Trolldor said:
Sonic Doctor said:
I just lol'd. SGA had no plot worth following, no characters worth paying attention to. I stopped watching it because it was so inferior compared to SG1, which I've been watching since the very first episode was released.
SGU is actually more in line with SG1. Character driven story. Makes for much better television, much better show.
Of course SG-1 was the best because it was the original, and SGA was just going off story-lines that led out of SG-1. Spin-off series are never as good or better than the original. But if they stay in the formula of the original, they will always have the viewers and will be at least decent enough to watch.
But it is blatantly obvious that SGU does not equal SG-1 in anyway, except that they both shows have Stargates in them. That was the only similarity.
Since you are comparing SGU and SG-1 based on "Character driven stories", than in comparison SG-1 never had a character driven story, at least not on the horrid level of SGU's stories. Remembering back on how many actual "Character" driven stories SG-1 had, I remember those stories being some of the worst of the show's 200 some episodes. A good example would be the early episode where O'Neill and Carter are thought to have been lost, but instead they were transported to the gate that was buried in Antarctica. That was a horrible episode, I was more interested in where they were and how the gate got there and how it was able to pick them up, instead of that droning on of the two talking about survival, it was obvious that they would both survive, so their wasn't a point.
But other than that, we knew Carter and O'Neill really liked each other, we get all the subtle hints over time, an anytime they expressed anything for one another it was no more than a couple minutes long.
But with SGU we get an episode where there is a ton of urgency, where Destiny is being attacked and one wonders how they will survive, then after only a few seconds of awesome space battle stuff, we get to a cut of Chloe and Scott crying over the fact that he has to leave her with the aliens to get her changed back to normal, then another 10 seconds of the hectic battle then 5 more minute of the two staring at each other or saying cheesy lines. Then after Chloe comes back we get on another 5 minute or more of a scene of them being happy to be together again which is even more cheesy. Considering the seriousness of the situation the ship was in, if this stuff was handled like back in SG-1 times, that 15 minutes would have would have only been about 4 minutes at the most and spread out into one minute or a minute and a half segments.
Also the stupid stuff in the beginning when Eli was pining away for Chloe. He'd be working on something important almost life and death, then she walk in ask him how he was doing and walk out then we would get several minutes of him thinking about it himself or taking to one of the crew about it, all the while he should have been working on that life and death problem. SG-1 would have turned that stuff into a 5 or 10 second reaction shot or a 20 or 30 second conversation of all of about two lines.
While there was character development in SG-1 it was subtle and sweet and it didn't get in the way or take over all of the episodes which were meant for Stargate and sci-fi worthy story-lines.
Edit: While SGU for the first season and a half was a soap opera in a sci-fi setting that hardly touched on the immediate sci-fi stories that could have been told.
