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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, I found a big fanbase precisely because they were different from the big two. Both performances that have accepted the entertainment spirit of the adventure and the cast of the characters that joined were learned to cooperate and accept each other, maintained a certain degree of positivity even in their darkest moments. This is why the sudden rotation with which the authors got married Stargate UniverseThe third series in the franchise, dragged everything good about franchise in favor of accepting dark, courageous aesthetics Battlestar Galactica.
Dark and bold sci-fi
Stargate Universe was released in October 2009, at a height Battlestar Galactica’s Success and Syfy wanted the show to be their next big thing. Went so far that they had abolished Stargate AtlantisSo there was only one series in the air.
He threw away the “Planet of the Week” formula aside, Universe dealt with one story for most of each season, so you should rather get used to hearing about ancient communication stones. Dark, bold visual effects were not the only change. To match the new aesthetics, the writers dropped the “action” part of the first two shows and turned straight “sci-fi drama”, which could have been fun, but also forgot to include sympathetic characters.
Instead of exploring new worlds, Stargate Universe He was limited to fate, an old spacecraft built for a mysterious purpose that constantly indicated an exciting adventure outside the world, but it never happened. The spectators were stuck in tight neighborhoods with the cast of the characters that hated each other and watched everyone entertained everyone else at least once a season, alternated with an attempt at romance that felt more like as River than SG-1.
For example, Colonel Everett Young (Louis Ferreria) and the subsequent rise could bring convincing television. Unfortunately, before the show gets there, we see him cheating, lying and guessing with the rest of the crew in a way that O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) would never behave even though foreign The ghosts owned him.
One complicated figure and a bunch of high school students
Young was against one crew member. Dr. Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) was supposed to be something new for the franchise: a character that existed in shades of gray. Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) Looks like a hero compared to Rush, which the audience is able to understand as acts for greater good (mostly), although his actions were (mostly) questionable.
A problem with the inclusion of a complex character that politely owes it Battlestar Galactica’s Baltar (James Callis) does not work if everyone else Stargate Universe He considers him evil.
Rush frames the young for murder, defies his explicit instructions to make a mess with ancient technology, exactly when he has a chance, and yes, takes advantage of the extraterrestrial infection of Chloe Armstrong (Elyse Level) to support his own research, There the seeds of big figures. Stargate Universe tried to do something else, with Rush as a physical embodiment of accepting the dark side science fictionBut he lost the adventure spirit of franchise in this process.
Fans of overlooked franchises did not want a drama in high school; They wanted courageous new worlds, extraterrestrial meetings and a dash of revealing a galactic secret. All of this had in the first two performances and lost thanks to SYFY executives who paid off a new wave of bold, prestigious television.
