I'm almost ashamed to say it, but SGA just hasn't been that good since... well... ever. It has always had the promise to be better than it is, because it has a great cast, a good concept, and a writing team who can produce gems of scripts. But they had five years to produce something of consistently good quality, and they couldn't manage it. My concern now is that the new show will suffer from all the same flaws as SGA and SG-1 in its later seasons. It won't be new and improved, it will be exactly the same, and the audience will be bored, and switch off.
I don't see why all the stuff they're promising for the new show couldn't have been done with SGA. They could have done season-long plots and character arcs with SGA. They could have given the actors some meaty stuff to show off their skills. They didn't.
I don't ever see the writers of Stargate producing a show like BSG. I adore BSG, and I'm sorry to say but I don't think the SG writing team can produce something that subtle and sophisticated. My hope is for a show of Deep Space Nine quality, seasons 5-7. That would keep me interested in the Stargate universe. Otherwise we're looking at Voyager all over again.
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Date: 2009-01-18 11:58 am (UTC)I don't see why all the stuff they're promising for the new show couldn't have been done with SGA. They could have done season-long plots and character arcs with SGA. They could have given the actors some meaty stuff to show off their skills. They didn't.
I don't ever see the writers of Stargate producing a show like BSG. I adore BSG, and I'm sorry to say but I don't think the SG writing team can produce something that subtle and sophisticated. My hope is for a show of Deep Space Nine quality, seasons 5-7. That would keep me interested in the Stargate universe. Otherwise we're looking at Voyager all over again.