Stargate SG-1/Atlantis/Universe

[LadyVader]

Any GOOD tv show should aspire to incorporate both humour and emotion because those are things that get the most responsa out of people. I don't see how sci-fi shows are any different. As for the exposition bit, I understand that maybe there's a lot more explaining done in science - fiction shows because they need to explain how certain things work but even that varies. Battlestar Galactica is the best science fiction show on right now and it has little to no technobabble.

Bottom line, as long as you respect the standard guide lines for quality storytelling I don't see why it's more difficult to have a science fiction series. Maybe you need to do a little more research but the big difficulties are of the technical variety (you need elaborate sets, special effects etc), not narrative.

 

[Unknown]

damn, a great emotional episode

 

[Dr Lee]

TBH if you don't like Jewel or Keller then it doesn't matter what she does you'll still moan about her.

 

[PuddleJumper67]

New Stargate series targeted for Summer 2009 Premiere:

http://stargate.mgm.com/universe/

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Still not excited, but I'm sure I'll give it a few episodes when it airs.

 

[Sam Fisher]

So basicly Stargate Voyager? LAME. LAME. LAME.


Besides, didn't they already do the "can't get back to earth" plot device in Atlantis Season 1?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, and it was lame. But this time the cast is young!

 

[Unknown]

didnt they already do a stargate sg1 episode with a teenage cast

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Yeah, as a parody.

In all honesty, I'm not too upset about the younger cast now that I've thought about it. The way the premise sounds, I could see a young, inexperienced team--an SG-4 or SG-7 or something--getting trapped on the ship as it leaves on its automated voyage, which would be a totally plausible way to make the show center on them rather than more experienced veterans. It's just kind of insulting that they feel they need to skew younger when Stargate has so far thankfully managed to avoid those kinds of cheesy, transparent tricks to gain more viewers.

 

[The Squirrel]

I remember a Deep Space 9 episode where a ship of young cadets got cut off from earth and the federation.

The captain kid was real jerk and got most of his crew killed.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That's what young jerks tend to do.

 

[The Squirrel]

So this should be a fun series if every one dies in the first episode.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

That would be innovation at its finest. Everyone dies in the pilot and then every subsequent episode of the series is just shots of an empty ship.

 

[wiegeabo]

That would be innovation at its finest. Everyone dies in the pilot and then every subsequent episode of the series is just shots of an empty ship.

Truly a bold move.

Although...it might be a cool teaser for an episode. The camera pans around different areas of the ship, but we see no one. And all we hear are static coming from various computers. Then, we hear a faint voice that gets louder as the camera gets closer. And it reveals one of the cast yelling a warning into the computer log, repeating over and over and over.

 

[Gold Samurai]

They need to quit this whole let's put the brainy smarty guy with the accepting hot chick....it's tired, cliche and it sends the wrong message

what do you expect from a whole writing staff of men who write out their childish fantasies. The staff needs a woman.

 

[BlackLantern]

they should do a writer exchange program between stargate and the L word....just to see what happens

 

[Wyrminarrd]

That would be innovation at its finest. Everyone dies in the pilot and then every subsequent episode of the series is just shots of an empty ship.

It might make for an interesting anthology series having the ship just cruise around the universe and having the show be about the various races and cultures it comes into contact with. Mind you this format would hardly have the staying power for more then one season.

Personally I think the premise of SG:U is flawed. It´s obvious that the writers only came up with this in order to explain why none of the known figures in the SGC are involved in this series. This premise has been done to death already with Voyager and to a lesser extent Atlantis. This series is also based around one ship going randomly around the universe (ok on some path which no doubt won´t be laid out for viewers) so unless we are dealing with an enemy that´s really large and spread out it will be hard to create a main villain for the series.

I hope the whole "younger audience" thing just means that you don´t have to know much about SG-1 or SG:A to get into the show rather then having the writing be aimed more at the charactes personal problems then on the action.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I don't think it'd be too hard to create a main villain for Universe. The Ancient ship runs across some aliens early on who want its technology for themselves and have the means to chase it: bam, recurring villains.

Mostly, Universe's formula seems to indicate that the team will be going back to more of the stand-alone, mission-based episodes, like SG-1 relied on for almost its entire first and second seasons. Team goes to a planet, team investigates planet, team finds wonkiness, team fixes wonkiness, team leaves planet. Simple, planet-of-the-week stuff. Not that that's bad. It'll probably be a little more awkward given that the ship apparently takes off at pre-set times, as opposed to the Stargate, which people could control, but in essence it's the same.

 

[LadyVader]

Go from planet to planet? That's just the starting point. There are nomad races, scavanger races, giant space whales, black holes, quantum singularities, space anomalies, rifts in the space time continuum that lead to alternate realities and/or time travel and tons and tons of other stuff that is just floating around in space. Because as we've already learned from various space series... space is actually pretty crowded.

The jumping at preset time though might give it a sort of Sliders feel.

 

[GL1]

Sliders was exactly what I thought of when they said that they couldn't control the schedule or go back for people. I forsee many episodes where 'trying to make it back to the ship on time' will be a big honking deal.

I think they need to set up the destiny to be this huge mystery of a ship. You could have antagonists on the ship, or in unexplored or previous inaccessible parts of the ship. You could really strand these people out of control on the other end of the cosmos.

And while I have no problem dealing with characters' personal problems, I do hope that the action continues to burn bright.

 

[Gold Samurai]

Go from planet to planet? That's just the starting point. There are nomad races, scavanger races, giant space whales, black holes, quantum singularities, space anomalies, rifts in the space time continuum that lead to alternate realities and/or time travel and tons and tons of other stuff that is just floating around in space.

That really doesn't give that many arcs because the moment they land on a planet and seed the stargate they leave that planet forever with no ties to it.

That could give us lots of fillers in that Renaissance fair studio set that they have >_>

If we're already calling "Universe" Stargate Voyager we should have called Battlestar galactica Voyager done right

 

[Kahoot]

Go from planet to planet? That's just the starting point. There are nomad races, scavanger races, giant space whales, black holes, quantum singularities, space anomalies, rifts in the space time continuum that lead to alternate realities and/or time travel and tons and tons of other stuff that is just floating around in space. Because as we've already learned from various space series... space is actually pretty crowded.

The jumping at preset time though might give it a sort of Sliders feel.

Giant space whales? Don't remember reading about them in and space books.

 

[The Caped Knight]

New Stargate series targeted for Summer 2009 Premiere:

http://stargate.mgm.com/universe/

I'm not too thrilled about this ... This new series sounds like Star Trek

 

[Kahoot]

Star Trek with less lasers or phasers or any of that.

 

[LadyVader]

Giant space whales? Don't remember reading about them in and space books.

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