Did they make the Wraith too similar to the Gou'ld?

[ReadyAndWilling]

Of course they were. It's even in their names; Wraith vs. Ghouls ("Gou'ald" was just an 'imaginative' word to use in its place; an imagination they didn't even bother with in Atlantis). Hell, even the casting of the show was a rip off of SG-1, particularly with Shepherd.

The producers and writers for that show had absolutely no creativity in them. It's no shocker SGU turned out so badly.

As I've said before, I'm glad it's finally over. I'm looking forward to a reboot a few years down the line, hopefully with a completely new group of people at the helm. The setting is a cornucopia of possibilities. It just needs people who can see that and do something with it.

lol, i felt the same way about the casting on SG1 vs SGA. too similar.

i dunno about being glad it's over though... SGA and SG1 were great. i wish SGA was still running.

 

[Chuckles]

I liked the Gou'ald, they were cheesy fun in a Ming the Merciless kind of way. The wraith were just bland, they were set up to be terrifying but just came across as goth vampires. I half expected them to start whining about their parents not understanding them.

And the Ori, the more we learned about the ancients, the more pricks they became.

 

[AJ86]

I don't think the Wraith were bland, the concept was actually quite ethically thought-provoking in my opinion, it's just that the execution was awful. It's really hard to suspend your disbelief when they basically just look like men in drag. It was different with the Goa'uld because O'Neill would point out how clichéd and silly they looked, whereas on Atlantis we're supposed to buy that the characters are genuinely intimidated by them.

 

[Broccoli]

does anyone know what their plans were with the cyborg species we saw in S5? they would have been great as the series protagonist.

Protagonist?



Also, you really like all things robot-related, don't you?

 

[ReadyAndWilling]

does anyone know what their plans were with the cyborg species we saw in S5? they would have been great as the series protagonist.

Also, you really like all things robot-related, don't you?

what can i say, i can't help myself