How Atlantis SHOULD have been..

[DontFeedPhil]

I think Ronon would have been great as a recurring character, but he had no place on the team for all of season two and three. By season four he is no longer pulling a gun on people in an instant, but that still doesn't explain why this guy was allowed on the team all those missions previous.

Better to leave him as a runner. A character who wants revenge against the Wraith. Sometimes this puts his interests in line with our heroes, and sometimes it pits him against us. We never know what the case may be.

YES. That would have been a MUCH better way to use the character. Why didn't I think of that? Or the writers for that matter...

I also said this in another thread a few months back. Atlantis should have been more military. The whole "were gonna let a civilian run Atlantis" thing was stupid. That would NEVER HAPPEN. And I like the idea of the Ori being the main villains of the Pegasus galaxy.

 

[stj]

It should have been a comedy. The whole Daenikenite mythology is ridiculous. Making everyone speak English falsifies the difficulties in making allies, undermining supposed tension. The Wraith were absurd---feeding on life force? Gah! If the show was a comedy like SG-1, it might have worked.

They could have kept McKay as the good but no way Carter good science trouble shooter. Shepherd was okay for comedy but Ford should have been smarter---his youth and inexperience would still left Shepherd as a more heroic figure. There was no need to dumb Ford down. And somebody smart enough to add a different kind of wit would have been a big help, I think. And Teyla should have been like a good/not evil Hathor.

 

[Temis the Vorta]

Uh...SG-1 was never a comedy. Comedic elements, perhaps.

 

[Harvey]

True, but it did enjoy deconstructing cliches of science fiction television with a certain amount of sarcastic wit. When it was at its best. Witness Window of Opportunity, which despite being a very funny episode is not a comedy piece.

Stargate SG-1's ventures into outright comedy are more the exception than the rule. Witness Wormhole X-Treme, The Other Guys, Avenger 2.0, Citizen Joe, and 200.

 

[DWF]

I think RDA thought of SG1 as a comedy for the most part and said so more than once.

 

[Technobuilder]

5) Lt. Hailey. She was touted as the "up and coming" Sam Carter so why not use the secondary character on the new series. It would have made for an interesting cross-over.

You know, I always thought she was supposed to show up again eventually as well.

If she doesn't make it into SGU, then I'm not sure she's ever coming back into the spotlight of the show as a recurring character, as with her absence up to this point we could say she's been a member of off-world teams in both galaxies and become a specialist in... blah blah blah.

Oh well. Probably won't happen, but then I didn't expect to see Rodney McKay on SG-1 either.