Looking Back at the Stargate Franchise

The Groot character in Avengers Infinity War looks similar too...

 

It blows my mind that anyone takes anything that guy has to say seriously: David Wilcock is a carnie shyster bilking people out of money by selling them delusions. Like an Al Bielek on amphetamines - the sheer volume of material that Wilcock comes up with would be impressive if it weren't all complete shit.

There were some cool episodes in the Stargate SG-1 series, like Point of View which was about a quantum mirror that served as a portal between alternate realities, and Window of Opportunity which was a hilarious twist on Groundhog Day - Jack O'Neill at his best.

The original film screwed up by taking the team through a portal to another inhabited world...which was exactly like ancient Egypt but with an alien overlord twist: nobody wanted to see some boring primitive human civilization halfway across the universe....we wanted to see something wondrous. What a let-down. Possibly an even bigger let-down than the alien in Contact showing up as Ellie's father.

 

Look, man - I don't want to go raining on anybody's choice of entertainment, but it's another matter entirely to actually believe to endless tsunamis of swill that this guy has been spouting for decades. He's basically just another Sean David Morton with even zanier claims, minus the fraud conviction (unfortunately it's not illegal to spout BS every day of your life to the credulous masses or to make heaping mounds of money on books that aren't worth the paper they're printed on).

It takes about 10 minutes of research to figure out that this guy is a relentless and absurd con artist of the utmost Pleiadian order. Everything he says is complete bilge, and I'm sure the same is true of any allegedly "biographical" material that he has to offer. It's all the most flagrantly ridiculous garbage imaginable. How anyone can read even the titles of his videos without snickering is completely beyond me.

Here's just a tiny taste of his long history of preposterous and totally failed predictions and claims and other blithering nonsense:

 

You said it right as far as I'm concerned and he's also a part of Corey Goode's blue chicken cult of schemes and cons which further assists in trapping potential new cult members to their ranks of followers...I've walked a spiritual path all my life, it is my life's work and David Wilcock is not a legitimate spiritual leader or guide by any means, he's a new agey conjurer of deceptions and lies for profit, nothing more...That's my take on him...

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Stargate Atlantis is 15 years old now...

There's no shortage of 'Stargate' nostalgia on the spinoff's 15th anniversary





SALT LAKE CITY — “As a family we always had pizza night with the kids when ‘Atlantis’ was on,” said Lisa Denoncourt. “The show was a perfect balance of sci-fi, humor and lots of sarcasm. But most of all, we were bonding as a family over one of our favorite shows.”

Denoncourt is one of many fans who recently took to Twitter to share their favorite memories of “Stargate: Atlantis,” the beloved sci-fi hit that ran for five years and is celebrating its 15th anniversary.

The first of two spinoffs from “Stargate: SG-1,” the show transported viewers across the universe alongside their favorite characters.

“Imagine the lost city of Atlantis was real. Imagine you could step through a portal and get to it in seconds,” said actress Jewel Staite in an interview with the blog From the Desk of Kurt Manwaring. “But enemies abound in this new galaxy!”

“Oh yeah,” she said, “and the city can fly.”

According to the show's producer, Joe Mallozzi, “The Atlantis expedition was like extended family members you visited with once a week. It’s a grand tradition that made both ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Stargate’ so relatable.”

One of the essential ingredients in the show’s recipe for relatability was Dr. Rodney McKay (David Hewlett), a loquacious and irritating physicist with an aversion to dangerous situations he seemed to overcome on a weekly basis.

Hewlett was thrilled to reprise the character he played on “SG-1,” but discovered fans were initially less than enthused.

“When it was first announced that Rodney would be joining the new series, I went online and people were horrified,” said Hewlett. “What was great for me though, was that we had this guy established — as a crazy smart jerk — so now it was all about unraveling who he was and what made him that way.”

The least likeable character quickly grew into one of the most irreplaceable figures of the series.

But Hewlett almost wasn’t involved in the popular spinoff. According to Mallozzi, they were auditioning the role of Dr. Ingram, and they couldn't find the right actor. As their time dwindled, executive producer Robert Cooper suggested bringing Rodney McKay on board.

“And, in the end, he became a fan- and writers room-favorite,” he said.

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Stargate Atlantis: 15 Years, 15 Great Episodes

As the show marks the anniversary of its 2004 premiere, GateWorld looks back on some of the best episodes in this remarkable series.



Happy Anniversary today to one of our favorite teams in science fiction!

Stargate Atlantis premiered 15 years ago today, as the 2-hour pilot movie “Rising” made its debut on SCI FI Channel in the United States. An eager fan base tuned in to meet a new group of adventurers, with an international expedition of scientists and military personnel sent through the Stargate to explore the distant Pegasus Galaxy.

With two shows on the air, Stargate was officially a franchise.

SGA ran for five seasons, totaling 100 episodes. In those years it saw a total of ten regular cast members, with Joe Flanigan leading the team as John Sheppard.

Each week during the show’s original run GateWorld conducted polls asking viewers to rate each episode. These are tallied up as the “Fan Rating” in GateWorld’s episode guide. So after 100 episodes, which ones rank at the top?

To celebrate today’s anniversary, here are the show’s 15 best episodes — ranked and rated by fans!

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