But what if it becomes a new Lost in Space?

“Danger, Eli Wallace…DANGER!”

How good d’you suppose Robert Carlyle is at making Dr. Rush a sniveling, avaricious coward?

They can have regular advice / cameos via teleconference from the existing characters, since the info we have says they can communicate with home. And we still have the people at home with unfinished business for movies, or another TV series, should they decide to do so. We have a gate network to Pegasus, a whole city of Ancient tech to reverse engineer, and remnants of other threats that can reemerge. The Wraith are still around, albeit not close by or strong for now. Adria wasn’t destroyed, only tied up. The remaining Pegasus replicators weren’t all destroyed, only the ones on Atlantis. And so forth.

They clearly took serious steps in SG-1 to avoid bringing back their FarScape chemistry. Yes, FarScape was good, but SG-1 was not to become FS-2. Just because one show is good does not mean another show should completely clone it, actors and all.

And please keep SG-U from becoming BSG-2. I watched BSG, but once was enough. I didn’t really care for it, and that’s saying something – I like almost anything scifi. It was way too dark. I know real people aren’t black or white, but having everybody dark isn’t the right way to go either, even if they are in a tough spot.

My freakin’ speed typing needs work.

Great stuff.

But personally I liked the more serious episodes around seasons 1-4. It started getting more space involved and they added much more levity after that, which is fine, I loved the humor, but what got me hooked are the first few seasons where it was more serious. RDA is a jokester but he actually can act.

Personally, when I first saw SG1 I thought the same thing, it was the same old scifi stuff.
But my dad kept watching it and I caught it in later series. Then it had found its feet.
What put SG1 apart for me was that it realised not to take itself too seriously. Again, RDA was the main part of that.

I would really recommend watching the 100th and 200th episodes though, as they do make fun of scifi shows and themselves. Loved the puppet bit.

If I was to see the show in order like that then it would probably have made me enjoy it more. I just didn’t watch it regularly enough to know what was going on. What I saw wasn’t bad, I just didn’t get into it because I had no clue lol. As for the trailer of this show not drawing me in. I do like Robert Carlyle and Lou Diamond Phillips as actors, but from what I saw it didn’t look very cool from that trailer.

Generally it revolved around the politics of the stargate and how differences in cultures clash and stuff like that. Imagine culture shock storylines but instead of people from different countries or states, but people from different planets. Then there were the episodes about their impact on other worlds as those worlds discover that there is life on other planets, and stuff like that. Mainly it focused on the boots on the ground, not so much the whole space travel aspect of it. So it was a different style from Star Trek. But they did have more space battles and space ships and stuff like that later in the show.

I agree with Vic completely on this, SG-1 was an excellent show and I also agree that they should have ended it when RDA left, it just wasn’t the same without him and the thing that made the show so great was dwindling away, and that is the chemistry between the group, and RDA kind of pulled them all together. So without him the chemistry wasn’t the same. Oh well.

Agree, Bruce, looks like they are going for a darker angle than usual. Could be cool, or could just be too unlike Stargate to keep the fans happy.
It’s always been an enjoyable show rather than an intense one.