GateWorld Podcast: Stargate vs. Battlestar Galactica

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• Why? It'd be much easier to talk about how similar SGU and BSG is.

• both of them come full circle in SGU.

• WOW, I'm not interested in hearing this podcast but I can probably guess which series you think is more superior considering this is after all a Stargate website and podcast. What are you going to compare next? The differences between the moon and the sun?

• @lordball
  Isn't it easier to just listen to the podcast before you make such a comment?

• discuss the very different tones of the shows?
  that will be a short discussion then!

• I'm afraid you lost me on this one. Both are done in the "I'm wetting my pants and zooming the lens in and out" camera style that after a brief period in vogue (The Beatles, The Monkees) due to it's shock and novelty value was ditched for good reason until Blair Witch. I really tried to get into BSG but the camera work did me in. No disc sales from me due to that reason. At least if SGU retained the SG/SGA camera work it would maybe have something going for it. But for this household no matter how much it may improve in the second round the shakey-cam did me in.

  Maybe you should compare Lexx and SGU some day. And yes I do believe they should have consulted me first on these matters. ;-)

• to borrow a phrase: "for cry'in out loud".

  The two are only comparable in that they are both in the sci fi genre. I like both but come on, its apples and oranges in this case.

• David,
  After listening to this and the “vs Star Trek” podcasts, I’ve come to the conclusion that you are unqualified to talk about sci-fi television.
  Your comments betray a complete ignorance of Star Trek DS9. Everything you’ve praised about BSG, DS9 was doing 15 years ago, and doing it better. Well developed characters, deep invloved politics, consequences, a more textured realistic story, moral ambiguity, story arcs… and it did it all while still offering a hopeful vision of the future and plenty of humor.
  -Burt

• I will grant BSG as being one of the greatest TV shows for the first 2 seasons, but as soon as the New Caprica storyline hit, the show completely lost everything. The only reason I bothered to watch season 4 was b/c it was the final season, but it was incredibly weak.

  That's why SG1 and SGA will age better and will be more popular than BSG in the long run. I also think that BSG and SGU are both shows of this era, being "dark" and so called "reality-based" and using the GD shaky-cam (aka the worst thing ever).

  My own personal opinion is that people will look back and just shake their heads at some of the popular shows and movies of this era.

• As a kid I got a kick out of the old BSG, I had a big crush on Apollo.
  I was awed by the remake and for the first two years of the show though it was some of the best television I'd ever seen.
  But come the third year and I couldn't stand the darned thing, it just seemed so self-indulgent and exploitative and so stopped watching and never went back.
  Fortunately I returned to my Stargate roots, fell in love with SG1 all over again and started up my continuing fanish devotion to SGA.
  Now I realize, while BSG was flashy and cool to date for a while, I wanted to settle down and live with SG1/SGA the rest of my life.