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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I remember the early episodes of SGA were glorious. Well written, great picture / architecture style, nice fleshing of the Ancients.
It slowly went down in quality with a few very good episodes still to be found later. Some episodes felt the characters were "written wrong" and some plot developments made me lose interest.
Won't spoil further than saying I felt a sharp enjoyment drop around the integration of the "Galaxy natives" to the unit.
Put SGA season 1 on your watchlist if you haven't.
SG Universe would have been interesting on its own, but it was not "Stargate" in vibe nor quality.
The long "Somehow, Alchoolism in Space" arc was fucking garbage.
Yeah, I still enjoyed SGA for quite a while after the first season. It's only the main plot that took a bit of a dip after the first season. I'd say it took another season or two after that for other issues to crop up.
I think the replicator subplot, while actually kind of cool in a lot of ways, also felt a little forced. Particularly towards the end, as the show kept dangling a "dead, but maybe not totally dead" character in front of the audience.
That exactly what sprung to mind as the worse aspect of the show's decline. The Replicator arc(s) and how they dealt with Elizabeth. Stopped caring. A clash with Replicators had good potential, they screwed it up.
Very much so.
Similar mishandlings between the Wraith and the Atlantis team were also a major issue. The only exception to that was maybe "Todd", but I think the way Todd was overused as time went on ended up ruining the mystique and threat the Wraith represented. Sort of mirrors how Baal in SG1 grew increasingly underwhelming as time went on.
Also, the entire plotline with the retrovirus was just awful, all the way through.
Oh no, I had blissfully forgotten Todd existed.
I find it annoying when SciFi shows go the route of "akshually, this extremely brutal, overwhelming, demonic enemy which only kills, consumes and destroys has the same struggles as humans and are relatable! Aren't your expectations subverted by our deep, super smart plot twist?" No, it's been done to death and you twist the lore the show set up to introduce that, likely specifically to build up an "ah ah, expectation subvertion!" trick that degrades the "aura" around the enemy.
To use another show with a terrifying all-powerful enemy Startreck : The Borg should just remain The Borg. I don't need my "expectation subverted" with a story arc about teenage Borgs having some highschool drama at Borg School.
To me, the worst offender was Michael though.
He should have died from a "cure-inflicted auto-immune disorder" or something, because by the second time he came back in the story, I didn't want to watch that anymore.