Many shows, including ST:TOS and, to a certain extent, ST:TNG, keep most episodes as stand-alone stories. The idea behind largely abandoning a good story arc which tied everything together was to make it more accessible to casual viewers. A brilliant show with a wonderful idea for a series-long story arc was 'Sorbo-ized' for our protection. The trouble with trying to do that with TV shows, is you wind up with the Andromeda effect. (But they tried this at the expense of existing fans.) Keeping things simple works well for movies, of course. Which, ironically, was part of what SGU was meant to fix - by acquiring new fans. And, the more intricate the story, the more it excludes the casual viewer/reader, and closes itself off to expanding its fan base. Invariably, as a story is expanded, the writer(s) introduce things that will turn a number of people off. He likes sci-fi, but doesn't want to spend the time to really get into the details provided by an expanded franchise. I was actually joking with my response, but I see you certainly weren't with your original comment. The franchise became Star Trek Yet Again with galaxies of technobabble-laced English speaking inhabitants in starships reliving the same old boring moral challenges. What was simple theatre with a false god bullying a colony of desert slaves became a messy blob of information I wouldn't need to care about if the story beyond that was really good.
For me everything about the series was just killing the magic of the movie, and I see SG-U as the logical consequence caused by the avalanche of expansions and explanations cheap writing added during the years. Sometimes a story is good enough with it's own conclusions and limited facts without any further layering. ST:TNG - Birth of the Federation ShipsetsĪnd here I thought the franchise was doomed with the first episode of SG1.
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