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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IIRC there are maybe 2 or 3 episodes with "muh sexism/racism" but considering that the series ran for 10 seasons that's pretty minor. It's still probably my favorite series ever.
Season 1 was a bit slow IMHO. It felt fairly low budget and there was too much character introduction and not enough action when I rewatched it. Although that's maybe not an issue if you're watching it for the first time.
The later SG Atlantis felt slightly woker with that weird mystical girlboss but other than her it's still great.
SG Universe ... well, we don't talk about SG Universe.
I’ve heard a lot of people don’t like SGU. What did they do wrong? Totally change the lore?
I don't disagree with what everyone here is saying about SGU, but I did really like what they did with Young, the military leader in that show. Basically, he's a fuckup without being an idiot or bad at his job. He's just in way over his head and makes wrong calls. It was a 'love to hate him' thing, but with a protagonist, which I'd never seen done before at the time.
That said, it was all subtext and not at all intentional. They were going for "Rush and Young are both strong personalities who are each correct sometimes. Also, every SG show has nominal power sharing between the military and civs." The problem is, Rush was correct almost every time and held all the trumps. Young had absolutely nothing on him and should've accepted it was no longer his mission.
Rush was utterly duplicitous, though, and had no real standing amongst that group, because he blew all of his credibility with his shitty schemes.
Absolutely. But as (pretty much) the only one who could get the ship to do anything, Rush was the only one who was indispensable, and he knew it.
Thanks!