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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Balaam Xumucane: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by TSN: [qb]... After all, if the story takes full precedence, shouldn't it be okay to slightly contradict previously implied technological details in order to write a good story? [/qb][/QUOTE]TWOK is my favorite movie of all time, so of course it is. Fair enough. But I've always felt that the strength of the Stargate concept is that every week it opens windows to new worlds, new and different planets (in different galaxies now?) our heroes can walk into and shoot at things. And with such a fertile playground should not need to resort to technobabbling this limitation onto said story vehicle. I mean it did look neat and it was an interesting episode, granted (I'm not that familiar with this show, but I like the Quentin Tarentino engineer and I think the base commander is pretty in an interesting way). It's just the limitations this imposes on the writers of new episodes w/r/t technical continuity may not be worth it. (ie. I'm walking next to a 75 meter long antenna assembly through the gate. I'm somewhere near the middle of the antenna when it takes me aproximately a half a second to cross the gate's event horizon. When I come through, do I pop out at the same position relative to the antenna? What if at the last second, they decide to use a smaller mast instead and pull the antenna back out? Do I still arrive at the other end and just not see the half antenna that had been next to me sticking out of the gate? What about my lucky hyperspace-transit silver dollar that I had been flipping and catching nervously as I walked (and was in mid-air as it entered)? Would I still catch it (assuming a coordinated, science-fictionionalized version of myself), it taking several dozen milliseconds longer for my body to fully enter than the gate after the coin?) Also I have always felt like SG was a less technological transport than scan-destroy at one end and re-construct on the other. I always just assumed it was opening a physics-type wormhole between the two planes of the gates. But obviously I don't know that much about Stargate so I'm probably dumb. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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