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Atlantis felt like a fair continuation of SG-1, after SG-1 had been played out as far as they could take the plot. Different but similar.
by ethbr0 5y ago
Atlantis felt like a fair continuation of SG-1, after SG-1 had been played out as far as they could take the plot. Different but similar.
- nly 5y agoAtlantis was too similar. It was the ST:Voyager of the SG universe (lowercase U). SG:Universe was more like the ST:DS9
- ethbr0 5y agoIMHO, SG:U committed the twin sins of {unrelated teenage romance} + {idiot of the day causing plot crisis}. The previous series typically felt more coherent in terms of plot.
- thedanbob 5y ago> idiot of the day causing plot crisis I bailed after the second episode because of this. A character sacrificed himself by closing a door from the outside to stop an air leak, shortly after they discovered remote controlled flying robots. I figured if they were already making everyone into idiots to force conflict and crisis I was better off rewatching SG-1.
- layer8 5y agoNow I have a better understanding of why I liked SG:U better than SG:A. :)
- smegger001 5y agothats not fair DS9 was good... seriously though I got more a Battlestar Glactica vibe from it than ds9
- croon 5y agoI've always had a soft spot for ancient-tech-scifi a la Mass Effect/Expanse/Horizon/Raised By Wolves, and of course StarGate. In that regard Atlantis should be right up my alley as I like most fictional Atlantis-depictions. What I disliked about SG:A wasn't the setup or the actors (which had fun chemistry), but the antagonists/wraiths that I found completely uninteresting, and the droning problem-of-the-week episodes, with too little focus on developing the backstory of the city/ship/base itself. SG1 was definitely a show of the 90s TV show archetype too, but atleast evolved into higher stakes, borrowed tech, Asgardians, etc.