Started watching it on Pluto and only in the first season but I’m liking it. I’ve seen random episodes here and there and my dad rented the movie once it was available at blockbuster. Plus it’s cool to see a show with Air Force members as an Air Force vet. I assume since it ended before the woke era there aren’t any major girlboss moments.
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Although I stopped watching after the end of season 8 (10 seasons total), I can tell you that you will enjoy it quite a bit as the series progresses.
The soft reboot with 50% new cast was not a good plan, but they didn't feel like they had enough foundation to start Atlantis yet, is my guess.
There was nothing particularly offensive about the new AF general casting, or the younger lead, but they were very... bland.
Claudia Black's character, on the other hand, I despised.
Well do remember, only 1/4 of the casting was new/changed. I think Ben Browder did a pretty good job, but I don't think he was "quite" the right fit as the stand-in for the new team leader. Generally I have few complaints, save for how I really wish he'd been given more opportunities to do some brilliant work like he had with Farscape. Michael Shanks and his character remained superb, even when Claudia Black was not quite performing so well.
Claudia was, so hit or miss. 60% miss I'd say, and I think a lot of it's because the writers just couldn't narrow down who her character should be for the longest time. And then they settled for a generally boring direction with her. New base general (forgot his name) did alright, but he didn't have quite the same spark as Hammond.
Beau Bridges, best known for being the younger brother of the Jeff of the same name.
Can't beat Don S. Davis for the serious general we wish the Air Force had, though in my experience, Beau was closer in temperament to most flag officers. He had that politician veneer that most senior officers had, while Don had the grit that I'd expect from a man who'd started his career as a private, not a lieutenant.
Nah, I hated every direction they took her skanky Mary-Sue ass equally. I didn't like the slag, I didn't like the never-before-seen former Gou'auld host, and I didn't like the campy misfit. She didn't belong in a serious military outfit, and unlike the cast of the original series, she hadn't earned any leeway. An actual military outfit would have treated her like Teal'c would have been treated in Season 1 if he couldn't fight and consistently betrayed the team and abandoned the mission for personal reasons multiple times. i.e. taken out back and buried in a very deep grave.
rofl, she was terrible.
Core fireteam yes but overall it was closer to half.
RDJ actually left after s8 preceded by Don S David leaving at the end of s7 to make things easier for RDJ acting wise who wanted to stop and spend more time with his daughter. Changing Jack from in the field to behind a desk made things easier on RDJ but even then that only lasted a single season before Beau Bridges came in as Landry.
So in addition to the "team lead" being replaced with Mitchell so was the base CO.
As was the lead medic, finally, when Lexa Doig was cast, a casting that would lead to her marrying Michael Shanks.
That's 3 of the main 6 swapped out in some way or another, although Fraser was certainly more of a secondary supporting character than Hammond ended up being since originally Hammond was far more antagonistic.
He was originally going to be cast as Sheppard in SGA but the filming of Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars prevented that. Instead Cameron Mitchel was created filling a similar role but on the parent show rather than spin-off.
Vala was never intended to be a recurring character, or even return after her initial appearance in 'Promethus Unbound' in season 8, so the character the show ended up with later on was very different to the previous one off she was expected to be. It wasn't helped that Claudia Black's pregnancy also interfered with her appearances after 'Beachhead' in a similar way to Amanda Tapping's prior to the same episode. In Sam's case however they "phoned her in" during her chat with Mitchel in the s9 pilot so any evidence of her own pregnancy was minimal across a screen and required zero mobility and it was resolved by episode 6 rather in Vala's case where it started, meaning she would miss most of the rest of the season.
Yeah, I suspected Claudia was not intended to be a recurring thing originally. Didn't know about the pregnancy circulating issues though, but that doesn't surprise me. Issues like that are can be a common challenge for shows.
Forgot about how Browder was intended for SGA. Kind of glad it didn't play out that way, simply because of how much I enjoyed the performance of the actor that did end up playing Shepard.
Claudia Black's character was ham-on-a-stick. Worst acting in the series.
One bit that's never addressed outright is how Mitchell's SG-1 isn't really a traditional military unit anymore. Mitchell technically gives the orders, but everyone else has more experience than him. Even the civilian scholar has more outright combat experience than him, let alone experience with alien shit. The writers seemed somewhat aware of it, and wrote the team members as being more independent, but leaving it unaddressed made it feel out of place.
Mitchell directly addresses that in s10e04