Anybody here watch Stargate besides me? They are getting political.

[Cleita]

Last week they did a thing about the new president of the USA being briefed about aliens and such. The doofus who was the President was a lot like Bush. Then, they started tonight' with a female scientist being rushed into a limo unexpectedly and encountering the VP who is similar to Cheney. It's done in sinister undertones and since they film this in Vancouver, Canada, next door to us, could there be some message here?

[arwalden]

1. I Watch It...

I was very disappointed that Teryl Rothery decided to leave the show.

Other times when they've mentioned "the president", I had to laugh at the absurdity that someone like the idiot Bush* would actually be able to comprehend what was going on at the SGC.

-- Allen

[Ratty]

4. Teryl Rothery

Yeah, why did she leave? I always suspected hew character was a lesbian.

[MsFlorida]

2. I watch stargate

was thinking similar the same as you. Missed tonight's episode though -- damn

[Nay]

3. And didn't O'Neill say something about "getting rid of those shrubs"

when referring to that prez and VP?? I said to hubby, "WTF?? Did you just hear what O'Neill said??"

I also love Stargate because of its portrayal of "gods" as just a bunch of goa'ulds -- reflecting Isaac Asimov's (it was Asimov, wasn't it?) statement that "a sufficiently advanced science is indistinguishable from magic." Time after time, SG1 is telling folks that these guys who visit them and play with them aren't gods -- they're bad guys. O'neill is always puncturing these folks' religious beliefs, and they react in the typically fundie way, and O'Neill of course is always right.

[Khephra]

5. That's Clarke's Third Law

His other two laws are worth mentioning too.


Clarke's Law (No 1 of 3)

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.


Clarke's Law (No 2 of 3)

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.


Clarke's Law (No 3 of 3)

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

[Astarho]

6. I saw it

I got the impression of the President is that he's a good man who's suddenly had his life turned upside down, but he basically supports the Stargate program and he's afriad of the power that his VP Kinsey has. Don't know ho wlong you've been watching it (I just started last year and I'm catching up on the reruns), but Kinsey has been a thorn in their side from the beginning, trying to take control of the Stargate when he was a Senator and he has connections to the shadowy NID.

I loved O'Neill's "Who voted for those Shrubs?" remark

[LastKnight]

7. i watch it, but for some reason its not on until about midnight here...

so ill have to watch it tongiht and see what i find.

-LK

[legin]

8. I think this may be the weird 2 parter I saw recently too

It was almost like, I thought, they had been told to write a right-wing propaganda episode and they were sabotaging it, or their heart wasn't in it. If this is the episode I'm thinking about I don't think it hung together.

Anyway the evil VP has an advisor called Woolsey, which may or may not be a co-incidence.

The President is a good guy, from what i've seen. Not very true to life really.

Stargate is exellent, i think.

[LuLu550]

9. I've been watching for years

I have no life, but that is besides the point. The "Shrubs" comment was pricelss. I got the impression they are introduing us to the cast/plotline for the new Stargate Atlantis series.

I saw the President character as a good guy who made the wrong compromise to "win Florida" and is trying to do the best he can. He looks more like a JFK type than Dumbya.

That was my take on part one of the season finally, anyway.