Lovecraft in SGU

[Shpinxinator]

I think it would be awesome so somehow tie in the Cthulhu Mythos somehow...I have no idea how but I think that would be so awesome

[Xiphias]

I disagree. But I'm probably wrong.

[kymeric]

Colour out of space seems like a good alien threat. A pervasive grey death that infects entire worlds killing most things and mutating others into ghastly forms.

Eyah eyah cuthlhu ftaghen!

[Acolyte Of Bli'l'ab]

I agree completely. I wish a sci-fi show would use more lovecraftian elements. If they are exploring the universe it would be great to see some truly godlike nightmarish threats beyond imagination...not more dull biped aliens. Ia! Ia! Shub-Niggurath!!!



hell, my own stargate series concept had the idea of them finding abandoned ancient cyclopean cities at the edge of the universe and accidently awakening a race of "flying polps" which existed before the universe began, as well as the strange effect these pre-universal beings have on the rest of the universe with their own laws/physics....probably too "out there" for mainstream audiences though. I should really post the three page concept up somewhere though...

[Naonak]

Yes, let's tie Stargate into another fictional universe...

[Shpinxinator]

Or at least some based heavily in Lovecraftian mythos

[The Prophet]

Unless Universe can come up with something original (which is hard to do, Original ideas don't exist), then the Lovecraft mythos would be perfect. Dark, Unexplored and Totally Alien.

[JackHarkness_Hot]

Colour out of space seems like a good alien threat. A pervasive grey death that infects entire worlds killing most things and mutating others into ghastly forms.

Eyah eyah cuthlhu ftaghen!

Ooh kinky!

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I kinda thought a being like Sovereign from Mass Effect (who is inspired by Lovecraftian Mythos) would be a good villian.

[ShadowMaat]

Folks have been clamoring for Lovecraftian stuff in Stargate since the days of SG-1. I used to be one of them; even wrote a crossover-ish fanfic.

Now, however... I think it's a subject best left alone. The Cthulhu mythos is too easy to get wrong, as legions of cheesetastic movies prove, and I doubt TPTB would be up to the task of doing it right when they keep screwing up their own stuff all the time. I'm to the point where I'd rather see no Cthluhu than to see it done badly, which means TPTB are out of the picture. LOL!

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I don't think we need to actually see Cthulhu. But there have been many versions of beings that sound similar and seem similar.

Warcraft's "Old Gods" are based on Lovecraft's beings. There was a character called "C'thun."

Justice League Unlimited had an apparently godlike being that was "Great Old One", called "Ikthultu"

I thought they all worked in the story fine. And came across as effective enemies to the good guys, without seeming absurd.

[ShadowMaat]

Yeah, but we're talking about Stargate's writers, here. Do you seriously think they'd be able to pull off a Cthulhu-esque storyline without making it a complete embarrassment?

[Infinite-Possibilities]

I can't say I'm intimately familiar with Lovecraftian Fiction, but I am more familiar with beings, based on some of its concepts. It can't be too difficult to some manner of frighteningly alien and unfathomably powerful monstrosity. At the end of the day it wouldn't even need to be much like like Cthulhu visually.

As I mentioned before, someone like "Sovereign" would work well and doesn't exactly seem to be beyond what I imagine the Stargate writers would be capable of.


An Example *Mass Effect Spoilers*

[Shpinxinator]

I agree with a Sovereign like being but I would like to see something that's not Man (or Alien) made. Something living maybe not even sentient but a being whose very nature is pure evil

[Murzin]

i would say a situation like in call of cthulu would be bad, but i like the idea of that story about the antarctic expidition where they run across the old city would work well.