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By Jonathan Klotz | Published
Stargate has never been as popular as Star Wars and Star Trek, but both STARGATE SG-1 and Atlantis of Stargate He ended up finding a large fans base precisely because they were different from the two greats. Hugging a fun spirit of adventure and a cast of characters that joined, learning to work together and accepting each other, both shows maintained a degree of positivity even in their darker moments. That is why the sudden turn that writers took Stargate UniverseThe third series of the franchise, destroyed everything well about the franchise in favor of hugging the dark and sandy aesthetics of Battlestar Galactica.
Dark and sandy science fiction
Stargate Universe It was launched in October 2009, in the apogee of Battlestar Galactica’s The success of pop culture, and Syfy wanted the show to be his next big thing. They went so far as to cancel Atlantis of StargateThen there was only one series in the franchise in the air.
Leaving aside the “planet of the week” formula of the first series, Universe took care of a story during most of each season, so it is better that you get used to listening to the old communication stones. The dark and sandy images were not the only change. To match the new aesthetics, the writers dropped the “action” part of the first two shows and delivered a direct science fiction drama “, which could have been fun, but also forgot to include pleasant characters.
Instead of exploring new worlds, Stargate Universe It was limited to Destiny, an old spacecraft built for a mysterious purpose that constantly hinted exciting and outside the world, but never happened. The spectators were trapped in closed rooms with a cast of characters that seemed Riverdale that SG-1.
For example, the fall of Colonel Everett Young (Louis Ferreria) and the posterior ascent could have made a convincing television. Unfortunately, before the program arrives, we see it deceive, lie and discuss with the rest of the crew in a way that O’Neill (Richard Dean Anderson would never have behaved, even if the alien spirits possessed it.
A complex character and a group of high school students
Young opposed a crew member, in particular. Dr. Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) was supposed to be something new for the franchise: a character that existed in Shades of Gray. Richard Woolsey (Robert Picardo) looks like a hero compared to Rush, whom the public can understand how to act for the greatest (mostly) good) even if their actions were (mostly) questionable.
The problem with including a complex character that, to speak politely, owes much to Battlestar Galactica’s Baltar (James Callis) doesn’t it work if everyone else is in Stargate Universe Consider that it is evil.
Rush frames Young for murder, challenges his explicit instructions not to mess with ancient technology by doing exactly that the moment he has the opportunity, and yes, takes advantage of Chloe Armstrong’s alien infection (Elyse Levesque) to promote his own research, But the investigation, but the investigation, but the seeds of a great character were there. Stargate Universe I tried to do something different, with Rush as the physical incarnation of hugging the dark side of science fiction, but lost the adventurous spirit of the franchise in the process.
Fans of the last franchise overlooked did not want drama at the secondary level; They wanted new bold worlds, alien encounters and a pinch of discovering a galactic mystery. All this had in the first two programs and lost thanks to Syfy executives charging the new wave of sandy tv and prestige.
