5/5 Great bargain
  by Rob K (Canada)
I'll admit, I was a little bitter about the SG-1 cancellation. I still am. And while 'Ark of Truth' felt like a year or two worth of stories compressed down into 90 minutes, it still managed to be a thoroughly satisfying 90 minutes and a good resolution to many outstanding story points.

Continuum marked the series' first independent film story, and did so quite well. The story feels a little like a rehash of certain other time travel/AU stories that SG-1 did over the years, but here it's executed with a style and flare they simply didn't have the time or budget for in episodic television.


I bought both of these films separately as they came out, and still feel that both were worth their individual prices. Here, bundled together at half what I paid, is a total steal. This is worth every penny.

5/5 Two Suprisingly Great Moview At One Good Price
  by M. Herzog (chicago)
I'll be the first to admit I wasn't looking forward to the straight to dvd stargate movies. While I enjoyed the show, I wasn't expecting much from them. But it turned out Stargate prospered with the bigger budget! The first, ark of truth is the conclusion to the ori story. Though it started slow, it really picked up, and turned into a monstrously entertaining movie. Though I wish it could have been a few episodes (or instead a full season), what they did was very good, and a good conclusion to the Ori story.

As to Continuum, I was suprised with how much fun it was. Given the time travel nature of the story, I thought the fact that the show brought back feelings from so many seasons was a great effect. They also brought back old characters, including Goul'd Lords, who I haven't seen in years. Though the story was full of holes (like most time travel pieces) it was very interesting. For those wondering the difference between this and the seperate releases, there are none. They just put the discs in one new case, so if you have them both, you don't need to buy it again.

4/5 Continuum and Ark of Truth - Good Episodes, Not Overwhelming Movies
  by APerry (Birmingham, AL)
As a major Stargate fan and owner of almost all episodes of the series, I was slightly disappointed with both of these titles. As regular episodes, I believe they were great but to set them out as separate movies really created expectations that they did not live up to. I was really looking forward to seeing Richard Dean Anderson in the Continuum but he may have been on screen for a total of 15 minutes. Continuum focused on Sam, Daniel and Cam mainly leaving the other characters as occasional images in the story. As a time travel story it was good but as with most stories using that tool it leaves you questioning how it could have happened that way. Ark of Truth overall was a better story and helped complete the series as it should have been done. Overall, both movies had great action, team work and continued the story lines where they ended from the TV series. I would recommend it for fans of the series but those of you who have never seen the series will probably be lost and not enjoy it nearly as much.

5/5 TV series on DVD
  by Michael A. Sinclair (Mount Airy, NC)
I have always been a fan of Sci-fi and this series which started with Stargate SG1 was great. It maybe Sci-fi but when it comes to Sci-fi it is a very realistic setting and story line behind it.

4/5 Looking forward to this, but...
  by K. Duncan (Austintown, OH USA)
Looking forward to owning this double feature, I've wanted to add these to my SG-1 collection for awhile but didn't want to pay full price for both DVDs. Pre-ordered this for cost considerations, I think this will be the last time I pre-order anything, found out Target will have this for the same price as what I paid here, Walmart will have it for even a little less. I'm not going to cancel this order but I think it will be the last time I pre-order anything as the proposed savings just aren't there. I shopped around for quite awhile before pre-ordering this, didn't know until just today that the brick & mortar stores were going to have it for the same price (or less).

That I've given this 4 stars should not be a reflection of the actual movies themselves, but more for Amazon's lack of any real savings on the pre-order of this double feature. Pre-ordering should give an individual the opportunity to purchase a DVD at a savings over what it will end up selling for once it becomes readily available, or else why bother with pre-ordering?

Edit: March 6th, my copy of this arrived today, thank you Amazon for the quick delivery. This DVD has no art whatsoever inside the case, just 2 disks. I was expecting the first releases of this would've had some inserts, or something fancy inside the case, but no.

Glad I got these 2 movies for a decent price per movie, but I notice that Amazon's current price is the same as it was on pre-order, so my question remains valid: What good is pre-ordering? You don't get any kind of special deal for it, might as well just wait for it to get released. -kd5-