hey I'm currently rewatching the series
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I make it a point to rewatch SG1 every couple years.
My FIL was into it pretty deep, so I saw a lot of it back when we only had one TV. I think we still have it on DVD, tucked away somewhere. I always love how dry RDA was when he delivered his dialogue.
Also, I love the symmetry of Stargate Atlantis launching Jason Momoa's career, and then how he went on to play Aquaman...
SGU was unpopular when it came out but with its serialized story telling it was just ahead of its time.
Ehhh...it's lack of popularity wasn't due to serialized storytelling, which had been around especially in SciFi for a while at that point.
It had it's high points, but on the whole, it just wasn't very good. People wanted Stargate and they got a bad BSG knockoff instead.
I rewatched it during Covid, and while I didn't hate it the way I did during the initial airing, I still wasn't sad it didn't get a second season.
Yeah... the tone wasn't right... It had this vibe of "we're going to make a serious TV show this time." Vibe to it. However the things you get to see in that show are very cool. I'm just now realizing Lemmy doesn't have spoiler tags so I'll leave it at that.
It got a second season. The second half of it is actually rather good, but the damage was already done at this point unfortunately.
With SGU they went and made exactly what an episode of SG1 was mocking.
Take stargate, but replace the cast with angsty teens/young adults.
Oh yeah! Episode 200, classic. Daniel in the sharing you are referencing is pretty much what Eli ended up being in that show.
I remember vividly rewatching the original Stargate movie shortly before the the TV show was to premier on Showtime. I remember thinking "I don't understand how they're going to make this a whole season... the story is complete!"
Boy, was I wrong.