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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They tried to be too much like Battlestar Galactica, what with all the scheming and interpersonal conflicts going on left and right. Wrote themselves into a lot of weird dead ends. Lacked clear direction. Way too big of a cast and most of the characters were bland or cringey.
Also at this point of the franchise, they'd already delved through just about everything in the Milky Way Galaxy and Pegasus Galaxy. I don't know if there was much fun they could've had exploring the Ori or Asgard galaxy (forgot the names), since the Ori one is basically... more of the usual "primitive medieval peasants who aren't totally primitive" and with how the Asgard subplot played out... hmm.
Actually, they COULD have played off of that unfinished business with the more "grey" Asgard remnants encountered in Atlantis. That actually could've been a very different and new kind of threat. Since the fuckers are purely about science and reasoning (where-as most of the previous villains had been simply power hungry and posed as powerful gods, or were literally hungry)
The Ori were complete trash. Those seasons were completely extraneous. Chore to sit through any of it. Even the space battles sucked. Ori ships looked like oversized toilet seats.
You could tell the writers just despised the Catholic Church and did everything in their power to demonize Catholics. There wasn't any subtlety to it, either. It was just pure cringe.
Aye, the Ori were definitely based loosely on a general "Christian" theme, with an emphasis on Catholic vibes. Like that kind of thing was okay when it sprang up in individual episodes, but it was just kind of yawn-inducingly boring and repetitive as part of the main story.
The Lucian Alliance thing was also kind of a bit of a snorefest. Conceptually, there was nothing wrong with it, but something about the execution was just not really engaging. Had similar issues with Baal and his clones, although he was at least occasionally fun in a few episodes.
Yeah, the Lucian Alliance was complete garbage. Another underwhelming group that came out of nowhere and just illustrated how bored the writers were with their show. They don't really make sense either, because the whole premise of the Go'uld was to keep the non-Jaffa population of humans ignorant and technically illiterate. That was essential to their whole 'I am your god' spiel.