Now hear me out here:
Star Gate was a great/rubbish/depending on your view movie that was about gods, aliens and mythology. SG1 was all about exploring the galaxy, OUR militaries going out into the universe. It was still about mythology, and it was worked into nearly every episode (until S7). If it wasn't the goa'uld, it was the Asgard, or some Christian civilisation, or a Jewish civilisation, whatever. It was about culture taken from earth and thrown into the world of sci fi. Now as SG1 began to develop another kind of mythology, the origin of our species, pre mythology if you will, we got a new show to explore that - Atlantis. Sg1 then began to return to religion, gods, and aliens with S9 & 10, even though it got a tad more spacey.
Atlantis was a polar opposite to SG1, it was futuristic, spacey, not about religion but about battles and such. Ok, cool, Atlantis had it's own identity, an equally good but very different identity.
So now we're getting SGU. We all know the deal... it's straying further from Stargate's routes and more into the Sci Fi theme.
Is this what Stargate is really about? Space battles, drones, and such? Maybe Atlantis can pull that off, and can be good at that, but should the Gateverse be dominated by such material so that it becomes nothing more than another ST or BSG?
Stargate used to be different, but it appears to have evolved itself beyond what it originally was. I understand maybe religion can't be the central theme of SGU, and that's fine, but focus massively on space battles and future technology then it is just Atlantis again. Don't get me wrong, SGA was great, but do we need an identical twin for it?
Star Gate was a great/rubbish/depending on your view movie that was about gods, aliens and mythology. SG1 was all about exploring the galaxy, OUR militaries going out into the universe. It was still about mythology, and it was worked into nearly every episode (until S7). If it wasn't the goa'uld, it was the Asgard, or some Christian civilisation, or a Jewish civilisation, whatever. It was about culture taken from earth and thrown into the world of sci fi. Now as SG1 began to develop another kind of mythology, the origin of our species, pre mythology if you will, we got a new show to explore that - Atlantis. Sg1 then began to return to religion, gods, and aliens with S9 & 10, even though it got a tad more spacey.
Atlantis was a polar opposite to SG1, it was futuristic, spacey, not about religion but about battles and such. Ok, cool, Atlantis had it's own identity, an equally good but very different identity.
So now we're getting SGU. We all know the deal... it's straying further from Stargate's routes and more into the Sci Fi theme.
Is this what Stargate is really about? Space battles, drones, and such? Maybe Atlantis can pull that off, and can be good at that, but should the Gateverse be dominated by such material so that it becomes nothing more than another ST or BSG?
Stargate used to be different, but it appears to have evolved itself beyond what it originally was. I understand maybe religion can't be the central theme of SGU, and that's fine, but focus massively on space battles and future technology then it is just Atlantis again. Don't get me wrong, SGA was great, but do we need an identical twin for it?
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