Originally posted by astrogeologist
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So, over the past week or so, the following chain occurred to me...
With the addition of Farscape's two main actors [Browder (Crighton) and Black (Sun)] to Stargate, some folks coined the terms FarGate and StarScape. Since Crighton and Sun were coming to Stargate, FarGate seems more appropriate and descriptive.
Then, Stargate's PTB decided to take Stargate into the realm of a screwball bunch of goofups bumbling their way through galactic unbelievability. Maybe it started as 'gee, the main scifi action heroes are always surmounting such unbelievable odds in such unbelievable conditions... *real* humans wouldn't be able to do that. *Real* humans would make mistakes and goof up and screw up. *That* would be *real* human drama. So... how do they get that into Stargate, a series about intergalactic heroes that save Earth and other planets (and the galaxy) on a weekly basis? Hmmm... well, they do it poorly. They turn the main characters into bumbling screw-ups who are only just trying to have fun. Yuck, yuck! They could have had their main characters have flaws and deal with them, but still not come across as bumbling screw-ups.
Add in a huge over-dash of 'let's have too much idiotic fun' and what was once pleasurable became ridiculous. Dominatrix alien female with cleavage and sexual innuendo prominent. Wallpaper the veteran characters. Or alter them into distorted, new characters. Alien female plays Daisy Duke. Main central character is an alpha male stupendous hero... over the top... and with no pants.
A farce of it's former self.
They began actually, and without shame, producing and selling Wormhole Extreme. They weren't that far from it in the past, but they pushed it too far and went into Wormhole Extreme wholeheartedly.
A farce.
Stargate became FarGate.
And then it became a farce of itself.
That makes it FarceGate.
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With the addition of Farscape's two main actors [Browder (Crighton) and Black (Sun)] to Stargate, some folks coined the terms FarGate and StarScape. Since Crighton and Sun were coming to Stargate, FarGate seems more appropriate and descriptive.
Then, Stargate's PTB decided to take Stargate into the realm of a screwball bunch of goofups bumbling their way through galactic unbelievability. Maybe it started as 'gee, the main scifi action heroes are always surmounting such unbelievable odds in such unbelievable conditions... *real* humans wouldn't be able to do that. *Real* humans would make mistakes and goof up and screw up. *That* would be *real* human drama. So... how do they get that into Stargate, a series about intergalactic heroes that save Earth and other planets (and the galaxy) on a weekly basis? Hmmm... well, they do it poorly. They turn the main characters into bumbling screw-ups who are only just trying to have fun. Yuck, yuck! They could have had their main characters have flaws and deal with them, but still not come across as bumbling screw-ups.
Add in a huge over-dash of 'let's have too much idiotic fun' and what was once pleasurable became ridiculous. Dominatrix alien female with cleavage and sexual innuendo prominent. Wallpaper the veteran characters. Or alter them into distorted, new characters. Alien female plays Daisy Duke. Main central character is an alpha male stupendous hero... over the top... and with no pants.
A farce of it's former self.
They began actually, and without shame, producing and selling Wormhole Extreme. They weren't that far from it in the past, but they pushed it too far and went into Wormhole Extreme wholeheartedly.
A farce.
Stargate became FarGate.
And then it became a farce of itself.
That makes it FarceGate.
.
Yep, that about sums it up. Just add...kill off the Asgard to cut any ties to the old show and use as a plot device for a really lame endless ending and...there you go...Fargate revamped.
Stargate + Farscape 
= FarceGate 
Thor, ya got Aspirin?
) and a cartoon character "commander." What show did they think we'd been watching for 8 years? Certainly not the one they thought we had. 
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