The more trailers I see for this thing, the more I doubt whether any of the characters are going to be very interesting, or in some cases (like the fatass nerd) tolerable. At least they're spending a bit of money on alien landscapes.
They really need a Joe Flanigan-type actor in here somewhere, to make the show watchable despite itself. Not seeing that yet. Maybe if Lou Diamond Phillips would lighten up, he can fulfill that role.
Where the hell did they get the budget for all those actors, plus all that *amazing* effects from? Stargate has always been a bit ropey round the edges, but, blimey, I can kinda see how they netted some of the bigger actors now.
They've got a) young, pretty unknowns of questionable talent and b) decent older actors whose dollar value in Hollywood is rapidly running out with the cruel sands of time.
I can see how they could afford all of them on a basic cable budget. Both groups should feel lucky to get into a series with a reasonably locked-in audience and lowered risk of cancellation.
Well, it doesn't look much like Stargate .
I dunno. It looked like Stargate to me. :\
Looked like
Stargate with the lights turned down, the action sped up and half the budget for SFX thrown into the premiere.
It looks like a nice chance from the, quite frankly, boring later series of SG-1 and all of Atlantis.
All we can see in a trailer is sound & fury - action and SFX. Maybe some inkling of whether the actors have charisma and whether the characters have potential. The one thing we cannot see is the part that has made
Stargate boring - the writing, observed at length, not just whether individual stories are interesting and reasonably fresh, but whether the episodes add up to anything over time.
Stargate has already had decent action, after all. If people are unhappy, that can't be due to absence of explosions.
I think many female stargate fans are heartbroken. Oct 2nd .... still more than two months away.
