JCC Stargate

Anyone else here into it? I loved the movie and remain intrigued by the movie universe. What happened to Ra's race? Was Ra a prominent member of his race? Are there other alien races out there?

 

Kurt Russell

 

The Stargate Conspiracy? That book blew my mind.

 

James Spader

 

I remember the Stargate movie toys Hasbro came out with included a repainted/retooled AWE Striker from the G.I. Joe toyline for James Spader and Kurt Russel's character's to tool around in.

 

It would be ironic if rather than being the king of his race like SG-1 said he was, Ra was actually a serial killer who was exiled from his race.

 

I hope you're aware of the TV shows? If not, you are due for enlightenment:

"You cannot be serious!"
"Yes I can, I just choose not to... some of the time."

Ba'al > Ra
O'Neill > O'Neil

It's truly heartbreaking that the shows are getting tossed for more Emmerich movies, especially when he hated the (fantastic) shows and already turned his Stargate 2 pitch into Independence Day.

 

I can't say the series were anything other than cheesy schlock but they seem to have their fans, so what do I know.

 

It was often cheezy schlock, but it was always so much more than just that.
Stargate embraced the most difficult and often misused tropes of science fiction without hesitation, compromise, or shame. There was no ironic distancing itself from being what it was 100%. It was glorious.

 

I am. I was horrified that Ra's species had been changed to snakes.

 

Technically, what we saw of Ra in the movie should be taken as the host body only. We never saw his actual parasite-self. Plus, if we go on the idea that the humanoid body of Ra from the movie was that parasite, that makes it a little bit more difficult to believe when we start talking about Goa'uld switching bodies without going on full one silence of the lambs or Ra effectively wearing an Edgar-suit like in MIB.

 

In the scene where Jackson explains who Ra is, we see a flashback that shows Ra as a gray alien before he arrives on Earth.

 

I remember, and that would be the host body for the snake like creatures that we see in SG-1. That's what I'm saying.

 

Ok. That would work as an explanation, except in the same post you asked how a gray alien would insert itself into a human.

 

Because then you would have to explain how ra body swapped if you don't have the snake transition like in SG-1

 

at the end of the film, we see that the gray alien body was inside the human body, so he couldn't have left the gray alien body