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This Is Why There's No New Stargate Yet » GateWorld (www.gateworld.net)

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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hated SGU, for all the same reasons I hated Battlestar Galactica except louder.

SyFy had a hit show whose tone was hovering somewhere around "Everything is terrible, you should kill yourself." And where do you go from there? How do you top that? Apparently by heading toward "Everything is more terrible, you should murder your family then kill yourself."

So I cancelled my cable subscription and started playing video games about factories.

[–] query@lemm.ee 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it's not a happy show.

Stargate SG-1, despite the tragic backgrounds of some of the leads, well, we see one plot unfold in the pilot, is one of the more fun and positive sci-fi shows around.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 7 months ago

SG-1 had serious moments and dark moments and light moments and fun moments.

I forget the exact circumstances, but there's this moment where O'Neill and Carter are separated by a force field, O'Neill is on the escape side, Carter is trapped. O'Neill starts pounding on the force field with a chair or something, desperately trying to break her out, and when she says "Colonel just leave me and save yourself." He shouts NOOOO! at her. He's ready to tear the force field down with his bare hands to save her.

This same character delivers the line "In the middle of my back swing?!"