"Divinely" advanced?
Are you claiming that the Preservers, etc. were gods, and not merely aliens with advanced technology?
Is there a difference?
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Is there a difference?
I liked SG1. I liked SGA even more but I hated SGU.
I haven't seen B5 or BSG yet. I need to make the time for those two.
"Divine" implies the expectation of worship, prayer, prescribed rituals, and dogma.
Why go through all that pointless nonsense if you're just talking about aliens with advanced technology or, in the case of many cultures in our RL, mythology that gets mistaken for fact?
Has someone noticed that the Cardassians looked like snakes, already?
They did, and that was going really well for a short time at the beginning. When aliens were human looking, they were actually humans, or derived from them, and when forms of life were seen that had actually evolved extra terrestrially, they generally looked different (The Goauld, for example, or the Asgard). But then the Nox happened; humans with weird hair. OK, we don't know much about them, they could be projecting an image of the humans to interact - they are after all absurdly advanced. Perhaps like the Ancients they were originally human.
But then other humanoid rubber face aliens start appearing. The Unas, then later in the show proper Star Trek foreheads in the form of alien bounty hunters. Then the sequel generated the Wraith, also humanoid (albeit with a slight hand wavey explanation). And we saw ancient Asgard that also looked very human. A shame, I wish they'd kept to the idea that humanoid life in the galaxy all came from Earth and avoided parallel evolution entirely.
SG1 ran for well over ten years, if you include the final movies that wrapped it all up. Once you get to a certain point you have to fall back on the established ideas of the genre to continue to draw the interest of the fans you've developed. Yes, a more complex explanation of the Nox would have been welcome, as well as the ancient Asgard looking more, for lack of a better term, godlike than mere humanoids. But drawing the interest of your viewers is one thing, while keeping it is something else entirely.
SGU was the show that was intended to call back to the idea that not every alien species looks like us with forehead bumps. And people didn't like it much. They tried to hide behind the drama of this motley crew of misfits and handful of trained professionals having to act as babysitters for the civilian scientists on a ship that no one knows how to operate, or figure out exactly where it's going, but that concept shot them in the foot at the first possible opportunity. Without at least some of the time-tested tropes of popular science fiction, it didn't work, and no one wanted to watch it.
SGU was the show that was intended to call back to the idea that not every alien species looks like us with forehead bumps. And people didn't like it much. They tried to hide behind the drama of this motley crew of misfits and handful of trained professionals having to act as babysitters for the civilian scientists on a ship that no one knows how to operate, or figure out exactly where it's going, but that concept shot them in the foot at the first possible opportunity. Without at least some of the time-tested tropes of popular science fiction, it didn't work, and no one wanted to watch it.
you shoild also find adromeda with kevin sorbonit was brilliant
Yes, I've heard of "Andromeda," but I also know that Gene Roddenberry's wife was fond of pulling ideas he'd literally thrown into the wastebasket out and storing them away, for $afe-keeping. I can tell you that when I throw away sketches, or thumbnails, or doodles, even ... they're not anywhere they don't belong to be in. If my girlfriend started fishing this stuff out and posting it on the Internet, I'd be very grumpy ...
Wouldn't it mollify you somehow, to then earn huge amounts of money because of that initiative?
One Man's trash is another Man's treasure, I know. But, if my good stuff wasn't selling, there's no way my refuse was going to. And if it did happen, then that would've just been a fluke. And a fluke is nice, because it's a surprise and who knows what the potential of it could be. But you can't continue on that way.
Just like how life evolved here, on Earth, was a fluke in some ways. All land vertebrates evolved from a single species. Why didn't more animals make the grade, instead of just the one? A fluke, maybe? Probably? Who knows ... but looking back on something like that, it does seem rather chancy that our existence relied so heavily on it working out that way. It makes one wonder ...
Just like how life evolved here, on Earth, was a fluke in some ways. All land vertebrates evolved from a single species. Why didn't more animals make the grade, instead of just the one? A fluke, maybe? Probably? Who knows ... but looking back on something like that, it does seem rather chancy that our existence relied so heavily on it working out that way. It makes one wonder ...
