Stargate - The Ark of Truth
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 Rating:  - dvdThe DVD I purchesed was great just as described will do business with seller again Rating:  - Another fun romp with SG-1, despite a partially rehashed plot and some deus ex machinaLongtime fan. Loved the show. Although "The Ark of Truth" was released in March 2008, I held off watching it until October 2009, primarily to savor what few unviewed SG-1 adventures were left to me. It was a thrill being back with the SG-1 team as it engaged the Ori one last time. The movie plays like a long episode of "Stargate SG-1," with improved special effects and somewhat of a double storyline (i.e. two threats to SG-1, earth, the galaxy, et cetera). The usual SG-1 team banter is present along with its typical locations of operation: Cheyenne Mountain, forests and space as well as various planets and Ori strongholds. Villain #1 is obviously the Ori and its minions. When Villain #2 appears, we get somewhat of a regurgitated storyline from a later SG-1 season. It didn't particularly bother me, but I thought I'd point it out. I won't reveal Villain #2's identity, but let you discover it for yourself. Another issue is that SG-1 is--once again--reliant on acquiring and implementing Ancient technology (the Ark of Truth) in order to defeat the Ori. This lends yet another god-from-the-machine-like aspect to the tale, where SG-1 must merely hustle about with lots of derring-do until it finally deploys the technology in a nick-of-time scenario. On to the cast. Michael Shanks looks somewhat chunkier, but not as much he does in season two of "Burn Notice." Christopher Judge has grown even more hair. Amanda Tapping, Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Gary Jones and Beau Bridges all look about the same. Overall, an enjoyable adventure. If more SG-1 is what you want, this shouldn't disappoint. Rating: - Great ProductDVD is excellent quality and arrived in perfect condition. Excellent product - would certainly buy again. Rating: - Good Conclusion to the SeriesFor all it's worth the movie was true to all the characters. Only I wish we got to see more of Richard Dean Anderson. I wish that Stargate:Universe would star Teal'C or Smantha Carter. It would combine the old and the new and give the show a better chance of staying on the air. I just couldn't get used to the Atlantis series and wish we saw more direct to DVD movies with the originals. This one had more of the same aliens for the conclusion. I'd like to see more in the way of the personal relationships the characters have after being part of the SG-1 program. We didn't get to see a lot of what happened to Richard Dean Anderson's character, and It would have been nice to see how he copes with his new environment as General O'Neil. Rating:  - DisappointingPlease believe me, I'm a very big fan of Stargate SG-1. The only episodes I didn't like were the 100th (Wormhole Extreme) and the 200th - and even these had a few good moments. So when I say I was disappointed in "The Ark of Truth," I say that as someone who greatly appreciates almost every aspect of this show. I think I may have expected too much from this movie. When the Ori story arc began, it not only breathed new life into the show, it created an expectation of almost non-stop excitement. Each new Ori-related episode kept the excitement going and kept adding a little bit more, until I (like so many others, I'm sure) couldn't wait to see the resolution of the story arc. That's why this was somewhat of a let-down. It almost seemed in this move that they just wanted to get the Ori over with so they could move on to some other story line. The final resolution had a very artificial feel to it. I realize that the show's weakness (other than it's forays into comedy, which never quite worked) was a tendency to rely too much on a "Deus Ex Machina" type of resolution; and that's exactly what happened here. The resolution didn't proceed from or rise out of the struggles of the SG-1; it was just kind of tacked on at the end. Don't get me wrong: it was still well worth buying and watching; and I guarantee you, if I had never seen any other Stargate SG-1 story, I'd be shouting its praises from the rooftops. But I have seen other stories - ten seasons worth of stories. And that's a hard act to follow. 
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