is Universe quality writing a good thing or a bad thing?
It’s a bad thing.
Stargate, much of the time, was competency porn. Writers threw that away and did a man-vs-man-survival style story in an enclosed space aboard a runaway starship. The story heavily borrowed cues from LOST and Battlestar Galactica (reboot) instead, relying heavily on characters spontaneously acting blind/deaf/dumb for no reason, seemingly as a plot-device to keep the drama going. The way to survival and broader frontiers was clearly to just work together, but that was just constantly and frustratingly out of reach. When the audience is used to the opposite of all that, it makes for a very miserable watch.
Tbf, I still enjoyed it for what it was, while recognizing it was very different and not as good as it’s predecessors. So long as it isn’t worse than that, I’m happy for new Stargate content, although I’m holding out hope it will be more like the earlier iterations.
It’s a bad thing.
Stargate, much of the time, was competency porn. Writers threw that away and did a man-vs-man-survival style story in an enclosed space aboard a runaway starship. The story heavily borrowed cues from LOST and Battlestar Galactica (reboot) instead, relying heavily on characters spontaneously acting blind/deaf/dumb for no reason, seemingly as a plot-device to keep the drama going. The way to survival and broader frontiers was clearly to just work together, but that was just constantly and frustratingly out of reach. When the audience is used to the opposite of all that, it makes for a very miserable watch.
Tbf, I still enjoyed it for what it was, while recognizing it was very different and not as good as it’s predecessors. So long as it isn’t worse than that, I’m happy for new Stargate content, although I’m holding out hope it will be more like the earlier iterations.
Sorry, best I can do is 20 episodes of Wormhole Extreme!
Damn you, Jeffrey Bezos!!!
Honestly, I wouldn’t be mad