From Jonathan Klotz
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Stargate has never been as popular as Star Wars and Star Trek, but both Stargate SG-1 And Stargate Atlantis In the end, a large fan base found it, precisely because they differed from the Big Two. Both shows that combined a funny spirit of the adventure and a line -up of characters, learn to work together and to accept each other. So the sudden curve took the authors with them Stargate universeThe third series in the franchise has dropped everything good about the franchise company to hug the dark, gravel aesthetics from Battlestar Galactica.
Dark and granular science fiction
Stargate universe was published in October 2009 at the height of Battlestar Galactica The success of pop culture and Syfy wanted the show to be its next big deal. They went so far to cancel Stargate AtlantisSo there was only one series in the franchise in the air.
Universe threw aside the “Planet of the Week” formula of the first series and dealt with a story for most of the time every season, so you should better get used to hearing from the old communication stones. The dark, coarse -grained pictures were not the only change. In order to correspond to the new aesthetics, the authors dropped the “action” part of the first two shows and made a direct “science fiction drama” that was fun, but they also forgot to include sympathetic characters.
Instead of exploring new worlds, Stargate universe Was limited to fate, an old spaceship that was built for a mysterious purpose that constantly pointed out exciting adventures outside the world, but they never happened. The spectators stuck closely with a line -up of characters that seemed to hate and watched, as everyone defeated all other baking pools at least once a season, and changed with a romantic attempt that felt more like Riverdale as SG-1.
For example, Colonel Everett Young (Louis Ferreria) could have led fall and subsequent ascent to convincing television. Unfortunately we see before the show arrives there Foreigner Ghosts had him.
A complex character and a few high school
Jung was in particular against a member of the crew. Dr. Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) should be something new for the franchise: a figure that existed in grayscale. Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) Compared to rush looks like a hero that the audience can understand as for good (mostly) as action, even if his actions were (mostly) questionable.
The problem with the involvement of a complex character that expresses it politely owes far too much Battlestar Galactica Baltar (James Callis) does not work if everyone else Stargate universe Considered him as evil.
Rush Frames Young because of murder, defies his explicit instructions not to play with the old technology by doing exactly that when he has the chance, and yes, he uses Chloe Armstrongs (Elyse Levesque) alien infection to his own research To promote, but the seeds of a big character were there. Stargate universe tried to do something else, with a hurry than physical embodiment, the dark side of hugging Sci-fiBut it lost the adventurous spirit of the franchise.
Fans of the overlooked franchise did not want a drama at high school level. They wanted brave new worlds, alien encounters and a shot a galactic secret. They had all of this in the first two shows and lost thanks to Syfy executives who used the new wave of the glaring, prestigious television.
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