On this week’s episode Norman is glad he skipped the iPad 2, Gary marvels at Netflix’s dominance over piracy, and Will wonders why anyone watches Stargate. All that, plus the latest on Windows Phone 7, Amazonian tablet rumors, the problem with meaningless specs and another edition of fake outtakes. All that in this value packed edition of This is Only a Test!
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so many penguins, its somewhat telling! I’ll be listening to this on my way…..somewhere…. tomorrow
I had to skip directly to the outtakes when I saw there was Stargate discussion.
Read this and this to try and see what a Stargate fan sees. Also, yes, you’re old. Thanks to Norm in attempt to defend the series.
I’ll see you guys on the other side.
God speed.
Why do people watch Stargate? Because every episode features Macguyver going to an alien planet and wasting fools with a P90. That’s TV GOLD if I ever saw it.
Holy Shit a girl!
Great podcast again this week, guys. I have to admit though, the second the Stargate bashing started I just shut off the podcast and skipped the rest. Hope I didn’t miss anything awesome!
woah, there’s a Stargate discussion!? I’m there! 😀
Will Smith: Stargate hater
Good podcast this week. One thing I wanted to add would be that fact checking does not ruin the podcast. In fact, it actually makes you sound less ignorant about the topic you are discussing when you are unsure. Also, the audio questions were messed up in the mix.
Will! Stargate is just the absolute best! You just have to start at the original movie and work right into the series from the start, it’s an incredibly rewarding show to the loyal fan. I absolutely LOVE everything about SG-1 and Atlantis. It was just so perfectly aligned with my Sci-Fi and history/archaeology love. By the end, the cast has such an impossibly good chemistry, it’s just fantastic. I can’t gush about it enough.
Hell yeah!
This is what happens when you hate on Stargate. You’re forced into wearing a penguin costume.
Another great podcast!
I have not Stargate in such a long time.
Torrenting is practically idiot-proof these days. Even teenage girls with Macbooks whose Internet time consists solely of Facebook, Youtube vloggers and PerezHilton know how to torrent TV shows and movies.
Im not sure if you hear the questions louder when you play them while recording, but the volume for the questions is really low and sometimes inaudible.
A comment on Netflix value (discussed in the podcast): there is no Netflix in Europe. 🙁
Farscape was shot in Australia, not Vancouver which is why the Peacekeepers sound like sound like Paul Hogan.
Howard Stern?
Oh, Whitta. So disappointed.
So everyone seems to be saying that if you pay for a service, like Hulu Plus, you shouldn’t have to watch commercials… and yet I never hear anyone complaining about paying ridiculous cable prices and have to sit through the commercials. Is there really a difference?
Good episode, but I keep envisioning will wearing the penguin suit and talking seriously. 😛
What the hell.. Will, really? Judgeing by one episode. Also turning 30 quote does not apply to a show that started in 1997. Compared to the crap I have seen from the era and more modern. Complaint about made up vocabulary, when StarTrek has possibly more. The lexicon has been around much much longer 60s, late 80s. As canadian scifi goes stargate is god tier. It is not really that campy but it doesn’t take it self that seriously. Thy do have 4 or 5 episodes in which they go full campy and forth wall breaking as well. These were only special occasions.
Typed from iPod. Oh well I don’t hold a grudge but you can’t judge a 500 episode+ franchise by one episode. Which might have been from shitty season5.
Discussion ? Nope.. Oh, Norm tried but he couldn’t defend it properly.
Well, he at least tried so I have to give him credit for that. They should’ve had me on the podcast to defend it 😉
SGU has some redeeming quality and when the writers reached out for audience feedback and things to work on or change they listened. Season 2 was by far less crap and shitty cop-outs to artificially develop the characters. The communication stones specifically changed to actually being plot important. I will miss stargate while it’s gone. It won’t be forever though. Then again some of the elements did not leave entirely. Very annoying melodrama which is not why I ever watched stargate when I was a child. I am not fond of drama unless it’s doctor who style. I haven’t watched tv(as in personally chosen) since I got my iPod in 2007. Coincedentally the same year I got high speed Internet.
Oh god I am ranting about my self. so I have only watched stargate, game of thrones, doctor who , torchwood and some anime.
And some// super jail, the Colbert report, Tim and Eric, south park, the x files.
To make this relevant to a tech topic. “cutting the cord” I feel will become the main way of life for the younger and younger people. I use my computer for every thing; all my gaming, school, movies, tv etc. Now reason one no one in my household has a tv bigger and not CRT then my 20″ LCD.
For debate I payed 350$ candian in 2008 for the entire SG1 box set I just turned 18 at the time. I justified torrenting SGA from that purchase. By the time SGU started airing I had purchased seasons 1-4 of SGA. I considered this still contributing to the numbers for the franchise. If I had been employed I might have payed to view on iTunes which if more people had done maybe it woulda kept it alive. Which I doubt I blame the restructure of sci-fi channel. Sure they have to like many other cable channels to become less niche and hold on to their “audience”.
I’ll format this post tomarrow. iPod grace please.
Haha me too. Though I did learn that I memorized tv airing dates more then Norm. I do it with movies as well. Norm has the crazy model number memory which is amazing. The thing is I am afraid that I will forget tasks and things I want to get done or movies I want to watch. I email my self little notes. Internet is limitless nearly so I would easily never accomplish some thugs since I would just forget I even wanted to see more cohen brothers films for example. I have only seen Fargo haha… Now I’ve remembered again.
Come on Will, you don’t have to like Stargate, but you don’t have to be an ass about it either. Clapping because the last Stargate series got cancelled… really?
Man. I love Stargate SG-1, although it gets worse and worse as time goes on. Do not get the hate at all. Also, Babylon 5? Man. Babylon 5 is far from uniformly great, but come on… Babylon 5 has a super-dull first season, but for the next three, it’s amazing.
Thank you, fellow nerds and semi-nerds for agreeing on me as far as liking/loving SG-1 (or Stargate in general). Will didn’t have to like it, but watching one episode in the middle one random season of a sci-fi show and denouncing it the type of thing people think nerds do all the time.
Reading through the comments I was worried nobody was going to step up for Babylon 5. To be fair, that show has many flaws. I saw the pilot when it came out and it was so terrible I didn’t give the show another chance until season 4. Season 1 is quite weak. The series’ acting was never amazing (or great, or even good usually), but it was even worse in season 1. However, it still has the best writing and overall story I’ve ever seen in a sci-fi show. I call complete and total BS on Will knowing exactly where the show was going. The degree that future events were laid in for is unmatched.
Vir’s speech to Morden is still one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard on TV.
As for Stargate. The “jargon” was one of the strengths of the show. They had rules they mostly tried to follow, something I’ll say Star Trek was never big on. One of the dumbest things about ST:TNG was the frequent invention of immensely powerful technology that never showed up again. SG1 kept most of that around.
You’re right, it’s not super-intellectual, but nor is Star Trek, or really any TV sci-fi I can think of. I think the strength of SG-1 is that it doesn’t take itself too seriously. It has a lot of the pulp sci-fi stuff Trek has, but it’s also a fun, action-heavy show, and even the most ardent Trekkie in the room has to admit that action was never one of Trek’s strong suits.
Also, a dice has 6 sides.
Garry, you’re a smart guy but you sure know how to waste money!
What is the name of that Japanese thermos thing? I just can’t catch it when Garry says it.
Not at all, but thanks for the name.
To answer the question, by now its likely too late, cash reserves are often kept in sweep accounts or T-Bills. T-bills are as safe as any bank account and about just as liquid.
Norm’s description of Stargate was terrible! I love the franchise and he did not do it justice. I think Will might not think so poorly of it if Norm knew what the hell he was talking about.