You know, I'm pretty fed up with the segment of fandom who, with the success of shows like BSG and movies like The Dark Knight, automatically believe that dark=good (I'd call these fans "darkies", but for obvious reason, I wont). Adding a darker tone doesn't automatically make it better. I think all this talk of "dark" is TPTB getting their marching orders from the higher ups to placate the people who were upset that BSG ended. If they want, they could take a page out of SG1's first three or four seasons. The tone was serious, but not "put-on-a-Swans-record-and-stick-your-head-in-an-oven-and-turn-on-the-gas" depressing like BSG was. Also, I think that with the past 8 years of events, coupled with shows like the Sopranos, The Wire, and the aformentioned BSG filling the airwaves, I think a lightening is long overdue. Don't betray your roots over a handful or noir-philes, Stargate.
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I'm not sure what SGU needs to do differently, but it needs to do something, even if that means trying to darken up the tone. I loved nearly every season of SG1 except for season 8. Atlantis, on the otherhand, started out really good, and then kinda drifted downhill. If they feel that darkening SG up is what it takes to make it better, then I'm all for it, but I want something that makes me feel like SG1 did, and not what Atlantis made me feel like.
^But where is this grand equation that darker means better? One of the things that I've loved about the Stargate universe in general is the likeability of the main characters. Also, writing aside, it was its tone that made it stand out in the past decade or so among a crowd of downers. For SG to darken up at this point smacks of playing catchup. As I said, they should emulate (but not imatate) that magic of SG1's first 5 seasons or so. If not, it will be the same shoddy writing but with less lighting.
It doesn't have to be BSG levels of dark. In my opinion, season of Atlantis was a much darker concept than the rest of the series, and I thought it turned out better. And, in my opinion, the longer the franchise has gone, the more where it has kind of felt like a self-parody to me, and it did hit it's "peak" of that during Atlantis. That didn't make Atlantis a bad show, it just didn't catch me as much as SG1 in its hey-day. Even if it's not straight-up darker, Stargate needs to get back around to taking itself seriously again.
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