So…more like a soap opera? It’s just going to keep going and going? I’m still going to watch, I’m loyal like that, unless they piss me off. ;P

So let me get this straight, no focus on going to planets, no focus on meeting aliens no focus on being stargate. I truly hope this show gets canceled. what a frelling Joke to ruin a franchise like this.

hmmm i feel like this is going to be a a tv drama that just happens to take place in the stargate universe, which is taking away from the essence of stargate is about. stargate was about traveling to worlds, experiencing new or unfamiliar scientific situations, or running into human and social issues. this show doesn’t seem that interesting, just something cheap. the writers sure are not making a very good description of the show. are they trying to make Lost with a stargate makeover? lol mallozi sounds confused a little himself in the article

“So let me get this straight, no focus on going to planets, no focus on meeting aliens no focus on being stargate. I truly hope this show gets canceled. what a frelling Joke to ruin a franchise like this.”

Another clear-cut case of ‘reading what you want to read’ I see. Let’s take a look at what Joe actually said:

“[W]e’re not even focusing at all on going to the planets and meeting the humanoid, English-speaking aliens[.]”

In other words, they’re not going to keep going to planets where everyone is human and speaks English. This is a /good/ thing.

BYE

I disagree with what most of the people are saying in these comments. I personally thought Atlantis needed to be canceled and i hope this show can improve on Atlantises major flaws. At the same time, im not gonna get my hopes up. I’m remaining pessimistic until i see the pilot. I am, however, so glad that they’re demoting that man to “consulting producer”. The only place he ran Atlantis was into the ground.

I agree with HBMC… And the fact there there will be a major story-line and not only monster or situation of the week, sounds realy good to me. In my opinion, some of those those episodes ar exactly what made Stargate lose its quality.
Well, I’ll just wait and see then =)

I think fans should be more ambitious and less stuck to OLD stuff.
SG1 and SGA had an OLD format, the “monster-or-situation-of-the-week” is the less artistic one, and keeping this way we would get ALWAYS THE SAME EPISODES. A quarantine one, a clone/doppelganger one, a ‘monster-of-the-week’ one, and so on.

STOP WITH ALL THIS STUFF.

Maybe I’m the only one, but I’m very EXCITED about Mallozzi’s interview because it seems that producers FINALLY understood what was wrong with the old format (the “English-speaking umanoid aliens”, for example), and made their steps to a more serious dimension.

The (even if ‘reluctant’) comparison with “Lost” made me explode! I hope SGU will be at least an half ambitious, serious and dramatic as “Lost” is. It would be GREAT!

And I LOVE long story arcs. I’m very TIRED about short stories / one-shot (and very stupid) episodes…

Please, Joseph, Brad etc., don’t change your mind!

Here is what will happen if they don’t go to planets and have lots of guest stars… If it is successful then it will get to expensive as the cast will get to powerful as they own the screen time. Then Sci-Fi will do what it does best, CANCEL UNIVERSE… Why don’t they get what we the fan, the buyer of product gets? Maybe most of their employees are too young and stupid.

There aren’t going to be aliens because they’re gonna end up on the ship that populated the universe.
I’m really excited about SGU… I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt until I see it.

Yay for not being a forested-planet-of-the-week show… but riddle me this… will they be focused, even slightly, on using the actual stargate? I felt the centerpiece of the show’s name was largely lacking in much of Atlantis post season-one.

Though I recently recalled, for those nay-sayers who think a stargate show based on a ship is a bad idea… its the gateworld forum-member’s fault.. they ran a poll shortly after Atlantis premiered asking what we’d like the next spin-off to be about. Stargate Prometheus won fairly overwhelmingly. Unlike the X-303, the Destiny at least has its own stargate (and probably a ring-system too).

This sounds like a rather bad show to relate to Stargate when the last two series were about defeating the enemy overcoming obstacles which made it interesting and I don’t think that the writers are good enough to write even a decent really long human interest story. No offense to them but the underlying human interest stories in the later seasons of SG1 and in Atlantis were very generic. I agree to get rid of the people who live on other planets and speak english because it is rather ridiculous to have no excuse as to why they speak english. But I was hoping that the story line for this series would force the damn writers to include some actual aliens not humans on other planets. Then to explain the english speaking aliens make up something like in star trek where they had universal translators. What these producers appear to be doing is stripping every characteristic of SG1 and Atlantis from this show except that its in space. And the unending story line for a show like Lost works because the creators of Lost knew the ending prior to the shows start but most other shows operate on a show to show basis with an episode that crops up about the mythology every now and then. I would like to ask the producers if they are aware this is supposed to be a science fiction program because this show seems to be crossing over into the realm of a crapy fictional reality television show. Soon it won’t even be set in space and they’ll say were taking the series in a new direction you know out of space we’re thinking maybe it should be set in a suburban High School.

Well it sure looks like a Space Opera. If you have not watched it in weeks it doesn’t matter where you jump in again, because you have not missed anything. I dont like that at all. LOST is fine, but sometimes I thought FCOL go on please or I dont watch. To bad they wont meat any new english speaking Aliens on planets. And showing more from the characters in the series well it may not be very bad, but if you only see this with some exiting moments in between, then no thanks its not what I expect. What about that story no no it will be Stargate and it will always be that way as we know it. So was that just a story then? Space above and Beyond was a nice series but not a very strong series. It also was much more focussed on the characters and between those story’s they visit planets to haunt their enemy. Maby it looks more like that, then LOST although that comes close as well.Maby some more pictures afther next week when they begin shooting the series gives us more of an idea of how it looks like then only words.