That's a very bad thing for me. I like most of SG1, but Stargate really suffered from the need to continuously escalate stakes (like a lot of media does). We went from "a few guys with guns go through a wormhole to find weird alien-run feudal societies and try to improve things" to (over the span of a decade in-universe) "Earth is now throwing down with - and facilitating the destruction of - galaxy-spanning threats, over multiple galaxies". I'm usually all-for a good HFY story, but things just escalated so fast that it lost me.
I would've thought the same maybe 10+ years ago, but maybe there's been enough reflection by now to where they can approach certain things a little differently.
Hopefully they'll take the opportunity to break out of that habit now and prevent the cycle from starting up again. And ideally without trying to appeal to the trademark "modern" audience.
The O'Neill was nice while it lasted though. I didn't stick with Atlantis. It didn't keep my attention. The other one only had rating when they had OG cameos.
I've long held the first season of Atlantis in rather high regard. In many respects, it's nearly perfect (in terms of the pacing, characters, setup, writing, and story arc).
Unfortunately, they also kind of wrote themselves into the perfect dead-end scenario. They'd stacked the odds so high, and put it to the climactic test, but didn't have a solid strategy for how to continue the conflict and story arc without pulling an obvious rabbit out of the hat.
To put it into context, once the Wraith started actually gunning for Atlantis, there wasn't a clear path to prolong that conflict in a convincing and non-repetitive way. The setup already made it clear that they were almost totally unopposed and unchallenged in the Pegasus galaxy, and didn't have a great deal of internal conflicts (Not at the start anyway). And it's not like they had no idea where Atlantis was. They had the means to get there, the numbers, etc.
The writers chose to dodge and delay the whole conundrum by simply... cloaking the city after nuking the atmosphere to make the Wraith think they'd blown up the city.and making everyone think it was destroyed. Clever in some ways I'll admit, but ultimately it feels like a bait and switch in terms of plot flow.
Yeah having dean anderson helped, he was already super popular due to his role as MacGyver. Back when media was made for the average white person lmao.
That's a very bad thing for me. I like most of SG1, but Stargate really suffered from the need to continuously escalate stakes (like a lot of media does). We went from "a few guys with guns go through a wormhole to find weird alien-run feudal societies and try to improve things" to (over the span of a decade in-universe) "Earth is now throwing down with - and facilitating the destruction of - galaxy-spanning threats, over multiple galaxies". I'm usually all-for a good HFY story, but things just escalated so fast that it lost me.
I would've thought the same maybe 10+ years ago, but maybe there's been enough reflection by now to where they can approach certain things a little differently.
Hopefully they'll take the opportunity to break out of that habit now and prevent the cycle from starting up again. And ideally without trying to appeal to the trademark "modern" audience.
The O'Neill was nice while it lasted though. I didn't stick with Atlantis. It didn't keep my attention. The other one only had rating when they had OG cameos.
I've long held the first season of Atlantis in rather high regard. In many respects, it's nearly perfect (in terms of the pacing, characters, setup, writing, and story arc).
Unfortunately, they also kind of wrote themselves into the perfect dead-end scenario. They'd stacked the odds so high, and put it to the climactic test, but didn't have a solid strategy for how to continue the conflict and story arc without pulling an obvious rabbit out of the hat.
To put it into context, once the Wraith started actually gunning for Atlantis, there wasn't a clear path to prolong that conflict in a convincing and non-repetitive way. The setup already made it clear that they were almost totally unopposed and unchallenged in the Pegasus galaxy, and didn't have a great deal of internal conflicts (Not at the start anyway). And it's not like they had no idea where Atlantis was. They had the means to get there, the numbers, etc.
The writers chose to dodge and delay the whole conundrum by simply... cloaking the city after nuking the atmosphere to make the Wraith think they'd blown up the city.and making everyone think it was destroyed. Clever in some ways I'll admit, but ultimately it feels like a bait and switch in terms of plot flow.
Yeah having dean anderson helped, he was already super popular due to his role as MacGyver. Back when media was made for the average white person lmao.