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I haven't been all too excited about the upcoming Stargate spinoff, since it seemed like it was going to be Baby Stargate or something, but this bit of casting news may change all that!

Robert Carlyle!!!

Squee!

More here.

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Eh. I was never a fan of SGA the way I was of SG-1, though I watch it. What worries me most is that, as Stargate Atlantis was to Star Trek: Deep Space 9, so Stargate Universe will be to Star Trek: Voyager.

And frankly, the more SG (whatever flavor) morphs into Trek, the less I like it. The whole lure of SG-1 for me was NO SPACESHIPS. Just contemporary US soldiers and scientists exploring the universe through a single maguffin. No starships, no energy weapons (just good old guns and grenades), no shields failing, no warpcores breaching, none of the Trek-influenced crap that every other SF show gives us nowadays.

Alas, the longer Stargate went on, the more it began to resemble Star Trek. Now the humans are flying around in starship with transporters, shields, space battles at knife fighting distance, the whole nine yards. If I wanted Trek, I'd watch Trek.

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

LOL!

The thing I complain about the most these days is that we're supposed to believe with the thousands and thousands of people all over the world involved in the Stargate program and spaceships the military mans and flies all over creation, that it's still a freakin' secret! Now *that* is unbelievable! Let the population of Earth know already, for pity's sake.

we're supposed to believe with the thousands and thousands of people all over the world involved in the Stargate program and spaceships the military mans and flies all over creation, that it's still a freakin' secret! Now *that* is unbelievable! Let the population of Earth know already, for pity's sake

LOL. I'd love to see that happening.

Me too. I understand that they want to maintain the pretense that this is all taking place in our world. It's the same reason that vampires, aliens, immortals, witches, bionic men and whatnot all remain secret. I can even understand their (the characters) wanting to keep the program secret as long as possible. But it gets tiresome after a while.

I'd have liked to see the secret come out. It would have been a great source of plots to have the program revealed and deal with the consequences. (Or not, if they wished; it IS run out of a high security military base 27 floors under the mountain. Nobody's getting in that they don't allow in.)

Well, I don't know Trek at all so I can't notice any kind of similarities. :P

SGA really grew on me.

Plus...you kids get off my lawn! (shakes fist).

OMG yes! What also bothers me is how they want to make SGU more of a drama. I watched SG-1 and SGA because they were action-adventure shows that didn't take themselves seriously.

...as Stargate Atlantis was to Star Trek: Deep Space 9...

The Star Trek comparison makes it clearer to me how my interest declined from SG-1 to SGA. I liked DS9 a lot, but I always compared it to B5 and preferred the non-Trek show. I was one of the people, I know I wasn't alone in it, that's first thought when Ronon was introduced was that he was a cheap knock off of Tyr Anasazi from Andromeda. SGA was derivative in more ways than I consciously recognized. I lost interest in SGA before it was canceled and it sounds like SGU won't be drawing me back to Stargate.

(Lacking a Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andromeda, or Stargate icon I'm using my Classic Who one.)