some thoughts about SGU

[O'Dib]

Looking over the upcoming episode summaries on wikipedia, survival seems to be the single major theme of the show. I'm reminded of Walking Dead, where the cast is constantly struggling to secure shelter. And then it hit me: with the darker tone of SGU, zombies would be the perfect big bad for the show!

Bear with me -- I know a main villain race isn't the writers' objective, but we're definitely missing the excitement factor, and survival is best complemented by horror. Think about it, with the Destiny traversing galaxies, the only way to introduce a feasible recurring enemy is to tie its origin into the advance ships. Maybe over the millenia, the presence of the old school stargates had unforseen consequences -- a radiation that turned some of the the inhabitants evil and immortal. Something the goa'uld were able to reverse engineer, perhaps? This would also work best if it were revealed that a few of the advance ship carried ancient colonists. The ghosts on the desert planet definitely seem to suggest ascended ancients..

Anyway, that's my way-out-there speculation/wishful thinking for the future of SGU. What do y'all think?

 

[cultcross]

I frankly think zombies have been overdone lately. If SGU want a long term villain, they should create a more, if you'll forgive the inappropriate expression, down to Earth one. We've had two 'eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil' big bads with their theatrics and big costumes, it's time to have a recurring villain who is more.. subtle, more insidious. I don't disagree about the horror idea, it does work well as a companion to "we must survive".

The obvious way that a recurring villain would keep appearing is the same way people "left behind by the clock" (yes, it won't be long before someone is ) will get back to the ship - these stargates dropped on worlds by the preceding ship will connect to each other, so people can travel between worlds and 'catch up' with the Destiny.

 

[SmoothieX]

The zombie episode would be a great follow up to the pink eye episode.

 

[Lucky Charms]

While I like zombies, I don't know that I would like Stargate zombies. I actually think it would be great to not have a main villian, but rather their circumstances provide the "danger" each episode.

 

[O'Dib]

In fact, wasn't there a sg1 zombie episode, where humans w/o goa'uld symbiotes were turned into mindless supersoldiers using the resurrection tech? Set somewhere in South America.. Continuity, yay! The way I picture it, it wouldn't really be a unified spaceworthy foe, just a feature of some planets they visit. An extra level of tension, the possibility of something popping out of the dark. And I'd love to see how different societies handle the zombie threat. Some probably use them as pets.

 

[Xerxus]

^ There was also a semi sequel to that episode.
Youtube Link

 

[Kirby]

In fact, wasn't there a sg1 zombie episode

Atlantis did that too with Michael's soldiers. They were basically zombies

An extra level of tension, the possibility of something popping out of the dark.

Atlantis did that too with that crap episode in season 5 who for some reason or other created their own fog; just to be extra creepy.

Zombies and vampires are played out. They need a big nasty people-munching gross looking alien... Like Alien.

 

[Peter the Younger]

I have to say, I too am getting a little sick of zombies (or rather, I'm getting sick of people who think that zombies are cool and/or ironically-cheesy-cool.

SGU needs to break out of the evil empire bent on universal domination/extermination mode, and give us some less conventional villains. For one thing, we've had more than enough of that sort in the previous shows. Second, and more importantly, we aren't dealing with Stargate Command, or even the Atlantis mission; These people have limited numbers, they are barely hanging on, their ship is eons old, and the emphasis of the show is obviously on a more realistic portrayal of their situation. They shouldn't be able to take on a big bad like the Goauld, Wraith, or Ori.

I like the suggestions of both cultcross and Kirby: have smaller villains, more subtle and in smaller numbers - maybe even a single being, some tricky devil who wants to get his paws (or tentacles, or pincers) on the Destiny.

I'm kind of wondering if that little spacecraft we saw flying away at the end of the last ep was just that.