Does anyone else think that the premise of this show is set up to discourage story-arcs and multi-part episodes? It seems like they're going to make just a bunch of stand alone episodes with no real cohesion. We have a ship they can't control going from planet to planet without any hope of it turning around or revisiting old places. I just don't see how people can get invested in a show like that. Anyone else see it going this way?
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Originally posted by Ninjadoom View PostDoes anyone else think that the premise of this show is set up to discourage story-arcs and multi-part episodes? It seems like they're going to make just a bunch of stand alone episodes with no real cohesion. We have a ship they can't control going from planet to planet without any hope of it turning around or revisiting old places. I just don't see how people can get invested in a show like that. Anyone else see it going this way?
In Mallozzi's blog, he said the following the other day about SGU, "the way these episodes have developed so far, there are a threads that run through all the stories, in essence making this season one big 20-parter."
http://josephmallozzi.wordpress.com/...niverse-day-7/sigpicFOX Network
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Originally posted by Ninjadoom View PostDoes anyone else think that the premise of this show is set up to discourage story-arcs and multi-part episodes? It seems like they're going to make just a bunch of stand alone episodes with no real cohesion. We have a ship they can't control going from planet to planet without any hope of it turning around or revisiting old places. I just don't see how people can get invested in a show like that. Anyone else see it going this way?
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Umm I think the whole idea of the show is to do the opposite, which is why I can't wait to watch it. I love long big messy fun secret hidden, fun story arcs. Who doesn't? But what I love is that they should every now and then throw in a completely stand alone fun fun out their episode. That would make it perfect. They always need one different episode, among the rest.
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The way I see it this premise allows for bigger, or at least better and more thought out arcs. They won't be spending forever in one place and they'll be encounering different enemies and allies in different seasons, so this will force tptb to think through what they want to do with a race, a start, a middle and an end, before they are even introduced. The arcs that constantly carry over can be the personal arcs between characters, and trying to find a means to get the ship back to Earth.
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i would think that there is a way to get off the ship and onto the planets, so if they figured out the direction of the ship and could predict the gate addresses, then they could explore planets in the galacy and just gate to the planet the ship is around and get back on the ship.
i think most of the episodes will feature the team trying to figure things out on the ship. but they have to be able to get off it in order to get food and stuffTHE HAM HAS SPOKEN
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Originally posted by Ninjadoom View PostDoes anyone else think that the premise of this show is set up to discourage story-arcs and multi-part episodes? It seems like they're going to make just a bunch of stand alone episodes with no real cohesion. We have a ship they can't control going from planet to planet without any hope of it turning around or revisiting old places. I just don't see how people can get invested in a show like that. Anyone else see it going this way?
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The premise of SGU leaves the door open to both stand alone stories and arc storyline episodes. A lot of time in Stargate each episodes are both at the same time.Currently watching: Dark Matter, 12 Monkeys, Doctor Who, Under the Dome, The Mentalist, The Messengers, The Last Ship, Elementary, Dominion, The Whispers, Extant, Olympus, Da Vinci's Demons, Vikings
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if they leave the galaxy at the end of the season then each season will be a completely different story...that is an absolute disaster, there will be no tension, no revisiting planets and no point; whats the purpose of just circling around galaxies? is this like quantum leap but in space? what they should do is have no reference to the galaxy they are on and that for all they know it could still be the milky way. and just focus on the planets.sigpic
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I really want to see some flashforward scene or episode. It would be so cool that our heroes will change in the future. For example: two character are friends, but something will happen and they will become enemies. And the viewers have to find out what could happen and maybe they have a good reason to react so (like G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5). But SG uses the "multi-verse" theory, so every possible future can happen in other reality, so I don't know if a flashforwars story arc could work in SG:U."I was hoping for another day. Looks like we just got a whole lot more than that. Let's not waste it."
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Originally posted by Platschu View PostI really want to see some flashforward scene or episode. It would be so cool that our heroes will change in the future. For example: two character are friends, but something will happen and they will become enemies. And the viewers have to find out what could happen and maybe they have a good reason to react so (like G'Kar and Londo in Babylon 5). But SG uses the "multi-verse" theory, so every possible future can happen in other reality, so I don't know if a flashforwars story arc could work in SG:U.
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