Stargate cancelled?? damb, the only sci fi using Earths current timeline to provide some kick ass human spaceships!

Oh well i guess NASA would never like to be a token front for the public,,, or are they?? lol

Was the best, was,, unfortunately there is a rather inconvinient thing called
'old age'.

actually, NASA named the space shuttle Enterprise as it did after a massive public campaing. the even invited the original cast of Star Trek plut Roddenbury to the christening. if you've never seen this photo, check it out:

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i can't help but love seeing Mr. Spock in bell bottoms and a flared collar.



fair enough. can't say i'm surprised that one of the movies will tie up the Ori plot. i haven't seen all of season 10 yet, but the eps (or all the eps in the Ori arc) i have seen have been pretty good.

but i am surprised that Daniel Jackson would stay on. i was under the impression he had a tenuous relationship to the show, but that was only based on the fact that he spent a season or so off it.

i can't say i like Atlantis nearly as much, but it's pretty good. Rodney turned into a pretty likable character, but I was really sad to see Carson go. from what i've seen of Atlantis's third season, i think the show needs to be shaken up a bit more. the Wraith seem like stale bread, and the Pegagsus replicators aren't really all that spectacular.

i think that since the sci fi channel took over production from Showtime, the show's big focus has been on 'bad*ss factor'. to be honest, the 9th Chevron/parallel universe thing doesn't sound like it'd do all that much more to shake up the show. i mean, as soon as they could step through the gate to different worlds, the show had a huge well of possibilities to draw on for plots. and the gate is a bit of a dues ex machina, since it's already variously been used as a weapon, a time machine, and a portal to alternate realities.

i don't want the show to lose its bad*ss factor, either. i love the battles. i love the humor. but i don't think it can carry a show forever. the Star Trek franchise, on the other hand, made a point of exploring moral dilemmas, and i think the optimism and hope it inspires is what made it so popular for so long. Stargate is in a position to do something in a SciFi franchise that hasn't been done before - make knowledge of the gate public.

stargate is unique compared to other SciFi franchises. humans don't develop space-faring technology, inter-species diplomacy and future society in slow incremental steps. in the show, we don't have a 'future society' at all, our diplomacy seems to be based on luck more than skill, and our technology isn't a gradually developed product of our own genius so much as things we've stolen, borrowed and negotiated for from others.

the general theme has been touched on in SciFi before, a the sudden revelation of a species that there are life forms out there with very advanced technology. but it's never been narrated from an inside perspective. sure, the Enterprise had the running gag of how infantile the human species was on the interstellar scene, but it just felt odd. it constantly felt like the Vulcans had taken upon themselves to shepard us, vaguley similar to the Asgard in Stargate. but Enterprise began with a fully formed Earth government, and the technology was all human and had been developing since the events in First Contact.

i think Stargate would get new life by making the gate known to the public and world. i think there are so many interesting plot arcs that could come out of that. i mean, just look at Earth. do the nations unite under a single banner, or does hyperdrive become the means for a renewed age of imperialism? or is it more likely that most governments would work together, but many would have 'side projects', so to speak? and what about colonies? how do we found them? what is our relationship to them? and what about the new technologies we've aquired? yes, they've given us great power and ability, what what else will these technologies do to humans? technology introduces new problems just as often as it solves old ones.

but then, maybe this is just my point of view on the subject.

It's a very interesting season, though if under the gun I'd say I prefer season 1 over them all. Nevertheless, season 3 really sets up what could be a real explosion of a season in number 4. If you liked BSG so far, you won't be disappointed by season 3. If anything, it takes the time to flesh out some of the stuff that I wish they would have had time for in the earlier seasons.

Of course, with a show like that, nothing can really ultimately satisfy. That is, unless you could actually inhabit the narrative, and then you'd probably want out as fast as you could get out!!!

interesting post.

I have noticed a rather parculiar void of public awareness of Aliens in Doctor Who even though Aliens are seposedly in the public domain after the big change of government episode! That brings a new dimention to the term 'green government' hehehe lol

Well based on this old thread, i watched the Firefly series!

I did not realise it was cut so short? I think if i had known that then i would not have bothered.

Did i like it? yes but i do not think it is the kind of show that i would hurry home for. The music was unique but was quite difficult to get past the feeling that the music is forcing the show to seem 'dull' and 'slow'.

I would say that i found Andromeda to be a significantly more entertaining series despite the budget cuts destruction of the natural course of the storyline, still they managed to pull off a nice save with brilliant writing.

I keep meaning to go back to Andromeda, get some DVDs, and watch it straight through. I got lost from it after the second season. I don't know if I can take the morphing of Ronnie away from the Lexia Doig avatar, though.

It does have the distinction of having the most beautiful central starship in all of the 45 or so years of media SF that I can remember.

drrider

i'll second that!

There is a period of time where the whole story kinda falls apart but despite that, very clever writing keeps it interesting. Romi does return for the last eposode or two! But sadly they don't manage to fit Tear or his son back into the story.