How does SG-1 rank amongst all-time sci-fi TV shows?

[PlainSimpleJoel]

It's okay. When it was on TV, I wasn't really interested as in, as I was more interested in other shows. Sometime last year, I watched all of it, and my view is that other science fictions shows such as DS9, TNG, Farscape and BSG are far better. I would rate Stargate to be around Enterprise's quality. Watched it once and that was enough, unlike the four shows I mentioned (and a few others)

 

[JWD75]

I thought that the premise had great potential and that the characters and cast were good, but the writing was very mediocre. Overall, the show was just too light and fluffy for my taste.

 

[Sindatur]

I think Stargate SG-1 was a show you could consistently count on tuning in and being entertained. There weren't many 5 out of 5 episodes, but, there also weren't many 1 or 2 out of 5 episodes either. It pretty consistently was a 3 or 4 out of 5.

So, you knew it wasn't going to blow you away, but, you also knew you weren't going to be upset you spent the hour watching.

Not a top tier show like DS9, B5, Farscape, but, definitely worth the time it took to watch an episode

I don't have a problem with "light and fluffy",in fact, as much as I enjoyed NuBSG, it got too dark and depressing for my tastes at times.

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Stargate has a lot of great potential, but it would require a reboot and a new creative team. It's perennially at the top of my Needs a Reboot list. With the right approach, there's nothing stopping it from truly being on par with Star Trek.

[/QUOTE]

I can see the need for new writers and producers, but a reboot? What would that accomplish? I know there is a lot of lore and back story, but I also think a show could be about a team exploring planets at the SGC without going too far into the back story, or mentioning it only briefly.

I think the SG shows suffered the same problems the Trek shows had post TNG - the writers thought they could simply change location, throw in some new characters, and keep going with the same formula and the show would be "new" and "different".

Atlantis reminded me a lot of Voyager in this regard. Plus both shows suffered from producers not willing to accept when something isn't working, and thinking little casting tweaks here and there would make everything better when the problem was the formulaic writing.

 

[Kirby]

SG-1 is somewhere in my top 5 sci-fi TV shows of all time. In no particular order:

Star Trek: DS9
Star Trek: TOS
Firefly
Farscape
Stargate SG-1

 

[TremblingBluStar]

For me ranking my favorite shows:

Firefly
Star Trek
B5
SG-1
Chuck (this is most certainly scifi)
Fringe
Angel
Buffy
Supernatural

 

[startrekwatcher]

I hate camp and Stargate was mostly camp. Plus their aliens were dull--compare the G'ouald to the Borg or Dominion.

 

[Trubinator]

1. Farscape
2: Star Trek: The Next Generation
3: Doctor Who
4: nuBattlestar Galactica
5: X-Files
6: Stargate SG-1