More on Stargate Universe

[ShannonA]

(Well, not a lot more, actually.)

From http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41870

An excerpt:

Robert C. Cooper, executive producer of SCI FI Channel's Stargate SG-1 (http://www.scifi.com/stargate/) and Stargate Atlantis (http://www.scifi.com/atlantis/), confirmed to SCI FI Wire that he's developing a third series with a working title Stargate Universe, but remained mum on details. (The project has not yet been picked up by any network, including SCI FI Channel.)


For some reason I feel like the chemistry of Atlantis has never gelled, perhaps because it always felt like such a pale imitation of SG-1, with John = Jack, Tayla = Teal'c, Rodney = Sam, and the Wraith = the System Lords. Granted, it's grown on me season by season, but I never got the same sense of unfolding mythology that I got from the original SG-1.

I'm hoping that Universe can correct this and instead offer something new and innovative, still with fun ties to our old shows.

[Jack]

(Well, not a lot more, actually.)

From http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=0&id=41870

An excerpt:


For some reason I feel like the chemistry of Atlantis has never gelled, perhaps because it always felt like such a pale imitation of SG-1, with John = Jack, Tayla = Teal'c, Rodney = Sam, and the Wraith = the System Lords. Granted, it's grown on me season by season, but I never got the same sense of unfolding mythology that I got from the original SG-1.

I'm hoping that Universe can correct this and instead offer something new and innovative, still with fun ties to our old shows.

Actually in a lot of ways I prefer SG:A because I think it has a pretty strong feel of its own. Ronon and Teyla are a bit like Teal'C...but not by much. And I don't think Rodney's anything like Sam except they are both smart. Now sure all the SG team leaders do have some similarities, but since I really love that character type I can forgive it. :)

Course I also think the Wraith are better villains overall than most of the SG-1 baddies, so that's a help (I like the system Lords well enough, but I feel they milked the aliens as gods thing almost to the absurd eventually). And Atlantis is a more interesting backdrop than Cheyenne Mountain.

[vitus979]

And I don't think Rodney's anything like Sam except they are both smart.

Actually I like Rodney quite a bit more than Sam. Rodney is much closer to the kind of people I've seen who hold multiple science related PhDs and/or are experts in their fields. His nervous tick and delusions of grandeur are something I'm constantly waiting to see get brought up.

Samantha Carter OTOH is a bit of a odd duck. The military doesn't normally do science or engineering on its own, it generally has DARPA hire companies to do that for them. The idea that one of the formost experts of applied physics is a 30 something captain in the US Air Force is pretty difficult to accept. Not only that, but she has nearly no foibles, unlike the rest of the team. (BTW this is one reason why I dig Daniel Jackson, an officer in the US Air Force also being an expert on Egyptian archeology would just about break suspension of disbelief)