Perhaps the most amusing part of this film is how we have, once again, a large (presumably underground) facility suspended in the middle of a deep hole in the rock with no safety rails. :joy_cat:
Honestly, this movie is great even though one could probably poke some gate-sized holes in parts of the story with a bit of determination. The only thing that could have made it better was more Teal'c, more O'Neill, and/or more Hammond (especially in light of Don S. Davis' passing shortly before release).
Well, I also would have liked to see the alternate timeline's Stargate Command facility at McMurdo before it was destroyed, but we can't have everything. That would have been a pretty major scenic construction expense for little story benefit.
For fun, I decided to see why Pluto TV's version showed up as 1h43m long, when IMDB and every other service (10 at time of writing) has a 1h38m cut. To do so, I put Pluto on a second monitor and muted it, starting both videos as close together as I could.
In doing so, I found the reason: Ads. While Roku Channel also has ads, Pluto is the only service to include the ads as part of the runtime. I've no idea why they do so, but maybe it means the ads are actually encoded into the video stream instead of being served separately. (Most ad-supported streaming services, including Roku's, fetch ads separately, presumably so they're easy to change depending on demographic targeting and/or which advertisers are willing to pay.) What an odd implementation decision…
Review by dgwVIP 10BlockedParent2021-09-12T03:20:59Z
Perhaps the most amusing part of this film is how we have, once again, a large (presumably underground) facility suspended in the middle of a deep hole in the rock with no safety rails. :joy_cat:
Honestly, this movie is great even though one could probably poke some gate-sized holes in parts of the story with a bit of determination. The only thing that could have made it better was more Teal'c, more O'Neill, and/or more Hammond (especially in light of Don S. Davis' passing shortly before release).
Well, I also would have liked to see the alternate timeline's Stargate Command facility at McMurdo before it was destroyed, but we can't have everything. That would have been a pretty major scenic construction expense for little story benefit.
For fun, I decided to see why Pluto TV's version showed up as 1h43m long, when IMDB and every other service (10 at time of writing) has a 1h38m cut. To do so, I put Pluto on a second monitor and muted it, starting both videos as close together as I could.
In doing so, I found the reason: Ads. While Roku Channel also has ads, Pluto is the only service to include the ads as part of the runtime. I've no idea why they do so, but maybe it means the ads are actually encoded into the video stream instead of being served separately. (Most ad-supported streaming services, including Roku's, fetch ads separately, presumably so they're easy to change depending on demographic targeting and/or which advertisers are willing to pay.) What an odd implementation decision…