A continuation of SGU is better, because the actors are all younger, and it's possible to do plausible deniability (aka sci-fi magic) to explain why they are older now, and to continue right where they left off. In the meantime, Ming-Na has gained status as a major Asian-American actor (through "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D"), which would make SGU a more interesting property overseas.
Continuing SGA is iffy, because Jason Momoa is now a huge star, and would command a huger paycheck, which I doubt MGM has the $ for, if an SGA continuation were ever greenlit. Besides, Momoa is busy with two Aquaman sequels, and has been signed on for four in total (with one out already), so that's a scheduling conflict right there.
All of the SG-1 actors are old now. Richard Dean Anderson is 69, Christopher Judge is 54, Amanda Tapping is 53 (still looks good), and Michael Shanks is 48 (and fitter than ever), Ben Browder is 56 and handsome, Claudia Black is 46 and awesome.
SGA: slightly younger, but few are substantially younger than 50. Joe Flanigan (still cute) and David Nykl (Zelenka) are 52, Rachel Luttrell is 48, David Hewlett is 51, Paul McGillion is 50; Torri Higginson is probably of a certain age, as there is no birth year on Wikipedia; Rainbow Sun Francks is 39, Jewel Staite is 36.
SGA appealed to the teen demographic by having teen guest actors do the wunderkind trope by playing "super-important" roles in some episodes. But also by being very formulaic and cheesy, like SG-1.
To compare:
SGU: Robert Carlyle is 58, Lou Diamond Phillips is 57, Louis Ferreira is 53, Ming-Na is 55, Peter Kelamis 51, Mike Dopud is 50 (and awesome). Ten years ago, they were 40+.
Yet:
Brian J. Smith and David Blue are both 37, Elyse Levesque is 33, Alaina Huffman and Julia Benson are both 39, Julie McNiven is 38, Jamil Walker Smith is 36, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman is 34, Jennifer Spence and Patrick Gilmore are both 42, Haig Sutherland is 35/36, though I thought he was older. While his character was killed off, then given the nature of sci-fi, he could in theory be brought back from the dead.
The average age of the SGU cast is much younger than that of SGA and SG-1. Interestingly enough, the main SGU cast was never meant to be too young, with Elyse as one of the youngest at 24/25 in 2009.
Many SGU actors have become more accomplished by now, but none seems to have become too expensive either.
I'd love a continuation of SGU with occasional guest appearances from SG-1/SGA, such as Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Amanda Tapping (awesome in the SGU pilot), Michael Shanks, Joe Flanigan, David Nykl, and Paul McGillion, for example.
In a possible future SGU storyline and series, the showrunners do have an imperative to cast younger adults so as to appeal to the younger demographic. So, I think Destiny would be likely to meet some of the humans borne from the Twin Destinies divergence. Or, that we'd see what happened to Lt. Scott's son.
Beyond that, we never got to explore the Earth-bound families of the crew.
Continuing SGA is iffy, because Jason Momoa is now a huge star, and would command a huger paycheck, which I doubt MGM has the $ for, if an SGA continuation were ever greenlit. Besides, Momoa is busy with two Aquaman sequels, and has been signed on for four in total (with one out already), so that's a scheduling conflict right there.
All of the SG-1 actors are old now. Richard Dean Anderson is 69, Christopher Judge is 54, Amanda Tapping is 53 (still looks good), and Michael Shanks is 48 (and fitter than ever), Ben Browder is 56 and handsome, Claudia Black is 46 and awesome.
SGA: slightly younger, but few are substantially younger than 50. Joe Flanigan (still cute) and David Nykl (Zelenka) are 52, Rachel Luttrell is 48, David Hewlett is 51, Paul McGillion is 50; Torri Higginson is probably of a certain age, as there is no birth year on Wikipedia; Rainbow Sun Francks is 39, Jewel Staite is 36.
SGA appealed to the teen demographic by having teen guest actors do the wunderkind trope by playing "super-important" roles in some episodes. But also by being very formulaic and cheesy, like SG-1.
To compare:
SGU: Robert Carlyle is 58, Lou Diamond Phillips is 57, Louis Ferreira is 53, Ming-Na is 55, Peter Kelamis 51, Mike Dopud is 50 (and awesome). Ten years ago, they were 40+.
Yet:
Brian J. Smith and David Blue are both 37, Elyse Levesque is 33, Alaina Huffman and Julia Benson are both 39, Julie McNiven is 38, Jamil Walker Smith is 36, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman is 34, Jennifer Spence and Patrick Gilmore are both 42, Haig Sutherland is 35/36, though I thought he was older. While his character was killed off, then given the nature of sci-fi, he could in theory be brought back from the dead.
The average age of the SGU cast is much younger than that of SGA and SG-1. Interestingly enough, the main SGU cast was never meant to be too young, with Elyse as one of the youngest at 24/25 in 2009.
Many SGU actors have become more accomplished by now, but none seems to have become too expensive either.
I'd love a continuation of SGU with occasional guest appearances from SG-1/SGA, such as Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Amanda Tapping (awesome in the SGU pilot), Michael Shanks, Joe Flanigan, David Nykl, and Paul McGillion, for example.
In a possible future SGU storyline and series, the showrunners do have an imperative to cast younger adults so as to appeal to the younger demographic. So, I think Destiny would be likely to meet some of the humans borne from the Twin Destinies divergence. Or, that we'd see what happened to Lt. Scott's son.
Beyond that, we never got to explore the Earth-bound families of the crew.
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