Posted by DNA
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I would have liked to see Stargate morph.
Instead of a new series repeating the jump to a never before seen world and all hell breaks loose every episode, but instead to establish a series of worlds where diplomacy has been established but a work in progress and the stakes of each episode are not so life and death civilization threatening but smaller more character driven with a focus on world building.
Kind of like a higher production value and better written Babylon 5.
Watching agrarian culture worlds work to move forward,, watching Stargate command post guards on various portal points in various worlds claiming it's for that worlds own safety so they don't go out and piss anybody off and Stargate command dealing with that heat and confrontation of self appointed gate guard for developing worlds.
What about the inevitable consequences of the Earth's population learning about the truth behind the Stargate and coming to terms with this technological situation, that would be cool, as well as the fall out from learning that all religions are basically the promelgation of evil Ga-uld figure heads demanding worship as the god head of that population.
That would be some interesting viewing.
Back to stargate sg1 is disclosure.
Think about the hunger game franchise.
Slap a Stargate in the middle of that franchise and it would look like 90% of the worlds SG1 travels to in the TV show.
Makes you wonder.
Think of the black robed figures poisoning people in the middle ages from William bramley's "gods of Eden".
As if there were "gods" here on THIS planet from times past who were stopping mankind from advancing past a subsistence based farming level and development by introducing plagues on the population and poisoning the population everytime mankind was about to progress, this sending making backwards everytime a crossroads for industrialization took place.
And it's almost as if the creators of Stargate know this and that is why this aspect of the show is so featured and prominent. That being egrarian societies.
Think of that entry from the decline and fall of the Roman empire.
Where a man had gained audience with Cesar in order to show him his steam powered inventions that would revolutionize industry and labor on a massive scale, ceaser immediately had the man killed.
When questioned why and what Cesar's motivation could be for killing someone with such forward thinking and obviously helpful inventions, Cesar's answer was "what then would the slaves do?".
Who was Cesar taking orders from?
Makes you think of the movie "John Carter" adapted from Edgar Rice Burroughs "a princess from Mars".
How the leaders of Mars always had pale robed Nordic looking folks whispering orders into their ears.
Do we have pale skinned black robed Nordic types whispering orders in our leaders ears?
Stargate might have been campy and sophomoric with it's gunfights that the good guys always win, but there was something there. As time passes the soft disclosure tag fits better and better
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