This has nothing to do with whether you like Trek or Doctor Who but with how those shows were brought back. With Stargate going on hiatus much like Star Trek did in the beginning of the last decade, everyone is saying that when it comes back, it needs a Star Trek 2009 style reboot to become popular again. I loved Star Trek 2009, but I don't want to see that done with Stargate. One thing that hit me as I watched the Doctor Who premier this past Saturday was "how come nobody is talking about Doctor Who and how they brought that series back at all?"
I think a Doctor Who style reboot would be much more appropriate for Stargate. When they brought the series back, it wasn't a total reboot with a new universe like Star Trek was. Instead, they simply retooled the series for a modern audience and made it cool again while retaining the lore of the past, yet it wasn't such that you had to have seen every classic episode, you could jump right in and enjoy it yet they could still bring in classic characters like Sarah Jane Smith.
Us Stargate fans love our lore and why not do something like this with Stargate? Retool it for a modern audience, make it cool again, but don't erase the lore. Fashion it in such a way that you can watch it without knowing much of the past series, but you can still bring back loved characters. One of the great things about SG-1 and Atlantis was you didn't have to know much about the past to be able to enjoy it. You could jump in during season 6 of SG-1, watch a few episodes and get the basic jist of the series. Stargate Universe was a bit different, but it too was such that you could start watching the series without having seen much of past Stargate, though obviously its not structured such that you could jump in the middle of season 1 or 2 and understand what's happening or whose who.
That's also what makes Doctor Who great. My mom hasn't watched much of the show but she started watching season 6 with me and enjoyed Saturday's episode. Why can't they hire someone who can do something like this with Stargate? Maybe have something like Doctor Who's formula where you have like a weekly episode but there might be an over-arching season plot. I guess that's not entirely different from how it used to be, and it obviously worked for SG-1 and Atlantis.
I think a Doctor Who style reboot would be much more appropriate for Stargate. When they brought the series back, it wasn't a total reboot with a new universe like Star Trek was. Instead, they simply retooled the series for a modern audience and made it cool again while retaining the lore of the past, yet it wasn't such that you had to have seen every classic episode, you could jump right in and enjoy it yet they could still bring in classic characters like Sarah Jane Smith.
Us Stargate fans love our lore and why not do something like this with Stargate? Retool it for a modern audience, make it cool again, but don't erase the lore. Fashion it in such a way that you can watch it without knowing much of the past series, but you can still bring back loved characters. One of the great things about SG-1 and Atlantis was you didn't have to know much about the past to be able to enjoy it. You could jump in during season 6 of SG-1, watch a few episodes and get the basic jist of the series. Stargate Universe was a bit different, but it too was such that you could start watching the series without having seen much of past Stargate, though obviously its not structured such that you could jump in the middle of season 1 or 2 and understand what's happening or whose who.
That's also what makes Doctor Who great. My mom hasn't watched much of the show but she started watching season 6 with me and enjoyed Saturday's episode. Why can't they hire someone who can do something like this with Stargate? Maybe have something like Doctor Who's formula where you have like a weekly episode but there might be an over-arching season plot. I guess that's not entirely different from how it used to be, and it obviously worked for SG-1 and Atlantis.
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