Stargate Universe got a new trailer out, which you can see here on the website, and it's beginning to look a lot more like a plot I was hoping would actually be used in the Stargate...universe. The movie had the tease, SG-1 builded the foundation, and Atlantis almost took the leap, but Universe is the closest thing I can see to a live-action Robotech being developed with the right ideas in mind. Hear me out on this.
Robotech was mainly about humanity being given a technology they knew nothing about, uniting behind that technology, and then being harassed by aliens the second that they were about to use the stuff. There were a lot of themes in the original Robotech line that haven't been touched again with real intent, and it looks like Stargate Universe might actually deliver on those themes. While it may look like some bastard child of Galactica, Atlantis, and Voyager (even the suits worn in the trailer seem close to Halo), it might not be a complete mess in the end. There seems to be a good chance that this may combine the best each has to offer while sprinkling in that Robotech feel. I'm looking forward to it, though I am a little biased since anything carrying the Stargate tag gets my undivided attention. Except that cartoon series.
The trailer raises a lot of questions that I haven't done much research on, since I try to shy away from ruining the freshness of a good series by reading too much. The main question I had was to the identity of the kid who gets beamed up and what makes him so special? I guess I will have to wait, but knowing that Robert Carlyle's has been on board pretty much gives me faith that no plot of going to have off the chart stupidity involved.
Yes, I'm supposed to write about games, but I like other things too.
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