Hey folks,
First off, please do not take this as an anti-SGA bash! I own 4 of the 5 SGA seasons and I enjoyed watching them, especially McKay's self-obsessive antics. The title is more of an attention-gatherer than an actual "all of SGA is pointless." It's not pointless.
What I want to talk about rather is SGA's repeated failures. It annoyed me a lot watching the show because at the end, they didn't accomplish anything. Think about it for a minute:
They found live, real, breathing Ancients that were willing to work with humanity. Though they took back Atlantis (which is rightfully their's), the amount of information that could be learned from them is endless. These Ancients were all killed by the Asurans (which personally, I find to be inaccurate. They knew the Asuran's had overwritten the programming when they destroyed the Ancient puddle-jumper, so they had time to arm defenses and prevent them from coming in. Plus, we're dealing with beings with telekinetic abilities who are way smarter than the humans. O'Neill built a replicator weapon using Ancient knowledge (before Ascension) so they should have had the same knowledge with which to defeat the Replicators). Strike that one off.
They finally solved their power problems finding Project Arcturus. McKay accidentally got it and the solar system destroyed. Scratch one!
Again, they managed to solve their power problems by creating the Bridge with McKay and his sister. Oh whoops, problem with the parallel reality, scratch that one off.
They created a retrovirus to turn Wraith into humans. Wait... the Wraith are still evil and can revert back to their form without repeated injections. Forget that one too.
They find a machine capable of Ascending people and promises a huge advantage to technology and Earth's understanding of science by people who use it. Oh wait, it's eventually going to kill you in a handful of days and you can't ascend so let's dump that one.
They met an Ascended being on a planet (the one John flirted with). After bringing her back there, let's just leave her there and never mention her again.
They got an Ancient warship, the Orion. It was destroyed in it's first real battle with the Wraith, so much for that one.
I mean no offense to any SGA fans, I truly enjoyed the show as a source of entertainment. I just feel that so much of the show never accomplished anything. After 5 seasons, they had the same technology they started out with and everything they started out with, hardly anything new.
We see some of this in SG-1, but not a lot of it. SG-1 adapted technology to build the X302's and X303's, they regularly used the Zat guns, they adapted tons of Asgard technology (beaming, shields, weapons, etc), they created a poison that killed symbiotes with help from the Tokra, etc. They accomplished quite a bit, though there were times when they got something it ended up being destroyed.
Thoughts on this?
First off, please do not take this as an anti-SGA bash! I own 4 of the 5 SGA seasons and I enjoyed watching them, especially McKay's self-obsessive antics. The title is more of an attention-gatherer than an actual "all of SGA is pointless." It's not pointless.
What I want to talk about rather is SGA's repeated failures. It annoyed me a lot watching the show because at the end, they didn't accomplish anything. Think about it for a minute:
They found live, real, breathing Ancients that were willing to work with humanity. Though they took back Atlantis (which is rightfully their's), the amount of information that could be learned from them is endless. These Ancients were all killed by the Asurans (which personally, I find to be inaccurate. They knew the Asuran's had overwritten the programming when they destroyed the Ancient puddle-jumper, so they had time to arm defenses and prevent them from coming in. Plus, we're dealing with beings with telekinetic abilities who are way smarter than the humans. O'Neill built a replicator weapon using Ancient knowledge (before Ascension) so they should have had the same knowledge with which to defeat the Replicators). Strike that one off.
They finally solved their power problems finding Project Arcturus. McKay accidentally got it and the solar system destroyed. Scratch one!
Again, they managed to solve their power problems by creating the Bridge with McKay and his sister. Oh whoops, problem with the parallel reality, scratch that one off.
They created a retrovirus to turn Wraith into humans. Wait... the Wraith are still evil and can revert back to their form without repeated injections. Forget that one too.
They find a machine capable of Ascending people and promises a huge advantage to technology and Earth's understanding of science by people who use it. Oh wait, it's eventually going to kill you in a handful of days and you can't ascend so let's dump that one.
They met an Ascended being on a planet (the one John flirted with). After bringing her back there, let's just leave her there and never mention her again.
They got an Ancient warship, the Orion. It was destroyed in it's first real battle with the Wraith, so much for that one.
I mean no offense to any SGA fans, I truly enjoyed the show as a source of entertainment. I just feel that so much of the show never accomplished anything. After 5 seasons, they had the same technology they started out with and everything they started out with, hardly anything new.
We see some of this in SG-1, but not a lot of it. SG-1 adapted technology to build the X302's and X303's, they regularly used the Zat guns, they adapted tons of Asgard technology (beaming, shields, weapons, etc), they created a poison that killed symbiotes with help from the Tokra, etc. They accomplished quite a bit, though there were times when they got something it ended up being destroyed.
Thoughts on this?
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