The Stargate guy is crying in a corner
From all of them I’m only a fan of Stargate.
There are dozens of us.
I should rewatch sg1 again…
I just feel terrible that you guys don’t have the berth of content that star wars/star trek fans have. I should give stargate a try
FYI -
- You need to bear with it through the usual S1 growing pains
- By today’s standards it’s almost unbearably 90s, especially during the first season (IMO)
- It really does get great.
- It made me cry at least a few times.
SG-1 was a great mixture of comedy and drama in sci-fi IMO, and while it’s not my very favorite franchise, it’s easily top 10 for me. If you haven’t seen it before it’s worth your time for sure!
Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.
I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip, and while I do skip a lot of S1/2 depending on how long it’s been since I watched those particulars, personally I think they’re all important for Stargate as a whole. Necessary to watch on your second run I think, not necessarily for the first.
Luckily since I know the people I’ve watched it with pretty well, I know what can be skipped and what they’ll need to watch to really “get it”. And I summarize the episodes we skip. Sometimes I’ll even give them the option like “next episode is pretty slow, no real action but a lot of off-world things and important conversations/drama” and let them decide if they want to watch a slow episode or not.
Although honestly, how can you think the episodes where Daniel poses as Yu’s servant are boring? Sure no big explosions and action sequences, but it’s riveting.
Personally I feel like the show really finds it’s legs in S3 but kicks it into high gear for S6.
Really I have to agree with that now that you mention it. I think it had been too long since I watched it. :)
I’m sure every fan has a list of episodes you can skip
I skip nothing on any show! I know people commonly do this, I just don’t. If I’m watching it, I’m watching it warts and all. 😁
The only thing that comes close to the greatest sci-fi quote from those three franchises is Luthen’s speech in Andor, otherwise this one from G’kar in B5 is one of the greatest bits of prose in sci-fi:
It was the end of the Earth year 2260, and the war had paused, suddenly and unexpectedly. All around us, it was as if the universe were holding its breath…waiting. All of life can be broken down into moments of transition, or moments…of revelation. This had the feeling of both. […] G’Quan wrote, “There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope. The death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.” The future is all around us, waiting in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future, or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born…in pain.
G’kar and Londo absolutely made B5. The most interesting character arcs, probably the most fleshed-out characters, and Katsulas and Jurasic stole the show with their acting. All the hardships G’kar suffered and the philosophical outlook he kept despite the anger he had to deal with, Londo’s moments of self-awareness, yet he remained trapped by culture and politics… Their interaction and introspection on screen was something I always looked forward to. I need to go watch that series again.
Edit: Just started watching the series again. I don’t know why I didn’t remember, but the writers really started off painting the Narn as the plotting and scheming baddies. Funny how that changed over the course of the series.
What is up with Star Trek memes on Lemmy anyway? I blocked like 5 communities already but they keep popping up all the time. It’s a show my Dad watched as a young adult and he is almost retired, that’s how old this shit is.
Star Trek has like 3 or 4 active shows right now. Also never could get into the 60s one but The Next Generation, DS9, and Lower Decks are all fucking awesome and I can recommend them to anybody that appreciates social commentary and great acting.
Nobody answered you, but there was a conflict with reddit and Star Trek mods several years ago and so a large group of fans came here much before last June. They’re just better established than other groups.
Also if I made something with “federation” I wouldn’t be surprised if a bunch of Trek nerds showed up
