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No, because the Beta Gate is more or less identical to the Alpha gate save for a couple symbols (they used the same prop, anyway). According to Gateworld.com:
"The chevrons are blue on the Atlantis gate, and, of course, the symbols themselves are different in this galaxy. Instead of physically spinning, the inner track spins in a pattern of light. The brightly-lit symbols also rotate around much faster than Earth's gate."
The Alpha gate was supposedly brought there for Ra's personal use in Egypt. Details are sketchy, but we assume that after the ancient Egyptians revolted against Ra, he washed his hands of the planet as he had lots of humans around already. However, the other System Lords ended up using or discovering the Beta gate to bring other cultures through it until as recently as 1000 years ago before they lost THAT one too, by which time they had plenty of stock elsewhere and didn't really care anymore.
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Doubt it - but it seems that its operation will be partly a visual effect, which is a little disappointing. I *love* the gate spinning up and locking chevrons in place! But I can see where they're coming from, as the main prop's mechanism is notoriously complicated, loud, and tough to maintain. The stargate prop they bring out for location shooting does not have a moving inner ring.
Full CGI gates are not unheard of, though - the Tollan home-made gate was CGI and somewhat smaller.
quote:Originally posted by Cartman: Actually, season 6 and 7 have hinted that
the Ancients evolved on Earth, millions of years before we did...
Let me jsut say:
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They were talking about "cycles" of evolution - whereby some primates would evolve into a homo sapiens lookalike first, and then after they were gone some OTHER primates would start on a parallel track. Infinitely improbable, but hey - it's science-fiction.
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It's actually a horrible concept once used on Voyager of al places.
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I always figured that we were actually ancients that survived and regressed. But... *shrug*
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Writers that either think viewers are too dumb to know about the fossil record or are ignorant of it themselves.
Besides, Lovecraft did it all first-and best-50 years back.
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Adding a Cthulhuesq history aspect would rock a whole lot!
On the other tentacle, Space A&B had the Chigs, which left Earth when Oxygen poisoned the atmosphere.
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I dont think I'd really site SAAB as precedent for good storytelling...at least not towards the end.
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Was it COMPLETELY established or just ASSUMED about the corporeal Ancients were originally from Earth?? Maybe Ancient woman that they rethawed was just a colonial?
PLUS - they had to get the naqada from somewhere to build the network - and Earth doesn't HAVE any Naqada as we've found out.
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Well, they had to already have interstellar ship travel, anyway. After all, they had to be able to get to each of the other worlds to put the gates there. So, the naquada could have come from anywhere.
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Of course they're going to have a Canadian member: -Look at where they're filming, for Ghu's sake (est. 6 km from my home)... -And look at the nationality of some of the actors... -Besides, having a Canadian on the team might ensure that they ask questions FIRST - and only maybe shoot later...
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Seems like a fair amount of scifi shows get filmed somewhere in BC around the Vancouver area... Except Starhunter, that was filmed in Minto, NB.
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Governor 'I'll be Back' is trying to pass a law stating that Hollywood movies and television must stay in California - that it is unpatriotic to film up here.
Not that it stopped him from starring in '6th Day' which was filmed up here. (BTW, that cool 'coliseum-style' building the villian cloned people in is our new Vancouver library. And the view across the water from the Whisper-pad... not CGI: Vancouver in the Spring.
I just hope we get some snow for the 2010 Olympics - right now (2:49 pm PST, March 8), it's warm enough to walk in t-shirt and shorts...
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