As much as I love SG1, I always thought the replicator storyline was kinda lame. It felt like they wanted their version of the Borg so they came up with the replicators just because.
I dunno, while I wasn't much of a fan of the human form replicators, the original mindless "eat everything" Von Neumann Replicators were freaking awesome.
Actually yeah looking back I didn't have a problem with the replicators until they took human form so I agree there.
Shallow are the Ori.
The Atlantis version of the replicators were pretty good.
Eh, I was never one for the Asuran Replicators, like don't get me wrong, I didn't mind them but just like the Milky Way human form Replicators they just didn't seem to produce the kind of pure terror that the standard Replicators did. (and at least the human form replicators still HAD the original Replicators)
As opposed to humans, who are not replicators at all....
Stargate SG-1 Is easily one of my all time favorite shows. Near the end though the story and some of the lore was kinda weak compared to the rest of it, I still enjoyed it of course.
I just recently re-watched all of SG1 again, such a fun show.
They were cool when they were just murder bugs, but I'll agree that the human replicators were kind of lame.
That tapping sound they make when they move is still haunting.
But as was previously mentioned in this thread, I felt like that whole story arc took a dip when they said "fuck it let's just make them robopeople now".
It's the same with the Borg, who were great because they were presented as a truly alien and inscrutable threat only for the show to later literally humanise them, thus destroying what made them interesting. I'm still not sure why the writers think it was a good idea in either case.
“People like the borg. Let’s give them more borg. People like to relate to things, but a mechanical hive mind is hard to relate to, while humans are easier to relate to. Let’s make them human.”
The Ori were a contrived plot to get a few more seasons out of the show.
Don't get me wrong, I love Stargate. SG-1 is some of the best SciFi to get on television. Even Atlantis was pretty solid. Universe... well let's not talk about universe. The problem was that the show ran out of new stuff to explore and learn about. Once they got to the point where they were directly engaging the Goa'uld, the show started going downhill. Not a lot at first, but the peak of the show was definitely before the out and out conflict when they were still the underdog newcomers to the scene scavenging for stuff while frantically trying to survive. Atlantis started with a higher level established conflict and had to run with that for it's entire length. At this point SG-1 didn't have many more of the wacky side episodes like "One False Step" with the people that metabolized sound and Atlantis only had a handful of truly exploratory episodes like that.
Once they defeated the Goa'uld, there was nothing left to do, so they had to arbitrarily pull the "an ancient evil has awakened" card with even more powerful tech to keep the threats relevant. The thing is, there's only so much depth a plot can have when literal god level powers are involved. If you try to make a complex plot in a world such as that you end up with hundreds of "Why didn't they just ride the Eagles to Mordor" plot holes.
A lot of shows fall apart for similar reasons. Look at something like Heroes. Peter becomes a god in one season. The only way to keep it going is to start retconning things or to come up with contrivances to strip away the powers.
Universe was a lot better come season two. I thoroughly enjoyed S2 of Universe and was pretty sad when it bit it.
I watch SG1 before work in the morning, and I'm pretty sure I caught only the first half of this episode. The last thing I saw was them landing on the planet and realizing the entire thing was replicator material.
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