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Third Stargate TV Series Named
GateWorld has a story about the new Stargate series. "The working title of the third 'Stargate' television series is 'Stargate Universe', executive producer Robert C. Cooper told GateWorld. The show currently exists in the form of a one-page treatment of the story and characters. Cooper and executive producer Brad Wright will start writing the pilot after shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June. Meanwhile, new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel. "
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Summary:
1) There are no details other than the name.
2) They spelled "series" incorrectly.
3) Everybody hates the name.
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And, in this *completely new* series, SG-1 finds that they can dial yet another number and travel the multi-verse. To power it, they need to turn the Earth into a giant powersource, but Macgyver figures out how to do it with duct tape and chewing gum.
On arrival they find an empty room where the 42 original member of the Multiversal Council met to populate the universe, but they won't talk to them because they don't know enough yet. They get ticked off and start blowing things up, and are sent back to their home universe which is now set to be destroyed.
The series focuses on how the erstwhile enemies must get together and fight the coomon enemy, all before Macgyver dies of old age.
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I agree completely. One of the things that made the show so good was that it was almost like watching an RPG, the characters would collect different bits of technology and information helping to move the overall plot of the series. Part of the reason for watching the show was to find out what kind of new technology or factoid about the SG-1 universe would get revealed, or who would be the next system lord to get blown up or blasted by robot Teal'c. Since season 8, there haven't been any new major revelations, no new technology (they seem to be bringing techs from older episodes to fill in that place), no system lords to kill (the writers don't want to kill off Baal b/c they like to use him as the occasional Goa'uld bad guy when they don't want to bother advancing the Ori plot). Speaking of the Ori, they aren't a new interesting bad guy like the replicators, just a slightly modified form of the Goa'uld. For example: the Goa'ulds are parasites who pretend to be gods, the Ori are ascendant beings that pretend to be gods through memetic parasitism. Cameron Mitchel sucks, they should have just added Vala to the team and not worried about replacing O'Neall. They developed O'Neall's character so well, and made all of the personalities of SG-1 fit together so well that just sticking Ben Browder (who is an awful actor) in there messes up the dynamics. And with the exception of one episode in the last two seasons, the show has taken itself way to seriously.
That being said, I'm looking forward to the movies.
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Maybe they should call the new series Stargate: Enterprise?
...it seems like SG-SG1 has been on forever. Then there's that Atlantis show that's been on a while.
For such a successful series SG seems to have very little of the cultural impact or generate the extreme opinion that ST had. It's like SG has always been 'okay', but ST was 'great' but then simply wore out it's welcome.
I take it Cooper's talking in relative terms, given that he's Canadian (along with most of the cast and crew) and the US Air Force, well, isn't.
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The 9th Chevron is set to play a big role in the show. Im guessing they get stuck in some random universe, unable to travel home, ala Atlantis season 1. Doesn't really look like anything new; so im betting on it being axed within 2-3 seasons.
After the success of ST:TNG, the whole franchise got run into the ground. Arguably the later Star Trek series weren't as good, but I think they just oversaturated the market with spinoff after spinoff. Too much of a good thing and people will just get tired of it, and Stargate on television has been going on in one form or another for 10 years already. Maybe it's better to focus on just one series at a time, and end each series gracefully before it jumps the shark.
A treatment is akin to an inventor writing down an idea on a cocktail napkin. Before they even get to the pilot script, it'll have to be expanded by another nine pages or so, and if it exists as part a development deal rather than something done on spec, it'll most likely go back and forth between the exec and the studio a half dozen times before just that ten page treatment is given the OK.
The pilot script will probably go through at least that amount of haggling, and would need to be followed up with or maybe even proceeded by an entire series treatment which will probably take weeks if not months to do, before the studio would even consider shooting the pilot.
Not trying to rain on the parade or anything, I just want to put into perspective what this means, which isn't a whole lot right now. This is step one out of tens of dozens. Long way to go here.
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The Stargate program is now international, and, yes, even Canadians play a part in it, such as Dr. Rodney McKay. He's also using "our" in the sense of time, rather than national ownership.
This has very little to do with the article, but the L.A. Times recently published an article regarding the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit that focused on their fight against child pornography ("Sifting Clues to an Unsmiling Girl"). They are the law enforcement organization that photoshopped the victims out of child porn photos in order to get the public's assistance in identifying the backgrounds (it worked). In any case, the article had this amazing claim:
Wow. All but one in four years. Seemed rather unlikely to me.
So, I called the Child Exploitation Section of the Toronto Sex Crimes Unit and spoke to Det. Ian Lamond, who was familiar with the Times article. He claims they were misquoted, or if that figure was given it was done so jokingly. Of course, even if the figure was given jokingly, shouldn't the Times reporter have clarified something that seems rather odd? Shouldn't her editors have questioned her sources?
Nevertheless, Det. Lamond does confirm that a majority of those arrested show "at least a passing interest in Star Trek, if not a strong interest." They've arrested well over one hundred people over the past four years and they can gauge this interest in Star Trek by the arrestees' "paraphenalia, books, videotapes and DVDs."
I asked Det. Lamond if this wasn't simply a general interest in science fiction and fantasy, such as Star Wars or Harry Potter or similar. Paraphrasing his answer, he said, while there was sometimes other science fiction and fantasy paraphenalia, Star Trek was the most consistent and when he referred to a majority of the arrestees being Star Trek fans, it was Star Trek-specific.
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I swear i watched the last episode "unending" i think it was called about a week ago!?
SG1:Voyager?
Having read the article, let's all get ready for SG1:Sliders.
The Ori are pretty much gods, and Richard Dean Andersen left the show because he wanted to spend more time with his family.
shooting on the two 'Stargate SG-1' movies finishes in June
Given the constraints of the budget, I thought the SciFi channel did a darned good job with the movie that ended the Farscape series - they took the concept about as far as it could be taken [I mean, seriously, it's hard to top an out-of-control wormhole that threatens to swallow up the entirety of space-time as we know it], and tied up most of the loose ends [boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl plus newborn baby].
I hope they take these Stargate movies at least as seriously - the SG-1 franchise deserves to go out with a bang.
I'd like to see all the species in our galaxy [The Asgard, the Nox, the Oannes, Ba'al & his gang, etc etc etc], teaming up a la Justice League of America, or Avengers/Defenders, and going head to head with the Origin armies, in a four-hour epic maelstrom of a battle, with blood and guts and iron and ash and fire and brimstone, and finally wiping those rat bastard Ori off the map forever.
And speaking of going out with a bang, after they've dealt with the Ori once and for all, the male leads could then turn to fighting over who gets to bang Inara Serra.
And it would be really neat if they could convince Kurt Russell & James Spader to come back and play some roles - maybe president & vice president of the USA?
Or perhaps they could be in the cast of "Wormhole X-Treme!".
[And if you wanna get really cynical, it could be revealed that the entire Stargate franchise was merely the fantasy of a writer for "Wormhole X-Treme!" - kinda like how Bobby Ewing just reappeared in the shower one morning.]
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- Stargate SG-1 (1997)
- Stargate Infinity (2002)
- Stargate Atlantis (2004)
- Stargate Universe
They always forget/suppress the animated series, just like Star Trek (1973).Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Stargate stands head and shoulders above the rest, except Babylon 5. It's just that familiarity breeds contempt.
Yet when I turn off Stargate SG-1 or Atlantis and go watch any other show, including that one with the (now dead) alcoholic female space fighter pilot and the Farmers insurance agent turned starship captain, I keep seeing over and over again why I like Stargate.
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Come on folks, Atlantis should have been the last series (unless they've got some VERY compelling plots here). It's time to say goodbye (well, when Atlantis finishes its run anyway).
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The Ori are pretty much gods in much the same sense that biblical fallen angels would prefer to be considered gods in their own right. Heck, I would think by now the parallels are obvious.
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After watching 8 seasons of the main series, I thought they pretty much wrapped things up quite nicely. It *felt* like an ending I could accept, and even like quite a bit. When I heard there was going to be a 9th season, and the storyline that it would entail, I was quite frankly a bit disgusted. I thought the 'bad ancients' idea was silly, and just meant to extract more cash from a series that was going to 'jump the shark' so to speak.
Add to that fact that Richard Dean Anderson was on his way out of the show, and to be honest, it was over at that point. His character added something to the whole thing, call it maybe the reality check. O'Neil just kind of refused to take things seriously 100% of the time, and added a great amount of quips, and humor.
Just let it die. It's over.
And was made by other people. It doesn't count/matter to most people.
"new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13", that must mean theres going to be a season 11 then. I was under the impression that SG1 is over, and only the 2 movies would be the end.
My primary theory is that SG-1 is getting canceled because of the Christian theme. SG-1 had a few poor seasons. The new bad guys and cast changes have dramatically improved the show. Yes, you will always have people who complain when you have major changes, as they won't like the direction that was chosen, but over all, SG-1 has been much better than it has been in a long time.
The problem that causes it to get canceled? They picked the wrong religion to pick on. SG-1 has always made a mockery of religion. When it was ancient egyption religion, that was fine, but when you start making the Catholics the universes supervillian, and by relation basically all Christian sects, you better watch out.
It's getting cancelled because it's gone on for 10 seasons and is getting stale. I have yet to see anyone complain about the morality of the show.
Why do they always insist on beating shows into the ground rather than coming up with something new? Stargate's been old and tired for years...since O'Neil left. Stargate:Atlantis has never been anything more than mediocre. It's like Star Trek all over, the show gets lamer and lamer, but they just keep propping up the corpse for "the fans".
It wouldn't bother me so much if it use cash and airtime that could be used for something more original.
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As a fan of all things Stargate I've been unsuccessful in tracking down any episodes of Infinity, where can I can get the entire series that was made? I know there's some promo DVD but I want the entire series.
Was the series so bad that nobody even bothered to tape it & dump it online?
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I thought SG-1 was cancelled?
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While not as "whacked" as 200, it is pretty funny, especially daniel.
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...I was never bothered by the way they stole plots wholesale. It's not deception because it's so obvious (see: "I did not have sex with that woman,"), they don't take themselves seriously, and comedy often steals from the serious.
Let it go. You've milked this cow long enough. Let Stargate die in peace. Atlantis too. And BSG too [if it doesn't stop sucking ass with filler episodes].
SG-1 has run for 10 years. This is a long time for any series, especially one where you can't easily change the location and/or cast.
Maybe they'd do better to try something new instead of more Stargate. e.g. give Joss Whedon a call and then give his ideas full backing.
R. Moore, in an interview published in "Salon" on-line, mentioned an entire sub-plot that was excised at the last moment from this season; this might be one reason it wasn't that good....
They always forget/suppress the animated series, just like Star Trek (1973) [imdb.com].
ST:TAS is still in my Netflix queue, but as I understand it, it's considered canon, and a continuation of TOS after its cancellation. Stargate Infinity (Wormhole Extreme: TAS) is considered something to run from screaming by fans of the live action series.
I only saw one episode, but quickly surmised the above truism based on that viewing.
Of course, I now brace for the replies about I missed the deeper philosophical meaning of both Stargate Infinity and Joe vs. The Volcano.
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SkyOne aired the second part of season 10 of Stargate SG-1 several months before Sci-Fi did. In fact, they showed the last episode a few weeks ago. They're all available online.
Not that I'm advocating piracy (hell, I own the first 9 seasons on DVD and will get the 10th whenever it comes out), but it's Sci-Fi's fault for dragging their ass and waiting so long to show it. In a globalized world, you don't get to screw people over just so you can get an extra half of a rating point.
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to discover where to get them.
Stargate SG-1 is getting canceled because of a ratings drop related to the fact that the Stargates were seperated from Battlestar Galactica, which murdered BSG's ratings as well.
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How does making something that approximates Satan make Catholics out to be evil? It does create a rather bizarre view of the fall, though---one of aliens instead of angels.
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I just hope SciFi network finds a way to work wrestling into the new series... the world needs more of it... *rolls eyes*
...to spend any noticeable time, banging or mashing or whatever, with Inara Serra. Maybe Samantha, maybe O'Neill.
Beside, in this series she's less than a year old; that would be Pædo Extreme...she's gone from looking a lot younger than she is to looking a _lot_ older (at least proportionately).
Exactly! It's a video Lobotomy of 1-Dimension characterization. Even the members of the A-team had enough unwholesome characteristic to give them some, just barely measurable, redeeming literary value. Any premise incorporating a humorless mostly silent nubian walrus with a branded forehead without the slightest sense of the absurd is nearly unfathomable. PLease if I must stare at such a ridiculous forehead give me some wit, like say Rimmer with and "H".
these characters have no flaws or human characteristics. Everything is good or bad. there's no moral dilemma. ANd the action is pathetic with the interested removed as clean as a mental enema.
Bring back Red Dwarf or Babylon 5 instead, those haven't been milked enough :)
(I thought of this a decade ago; the similar reference somewhere in this discussion is coincidental, though more likely because the whole thing is so geeky the feathers are stuck in my teeth.)
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A.: One morning, Yeoman Rand (or Spock, if you really must) looked groggily up from the bed; Kirk stepped out of the sonic shower and said, "I just had the strangest dream."
Enough wasting money already. Bring back Firefly.
(I loved the first few years of SG1, but then it got pretty random and bad, reminding me more and more of the "Forehead of the Week" clubhouse show: STtNG).
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I thought the show was going good. New threat. I like Ben Browder and Claudia Black from Farscape. The show still has some good humour. And most of all, it has a lot of Baal's.
Meanwhile, new episodes of 'SG-1' and 'Atlantis' start airing April 13 in the U.S., on The SCI FI Channel.
I understand how the rest of the world feels with everything being broadcast late. SG-1 has been broadcast in UK for some time (Up to episode 20 currently) and Atlantis has been broadcast in Australia.
I can say I won't be catching these on SciFi since I have them all from BitTorrent.
Networks: Start broadcasting TV shows at the same time... because otherwise we're going to get them anyway.
Or, I should say, they've gotten even more greedy.
...death of a major character because they "wanted to shake things up" (WTF?). I fear that the Stargate franchise will fall prey to the "tv series by recipe" fate that befell the Trek franchise (hey, let's have a show babe with big boobs and make her wear a different uniform than everybody else!).
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Typical 'murkan' TV executive excessive greed and stupidity. Press the lemon as much as you can, bleed the damn thing until dry... and even then, bleed it some more to make more $$$.
There is such a thing as "too much of a good thing" (badly said): haven't "they" learned about the fact that something is made more precious if it is not too abundant? As long as a ressource is scarce it is more desirable? Don't these monkeys know about the concept of an _overdose_?
Not only that, but by running two series in parallel, they are stretching the writing staff a bit thin, because it has to come up with even more original and possibly not-overlapping ideas all the time. If Atlantis becomes the only SG series running, the writing should improve, because it would not have to share "originality" and the "unexpected" with SG1 -- no?
It's not as if the franchise will not be unsuccessful (sp?) if there is only Atlantis -- come on, SG1 lasted 10 years, which is a pretty respectable run in TV Land, AFAIK.
Further more, the idiocy of the suits meddling with the series has already resulted in the...
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I hear from work colleagues that BS:G and Lost have become victim of very apparent executive meddling and are sucking big time this year (warning: GIGO principle applies here, I can only take their word for it). All of them, ~former big fans of these series are no longer watching them religiously. I'm assuming that they are not the only ones and that there has been a noticable drop in ratings.
Let's hope that someone with enough corporate power notices this and learns the appropriate lessons. Let's hope that that someone will then kill this 3rd SG series and let SG:A grow and become what it can/could be.
Since, what, the early '70s I've seen too many shows degrade because of idiotic suits dictating what a show should look like, applying tired and broken recipes to said shows when they didn't need "fixing". (It happened also in the '60s: think "Lost in space" that started wih a "serious" pilot and ended up with campy sillyness.) That or simply running a show past its prime and not ending it at the right time (think "Happy Days"). You do need to know when to stop, otherwhise you'll end up... "jumping the shark".
Sorry for the rant, but I've grown to like the SG franchise (those daily re-runs are good for something, after all...) and would like to see it stay healthy.
"but a feature that would fit into the Stargate franchise that we feel we have created, Cooper said."
Teleportation devices that directly take you from planet A to planet B, evil aliens that
try to enslave or kill people, pyramids, hieroglyphs and a bunch of pidgeon latin
speaking prehistoric humans... names of people and places in the public domain such as
Atlantis, Ra, Baal (which btw?), Apophis, Imhotep (the Aton freak), prior art all over
ancient sanskrit literature, I wonder how much do they really own here.
There's probably an even more compelling story waiting to be told complete with flying cities
of the skies warring with each other, complete with truly evil atlantean slave lords on one
side and freedom loving antedeluvian humanity on the other duking it out in spectacular
dog fights over a ravaged planet. They can shove their franchise up their asses. You can
easily pull a story like that from ancient literature.
I don't want to spoil anything, but the current (or recent) series incorporated a number of significant universe changes based upon where they want to go in the future. And not just for the spin-off series that starts humans off from scratch, but for the planned MMORPG where certain races would be too powerful or disruptive. Kind of explains the resurgance of the Goa'uld as they can be a very balanced opponent race to humans.
Exactly. If it was because of bashing the Christian religion (which is fun and cathartic), we would have seen it on Faux News and the Network Morning Shows:
"This morning on the Early Show, are Stargate SG-1 fans disciples of the Antichrist? More after this word from Walmart."
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I stopped watching after season 8. What they should've done a long time ago is have the show reveal the Stargate program and deal with society afterwards. Bring on the outrage, the political manoeuvring, etc. Just don't use any groups of young boyscouts who inexplicably develop superhuman strength.
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more shitty sci-fi to continue to give sci-fi that well known stigma of being little more than babbling geeks with laser guns.
why doesn't slashdot just make a post everytime a new FPS comes out too? it's just as relevant as this shit and is certainly more interesting.
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According to http://www.gateworld.net/news/2007/03/iuniversei_d eals_with_ninth_chev.shtml the show will deal with the ninth chevron. (for the uninitiated, 7 chevrons are used for travel within the galaxy, 8 chevrons are required to go outside the galaxy, I can only assume that 9 chevrons would be outside our universe or galaxies farther away within our universe than what 8 chevrons would be able to handle. (or perhaps time travel, the ancients, or at least one ancient, have already experimented with that)
Stargate Universe? Sounds like a better name for a Stargate MMORPG than a TV show.
I don't think that's why it's getting dumped. There was never that huge of a stink raised over them making fun of religion. Heck I don't recall anyone ever making a stink over it at all. It's always been on cable so who really cares about what happens on cable?
It wasn't even an overt (anti-)Christian theme. The closest it got to being blaringly obvious was the whole "holy grail"/"sangraal" thing yet nobody made a stink over that (on theological grounds anyways). I think Christians these days have a lot more to worry about than a science-fiction TV series of little societal consequence using bits of their mythology to tell a story. Even if it makes the Ancients (who are obviously akin to angels) look and sound like arrogant pricks. But they've always been that way, even when they were mortal humans.
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Since the series hasn't started shooting yet, doesn't even have its first script or cast of characters yet, will certainly change its name before being broadcast, and exists as a single sheet of paper only, why is this news?
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As far as I'm concerned, SG-1 ended with Carter saying "Didn't that tape said there was no fish in this pond?"
to plug the idea for Stargate SG-32, a bungling SG team made up of a lovable bunch of misfits. Their story begins about season 3 or so when SG-32 gets a new commander, hilarity and bonding ensues.
From a plausibility angle this is a great idea as we get to see a different take on previous situations (i.e. when the plot was still slightly amusing) as well as letting the SG writers to break away from the SG-1 team (which sucked without Richard Dean Anderson).
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It isn't a Christian theme, it's a religious theme. The writers cherry-picked different aspects from several religions and came up with the Ori and their followers. You see Stargate bashing Christianity, probably because you're a Christian. A Muslim would see them bashing Islam. A Jew would see them bashing Judaism. I guess my point is, the writers wanted to show religious fundamentalists as the bad guys in order to parallel what is happening in real life.
What cracks me up is that when Stargate was bashing Ra, you didn't hear any Egyptians getting pissed off. When they made Thor a little gray alien, you didn't hear any northern Europeans bitching. Oh, that's right; it's because those religions are considered dead, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam are still around.
Actually, the Ori map pretty much to the Catholics and nobody else.
Traits of the Ori:
1) Central authority structure based on "distance" from deities.
2) Single holy book that only the noted authority can interpret.
3) Waging wars of evangelism.
You find #3 in some strains of Islam and Protestantism, but #1 and #2 are just about exclusive to Catholicism. Jews, Protestants and Muslims have very localized authorities and holy books that any idiot (moreso in Protestantism) can interpret for himself. And of course, no Jew has ever been forcibly converted.
They're pretty much just hating on the Catholics here.
yeah i know slightly offtopic.
but andromeda ended its run on scifi on a rather sour note..
is this indeed what i suspect, that they simply pulled the rug from under this series as well.
i mean.. they left absolutely everything unresolved... and they left a paradox of a sole survivor of a species sending back another member of that now dead species (from the future) to help him.
what is this.. the man lived over twice the average lifespan of a paradyne and had a kid.. then sent the kid back?
i mean they exist extradimensionally and all, but they still have to know to focus and "travel" there to actually participate in action..
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Well, of the people I know that really, really liked the series in all the previous seasons the Christians all seem to have found the Ori to be vaguely unsettling. The others found them to be more of the SG1-same. I know that isn't proof or anything, but still.
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More likely, the Ori are not aliens, but probably the same "human" race as the Ancients.
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Who cares. All I know is it's going to be a painful wait for the 2008 BSG season premiere! :(
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I'm still waiting for "Stargate: Special Victims Unit..."
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Humanoid. They're still not from Earth and aren't descended from apes, which makes them alien, not human. More to the point, humanity hasn't evolved to the same evolutionary level as the Ancients supposedly were millenia ago, and yet did not evolve in some other direction. Short of some sort of freak split in the gene pool and Earth becoming some sort of bizarre evolutionary backwater, this suggests that they probably don't have a common ancestor unless time travel was involved (backwards to get really old Ancient genes, then forwards to seed them on Earth). Doesn't make much sense to call them human any more than it does to call the Jaffa human.
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Err.. you dial a different gate address and go to a different world. This feature alone makes the Stargate concept workable for a long time. Remember the days, before the great long story arcs, when next weeks episode of Stargate was going to be of some new place we haven't seen before with people and cool technology? (another reason to like Farscape too)
Even if Stargate only kept what it has with the worlds already shown to us it could conceivably 'milk' a couple of years worth of series just with these worlds / ideas. Let alone the idea of revealing the Stargate to the rest of the world and seeing what happens. Wouldn't that peak your interest?
On the point of 'can't easily change the.. cast' you are absolutely correct. Look what happened when they removed Grissom from CSI.
All things considered, I believe Ben B to be a decent enough replacement for Richard D.A. Just understand that some people can't be replaced - or at least not easily - and move on.
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Alternatively, in Doctor Who's weight-class is Gundam, which has been around as a giant-robot militiary/scifi for around 25 years, and too many series to count for me.
Considering it was competition with Babylon 5 that forced DS9 to get more gritty with its writing, and not maintain that fluffy "it'll all be okay"ness of normal ST stories. Of course, this carries over into BSG.
Maybe that's what SG is missing now, that grittiness from the beginning.
Also, didn't help that Berman and Braga took over the reins completely kicking Ronald Moore to the curb. Helped out BSG a lot though.
...can anybody say CSI?
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