compiled from eHRAF World Cultures (128 cultures) as well as the SCCS (27 cultures) and by surveying 88 ethnographers (13 cultures). Global ethnographic evidence suggests that romantic kissing is common in only 46% (77) of the cultures sampled. The remaining 54% (91) of cultures demonstrate no evidence of romantic kissing.
From "Human Relations Area Files"
54% of cultures are really missing out! 😆😗
That said, the ancient Egyptians were firmly part of the western Eurasian cultural sphere that eventually spawned our own, and romantic kissing is documented in ancient Egyptian art from at least 2000 BC.
The TV show develops the mythology and and history really well. It has it's flaws but the quality (and likability) of the main characters together with the world-building really works.
The show is great. Longest running sci fi show and mostly filmed in Vancouver.
Michael Shanks plays Dr.Jackson in the show and he does the character so well.
The show based on this is pretty good. They established that Ra was just one of a pantheon, the Stargates were a network, and that not all the soldiers working for the gods were there by choice. Just the idea of the Stargate network allowed for dozens of possible stories as you could just make up a new planet and plant a Stargate there.
And every person on every planet they visit speaks perfect English. And the show doesn't even give two shits to try and explain it. Which is awesome.
@@RonJomero I always assumed that was because the stargate has like an auto translator built in every time you step through the gate.
And most planets they visit looks like somewhere in British Columbia. :P
@@Rincenso that would make sense if the ancient aliens teraformed the various planets using the same matrix. Then populated them with various ancient civilizations.
@@RonJomero well, they started not understanding each other, but that was too clunky to really do every episode, so ditched it, which was the best thing they could do really.
Stargate is definitely S-Tier writing. Actual history and science that the general public had base knowledge of and taken to a fantasy level that didn't break our suspension of disbelief. The language barrier held true instead of the copout everyone knows English trope, also the language connection made sense. Too many movies tend to kill of the entire team leaving only two alive, that didn't happen here, a handful of soldiers got to return to Earth. No 'unobtanium', it's quartz. Fantastic film.
"He's from this really old sitcom, 3rd Rock ..." ... boy oh boy, for me it´s a relatively young show.
I'm surprised she recognized him so quickly. I think it took me 2-3 watches before I realized that was French Stewart (the voice gave it away before I recognized his face, lol).
French Stewert I believe is the guy from Third Rock. Great 80s sitcom that also starred John Lithgow as the alien in charge. He was hilarious! And the kid alien is a big name now even though I can't myself remember it! He was in "The Dark Night Returns" as the young good cop "Robin" standing in the batcave at the end and he was also in "Looper" with Bruce Willis.
Joseph Gordan-Levitt. I absolutely Hated him on the attempted reboot of Dark Shadows, but he's pretty good in almost anything else! lol
You have to at least watch the first season of the series Stargate. MacGyver plays Jack O'Neil (Richard Dean Anderson). Yes, they find hundreds of gates with different species!
At least the pilot episodes.
Umm, he is O'Neill, with 2 Ls. The guy with 1 L has no sense of humour.
@@mizrolistHere is a real fan.
@@ecclesrice9789 and the species used before humans. They actually were spot on in their speculation about the show.
Stargate Sg1 is imo the best scifi series out there. It's really worth watching.
Stargate SG1 is one of my all time favourite shows!
17:53 - There are 38 symbols on the stargate. In the movie cannon if you just needed to put the symbols in alignment you really only need to try 38 times. And odds are it would not take 38 attempts, especially if 6 of them cannot be used again. I know that would be tough to do with an enemy occupying the position, but it's not technically impossible.
I love all the "aliens gifted this to us" talk in the beginning 😆. Stargate is my favorite Sci-Fi universe. This movie is criminally underappreciated. SG-1 is PEAK Sci-fi, a mixture of STTOS and DS9. The world and concept is great and the characters are fantastic.
Should at least react to the pilot, Children of the Gods, it's basically a movie.
As soon as I heard them say that, all I thought was, "Ooh, this is gonna be fun to watch."
"Maybe they lifted us up" - The opposite, and that's why the earth gate was buried.
@@ThePixel1983 they lifted us up up and away! Lol
8:06 Good News! There’s 17 seasons of Stargate to answer all your questions!
Since you enjoyed the film so much, it would be cool to see ye react to the pilot for the TV show as well. It does a pretty good job following on from this, and laying the groundwork for a show that would run for 10 seasons. And once they get a few episodes in, there's good chemistry among the main cast. Like any of the network tv shows of that time, there are some ropey episodes, but overall its pretty solid, and there are some really great episodes (and some very good sci-fi ideas explored along the way). Edit - having looked at the episode list for season 1, it has a rough start after the first 2 episodes (3,4,5 are bad, 6 is decent). But then really picks up big time from episode 7 on.
@@gearoidosullivan356 start with stargate atlantis s1 and then go back to sg1 s1
I remember the pilot having some full frontal nudity (almost dropped my chewing gum as a kid watching the series after the movie), but that stopped right after that.😅
@@Vohaul86 It seems weird now that it was originally aired on Showtime (which explains them allowing the nudity in the pilot) before moving to the Sci-Fi channel. I don't associate Stargate with showtime at all even though they each broadcast 5 seasons of it.
The biggest problem I found with the series for awhile was the music soundtrack being overly loud.
The comments are all on point, a reaction to at least a season of SG1 would be amazing
Stargate !!Lets Gooooo!!!
Man I’d love to see you react to the TV Show xD
Indeed!
@@_Curanes_Rex kree!
Such an epic soundtrack from David Arnold. He'd go on to score Independence Day and five James Bond films starting w/ Tomorrow Never Dies.
The Stargate series are my guilty pleasure. Anytime I need something for background noise, I put on SG-1 or Atlantic. Grew up on them airing on Sci-Fi before it was Syfy. Absolute classics.
Greatest documentary ever made.
SG-1! SG-1! SG-1!
10:40 Whoa. I *never* noticed that reflection in his sunglasses. Nice catch. Definitely a light reflector.
Kinda like in the Matrix when they visit the Oracle, you can see the camera lens on the reflection of the door knob
Stargate (1994)
Stargate SG-1 (1997-2007)
Stargate Atlantis (2004-2009)
Stargate Universe (2010-2011)
Dont forget!
Stargate Infinity (2002-2003)
Stargate Origins (2018)
@@shawngipson5403 no, let's please forget those. I was and am a huge Stargate fan and even 20 years ago I couldn't make it through an episode of "Infinity". It has so little in common with Stargate, it's more dissimilar than SGU is from the film after 20 years of stellar drift.
Singing the DUNE song got me pretty good. It was kinda accurate.
And a pretty singing voice as well. Someone had a lot of good fairies around their crib when they were born. Oh yes...
Hang on, does crib still mean the same thing? Perhaps that devastating shot about 3rd Rock being a really old comedy thing was well-deserved. Gloom.
Just after 12:00 - Simone, you were correct. Those were horses in costumes.
Yeah, George. We all agree that you and Simone should react to the tv show. STARGATE. 😂😂 George, you said you were going to possibly do THE X-FILES also. So, start throwing in some episodes of both shows in-between movie reactions.
Taken together, this is the weirdest timeline of 90s sci-fi revisit. I don't think I could handle the nostalgia
one of my absolute favourites. it really doesn't get the love it deserves
"He's gonna be fine, look at her!" George, George, you sneaky little.... :D :D
Honestly he's gonna fucking hate it here. I could give a pass on the lack of every modern service and technology because he's such a dweeb maybe he doesn't care about any of that, but the thing he's most dweeby about is writing of ancient cultures and THERE'S ONLY ONE CULTURE HERE AND THEY OUTLAWED WRITING FOR 2000 YEARS! I guess he can make up for the variety and depth of research possibilities he would've gotten on Earth with sex, community organizing, and dying at a ripe old age of like 48 or something :P
You mentioned the Ancient Aliens theory stuff. This was directly lifted from those stories and "theories". If you watch the DVD extras for this movie, you can find the guy Erich von Däniken who started it all with the book Chariots of The Gods in 1968. It even has the famous "Aliens" meme guy "Not saying its aliens, but its aliens" in the extras too. You can find the clip from the extras here on YT if you search for it.
Farscape (1999 - 2003) ❤❤❤
Lexx (1997 - 2002) ❤❤❤
Oh, man. I'd kill to watch them react to Farscape & Lexx.
Lexx had a ship shaped like a &&&&& didn't they ???
@@kerry-j4m Yes )
@@КиануДепп I remember that about this series,watched a few episodes too.
I saw this movie in theaters a couple of time back in 94. The "going through the gate" sequences were amazing on the big screen. As much as I enjoyed the movie I didn't think much about it afterwards. It wasn't until years later that I found SG-1. It was one of the few series available back in the very early days of Hulu (when it was still free) and I binged my way through season after season, then spinoff after spinoff. I might be one of the few who wishes SG-U got a longer run.
There has been a lot of talk about a new series lately.
"Its like a really old sitcom..." I'll just go rot of old age now. 🤣
The show did a great job picking up from the movie too
There are serveral tv shows of Stargate. The ones I've watched, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis are pretty good
Okay, these guys need to watch the TV show. They're guaranteed to love it.
Not just a show spawned from it, a 10 season show, with a 5 season spinoff show, and a lesser watched 2nd spinoff with 1-2 seasons as well. Its the lesser known science fiction Star franchise after Wars and Trek. I was a massive fan of the show, I have all of SG-1 and Atlantis on dvd and dust em off every couple years
"It's from a really old sitcom, called Third Rock from the Sun…" ouch Simone, way to make us early millennials feel ancient 😂 Really channeled Peter Parker "really old movie called Alien" there
I turned to dust when I heard that line.
Gif of Matt Damon in Saving Private Ryan as an old man visiting the graveyard, but in reverse.
Yeah, that cut was deep.
Late Gen Xer here that was equally offended by her comment. 🤣
SG-1 is must watch!!! George would definitely love it.
The Stargate shows were some great sci Fi TV
I would enjoy watching you two reacting to Stargate: SG1, and Stargate: Atlantis. Stargate: SG1 is 10 seasons, and is worth watching.
The music really was a treat. 🎵🎻🎶
You must now react to all of Stargate... It's a requirement. SG-1 here we come!
Most of Roland Emmerich's films start with a conspiracy theory and then he reverse engineers a plot around it. For example, Area 51 and alien abductions feature in the movie Independence Day, this film revolves around the idea that humans worshipped aliens as gods and aliens built the pyramids, and 2012 was about how the world was supposed to end in 2012.
Stargate and Doctor Who, the only Shows i would definitely consider watching on Patreon 😆
Stargate SG-1(10 seasons), Stargate Atlantis (5 seasons), and Stargate Universe (unfortunately only got 1 season but was an excellent show), all spawned from this movie.
The Stargate universe is really good and you guys should watch it, whether you react to it or not.
If yall enjoy Star Trek, and this film, I really think you're the right audience for the Stargate TV show(s).
Yeah, the tv show really feels like Star Trek. Especially TOS and TNG.
Indeed.
Plus, The TV show is half Canadian
Amanda Tapping! 🤤
@@neptunusrex5195 Not surprised some dude fell in love with her every season.
The TV Series makes a few slight alterations to the movie (not really spoilers as you learn this in the first few minutes of the series) . First of course is the actors change. Second they find that the Ra alien was just one of an entire race of aliens who depended on slavery. That then enables an entire universe of adventures through the stargate.
One of my favorites. Super happy to see yall watch it. ive seen the shows and its not for everyone but if you enjoy the characters it can really be a fun journey.
The Stargate SG-1 TV series & the spin off shows are really great. Well worth exploring, even if you don't have time to edit reactions to them.
Happy Birthday Stargate. Turns 30 this year. This movie was meant to part 1 of a trilogy but the sequels were unfortunately canned due to studio politics. The TV show got made instead and Dean Devlin and Roland Emmerich got shafted during it's creation. Devlin in particular has been pretty bitter about it for a long time, and I can't say I blame him. I wouldn't like to have my creation ripped away from me and watch it being handed to others either.
The music by David Arnold is BEAUTIFUL! David Arnold's best work is literally everything he did with Roland Emmerich. Stargate, Independence Day and Godzilla. Chef's kiss.
Must stink seeing someone else take your thing and make their own thing out of it, huh, Dean?
-Signed, a bitter Godzilla fan
"A really old sitcom called Third Rock from the Sun" - Continuing to make me feel old LOL
There is so much more to the "stargate universe" lore that this movie doesnt even begin to dive into . You two should really watch SG1 and Atlantis ..... its alot but im here for it
You two should totally work your way through SG-1. I’ll be here for every episode!
Now you guys have to do the series cause it's so good I know you'd love it. Yes, its long, but it didn't last that long for nothing. Heck, to this day we (at least me) fans are still hoping for a comeback.
You HAVE to watch the show now! so good
Only thing that could make this film better would be Bill Paxton.
Game over man,game over !!!
@@kerry-j4m 30 seconds into the mission: "Yeah I don't see the hieroglyph we need to get back actually."
I remember saying in the theater when they went through the Stargate... Holy shit 😀😀
Issues with the movie that the show fixed. No, they did not leave the universe. You can activate the gate on earth to get back from the gate they were stuck at, because it is a three way handshake to make the connection. Just like surfing the internet.
Energy can travel both ways through an open gate (notably radio signals) but matter can transit in only one direction.
Earth could dial Abydos and get in contact with the team, and even send more supplies. But if the team wanted to get back to Earth they would have to activate the gate from Abydos.
I love watching people discover this movie so far after its release and love it. It’s a true classic.
Stargate SG-1 is one of the best science fiction shows ever. Do yourself a favor and watch it.
Don't worry guys. The kid with the Earth Helmet didn't die. In the book, the helmet came flying off his head and rolled down the ramp but the kid himself just got knocked to the left and landed in the sand with the ramp offering full cover. 😎 26:15
I would watch EVERY reaction to Stargate-SG1!!!
I saw this in the theater multiple times. 30 years later, the special effects still hold up, and the music has been used for several other movies and trailers since.
I really appreciate that yall buy in and get curious about scifi. Especially when a movie is a bit corny like this one, keeping a sarcastic distance from the film can really tank it. But yall seem on board early. Love it.
I'd call this projection. I think for most people they wouldn't have to tell themselves this and they'd just enjoy the movie.
I just figured out why I love you guys - George is the mental, Simone is the emotional and together you’re the spiritual…
The last Roland Emmerich film I found to be enjoyable was The Patriot (2000) starring Mel Gibson and Heath Ledger.
I rarely comment, but let me add to the chorus encouraging you guys to watch Stargate SG-1. It's 10 years of episodes to react to. CONTENT, BABY! You'll have years and years worth of videos guaranteed if you jump into the series!
5:48 RIP Maggie Smith