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I'd love to see a reboot - in fact, I think it'd be the best way to repurpose & extend the premise & lore & themes. The setup for SG1 was pure scifi gold, deli
by gojomo 5y ago
I'd love to see a reboot - in fact, I think it'd be the best way to repurpose & extend the premise & lore & themes.
The setup for SG1 was pure scifi gold, delivering all the frills fans could want:
• 'relatable 20thC/21stC person' space adventures-in-wonderland
• planets-of-the-week plus long arcs of discovery & tech-advancement
• galactic space opera & epic space wars that only sometimes risk Earth itself
• worldly intrigue referencing current politics/culture: evil Senators! human & alien conspiracies! Wormhole X-Treme!
But, eventually accumulated 'canon debt' & the frift of decades of real history makes new consistent stories that are equally relatable to the 2020s nearly impossible. Our heroes got pretty overpowered at times late in SG1 and SGA.
So, clean reboot! It worked great for BSG. Treat the whole past as a mythology to mine & remix, with winking fanservice rather than strained consistency & retcons. Give us some more Aschen & Tollan, Hebridans & Serrakin. Put some more vaguely-interesting unfolding pseudoscience behind the magic woo that dominated later storylines. Add some new mysteries to the gates, the gate network, & the gate-builders.
What's now possible with streaming prestige-series money, improved digital effects, & a smart full-universe paced master plan could be incredible.