SG1 was the best, Atlantis was ehhh and Universe was even more ehhh.
I miss SG1 but we can complain. It lasted longer than most.
Adam
I liked
Atlantis first and fourth year but the Michael Saga killed it in a big way. They should gone to a grander scale for Atlantis instead of the "Search for Batteries" the show turned into . First Strike and Siege were some the greatest moment on TV that year.
Universe was awful. The acting wasn't bad but it was THE WORSE Writing for a supposedly more realistic and gritty show. It was like someone pulled the set background down for a gritty visceral show but the writing never reflected it and even got a little worse from some of Atlantis' bad points.
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First Contact was stupidly conceived and cheap.
-The Borg were nerfed in a huge way
-Thanks for Zombie-fying the Borg
-The Queen was a ridiculous Filler that did nothing but talk. (Give me the Queen from Aliens any day or night)
- Berman swallowed more than he could chew. No project like Warp Drive is going to be achieved by a Drunk Hill Billy
-Data the loyal pet of Picard is never going to believable as an evil plot twist, who knows why the queen fell for it.
-If Return of the Jedi is the best Fleet Battle...then this was the worse... (Hoping this can be corrected in the next Trek)
Movie making is an art. It's maynot be hard to make it believable and realistic but it is hard to create characters that matter and true sense of suspense and awe. That takes a story-teller. Sights and sound merge with the events in a seamless tapestry of discovery.
Allegory-
The part that make movies more than just an art form of sight and sound is Themes and Allegory. These elements involve matters of the mind. It's the element that makes you think. While Into Darkness had allegory it had no theme...no trend to carry the idea. The Allegory seemed to show up for a cameo and then was gone. It was swallowed by the gratuitous action (as opposed to the gratuitous sexism)
You can't be thoughtful or insightful in a Popcorn Flick, it's tacky and disenguous...clearly that's not what this movie was about because if it was it was not well done. And its not easy explaining why but it mostly has to do with TIME to think which this movie doesn't do. There are no pauses for reflection...no pensive moments or slow pull backs with the camera to show us a moment frozen in time and terror for our characters, much of it is one adventure to the next. Earth Explosion, attacking Gunship, Trek to Kronos, ***PATCH***These orders are wrong lets not do them***PATCH***, capture Kahn, learn the truth, Fight Vengeance, Save Enterprise, Crash on Earth, recapture Khan.
When you can see the theme make such an obvious cameo it's not thoughtful or insigtful in that mass of noise and explosion, it's just like a child's moment of mimicry. No real feeling or wisdom just parroting a few ideas and quotes. Thus I didn't take them seriously.
