I also remember him saying something similar to that he wanted to have a deeper character driven show. The problem is that that is what killed SGU, the people behind that didn't understand that what made Stargate "Stargate" was the Stargate and traveling to other worlds and fighting off evil. One of the big reasons I liked Stargate was that it was in a way similar to Star Trek in those respects I mentioned, but set in the present day. But SGU barely had any of what made the franchise great. It makes me sad to know that the reason they canceled Atlantis to push SGU, and then canceled the Atlantis movie when SGU got canned because the vast majority of fans hated it and didn't watch. Because of that they thought the Atlantis movie wouldn't be successful, which was a stupid move from their ignorance of why SGU failed.Owyn_Merrilin said:You know, you took the exact opposite message from that interview that I did; what I got out of it was he wanted a show set in the original continuity, but he wanted a younger cast with better special effects -- which, granted, could easily lead to Stargate: Universe syndrome, but then Enterprise pretty much had that anyway, so I doubt it will be any /worse/ than that show was.
As for Doctor Who: I thought the last season was excellent. The problem here is that Moffat and Smith seem to be fans of the original series, which was a lot sillier than the Davies penned seasons were. Whether you like it or not depends on whether or not you like the old series. Judging by the fact that you talked about Star Trek TNG, but didn't mention TOS at all suggests the slight cheesiness in the last season is a bit offputting for you, while for others it's exactly what the show needed.
What's really sad is that because of that they ran the channel's flagship franchise into the ground.
On the Doctor Who part, it isn't necessarily the cheesiness of the last series that got to me, that was fine, it grew on me, mainly because I know what the old series was like because I watched a good bit of it and have around 20 different old series stories on DVD, as well as a Marvel, 23 comic book series from the 80's(You haven't seen Doctor Who cheesy until you have read those).
The part I had a problem with was that it didn't feel like Doctor Who in any series context old or new, because the Doctor felt like a secondary character this series. For the most part it was the Amy and Rory show and the horrible and very unexpected twist(because it is incredibly stupid) that River Song is their child. It would have been far better if River Song just had been some Time Lord from the Doctor's past or one that he hadn't met before.
Because of that I felt one of the best episodes of the season was the episode Craig came back, though they still shoehorned three or so minutes of unrelated and uncalled for air time for Amy and Rory. This last series traveled into the territory where the Doctor ended up being in less then half the scenes in some of the episodes, which from all the Doctor Who I have watched, that has never happened, unless there is a specific reason(like in "Blink").
Moffat is proving to me to be a person that shouldn't be in control, just allowed to right a couple or three episodes and leave the big series arc stories to somebody with some semblance of sense about the show and it's canon.