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I just rewatched "Children of the Gods" and realized that they showed the point of origin symbol for Abydos rather clearly. When Frazetti types out the address that Apophys dialed in, the 7th symbol is clearly shown.
Did we ever get a close up of what the 7th symbol on the Beta Gate looked like?
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Treknophyle: "BTW, that cool 'coliseum-style' building the villian cloned people in is our new Vancouver library."
And that 27-story subterranean cube they filmed the movie "CUBE" in, is that your new Vancouver student's accomodation?
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Yes. The Cube was a genial construct, the exterior shots didn't even look CGI. HyperCube was life inside a fucking Pi-sign.
It just isn't the same atmosphere when the walls are brighter than in a light therapy lounge (that shit's bogus, btw), everyone gets along fine for 70% of the movie AND get to wear their own clothes, plus nobody's named after a prison. Not to mention having to fend off moody "Star Trek" light prisms.
Too bad Cube � will feature the same director, as in "not the first one". Ah well, maybe he's learned something.
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CUBE was one of the most fricking brilliant low-budget sci-fi gems ever made. Never saw the sequel because of what everyone's saying... Is there a full synopsis available somewhere?
The Beta gate was the same prop and we never got a close look at it. The DHD probably had some different symbols on it though (they change them occasionally too when we see it closeup).
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I caught about ten minutes of cube 2 on TV before switching it off in utter boredom, trust me, it isn't worth seeing. The original was a great b-movie, as you say but I didn't think it really warranted a sequel and I can't imagine that a third outing would have anything worthwhile to add.
As for the Beta DHD, I think the point of origin looked like a solid circle with a vertical line next to it. Something like this ---> OI
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I think it's real. THIS picture shows the gate off to the side. Lighting's all different, but it seems like the gate is in its set. Not surprisingly, the Atlantis gate is partially embedded in the ground, as most non-earth gates tend to be. However, this one's symbols may be made of... brail?
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I like the useless triangles on the chest of their uniform: something for the bad guys to aim for.
-------------------- Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon
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"Lighting's all different, but it seems like the gate is in its set."
Well, I'm sure it's a physical model. I didn't mean it was just a picture. But, do you think that's an actual filming set that they're all standing in? It's pretty garishly colored, and lacking in details.
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I think it's the lighting again. If we judged the TNG Season 1 sets by thte promo photos, then the Enterprise-D would have been almost completely deep purple.
I think they're indeed standing on their "gate room" set. A couple pictures from stargateatlantis.com show what seems to be the other half of the set under natural light, which looks much more color-coordinated.
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