I liked the way stargate presented itself. a curious group of underdogs that go out explore in worlds full of extreme danger with superior beings pretty much everywhere.
I always liked stuff like this the subtle humor
Can't find the picture, but another one that i always laugh at when i hear it. Oke sg1 ( earth explorerrs ), we got 10 ships incoming u guys send your ships and we should be fine to attack
Everybody looks at eachother? ships? yea about that. we don't have those type of ships haha.
It was good story telling, with great actors and interesting worlds to visit and loads of actual problems that u can relate towards such as corrupt goverments trying to take hold of the star gate project with all kinds of inveted bullshit and other country's pressuring etc. U really saw the actual world dynamics in the series well.
Star trek is kinda the opposite of this, where those people in those ships are pretty much the top of the food chain and try to lecture 3rd world country's and aggressive nations with warfare and lead them. The whole seires is based on us vs russia concept in space basically.
Atlantis kinda started to lose this ideology by again being the superior beings in the galaxy with a russia type enemy and it become more of a star trek solution but just with a worse cast and a story that dragged on forever season after season with average cast to boot and enemy's.
I would say stargate series is probably the best scifi we have had. movie wise its star trek for sure as the movies or whatever they called htem where nothing more then just a few episodes tagged together. ( after the main movie ).
I really liked sliders. its basically a simpler stargate. the setup was interesting and the idea behind it was also really well worked out. the cast also was solid in it ( start, cast refresh mid of the series was only half decent. the girl was fine the other guy looked like a bootleg version of the main character that simple had no reason to be there ).
The major issue the series had is that the concept simple is limited on scope what u can do with it, u run out of story's sooner rather then later as alternative relaties can only go so far really stargate didn't had this.. the dynamic as everybody travels with each other into a strange world is also very limited on what u can do between the actors etc. Which basically resulted in the series being pretty fucking horrible at the end of the seasons to the point u just can't wait for it to end as it gets that bad. the overlapping store being butchered with actors just leaving without wrapping there story line up and actors simple not having there own identity which startrek/stargate casts have was a real issue.
It is what it is, and i liked it alot in the mornings before i went to school when those episodes would always run. But they are not on the same level as stargate let alone startrek tho..
