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Stargate was pretty hopeful about the future. Although it is somewhat set in the present it does touch on the future quite a few times.
by resist_futility 12y ago
Stargate was pretty hopeful about the future. Although it is somewhat set in the present it does touch on the future quite a few times.
- evan_ 12y agoIn the one episode where they actually did show Earth's future, it was a Brave-New-World-esque dystopia fueled by an alien incursion. (Really good episode in one of my absolute favorite franchises) I agree that it's generally optimistic but it's hard to say that the characters had any faith in humanity in general, since they keep the whole program a Military secret. http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/2010_(episode) http://stargate.wikia.com/wiki/2010_(episode)
- aschampion 12y agoStargate has an amazingly contemporary American conservative outlook on the universe: that most places, peoples and dilemmas, even if bizarre on the surface, ultimately boil down to familiar with-us-or-against-us conflicts that are solved through might and a strong sense of exceptionalism. It's a suburban universe that you commute to that's not too different from home and doesn't compel change other than to double down on the status quo. Space is the Olive Garden. Aliens are more interested in us than we are in them. Scientists are myopic and are only good as resources to be used by a white guy without much book learnin' but lots of common sense (who of course is always smarter than the scientists when push comes to shove) -- I don't even mean particular characters, it's a template across all the shows. The characters might profess hope about the future, but to me it was more a sobering study of the narrow view we have of our own world projected onto the universe. TNG has its share of similar colonial tendencies, but the show has some self-awareness about it and DS9's entire run was a deconstruction of those themes.