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  jesslloydfan > 06/04/2012, 22:10

  I know that there are no Stargate shows on tv anymore but i thought it deserved it's own thread, personally i thought they were all great series,
  anybody else on here a fan and used to watch, or and have any favourites of the three?
  
  

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  Outlaw87 > 12/04/2012, 16:00

  jesslloydfan - you are looking at a huge Stargate fan, it's such a shame the studio went bust as even though it wasn't exactly the best series it would have been good to see how SG-U turned out rather than them all just being frozen

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  jesslloydfan > 13/04/2012, 01:15

  (12/04/2012, 16:00)Outlaw1987 Wrote: jesslloydfan - you are looking at a huge Stargate fan, it's such a shame the studio went bust as even though it wasn't exactly the best series it would have been good to see how SG-U turned out rather than them all just being frozen

  It wasn`t actually the fact that the studio went bust, it was funded and aired by Syfy (still a stupid channel name) and they pulled the plug, cancelled Caprica as well and Eureka.
  Neither of them i liked as much as SGU (wasn`t a fan of Caprica at all really) but my main point is they essentially cancelled the few programs they had left that could legitimately be considered sci fi.
  Anyway back to the point of the thread, i really liked SGU i thought it was just as good as SG1 and SGA, was just different to them, i don`t think some fans gave it chance because it was more different to SG1 than SGA was (not that SGA was bad, i really liked all of them just that SGU changed the formula up a bit more) plus the power struggle between Rush and Young was brilliant.
  Went on a bit there didn`t i lol.
  
  

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  humiliateme > 22/04/2012, 21:08

  i was sure there was already a stargate thread on here as i rememberd talking about it with you JLF before but i guess not.
  
  i was always and still am a big fan of stargate and atlantis, sgu not so much but just before it got cancelled it was starting to pick up a bit. i think the problem it had was having the stargate name as it was so different, if it had just been a new sci fi show it probably would have been received better by all the stargate fans but it really was so very different to either SG1 or atlantis and i think that's what put so many people off it, i know it's partly why i wasn't really a big fan, that and the fact it always just felt so painfully slow and in fact in some episodes they focused so heavily on the relationships and drama between characters i very nearly forgot i was watching a sci fi show
  
  that being said, it did start to pick up in the last few episodes and so it would have been nice to see it carry on as it did feel like it was going to get good with more action etc.. but as it hadn't really done that up to that point i wasn't really too upset that it got cancelled other than the fact it probably means we'll never get any more stargate shows which is a real shame
  
  granted my memory is pretty crap with tv shows as i tend to have more important things to remember, but i think the only episode i really enjoyed completely of sgu was the one when they got trapped and killed on the planet and it turned out they were watching recordings from those floating things etc.. not quite sure how to describe it but if you watched the show you'll know the one i mean.
  
  i think the other thing that spoiled sgu for me was that i never really liked any of the characters, elie or however you spell that name lol was about as close as i got to liking any of them but other than him i honestly didn't care which of them died or lived.
  
  but SG1 and atlantis i loved them both, having rewatched some of the very first episodes of SG1 they're no where near as good as the later episodes but it's to be expected being the first show and most sci fi shows take a while to get really good

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  jesslloydfan > 22/04/2012, 22:26

  There was a thread for Stargate Universe mate, but not a thread for the other Stargate programs, so thought i would start a general Stargate thread because there is 3 series and a few films so better to have a thread for all of them (that was my logic anyway).
  
  I enjoyed all of them, SGU despite being a different style was still very good i thought, and the story was building very well.
  I can see why they had some more character based episodes they wanted to develop all the characters, but admittedly they could have addressed the balance of sci fi and drama in the episodes a bit.
  
  I liked quite a lot of the characters in SGU, my favourites were Eli, Rush and Young, but the other main cast were actually more built up and interesting by the second series.
  
  That was one of my favourite episodes as well, the time loop video recordings one best of the first series.
  I think that they didn`t give it to chance to get going before they cancelled it, the second series was really good.
  
  True SG1`S earlier episodes aren`t as good some of them, but the first series it was finding it`s style and introducing the characters.
  Atlantis had an advantage in it`s first series in that it was building on the template of SG1 so i think that is why SGA`s first series was better on the whole than SG1`s.
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