After having watched the build-up to this release, and finally seeing the movie, I find I am quite deflated. I read another comment on here that Continuum is better than Ark. I disagree. In comparing the two, the plot line of Ark while having to "overtly tie up loose ends from the series" was more complex requiring the use of your brain. Ark made you stop and think. Continuum is just fluff.
Once they are found in the Artic, it goes right off the rails into (insert your word for nonsensical foolishness here). Mr. Wright did not remain faithful to his series and the spirit of the show itself. While they all end up back in the "right" time line again, the road to get there was paved with serious sinkholes. It lacks so much of the real SG-1's gumption. They quit, which surprised me with Mitchell's "quitter talk" line actually being just before the fiasco. The SG-1 I have come to know and love would never have taken being separated and told what they could and could not do like that lying down. They would have found a way to get around it even with the opposition they encountered with O'Neill, Landry, Hayes, and Hammond (that "if you say so" line was so not good). Granted, they were in a time line where the Stargate program never happened, even so, SG-1 got out of worse messes in the series. I also get the sense that the actors also knew it and so their hearts either were not in it or they actually did not know how to make their characters be quitters.
While I purchased the DVD because I have the entire collection, it will most likely gather dust.
Once they are found in the Artic, it goes right off the rails into (insert your word for nonsensical foolishness here). Mr. Wright did not remain faithful to his series and the spirit of the show itself. While they all end up back in the "right" time line again, the road to get there was paved with serious sinkholes. It lacks so much of the real SG-1's gumption. They quit, which surprised me with Mitchell's "quitter talk" line actually being just before the fiasco. The SG-1 I have come to know and love would never have taken being separated and told what they could and could not do like that lying down. They would have found a way to get around it even with the opposition they encountered with O'Neill, Landry, Hayes, and Hammond (that "if you say so" line was so not good). Granted, they were in a time line where the Stargate program never happened, even so, SG-1 got out of worse messes in the series. I also get the sense that the actors also knew it and so their hearts either were not in it or they actually did not know how to make their characters be quitters.
While I purchased the DVD because I have the entire collection, it will most likely gather dust.